Here is the latest (edited) report on articles in the European press about Aboriginal issues from my Germany-based journalist contact: > Some good news for a change. Aboriginal issues are being reported. > > Die Welt, leading German conservative daily, "Aborigines want to disturb > olympics", long article on Aboriginal situation. By NINA SMIDT in Sydney. > > S�ddeutsche Zeitung, another leading daily, ran the agency story on > Clarrie's do, in which Aborigines are mentioned with one word. This paper > is sympathetic to the cause, though. > > Neue Z�rcher Zeitung, Switzerland's leading daily and one of high > international repute and spread, long article from Sydney, no author named. > > Der Spiegel, prominent news magazine, had a mocking little box aboput > Pauline Hanson crying on TV and begging for money. > > Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, leading daily, long article by Eberhard > Haubold. "Daily terror in the Outbcak" headline. > Starts: "Dreamtime in Australia: the coloured indigenous people, two > percent > of the population of 19 million, on average die 20 years sooner than the > whites. The mortality of their children is five times as high. And if they > survive, the odds are one to three that at the age of nine they'll contract > a longlasting eye disease ... (And so he goes on - bloody good report!) > > Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, by Michael Ashelm, "Cricket becomes the > Game of Shame", on top of it all the Aboriginal protest > movement, Kosovar refugees, GST. > > BILD-Zeitung, biggest circulation, several million, scandal rag, "110 > million DM head money" demanded by Aborigines for bush ranger hanged 120 > years ago, by Peter Michalski, trackers > Wannamutta and Weranabe led to Ned Kelly, two descendants now filed suit > in Brisbane for reward. > > International Herald Tribune, Paris based, read in many countries, by John > Vinocur, out of Sydney, "First of a series", heading "Australians' > Self-View: Ambiguous. Long, long article which you can probably find > online > or library or newsstand. Does not give much exposure to Aborigines, but as > is first of a series, might later? > > That's the batch I`ve seen. There may have been more. We're being seen. Trudy ********************************** 'Click' to protect the rainforest: Make the Rainforest Site your homepage! http://www.therainforestsite.com/ ********************************** ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
