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There is a video circulating calling for help for first nations people in the Northern Territory where there is a lot of confusion about Covid-19. Aboriginal people are hesitant of vaccination. This because many first nations people have underlying medical conditions.
Let’s take the claims in the video by David Cole (on social media not through any recognised aboriginal organisation) one by one:
1. David says he is part of ‘the original sovereign tribal Federation‘ in Northern Territory – a descendant of the Luritja people from the central desert.
This was the first mob in Central Australia to obtain land rights from the Whitlam government in 1974.
2. That foreign military (Kopassus) is forcing people in Katherine to be vaccinated. David says ‘We have the Northern Territory Government force-vaccinating our people pressuring them, using military, using foreign military, foreign police officers, and local, local military and local police officers to pressure our people into taking this this bioweapon.’
This is clearly untrue. Kopassus is not under the command of the Northern Territory government or any other Australian government. They are a force unto themselves who participated in the genocide in east Timor and currently involved in the colonial exploitation of the people of West Papua. A Vaccine is not a bioweapon, it helps save lives.
3. That people are dying from forced vaccination and that this is genocide. He states: ‘Our people are dying. Right now in town. We have two large apartment blocks.’ –
There is no mandatory vaccination scheme in the NT and even if there were, the injection of a foreign protein into your body is likely to trigger a response from your immune system but this response is usually mild unless it triggers an allergic response. If that is the case, this is usually countered by injection of epinephrine (adrenalin) which is an effective counter because it gets the respiratory and cardiac systems going after an acute allergic reaction (anaphylaxis). This is why the presence of a doctor is required when people are given the Covid-19 vaccines in Australia. There have been no reports of fatalities from the 51 cases in Katherine.
4. Lurpna (David) claims that ‘the Northern Territory Government and Michael Gunna, who was pushing this mandate with the police with the military. This is genocide against the oldest living culture on the planet’ –
Katherine is in lockdown, while Binjari and Rockhole are under tighter restrictions. There is no mandate for vaccination in Australia. Lockdown is standard procedure experienced by people in Melbourne for the past 18 months. For example people in Brunswick in Melbourne were in lockdown for 4 weeks in July ’21. People were unable to leave the state, to do so would require heavy penalty and enforced quarantine in a hotel at your own expense.
6. ‘Getting kicked out of housing blocks in Darwin’ … David says ‘Everybody has been told in those blocks. If you do not get the vaccine, you must leave now. So they’re stopping out people from the communities coming into town. They are now kicking our people out of housing commission houses because they won’t get the vaccination and making them homeless in the city.’
Sadly it does not take Covid-19 for aboriginal people to be kicked out of public housing. The aboriginal grannies group in Brisbane have been to the Dept of Housing with aboriginal tenants on countless occasions when they have been kicked out. Mostly it is because of racism … I think refusal to get a vaccine would be pretty low down on the list for eviction of aboriginal families.
Aboriginal people are hesitant of vaccination. This because many first nations people have underlying medical conditions.
