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20 February 2008
Male cowardice that is scarcely comprehensible
Ashley Brooks is a nineteen-year-old Aboriginal youth. In March last year, drunk, he broke into Mrs Durea's flat in Traralgon while she was asleep in her bed, looking for money to continue his boozing. Mrs Durea is a seventy-six-year-old grandmother who was living alone because her sick husband was being looked after in a hostel. Brooks found $60.00.
Not satisfied with his crimes of breaking and entering and burglary he gratuitously bashed the sleeping grandmother so viciously that her face was an unrecognisable swollen mass. The gruesome pictures shown on Channel 7's Today Tonight tabloid program were sickening. One could feel the thought going around Australia: How could any man do this to an old defenceless woman sleeping in her bed.
This is cowardice of such an extreme degree that any man with any self-respect as a man should be deeply embarrassed by it, so embarrassed that he should resolve to do something about it, about the education of young men and boys.
Brooks is an Aboriginal. But his Aboriginality is secondary here. He is an extreme example of the degeneration that men have undergone during the last fifty years. This is primarily a question of male education and supervision. Leading Aboriginal men should take up their responsibilities as men, as should all men right right across Australia.
The first step to bring a halt to further male degeneration is to acknowledge the ideological changes in the Australian community that led to radical changes in educational and family policy, that in turn have precipitated male degeneration.
The second step is to go about removing that ideological influence and those totally unsuitable to educate boys and young men in state and private educational institutions.
The third step is to review the ideological influences in the legislative process. If making changes in educational institutions will be difficult, then it will be a battle of epic proportions to rescue the law and legislative processes from those who skirting the democratic process have taken it captive.
Toad Hall is occupied by the ferrets and weasels. It will take the manliness of Badger, Rat and Mole to liberate it.
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