User:DailyMagnet

Hi - I am a researcher and journalist, mostly I write in the areas of human rights and justice. I began a blog when I was a student - http://thedailymagnet.blogspot.com It is not a commercial venture and it features no advertising. Sometimes I make contributions or edits to the wiki. I donate that work in good faith that it will not be swiped by mainstream tabloid journos. I basically, wrote the Brenden Abbott page and this is because I have a lot of knowledge in that area, and I saw that a lot of the data on that page was inaccurate and inflammatory. I have hosted the paintings of BJ Abbott at my blog so that users of the wiki, who like reading about him can see his paintings. Abbott's work is his intellectual property and cannot, by law, be reproduced for commercial gain whilst he is incarcerated. My work at TheDailyMagnet.blogspot.com may be done for free, but it is my intellectual property. I have done that writing of my own volition to enrich community knowledge about the era and effects of the Forgotten Australians. Contrary to some recent criticism of the Abbott page via vandalism, the details in that page are factual and documented. If you wish to query them please feel free to do so, but don't delete my work without just cause.


 * NB - The Forgotten Australians and Stolen Generations were removed from their homes by the government during past eras in Australian history that were dominated by right-wing political bigotry. Their removal was done to facilitate government economic and political interests with no dissent from Aboriginal people, the original inhabitants of Australia for the past 40,000 years. Assimilation policies also aimed to create a 'White Australia' in accord with the "White Australia Policy" in the early to mid-20th century. The policy was emblematic of colonial government assimilation that endeavoured to strike out different classes and ethnicities of people residing in Australia. In 2008, the Australian PM apologized for those past bigoted cruel practices and in doing so, acknowledged government wrongdoing. Abbott is only one of thousands of 'Forgotten Australians' but is notable by his incarceration in UN-condemned Supermax conditions since the age of 12 years. He has had bilateral effusive glue ear in both ears from birth along with bilateral perforated ear drums. Those details are factual and I will provide reference material asap to support that. Bye. Happy reading.