Alan Jones the Readers Digest second most trusted man in Australia, bigotted
racists such as Burke, Howard and Court among our elected leaders---we must
be a pretty low lot.
Laurie
Laurie and Desley Forde
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Without a treaty, which spells out the obligations and rights of both
parties, there can be no Reconciliation in Australia----Geoff Clark.
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From: "Trudy Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "news-clip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 11:41 AM
Subject: The Canberra Times: Burke calls on ATSIC chair to stand down while
...
> The Canberra Times
> Tuesday, 1 August, 2000
>
> Burke calls on ATSIC chair to stand down while
> charges heard
>
> By KIRSTEN LAWSON
>
> Northern Territory Chief Minister Denis Burke called yesterday on
> ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark to stand aside while he faces rape
> charges in Victoria, branding his appearance before a United Nations
> committee in Geneva a disgrace.
>
> "If there was any other politician in Australia faced with the allegation
> that that guy's had, they'd have had to stand down," he told Sydney
> radio.
>
> "Yet he's sitting there in a suit in Geneva talking about how
> Australians should be held in disrepute because of our record."
>
> Clark has also faced pressure from within the Aboriginal and Torres
> Strait Islander Commission, with fellow commissioners Ray Robinson
> and Charles Perkins said to be considering a no-confidence motion in
> him when the board meets in Canberra in a fortnight.
>
> Other commissioners have supported his determination to stay in the
> job while the charges, which he says are politically motivated, are
> heard.
>
> The UN Human Rights Committee called at the weekend for Australia
> to reassess the mandatory sentencing laws which have impacted on
> Aborigines in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, but Mr
> Burke has dismissed the committee as a "shonky" group of activists
> and urged the Federal Government to ignore its "laughable" findings.
>
> He accused Clark of trying to shame Australians before the
> international community, an action he said would only divide the
> nation.
>
> "The reality is Australians have worked hard to solve the problems
> faced by its disadvantaged and they will continue to do so," he said.
>
> "Australians do not deserve to be maliciously smeared abroad."
>
> Yesterday, Western Australian Premier Richard Court said he would
> not cop a UN committee telling a democratically elected government
> how to run its affairs.
>
> "The mandatory sentencing law that they are referring to - the three
> strikes and you're in legislation - has strong support from the
> Western Australian community," he told ABC Radio.
>
> "There is absolutely no evidence that any person, any juvenile, has
> been treated unfairly in Western Australia as a result of that law."
>
> The Howard Government rejected the UN committee's major findings.
>
>
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