Ann: MARKET UPDATE BATEMAN ENGINEERING REPORT (SC, page-60

re: Ann: MARKET UPDATE BATEMAN ENGINEERING RE... Not here Clydebigdog, you'll find no mention of that in regard to the Archipelago in the reports and so forth generated by that issue...and you can check if you are sceptical.

There have been two cases of paedophilia here in living memory, and living cheek by jowl everybody knows what every body else is doing.

The first was immediately post war when the Church Missionary Society under the Commonwealth Policy of Protection plus Supervision took the latter of those dual responsibilties very seriously indeed. The offender was taken fishing and executed and his body disposed of in the sea. On return the missionaries were told that he had been taken by a crocodile.

The most recent came to light in 2004 involving a middle aged man and a thirteen year old who was not that man's right line in terms of marriage. He was charged and found guilty of carnal knowledge and given some sort of bond, maybe home detention from memory. He too would have been executed under Ceremonial Law, but that has been usurped by Australian Law.

Upon release he was given the "mamajinga" treatment (popularly but incorrectly known in the Mainstream as pointing the bone or "black majic, although there is an element of sorcery involved, so too the use of poisons. With my wife an expert re proficiency with the latter I am always careful not to break any Ceremonial Law or indeed her own personal boundaries she sets for me in terms of behaviour). He faded and ultimately died with in about two years of his offences.

All Aboriginal Cultures are different, so too their living circumstances. Ceremonial Cultures ( i.e. those who practice initiation and mortuary ceremonies, and dare I say it, by practical application of the Song Lines and Song Streams) while being different in many respects have strong commonalities, particularly in terms of the diktats of Ceremonial Law.

Most of the Laws are pretty similar to the ten commandments. Perhaps, but I am only guessing here, stuff like child molestation, is probably more likely to occur in those Cultures where Ceremonial Law has, or is, disappearing. The Song Lines are crucial in the upkeep of Ceremonial Law in that some of the songs associated with the lines, because of the oral nature of the Culture, are about The Law and inculcated via repetition in singing the songs.

The greatest "sexual" problem here was during the time of petrol sniffing and alcohol abuse, both ceasing in 2006/2007, in unleashing inhibitions which saw promiscuity amongst young people result in sexual liaisons with those not in the "right line", according to the strict rules of marriage which operate here- also part of the Song Line equation, in that if one knows the Song Lines they know who they can and who they can't marry, or have sex with, because of the membership of somebody from the opposite sex in another Song Line.

The children resulting from those relationships profoundly "too close", in terms of their kinship relationships, are debarred from paricipation in Ceremonial life; the greatest "shame job" that can befall an individual here, but are not denied full participation in "community" life.

The people here only came in from "the bush" in 1946, although the villages are in fact smack dab in the bush, meaning that one must be vigilant in regard to snakes, particularly death adders and King Browns, turning ip in unlikely places. And The Law remains Strong, and in fact overides Australian law in the minds of the people. Although anybody utilising "Pay Back" by ritual spearing is charged with murder, generally manslaughter actually, and ends up in goal.

That's why "mamjinga" is pretty popular around here in punishing breeches of Ceremonial Law in the contemporary context.

Sorry Clydebigdog, you can control the questions but not the answers.