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Green Left – Pilger: NT intervention a new land grab

Pilger: NT intervention a new land grab
Green Left John Pilger5 November 2008 With its banks secured in the warmth of the southern spring, Australia is not news internationally. It ought to be. An epic scandal of racism, injustice and brutality is being covered up in the manner of apartheid South Africa.

Many Australians conspire in this silence, wishing never to reflect upon the truth about their society’s untermenschen, the Aboriginal people……No other developed country has such a record. A pervasive white myth, that Aborigines leach off the state, serves to conceal the disgrace that money the federal government says it spends on Indigenous affairs actually goes towards opposing native land rights………………….This was during the decade-long rule of the conservative coalition of John Howard, whose coterie of white supremacist academics and journalists assaulted the truth of recorded genocide in Australia, especially the horrific separations of Aboriginal children from their families.

They deployed arguments not dissimilar to those used by David Irving to promote Holocaust denial………………….What is unique about Australia is not its sun-baked, derivative society, clinging to the sea, but its first people, the oldest on Earth, whose skill and courage in surviving invasion, of which the current onslaught is merely the latest, deserves humanity’s support.

Green Left – Pilger: NT intervention a new land grab

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