I taped the programme, Peter.
I don't know what all the scream was about-----must be a case of ''The
truth hurts"----It was a straightforward partial history of the racist
treatment of Aborigines by non-indigenous Australians.
Pilger exposed Howard's racist attitudes , so that probably explains the
mock outrage of Howard's racist fellow travellers .
Email me if you require a copy.
Laurie.
Laurie and Desley Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Peter McGrath wrote......
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From: Peter McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [recoznet2] Don't forget! ABC TV at 8:30 pm Tuesday!
>Had a bad night last night and was forced to miss the doco. Does anyone
else live in Brissie and record it.
>
>Trudy and Rod Bray wrote:
>
>> ABC TV
>>
>> Inside Story
>> Welcome To Australia
>>
>> Tuesday September 28, 8:30pm
>>
>> Award-winning film-maker John Pilger returns home to Australia to
witness the
>> elaborate preparations for the 2000 Olympic Games and the
>> surge in national pride as the country promotes itself as a confident
new
>> nation facing the millennium. However, in Pilger's view, these activities
are
>> overshadowing a real hidden world where Aborigines continue to live in
Third
>> World conditions. Welcome To Australia screens on ABC TV on Tuesday
September 28
>> at 8:30pm.
>>
>> Some of the greatest sportsmen and women in the world were Aboriginal -
yet
>> many of them were denied a place in Australia's Olympic teams. Pilger
discovers
>> that the Australian Government is overturning a landmark legislation of
1992
>> which recognised that Aborigines actually existed as people with common
law
>> rights, before the English colonised the country.
>>
>> In 1992, the Australian High Court finally recognised `native title'
over
>> certain - mostly unused - Crown land. The court went to considerable
>> lengths to ensure most white Australians were not affected by the
judgement.
>> The new legislation meant that Aborigines, if they could prove they had
>> maintained a traditional association with the land, could finally claim
land
>> rights.
>>
>> However, Pilger says that behind this facade is the shocking reality of
>> Aboriginal Australia - not only its betrayal over land rights, but its
>> continuing Third World status within a First World Country.
>>
>> A Carlton Production. Written and presented by John Pilger. Produced by
Alan
>> Lowery.
>>
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