It'll be summertime soon and many West Australians will soon be frolicking in the sun at their beloved Rottnest Island.

The fact that they'll be dancing on human graves as they've done for many years past, continues to not be a factor to their consciences.

There are almost 350 Aboriginal male prisoners still buried on Rottnest Island. Why are they still there? Why does WA continue to hail Rottnest as our island in the sun, when many Aboriginal sons still lie buried under our feet?

Of course, it comes as no surprise that successive WA governments have been openly dismissive of this humanitarian issue. After all, mass murderers like James Stirling, John Septimus Roe and Thomas Peel are still celebrated, by name and deeds throughout the state. They have statues, highways, schools, cities and even a football club named after them. But they don't tell you that these three men also murdered over a hundred Binjareb people from Pinjarra, as a punitive measure against another tribe who were simply defending their lands against invaders.

When it comes to the joviality of romping in the sparkling waters of Rottnest Island and the glorification of child-killers, WA has proven itself to be right up there in the league of evil and stupidity. These two issues stand out like a beacon when it comes to decency, meaningful cultural protocol and just simple respect for humanity.

Why does WA continue to dance on peoples' graves and openly extol evil cowardly men? Why is our state still morbidly steadfast in celebrating Australian colonialism, despite its unquestionable evils?

This state continues without conscience in imposing its own form of macabre superiority over Australian Blacks in every respect. We are still ghouls in the 21st century.

Through DNA identification, the bodies of the Aboriginal warriors on Rottnest Island must be repatriated to their own respective homelands and the statues and namesakes of Roe, Stirling and Peel have to be torn down by people who are simply better humans than the three of them.

Phill Moncrieff is a Yamatji man from the Ningaloo Coast and Mt Augustus (Burringurrah), Midwest WA.

He has worked for 46 years in Aboriginal affairs in the fields of community development, Indigenous media, policy development, education, and in Aboriginal mental health for the past eight years.