BANNED BY THE INDONESIAN EMBASSY

Some years ago, I helped the parish council at St Peters Catholic Church in Port Moresby in promoting Positive Living with HIV/AIDS. I was allowed to talk to the congregation after mass.

One Sunday, I met the cultural attaché to the Indonesian Embassy and spoke to him in slightly rusty Bahasa Indonesia. On finding out that I was an English teacher, he suggested that I conduct classes for the wives of Indonesian officers at the Embassy.

It was a very pleasant experience. I came to the Embassy once a week for several weeks and taught basic polite English to several Indonesian wives.

It was easy as I was reasonably fluent in Bahasa and could explain the exact meaning of an English word by giving the Indonesian equivalent.

The time was spent in talking in English and laughing. I was as courteous as an an Indonesian gentleman. Then it was all stopped. The classes were closed and I was not allowed to enter the gate. I was completely puzzled.

Some weeks later, I met a friendly officer of the Embassy and asked him what had happened.

He told me it was the result of the report I posted on Google condemning the Indonesian Government for the killing of two American teachers in West Papua.

This would have to be a cybercrime probably perpetrated by the AusAID paedophiles seeking to block the Positive Living message by cutting off all sources of funding and official support that would enable me to continue with the message. 

Or they feared that the Positive Living message would be embraced by the Indonesians when they were doing their best to destroy the message in Papua New Guinea. I was explaining the message in Bahasa.

I have always regarded myself as a friend of Indonesian people and been available to help with the teaching of Bahasa in PNG schools.

Some years ago, I completed an extended framework to set out the basics of Bahasa on internet.

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Learn the starts of sentences first.

I was trained as an interpreter-translator at the Royal 
Australian Air Force School of Languages. It was
a 12 month course and I have never forgotten.

Since it was a military course with all ranks, there had 
to non-military informality between ranks and tutors.
Students were given an Indonesian name. 

I was Katopo. My friends were Marsaban, Bimadi, Usadi 
and more. If I met any old tutors today, that would be my 
name.

Teman-teman Indonesia yang terhormat: Minta maaf kalau 
ada kesalahan dalam daftar ini. Moga moga tiada banyak.

I learned Bahasa many years ago and have never forgotten.

Only words I have problems with are the personal pronouns.

Years ago the pronouns were saya (I) saudara ( you male),

Saudari ( you female), kami ( we exclusive) kita ( we inclusive).

Bapak ( man of rank), Ibu ( woman of rank)

Then there was anda ( general we) Now there is kamu (you)

and aku (I):

Saya  (I)

orang Indonesia (an Indonesian person)

akan naik mobil  (will go by car)

mau menjadi guru ( want to become a teacher)

berjalan ke kota (walked to town)

seorang anggota angkatan darat (a member of the army)

t(id)ak terlibat (was not involved)

akan pulang ( will go home)

sudah makan ( already eaten)

baru tidur ( have just slept)

Siapa (who)

orang itu? (is that person)

nama kamu? ( your name)

dia? (is he)

wanita itu? (is that young woman)

saya? (am I )

gadis yang cantik itu? (that pretty young woman)

yang sedang datang? ( is coming)

yang akan ikut saya? ( will accompany me)

sudah membayar uang?(has already paid money)

gadis yang menarik itu? ( is that attractive young woman)

pemuda yang tampan itu? (is that handsome young man)

Apa? ( what, what is)

itu? ( that)

yang akan dibuat? ( will be done)

yang akan dimakan? ( will be eaten)

yang akan saya buat? ( will I do)

yang kamu sedang makan? ( are you eating)

yang kita sudah minum? ( have we drunk)

yang kita baru makan? ( have we just eaten)

Saya bukan ( I am not [noun]

orang Indonesia ( an Indonesian person)

pelajar di sekolah ini ( a student in this school)

serdadu dalam angatan darat ( I am not a soldier in the army)

teman orang itu ( a friend of that person)

guru sekolah ini ( a teacher at this school)

Saya tidak ( I am /do/did not [verb] )

tahu (know)

datang bersama keluarga ( come with family)

membeli makanan ( buy food)

masuk ( enter)

ke luar ( go out)

Silakan ( please)

duduk ( sit)

masuk (enter)

datang ( come)

berdiri ( stand)
(mem) buka pintu ( open the door)

Itu ( It is, that is)

buku ( that is a book)

buku saya ( That is my book)

buku anak saya ( That is my child’s book)

buku wanita yang cantik itu ( It is a book of that lovely woman)

buku pemuda yang tampan itu ( It is a book of that handsome young man)

saja ( it)

Mari(lah) kita (Let us)

pergi ke kota (go to town)

pulang (go home)

duduk (sit)

makan nasi (eat rice)

mandi di sungai (bathe in the river)

menonton pilem ( watch a movie)

berjalan-jalan di mana mana saja (wander just everywhere)

berjalan-kaki ke setasiun redio (walk to the radio station)

Ada (there is, there are, is there? Are there?)

dua orang (two people).

tiga orang laki-laki di sana (three boys over there)

berapa orang? (how many people)

dua saja (just two)

Ada has the same function as the Tok Pisin I gat.

I gat tupela man i stap (two men)

I gat planti kaikai i stap long haus (plenty of food at the house)

Hanya ada (There is/are only)

satu anak yang sakit (only one sick child)

dua atau tiga wanita (two or three women)

satu orang angatan darat (one soldier)

satu anak yang datang (one child who came)

Masih ada (There is/are still)

makanan di dalam lemari ( food in the cupboard)

beberapa perwira angatan udara (several air force officers)

banyak anjing di luar ( many dogs outside)

masalah yang hebat ( heavy problem)

kesempatan yang menarik (an attractive opportunity)

Di mana? ( Where is/are)

orang itu? (that person)

anak saya ( my child)

buku anak saya (my child’s book)

isteri teman saya? ( my friend’s wife)

teman-teman saya ( my friends)

Dari mana? ( from where)

dia datang ( he/she came)

semua orang itu (all those people)

kelompok saya (my group)

anak anak di sana (those children there)

Jangan(lah)  ( Please don’t)

kwatir ( worry)

marah ( be angry)

sebegitu sedih ( be so sad)

pergi ke sana ( go over there)

datang naik bis ( come by bus)

naik mobil ke desa ( go to the village by car)

(mem) buka pintu (open the door)

ke luar ( go outside)

masuk ( enter)

Lebih baik kalau ( it would be better if)
Ada baiknya

saya pulang sebelum jam enam ( I go home before six o’clock)

dia menunggu sampai jam dua pagi ( he waits until two in the morning)

wanita itu menunggu selama due jam lagi ( the girl waited for 2 more hours)

mereka dikeluarkan dengan segera ( they are removed soon)

anak-anak disuntikan dengan segera ( the children are immunized soon)

mereka datang cepat-cepat ( they come quickly)

Apakah (Is, are, has, have, was, were)

dia sakit? (she/he sick)

orang itu teman ibu saya? (that person a friend of my mother)

mereka sudah datang? (they already come)

ini buku saya? (this my book)

itu sudah waktu? (this already time)

Pada waktu itu (At that time)

ada beberapa hal yang penting  (there were several important matters)

keadaan ekonomi kurang baik (economic situation less than good)

juga ada masalah yang penting (there were important problems)

saya melihat beberapa orang (I saw several people)

dia sudah kembali ke kantor ( he had returned to the office)

Selain dari itu juga ( Apart from that as well)

tugas saya belum ditentukan ( My work was not yet determined)

dua babi sedang merosot dalam kesehatan ( two pigs declined in health)

dia tak bisa menulis atau membaca ( he/she could not read or write)

ceramah belum disediakan ( the lecture was not prepared)

makanan belum dimakan ( the food was not yet eaten)

Bukan main ( How - admiration )

Alangkah 

cantiknya wanita itu ( beautiful that woman)

besarnya anjing itu  ( large that dog)

tampannya pemuda ini ( handsome this young man)

kecilnya kucing itu ( small that cat)

lezatnya makanan iti ( delicious that food)

Ini inti ( this is precisely)

istilah yang diucapkan ( the term uttered)

keadaan yang semakin merosot ( the situation continuing to decline)

apa yang diterima ( what was received)

perbuatan yang dilihat ( behaviour seen)

istilah yang ditulis di dinding ( the word written on the wall)

Saya ingin ( I wish to)

menjadi guru ( become a teacher)

tinggal di istana itu ( live in that palace)

mendengarkan lagu itu ( hear that song)

tidur selama enam jam ( sleep for six hours)

beristirat di pantai ( rest at the beach)

Kenapa?( Why)

begitu? (so)

orang itu meninggal? ( that person died)

mereka sebegitu marah? ( they are so angry)

mobil saya rusak? ( my car is damaged).

Saya kira bahwa ( I think that)

dia sakit ( he/she is sick)

dia tidak begitu sakit ( He/she is not so sick)

mereka kurang pasti ( not real sure)

anak itu selalu sakit ( that child is always sick)

Dia berkata bahwa ( He said that)

saya orang Australia ( I am an Australian)

dia kurang pasti ( he was not sure)

mobil saya rusak ( my car is broken down)

tidak ada banyak makanan ( there is not a lot of food)

masih ada sedikit obat obatan ( there is still a little medicine)

selalu ada hujan ( there is always rain)

kadang-kadang polisi akan dating ( occasionally police will come)

Kelihatannya ( It seems that)

hari akan hujan ( it will rain)

orang itu akan segera meninggal ( that person will soon die)

ada beberapa orang yang sakit ( there are many people sick)

pemberontakan sudah selesai ( the rebellion has finished)

penyakit akan berkobah-kobah ( the epidemic will rage)

Bolehkah saya ? ( May I )

ikut? ( accompany)

makan sekarang? ( eat now)

sediakan pidato saya? ( prepare my talk)

masuk? ( enter)

mendapat gagi saya? ( get my pay)

ke luar? ( go out)

mulai? ( begin)

mulai dengan pidato saya ( begin my speech)

duduk? ( sit)

pulang sekarang? ( go home now)

Justru adalah ( it is precisely that there is)

beberapa macam burung di daerah ini ( many species of birds in this area)

banyak macam binatang ( many kinds of animal)

kesempatan yang baik ( a good opportunity)

Sudah waktu ( already time to)

makan di bawah pohon ( eat under the tree)

selesaikan proyek ( finish the project)

tidur (sleep)

bangun ( arise from sleep)

membayar uang ( pay the money)

mandi di sungai ( bathe at the river)

mencuci pakaian ( wash the clothes)

Tampaknya ( apparently)

uang saya hilang ( my money was lost)

anak sudah pulang ( the child has already gone home)

air t(id)ak begitu bersih ( the water is not too clean)

buah-buahan masih mentah ( the fruit is still raw)

gedung berapi akan meletus (the volcano will erupt)

More to come.

EAT VEGETABLES AND FRUIT

Post Courier 30 August 2018

Vegetables and fruits are key health foods and for good reason.  They are loaded with pre-biotic fibre, vitamins, minerals and antioxidents some of which have potent biological effects.

Studies show that people who eat most vegetables and fruits live longer and have lower risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and all sorts of disease.

Comment: Our Positive Living message is based on a diet of fruit and vegetables. It allows older people to live longer and younger people to die young by eating fatty rubbish food.

FALSE TEACHING OF PAEDOPHILE CULTS

All children respond positively to sex with adults (Dr Kinsey).

Adolescent boys/girls are gay/lesbian if they hug/ fight same sex friends.

LGBT children need gay and lesbian mentors.

Parents, teachers and pastors rob children of their rights.

Children have to be freed from sexual barriers.

Children have the awareness of adults and have rights to sex.

LGBT children belong to the world LGBT family not their biological family.

Family and faith are not relevant in modern society (UNAIDS)

Children have the right of association with adults. (UN Declaration).

Children have rights with no responsibilities.

Young anuses cannot be damaged by gay penises.

Children will not be infected by gut parasites from licking gay faeces.

Parents have no rights.

Underage children have the right to be sex workers.

Underage children need no parental approval for medical treatment.

Positive Living is a fake message full of errors (AusAID)

Founder of AIDS Holistics kills people with Positive Living (AusAID)

All men are violent.

All women are abused.

WHAT IS THE AGENDA OF CHILD FUND?

Let Child fund Director reveal identity and make a community statement on the agenda of Child Fund supported by one or more church leaders.

I recall the lesbian who tried to have the AIDS Holistics Founder arrested by police for criticizing a gender rights workshop she ran for the PNGDF. It was more a lesbian rights workshop that gave all rights to women and no rights to men. She was one of this group of lesbians. Silly twit.

For over a decade, there has been a Personal Development curriculum in Papua New Guinea Schools.

Focus from grades 5 to 12 has been on children growing to adults and developing relationships with rights, responsibilities and obligations of parents and children within nuclear and extended families.

The message has been free from gay and lesbian propaganda though there is a section in the grade 11 syllabus on homophobic bullying.

Now that the curriculum is becoming widely accepted in education, there is the danger of infiltration by foreign gay, lesbian  and paedophile lobby groups. They plan not to let a stone remain unturned.

For that reason there is fear of the intentions of Child Fund and FHI 100 recently starting a public profile in the media.

Child Fund has recently concluded a workshop for Personal Development teachers with no public notice in the media of the agenda and contact persons. It was secret.

The focus was on management of students and violence to children at school and at home. This sounds very much like an LGBT agenda being secretly pushed into Education.

It may mean that plans are being set up to change Personal Development to an anti-family, anti-parent and anti-teacher agenda. Disunity is planned for teachers on rights of children.

But most teachers in this country are professional, committed to students, middle aged and married with children but not to be bullied by an anonymous gang of young, unmarried and childless lesbians.

Parents and teachers will be blamed for all the problems facing students. How can there be blame for cult fighting, smoking marijuana, drinking home brew and burning classrooms down?

At present, there is a balance in the Personal Development curriculum between the rights, responsibilities and obligations of family members. No shame or blame to be invoked.

I have worked in PNG for 25 years and know only two LGBT school students. They both co-existed happily with other students. Both were protected by big brothers.

Ask any person in this country and be told that they have never seen a gay or lesbian person certainly not in schools. Homophobic bullying is really not an issue in schools.

Yet in recent months we were advised in the media that 9000 LGBT people lived in Port Moresby. Have they all moved to the big city for paedophile and gay/lesbian  sex?

That statistic may have included the underage street boys and girls being groomed to be LGBT. Young people can be groomed to be LGBT not born.

Straight children can be groomed to LGBT just like the young boys and girls in British boarding schools together with Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. That is why foreign paedophiles want the kids on the streets.

There is danger in setting up orphanages in this country particularly under the control of foreign paedophiles. They will groom PNG kids to be LGBT.

Several years ago, there was a so-called care organization based in an office on the right side of the road to the Airways Hotel in Port Moresby. I forgot the name.

The Director was gay with a group of young national lesbian women as staff. I made contact but they rejected the Positive Living message outright. The Director refused to meet me. This was a sure danger sign.

Then the organization abruptly stopped. A new group appeared calling itself Child Fund. Were they the same group? Some of the women of the old group went to work in other organizations.

The agenda of Child Fund is a matter of deep concern. Department of Education please be warned. Are they planning to infiltrate the Personal Development Curriculum in schools?

This will lead to the general agenda of foreign paedophiles. That is legalization of gay and lesbian sex, same sex marriage, legalization of sex workers particularly underage street boys and girls with blame against parents and teachers.

The recent Child Fund workshop stated in the media the name of the so-called fairy god mother from the University of Melbourne who was regarded as waving a magic wand over all student problems in schools. Was she an expert in HIV/AIDS?

But the media report was preceded by no public notice of the work of Child Fund on Personal Development nor authorization by the Department of Education.

The report was anonymous. Did Child Fund have something to hide? There was  no policy statement except a focus on violence to children at home and school (LGBT?).

The gay and lesbian agenda demands secrecy. That is why there is no gay and lesbian website. Any messages are anonymous or in a false name.

Experienced teachers do not need to be dictated to by unprofessional amateurs. Many teachers live and breathe the welfare of students.

In any war between the hundreds of Personal Development teachers and foreign paedophiles, the teachers will win. They are supported by 7 years of PD curriculum.

They have the perspective of 7 years of Personal Development from Grades 5 to 12. And they have the perspective of living in loving families with adult children and some grand - children.

There can be no argument against the reality that all people have rights and responsibilities. For every right there is a responsibility.

I tell students that I am not advising them as their PD teacher. I am their grand-father. Being 72 years old has its advantages.

CHILD ABUSE WIDER THAN JUST THE PRIESTS, TEACHERS AND SCOUTMASTERS

Many paedophile priests, teachers and scoutmasters have the sexual maturity of adolescent same sex boys under their authority.

There is an ongoing issue of the historical child abuse of priests, teachers and scoutmasters with hundreds of older men and women talking of sex abuse they suffered as children.

But that is only the drop in the bucket. There has long been massive endemic abuse particularly of boys in church boarding schools at the hands of older boys.

In Catholic and Anglican boarding schools, nights in the dormitories were filled with the sounds of boys having sex with younger boys.

Prefects had their own servants chosen from the younger boys and called “fags”. They were to be at the service of their prefect master to clean their room and be available for masturbation, oral and anal sex.

Prefects had the right to punish their fags by having them remove their trousers and be beaten with a paddle. Teachers in boarding schools also had their fags who were to serve their master with sex.

Some teachers would claim to have sex with the lonely rejected boys so that they would not feel outcast among their peers.

We recall the four university graduates including Philby and Maclean in Britain who defected to Russia after spying against Britain. They were all gay and went through boarding school and university together as gay boys.

There used to be a saying that gay graduates of English boarding schools and universities went on to join the foreign office or become Anglican priests.

At the age of 12, I became a scout in Brisbane. Looking back now, I can see that scout camps were often orgies of sex. The favourite game in the tents after dark was “spin the bottle” which involved boys sitting in a circle. Not all boys took part.

A bottle was spun. When the bottle stopped, the two boys had the task of masturbating each other until all boys had been suitably masturbated. Young boys recently joined from the cubs had to be coaxed to take part.

I remember a scout camp that had two scout troops. Late at night, I will always recall the boys in the other troop all naked and joined into a conga line of penis to anus, penis to anus. 

They proceeded around the camp site. There was no sign of the scoutmaster. He must have known.

I recall another camp. The scoutmaster at the neighbouring troop had dug a trench and placed fire and stones within. It was a rainy night and he put a tent over the trench.

Then the boys of the troop all naked with the scoutmaster naked rushed into the tent beating their skin while water was poured on the stones. Then they rushed out and dived into the river. This went on for over an hour. Great fun.

At the same camp, I recall that we arrived late and it was raining. So we slept in a church hall.

Throughout the night there were the groans of pleasure of a dozen boys sleeping naked together and masturbating each other under the blankets.

This would certainly be the same in all institutions that looked after children. It would be natural to assume that priests, teachers, scout masters and welfare workers had the opportunity to join in the sexual games of the boys.

I left scouts a year later.

COMMON SENSE HIV/AIDS ADVERTISEMENTS

In aids awareness, common sense is least common of all senses. In messages below, we think the problems through which many people including counselors and peer educators can not do.

There is no need for research at massive cost to the Australian taxpayer. The issues surrounding the HIV pandemic are so basic and public knowledge.

The messages should go out by the media rather than by aid money into bank accounts of new chum researchers who can at best only reinvent the wheel in English not Tok Pisin.

Many issues are not explained clearly enough to be understood by peer educators, PLWHIV, PLWHA and the rest of the community. We must teach people how to think through the many HIV/AIDS issues. All issues are very basic and need common sense not research.

There are basic issues that can be explained to TV viewers and newspaper readers in simple words. Consider the following:

Young women raped must go straight to the hospital or AIDS clinic within 60 hours for ART as a precaution against the man being HIV positive. If not positive, she is safe. If positive, she has already begun the treatment to remove the virus from the blood.

Yangpela meri i mas i go long haus sik o AIDS clinic insait long 60 aua sapos man i bagarapim em. Em bai kisim ARV tritmen bilong blokim HIV sapos man i gat sik. Sapos man i orait, meri bai orait. Sapos man i gat HIV meri i statim marisin tritmen insait long 60 aua.

A woman diagnosed pregnant must go for an AIDS test before the child is born. If positive, she must go on ARV medication (1) during pregnancy (2) during child birth (3) while breast feeding and (4) for the rest of her life. The child should be born HIV negative.

Sapos meri  i gat bel em i mas i go kisim HIV test bipo em i karim pikinini pinis. Sapos em i gat HIV sik, em i mas statim ARV tritmen bipo em i karim pikinini pinis. Em i mas kisim marasin (1) taim pikinini i stap long bel (2) taim meri i wok long karim ( 3) taim em i givim susu na (4) long olgeta laip bihain.

A man or woman has to wait for 3 months to be tested after intercourse. Then the HIV antibodies will show up on a test not before. If the person has further sex during that time with another person without a condom, then another 3 month wait starts at the date of the last intercourse. This will go on every time the person has unsafe sex with new people.

Man o meri i mas i wet inap long 3pela mun bihain em i wokim sex pinis. Bihain long 3 pela mun bodi bai soim olsem HIV i stap. Sapos man o meri i wokim sex gen insait long dispel taim em i mas i wet inap long 3 pela mun moa. Sapos man o meri i wokim moa sex, ol i mas wet 3pela mun wan wan taim moa na moa yet.

An HIV positive person on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs must not think they are now cleared of the virus. The virus is still in the hiding places and will rebound if the person defaults on daily doses. An HIV infected person must always use a condom. Check with the hospital for a viral load test to be sure.

Sapos man o meri i stap long ARV marasin, em i no ken ting olsem HIV i pinis. Ol binatang i stap yet insait long ol ples bilong hait. Sapos man o meri i les na lusim tingting long kisim marasin wan wan de, ol binatang inap kalap i kam bek long blut gen na pait strong moa.

A woman must not smoke cigarettes while breast feeding. The tars will enter her blood and then pass to the breast milk. The baby will drink contaminated milk which will give chest infections. A mother’s HIV virus will enter the baby in breast milk and through infections on the baby’s chest.

Meri i no ken pulim simok taim em i givim susu long bebi. Ol simok marasin nogut bai go insait long blut bilong meri na bihain tan insait long susu. Bebi bai dringim susu i pulap long poison. Sapos mama i gat HIV bebi inap kisim tu.

People who are HIV and on ARV medication may remain PLWHIV. That means that AIDS has been blocked and the person should remain HIV all their lives. They are People living with HIV. But if they default and the virus rebounds, the person may move on to AIDS. They are then PLWHA – People living with HIV/AIDS.

Sapos HIV tarangu i kisim ARV na kaikai marasin wan wan de em bai stap HIV na i no inap slip I go long AIDS. Sapos em i les na i no kisim marasin wan wan de, ol binatang bai inap nekim em insait long 2pela or 3pela mun.

Fathers and mothers do not be angry if your daughter tells you she has been raped. Take her straight to the AIDS clinic for ARV treatment within 60 hours. Tell her never to be afraid to tell you.

Ol papamama i no ken kros sapos pikinini meri i tok olsem sampela man i bagarapim em. Kisim em i go long haus sik insait long 60aua bilong kisim ARV marasin. Maski wet inap long 3 pela mun. Bihain long 60 aua ol binatang bai hait insait long bodi. Bipo long 60aua ol binatang bai dai insait long blut. ARV inap kilim ol.

Daughters do not be afraid to tell your parents if you have been raped. They have to take you straight to the AIDS clinic within 60 hours for ARV medication. That will protect you if the man is HIV positive.

Ol pikinini meri i no ken pret long tokim papamama sapos man i bagarapim em. Ol i mas kisim meri i go stret long haus sik bilong statim ARV tritmen. Sapos man i gat sik, meri bai orait sapos em i statim ARV kwiktaim na kilim ol HIV i raun insait long blut.

All babies need breast milk. If they do not have breast milk for the early months, they will lack vitamins and antibodies. If an HIV mother has a new born baby and is worried, she should see a doctor. If she is on ARV, her milk should be safe. To be sure she could express, heat the milk to destroy any HIV and feed to the baby with a spoon.

Olgeta bebi i mas kisim susu bilong mama. Sapos em i no kisim long stat bilong laip, em bai stap sik na lusim strong. Em bai sot long ol vitamin na antibody. Sapos mama i wari gutpela sapos em i go lukim dokta. Sapos mama i sik long HIV na stap long ARV marasin, ating em bai orait. Wari yet, gutpela sapos em i hatim susu na givim bebi long spun. No ken boilim na kilim ol gutpela samting i stap insait long susu.

Major Bruce Copeland (Australian Army retired)

HIV/AIDS advocate and counselor

Lecturer in Tok Pisin

RAAF School of Languages 1978-1992.

IT ALL COMES BACK TO FAMILY

It is difficult to believe that a decade ago, AusAID and UN white trash tried to destroy the family of the founder of AIDS Holistics to block mention of family that they claimed was not relevant in society according to UNAIDS. It was about rights of LGBT children. Let new comers beware.

The National Editorial 22 August 2018

The Government can only do what it can do. The rest falls back on families. What happens in the family unit should be setting the foundation of how children move and interact in the community.

The family is the place where children can be raised in a safe and stable environment. In families three or four generations can care for one another from cradle to grave.

These include the sick, the vulnerable, the disabled and the aged. It gives the family members a sense of purpose and meaning that paid jobs can not do.

Changes can not happen overnight but can be achieved if all effort is put into empowering the family unit especially the father and mother.

Let the law deal with rogue behaviour appropriately. Parents should accompany their children to court to witness for themselves the seriousness of what they have done.

The time for pussy footing around is over.