Two laws

Police in Alice Springs are under fire for moving on topless dancers

ATSIC’s only female commissioner, Alison Anderson, is considering a formal complaint to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. She said she would defy authorities to dance topless at a ceremony in Alice Springs yesterday afternoon. “This is part of our law, this is part of our culture, this is what makes us Aboriginal,” she said.

I’d normally have no hastles with girls going topless although I have a preference for the toplessees to be young nubiles but in this case I think we need to think it through. If a group of white girls went topless in public in a group they would be charged with indecent exposure. I’m not defending the law on indecent exposure only to say it exists and police are duty bound to apply the law without fear or favour. It comes down to this – one country – one law. The tribal cultural thing is frought with danger as witnessed by the creep who claimed his male privelidges over a 12 or 13 year old ‘promised bride’. To Commissioner, Alison Anderson’s statement This is part of our law, this is part of our culture, this is what makes us Aboriginal I must add; and one law, this is what makes us Australian. So, until parliament changes the law to something like…it is an offence for people to go naked in public except for groups of aborigine women… then the police at Alice are correct.