Paul Toohey; 23/8/08
As Marcia Langton and Germaine Greer this week bickered about the cause of the violent rage inside Aboriginal men, that rage was asked to take a seat in the dock of the Northern Territory Supreme Court. The name of the rage was Gary Aaron Albert, 32, described by the judge as a “full-blood Aboriginal man” from Katherine. Albert’s rage took perverse and cruel aspects. On August 4 last year at the Jilkmingann community near Mataranka, after Albert had drunk 18 cans of beer, he started thinking his girlfriend was having thoughts for another man. Albert took a can of spray deodorant, lit a lighter and blowtorched the woman’s leg until it blistered. That was not just rage. It was torture. The victim of the rage was Natasha Daniels, a young woman from a big family from Ngukurr, on the banks of the Roper River, in east Arnhem Land. She lost a job she had held for four years as a ranger because of the constant brutality dealt out by her boyfriend.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24226749-5013172,00.html
Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Violence, Womens Rights