Shame on Australia
I have just spent an unhappy hour watching a report by John Pilger ("Welcome to
Australia") on the plight of your indigenous natives
(Abos to you).
It is a report that would shame a Third World country.
Of past injustices that remain unrectified; diseases that were dying out at the
end of the 19th century in Britain like rheumatic fever, but
still prevalent in the "Lucky" country; of budgets for Aborigines being cut
instead of being increased.
It is hardly credible that such an attitude exists.
When Cathy Freeman is battling for the 400 metres title in the Olympic Stadium,
members of her race will be battling to survive the
handicap of being a (black) native in their own land.
- P. Day, Doncaster (UK)
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