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Aboriginal girl faces race-hate law after saying "white slut"

The Australian

Aboriginal girl first to face race-hate law

Ean Higgins and Alana Buckley-Carr
June 01, 2006

AN Aboriginal teenager is the first person to be charged under Western Australia's new racial vilification laws after allegedly calling a 19-year-old a "white slut".

Mellissa Blackney - a Caucasian - was allegedly attacked by three Aboriginal females, aged 14, 15 and 21, after they threw a rock at her car, outside her Kalgoorlie home.

Speaking to The Australian last night, Ms Blackney said she did not ask for the girl to be charged with racial vilification but it was appropriate such charges had been laid. "I don't know why they started this racist crap. I wasn't racist towards them," Ms Blackney said.

"One of the Aboriginal women said 'Look at you, you white slut'. Then, they just decided to get physical. W
hen I started to complain they just said, 'Just look at you, you f..king white bitch'."

Ms Blackney claims the April attack was unprovoked. She had been sleeping in her parked car, waiting for her mother to return home with house keys, when the group approached and threw a rock at the Nissan Skyline.

"They were there, laughing at me," the 19-year-old laboratory technician said. "They wanted to damage my car and it's bad to throw things at cars and expect people to be happy about it."

The mining hub of Kalgoorlie attracts professionals who can command big wages in the commodities boom. But a portion of the city's large indigenous population is blighted by social problems.

Ms Blackney said Aboriginal violence towards whites was a problem at certain times in some areas of Kalgoorlie but no more so than some white racism towards blacks, adding that where Aborigines were employed, the problem did not arise.

The modified racial vilification laws came into effect in May last ye
ar in response to allegations that Jack van Tongeren's Australian Nationalists Movement was responsible for racist graffiti attacks on Perth's main synagogue and businesses owned by Asians.

Under the new laws, people charged with serious racial vilification offences face up to 14 years jail.

But the teenager can only be sentenced to a maximum of six months detention because of the jurisdiction.

If she was dealt with in an adult court, she could face up to five years imprisonment.

Police prosecutor Rob Taylor said the 14-year-old was originally charged with conduct likely to incite racial animosity or racist harassment, but it required the approval of the Director of Public Prosecutions and was replaced with the lesser charge she currently faces.

West Australian DPP Robert Cock told The Australian he would be watching the proceedings with great interest.

"But special conditions apply when you are dealing with children," Mr Cock said.

State Opposition legal aff
airs spokeswoman Sue Walker, a supporter of the vilification laws, said they were modified to ensure tougher penalties for offences involving arson or violence that had a racial motivation. She said DPP-approval was needed on the more serious charges to ensure the intent of the law was maintained. Attorney-General Jim McGinty was not available for comment.

The girl is scheduled to face a hearing in the Children's Court in August.

Skara Brae,

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Re: Aboriginal girl faces race-hate law after saying "white slut"

I lived in Kalgoorlie for a while many years back - a good number of houses were made of corrugated iron. It was a great place for all that. The people were really friendly - and the place had lots of pubs. The Abos you saw were mostly drunk. I don't remember them causing me any problems. The few Abos I worked with - worked quite hard.
 
Re: Aboriginal girl faces race-hate law after saying "white slut"

Sorry, being abused and assaulted for being White isn't as bad as it'd be if the victim was Black. No doubt if the White girl had retaliated by calling the Abo a 'Boong' or some other term, there'd be no question about hate crime charges.

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1741596.htm

WA court dismisses charges over racial insult

AM - Friday, 15 September , 2006 08:11:00
Reporter: David Weber
TONY EASTLEY: In Western Australia the Attorney-General Jim McGinty has endorsed a court's decision to dismiss a racial vilification charge against an Aboriginal teenager.

The Kalgoorlie Children's Court dismissed charges against the 16-year-old girl, who allegedly called a Caucasian woman a "white slut", among other things, as she attacked her in the street.

The Magistrate hearing the case
found the remarks were made but she said racial vilification laws were intended to deal with severe abuse, and not petty name-calling.

Jim McGinty supports the decision, saying Kalgoorlie police were wrong to proceed with the racial vilification case.

David Weber reports.

DAVID WEBER: The girl had pleaded guilty to the assault charge and the Magistrate handed down a four-month intensive supervision order. But Magistrate Kate Auty said the racial slur was not substantial enough to be punished under racial vilification laws.

Penalties under the laws were substantially increased after a spate of racist graffiti attacks in Perth. The graffiti targeted Jewish, Chinese and African people and it was attributed to the Australian Nationalists Movement.

In this case, the maximum penalty available was six-month's detention.

Prosecutor Amanda Forrester.

AMANDA FORRESTER: There are two tiers, so to speak, of this sort of law. There's the racial incitement legislation, w
hich carries maximum penalties of 14-years and then there's the charges under sections 80a and 80b of the code, which cover racial harassment and those sections are designed to cover serious racial conduct. They're certainly not, according to the speeches in Parliament, designed to cover petty name-calling.

DAVID WEBER: Melissa Blackney was the woman who was assaulted. She'd told the court she likened the Aboriginal girl's comments to schoolyard insults. She said she was concerned about the physical assault, not the verbal one, and that's why she went to the police.

But the prosecutor Amanda Forrester says the victim doesn't need to hear racial abuse, or even be offended by it, for someone to be charged.

AMANDA FORRESTER: One would understand that the complainant might not have necessarily been upset before she was assaulted but when she's on the ground and racial slurs are being used while she's being kicked that, I would have thought, would have been an entirely different story
to most people.

If she'd heard those particular insults while she was being assaulted, one might think that she would have taken them slightly more seriously.

DAVID WEBER: The person involved doesn't have to hear them?

AMANDA FORRESTER: Well our case was certainly that. This is new legislation and it hasn't been tested in any other case that we're aware of and the fact is that in this case it hasn't been tested either because the state failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the facts which it said based the charge.

DAVID WEBER: Was this charge brought for the intention of this being a test case?

AMANDA FORRESTER: No.

DAVID WEBER: This decision has been welcomed by the Aboriginal Legal Service.

The Chief Executive Dennis Eggington.

DENNIS EGGINGTON: For a person who is ethnically or culturally different, that suffers some serious or substantial abuse or is severely ridiculed, is a different thing altogether and we always thought this was a ca
se of a little bit of aggro, bit of name calling and it wasn't the right one to bring to court and it seems that we were right in that assumption.

DAVID WEBER: Mr Eggington says the DPP should think twice about bringing the next charge. He says only those who are subject to racial abuse on a daily basis can understand why racial vilification laws are important.

DENNIS EGGINGTON: And Aboriginal people do suffer these sorts of things in that, you know, it's just a case that we felt was wrong in the very first place and this country has just got to understand what it's like to be Aboriginal living in Australia and being followed around in shops and being called names that articulate themselves out into discriminatory practice and things like that.

TONY EASTLEY: The Chief Executive of the Aboriginal Legal Service in Western Australia, Dennis Eggington, speaking there with our reporter David Weber.
 
Re: Aboriginal girl faces race-hate law after saying "white slut"

Sort of discouraging. When (and how) did the Abos, of all things, start getting the upper hand on the Australians?

Kalgoorlie, WA

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Re: Aboriginal girl faces race-hate law after saying "white slut"

Sort of discouraging. When (and how) did the Abos, of all things, start getting the upper hand on the Australians?

Kalgoorlie, WA

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What a great town. I had so many great times there. For the most part I lived in a small village about 30kms out - but Kalgoorlie was always good for Saturday drinking. I can't remember how we ever got home but I guess we must have.
 
Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

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Andrew Farrugia ... described as a "great guy" but no one would help him as he was bashed to death.

This has been big news in Australia. I've been following it with some interest and while the stench of negritude was there not one medium mentioned that he might have been killed by those most likely of suspects - local aborigines. As usual partial truth - dead great guy killed by local youths - passes for the whole truth but in this article there is just the slightest hint that there may be in fact more to the story. The usual spiel is ebony and ivory living in perfect harmony...

Teen killed as 60 watched

January 03, 2007 12:00

SERIOUS concerns about the safety of teenagers on our streets have emerged after it was revealed yesterday that nearly 60 people saw Andrew Farrugia bashed to death.

Despite the large number of witnesses, so few have come forward to help police that they have not been able to issue a description of the three thugs who attacked him.

Investigations by The Daily Telegraph have found that random street violence against young males has become a major problem around the state, with many rural communities struggling to curb the type of alcohol-fuelled assaults usually associated with the inner city.

The shocking details of how Andrew – described by friends as "a great guy" – was killed in Griffith on New Year's Eve emerged as police also revealed a 23-year-old Irish tourist is fighting for his life after a street bashing in Sydney.

The victim, who was found in George St with head injuries after celebrating New Year's Eve in The Rocks, is believed to have been attacked by two teenagers.

While police and community leaders in Griffith played down theories of race tensions and revenge motives for the attack on Andrew, his death has ignited the very real issue confronting parents that growing street violence is putting their children in danger during ordinary nights out.

The attacks have also prompted widespread community anger, with calls for draconian measures such as teen curfews in some areas.

NSW National Party Leader Andrew Stoner said he wanted the Young Offenders Act changed to allow youth just one caution and one warning before being sent to court. "It's got to the stage where it's getting out of control," Mr Stoner said.

"Some teenagers have rap sheets as long as their arms by the time they are 14."

Orange Mayor John Davis, whose council is the only one in NSW to implement a curfew, said yesterday: "Like other towns where juvenile crime is on the rise, we were sick of the problem.

"It can become a problem where it engulfs you and you don't know how to solve it, where panic stations set in and there is more trouble than when started."

In Griffith yesterday Acting Superintendent Denise Godden pleaded with people in the southwestern NSW city to help police solve Andrew's murder.

She said: "We have no description at all of the three we are looking for. We don't have a solid lead as to who they are and it's ... important for the community to come forward."

While it is known almost 60 people were milling about the Banna Ave taxi rank just metres from where Andrew died, police have only managed to speak to 20 of them.

It is not the first such attack in the town in recent times. Resident Brian Armanini was bashed by a gang of 20 teens on November 4.

His jaw was broken in three places and he needed steel plates, after he was attacked, not far from where Andrew died.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21003476-5001021,00.html
 
Re: Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

Excellent job of reading through the rhetoric. The account below says the same thing; we don't want a race war on our hands, do not retaliate, we're one big happy multicultural-loving self-hating cheek-turning cowards, etc. Please don't upset the diversity apple-cart; blah, blah, blah.

You know whenever a boong gets their well-deserved just desserts, there is no stopping the retaliatory strikes as paybacks on Whites. Wake up or be slaughtered White men and women.

Police fear vigilante revenge attacks

"They want the public to assist the police and not to act as vigilantes - my word not the parents' - by running off and taking revenge.''

There is no evidence the attack was racially motivated.

"This is a community with a large number of multicultural groups, and I think we live quite well together down here,'' Insp Godden said.

"Anyone taking any sort of retaliatory attack against any group would not be good.''
 
Re: Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

The Aussies should have let all the homo erecti Abos die off rather than letting the bleeding hearts save them from extinction. Now is the time to let nature take its course and stop protecting them.
 
Re: Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

The savage is controlled by raw fear and that alone. Until the niggers and wogs are physically afraid to appear loitering on the streets and highways this trouble will continue and increase. :mad:
 
Murderous Abo now has a "price on his head"

Murderous Abo now has a "price on his head"

Price on head of bushland fugitive

A bounty has been offered for information leading to the arrest of a notorious fugitive — the first time this has happened in Australia since Ned Kelly was gunned down and hanged. [circa 1880!]

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Acting NSW Premier John Watkins today announced a $50,000 reward for information aiding the capture of murder suspect Malcolm John Naden, who has reportedly been hiding out in bushland since June 2005.

Unlike other rewards, payment of the $50,000 is dependent on the arrest, rather than the conviction, of Naden.

Police want to arrest Naden, 32, in relation to the murder of 24-year-old Kristy Scholes, whose strangled body was found in Naden's bedroom.

Naden is also wanted for questioning over the disappearance of his 24-year-old cousin, Lateesha Nolan, on January 4, 2005.

Ms Nolan's car was found abandoned near the Macquarie River in Dubbo one day after she disappeared, and her bank and phone accounts have not been touched since.

Naden is said to be a skilled bushman, but police believe he is also receiving assistance from members of the community.

Mr Watkins said Naden was believed to be hiding on somewhere in the Central West of the state.

"I strongly appeal to the public to come forward and provide police with information that may assist in finding him," Mr Watkins said.

"The public has a duty to ensure this wanted man is take into custody, so he can be brought before the courts."

Naden is described as being of Aboriginal appearance, 177cm tall, 85kg and of medium build.
 
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Dead teenager king-hit from behind, court told

David Braithwaite

January 4, 2007

A 15-YEAR-OLD boy jointly accused of the bashing murder of a Griffith teenager had been spoiling for a fight, it was alleged in court yesterday.

Police said the boy was aggressively cruising the taxi rank in the main street of Griffith about 3am on New Year's Day looking to cause trouble, Wagga Wagga Children's Court was told.

Police said the boy did not know Andrew Farrugia, 17, but yelled abuse at him as Andrew's friends tried to usher him away. Police said the attacker then grabbed Andrew's shirt, headbutting him twice, the court heard.

"Cracking sounds" then rang out as the second 15-year-old boy accused of the murder allegedly swung at least two punches into his head, police said.

The blows had come from behind and were described as "king-hits" by witnesses. Almost immediately, Andrew collapsed on the road. Police believe he died from "blunt force trauma" caused by the blows to his head and not contact with the ground.

Witnesses stated the first attacker then said: "My name is [suppressed] and this is how we roll them in this town", the police prosecutor, Steve Turner, said.


The boys sat handcuffed beside each other as the magistrate, Peter Dare, refused bail.

Senior Sergeant Turner told the court that some witnesses had claimed to have been warned against approaching police.

However, Mr Dare said there was no evidence to support this, and refused bail based on the seriousness of the offence.

One of the accused sat quietly but looked steadily around the room during proceedings, while the gaze of his co-accused rarely left the floor.

The court was packed with three generations of family and friends of the accused, including both boys' mothers. Andrew's family did not appear to be present.

Outside the court, a family friend said the accused were holding up the "best they could".

"But it's pretty horrible for the other side too," she said.

The case was adjourned until March 14.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national...ind-court-told/2007/01/03/1167777155881.html#
 
Re: Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

Drive them all back into the bush and hunt them like dingoes.
 
Re: Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

Senior Sergeant Turner told the court that some witnesses had claimed to have been warned against approaching police.

The court was packed with three generations of family and friends of the accused, including both boys' mothers. Andrew's family did not appear to be present.


Typical ABO intimidation techniques.
 
Re: Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

As of yet I don't know of any Australian medium which has acknowledged that the killers of this young white man were Aboriginal. The lemmings I guess are just happy to accept that he was bashed to death by those ubiquitous 'males'. This article comes closest to hinting at the ethnicity of the killers -

Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research director Don Weatherburn said one in 10 males aged 15 to 24 were assaulted in NSW each year, compared with one in 24 females in the same age bracket.

"There's no doubt that males have a problem with impulse control, especially young males, and especially young males after they have been drinking," Dr Weatherburn told Macquarie Radio.

"It's basically a recipe for disaster."

Rural areas in the state usually fared worse than the cities, with high rates of assault particularly in areas where there were large Aboriginal populations, Dr Weatherburn said.

"Rates of violence amongst Aboriginal communities are extremely high, again partly because of alcohol, and partly because of the usual things that contribute to crime such as high rates of unemployment and so on," he said.


 
Re: Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

This is about as close as any Australian medium will come to blaming the local niggers. Lots of talk of retaliation by whites though all of us know that that never happens - perhaps indicative that we as a race have come to some sort of evolutionary deadend.

Town troubles spelt in black and white
David Braithwaite
January 6, 2007

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Street of danger ... leaders have called for calm as simmering tensions over youth violence threaten to boil over. Inset, Andrew Farrugia.


GRIFFITH'S residents are bush people, and no strangers to a bit of a blue, but the bashing meted out to Andrew Farrugia was another dimension of violence.

"Blunt force trauma" is what police called it in court - hemorrhage caused by the smashing of skull upon skull, then a fist repeatedly swung into the head. Seconds later, the 17-year-old collapsed, and with him Griffith's patience with violent crime.

The anger is still manifest in Banna Avenue, Griffith's main street, where Andrew died after an attack early on New Year's Day, allegedly by two 15-year-old boys. Rumours of revenge attacks and text messages calling for retribution swirl about the town.

The teenagers have been charged with murdering Andrew and were refused bail in Wagga Wagga Children's Court on Wednesday. Police allege Andrew was headbutted twice by one of the boys, then king-hit at least twice from behind by the other, mortally wounding him.

The death has shocked the affluent, cosmopolitan Riverina city of 25,000 people, and exposed racial tensions.

Threatening phone calls have reportedly been made to Aboriginal families, and police have issued an official warning against text messages inciting racial violence.

The hatred grieves June Murray, a Wiradjuri elder who has called for the entire town to attend a meeting.

"They say there's been a lot of problems brewing around the town with a minority group playing up. I wondered why there wasn't more done by the police, but the paper says they're low on numbers. This is a terrible tragedy and there's a lot of decent Aboriginal people in this town that are saddened and would never condone it.

"They're all decent people who know where their kids are at night. To say we're all bad is just going too far."

Inspector Tony Reneker of Griffith police said the town's Aborigines were generally peaceful and had helped in the investigation. He said juveniles accounted for 13 per cent of the 371 assaults in the city last year.

"We have problems with kids that come from broken homes, who are unemployed, bored and engaged in alcohol and drug abuse," he said.

"It's a small group all the time that paints a bad picture for the rest of the community group.

"We are calling for calm in the town. We want the judicial process to run its course and we don't want vigilante groups. This is a good town to work in normally. [Andrew's death] was an isolated incident, and the police here are devastated by it."

It was the nature of the attack that shocked the town, but it came as no surprise to some residents. Sam, a close friend of Andrew who is helping to organise a plaque and benefit concert in his honour, said local youths had learnt to watch themselves.

"You've usually got that feeling in the back of your head because there's fights every weekend, without a doubt," he said.

"They just roam the streets looking for a fight. They only go for people on their own or in smaller groups because they're always in big groups.

"There's a fair bit of animosity between everybody now."

Peter Knox, 65, a long-time Griffith resident, said the violence nature of Andrew's death had shaken the town.

"I think it's a bit of anger and shock that this has happened to a young kid," he said.

"We're a rough, tough sort of a family, all ex-boxers, but all this kicking and headbutting - it's not our way."

In Rankins Springs, Andrew's home town 60 kilometres from Griffith, a neighbour, William O'Reilly, said something had to be done. "It happens all the time. There's always somebody getting a bit of a touch-up in there at night, especially Fridays and Saturdays.

"You're crazy if you walk in there at night. It doesn't matter if you can hold your own - if you're up against 15 or 20 blokes you've got no chance. You're probably safer walking around Sydney than Griffith these days."

After just four months as Mayor of Griffith, Dino Zappacosta found himself leading a town feeling betrayed by authorities and on the edge of taking action itself.

"I have heard feelings of disgust, anger, frustration and hostility towards authority," he said.

"We are a community of 60 different nationalities, and in any city that is going to create a lot of challenges - challenges in respecting each others' cultures and being tolerant.

"But we don't have any problems with Aboriginal people in general. The issue is more the young and the anti-social behaviour of their young ones."

Despite the hurt and turmoil of the past week, the willingness of Andrew's friends to work towards healing the town has given locals hope.

"We've been putting forward ideas, like better lighting and moving the taxi stand to the safer side of the street," said Sam. "We're also going to organise a benefit concert for Andrew and erect a memorial plaque in his honour. We want to prevent this ever happening again."

- Police released an 18-year-old Bass Hill man after questioning him at Bankstown Police Station in connection with the death. He was released "pending further inquiries", a police statement said yesterday.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national...nd-white/2007/01/05/1167777279245.html?page=2
 
Re: Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

In these cases, it is only a matter of time before people say enough is enough and drive the Abo agitators out to the bush. The Abos are race agitators and will continually attack before unwashed physical force from pissed off white men hunt them down and drive them out. Is it mean, yes. Is it necessary, yes.
 
Re: Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

What really shocks me is that 60 people watching didn't do anything to help this poor man?

Were those 60 people all abos by the way?

It amazes me how little people care about eachother.
 
Re: Griffith: White teen bashed to death by Abos

What really shocks me is that 60 people watching didn't do anything to help this poor man?

Were those 60 people all abos by the way?

It amazes me how little people care about eachother.

It's what white people are like. They all stand around atomised muttering how awful things are. But of course, if anyone had gone to help the victim the Abos would have just turned on him and he wouldn't have received any help at all. If he did survive he'd in all probability be arrested by the police.
 
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/national...ent-teen-murder/2007/01/06/1167777325450.html


Interesting little turn around here. Abos have been running riot in Griffith so happily that it finally culminated in the death of an innocent white student. After police studiously denied any racial link They've now turned on the victims. They're called thugs and are now threatened with 5 years jail for having text messages! Bats, knifes and the paraphernalia usually associated with Abos seem to be fair game.


Reprisal fears after violent teen murder

Frank Walker
January 7, 2007


THUGS caught using text messages to incite violence in Griffith in the wake of the bashing death of teenager Andrew Farrugia face hefty jail terms if found guilty.

A police spokesman said yesterday they had no intelligence to confirm plans of reprisal attacks, but Mayor Dino Zappacosta said they were taking the text messages seriously.

"There is real hatred out there, and police are reminding everyone that it is a five-year jail term if you are caught inciting people to violence through text messages," Mr Zappacosta said.

Officials, police and ethnic affairs experts from the Premier's Department met in Griffith, located in south-western NSW, last week to discuss how to repair community relations.

"After the funeral on Tuesday we will put into operation a strategy to try and repair relations," said Mr Zappacosta.

Extra police have been sent to Griffith to try to reduce tension and prevent revenge attacks for the New Year's Day bashing of the 17-year-old student set to begin year 12.

Two 15-year-old boys have been charged with Andrew's murder and have been remanded in custody.

Police are still collecting statements from people who were in Griffith's main street when the assault happened in the early hours of New Year's Day as Andrew and friends were waiting for a taxi.
 
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