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Aug 17, 2007

Indigenous Intelligence Agency

The Australian Crime Commission (ACC) is leading a joint agency intelligence task force to gather intelligence in Indigenous communities. The task force will see involvement from the Australian Federal Police (AFP), state and territory police forces and other agencies. This is part of the 130 million the government is spending on the campaign against Aboriginal communities, supposedly to end child abuse.

Senator Ellison says the goal of the Indigenous intelligence agency is to "collect, analyse and disseminate intelligence to Commonwealth, state and territory law enforcement agencies." And further, “The task force may also use the ACC’s coercive powers where appropriate under the ACC Board’s current authorisations..."

I've talked to some of these agents, and they've told me about the non-Aboriginal organised crime and pedophile rings that have been targeting Aboriginal communities for years. Anglo Australian mafia, bikies, truckies and drug-dealers are perpetrating all kinds of horror in our communities, and this is the source of the abuse and neglect. However, it's interesting that this "intelligence" is not what makes it to the media. The dominant culture can't use this information to continue smearing Aboriginal people in the media, and the government can't use it in their land-grab campaign. So that information remains silenced.

The "intelligence" that makes it to the government, and then to the media, is any little piece of horror that can be found perpetrated by an Indigenous person. Dig long enough in any community and you'll find that. Well, they're digging here now.

The army? Intelligence agents? Has the public that supports the government in this stopped to think about how this looks to people outside of Australia, to people who haven't been prepped with 12 months of propaganda about Aboriginal child abuse first? Well it looks like what it is. They are sending the military and intel agents into Indigenous communities. They are not going to stop.





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