Dear Mr and Ms Bray
Thank you for your e-mail which I have passed on to Senators Woodley and
Ridgeway.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trudy & Rod Bray [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 5:31 PM
> To: Democrats
> Subject: [recoznet2] [FWD] Update from Germany on Indigenous issues
> in European press
>
>
> The notice board of the foreign correspondents in Australia has the
> following:
>
> "Stolen Generation Information
> If anybody is having problems obtaining contacts, names etc re
> the
> Stolen Generation, please call Diana Plater on 02 9389 6337 or 0419
> 692 502 or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
>
> Maybe we should get involved in this, offering a lead to Stolen
> Generations? Point out that it's plural for a start, because the press
> is
> still using singular. And maybe this Diana needs vetting?
>
> The Aboriginal iron is hot in the European media. We should be striking
> it.
> Give me an idea how you're distributing what we have to say to the
> media,
> and who does it, so I can feed to whoever that is from this end.
>
> Handelsblatt, the major German business daily, had a pretty big report
> on 13 Apr headlined "Conflicts with Aborigines tarnish Australia's
> multicultural image shortly before the summer games - 2000 Olympics in
> the shadow of the past", datelined Sydney, by Peter Zeidlitz.
>
> Financial Times (London), 10 Apr, "Canberra seeks softer line on state's
> mandatory jail laws", by Virginia Marsh in Sydney. Uses "generation"
> instead of plural. Uses aboriginal and aborigines (lower case)
> throughout. Someone politely point out to her that she wouldn't like
> british (lower case)instead of British, either. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Frankfurter Allgemeine, Germany's most prestigious daily, 5 Apr, "Cathy
> Freeman also stuck in a dilemma - why the Aborigines continue to
> threaten
> demonstrations in Sydney", (same paper had a report 2 days previously),
> no
> author named.
>
> Neue Z�rcher Zeitung, Switzerland's most prestigious daily and one of
> the world's best, "Australia on the warpath with the UN," out of Sydney,
> much emphasis to CERD, "Australia heavily attacked by American lawyer,
> Gay McDougall," very long, very good report. No author listed.
>
> Frankfurter Allgemeine, see above, 3 Apr, "Shaky stadiums, angry
> Aborigines - No end to protests in Sydney, algae brake canooists," by
> Michael Ashelm, not listed, but the paper is: Behrsing Boris,
> Frankfurter
> Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany.
>
> International Herald Tribune, major international daily based in Paris,
> "Aborigines Debate Politics of Olympics - Freeman Focuses on 400 meters,
> not race", by Christopher Clarey.
>
> Frankfurter Allgemeine, "Does Australia violate human rights?", only
> correct reference to Aboriginal population of 430,000, by Erhard
> Haubold, reporting from New Delhi.
>
> Financial Times, 31 March, Virginia Marsh (see above), "Canberra slams
> UN
> report on aborigines" (lower case again)
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