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Racism across the Tasman

Published on October 24th, 2008
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Looks like Australia doesn’t have a complete monopoly on ignorance….
Lockwood Smith has spoken exclusively to ONE News, expressing deep remorse for his controversial immigration comments.
“I wasn’t expressing my view, I was simply reporting what people had been telling me. Now I can see how those comments taken out of that context could cause offence, and […]

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Congratulations Gurrumul

Published on October 20th, 2008
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It’s amazing that at the AUSTRALIAN Record Industry Awards (ARIAs) an Aboriginal musician is often touted as being out of the ordinary.
For a population of only 500,000, we have produced an amazing array of musical talent that has yet to be recognized.
For Indigenous music to seem almost out-of-the-ordinary at Australian music’s night of […]

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Attracting tourism dollars

Published on October 8th, 2008
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Once again Australia is using Aboriginal people as tourism devices to entice overseas dollars.

In June 2008, a report into the Australian tourism industry found that Indigenous tourism should be improved, saying that the majority of Northern Territory visitors expected to meet Aboriginal people, with 77 percent saying it was an “important part of their trip”.
-From […]

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Harper accused of plagiarizing Howard

Published on October 4th, 2008
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I feel sorry for anyone who feels they need to copy our former PM, arguably one of the dullest we have seen in a long time.

From Canadian Press.

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On the way up in the house??

Published on October 4th, 2008
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ISSUE 163, October 2, 2008: When you look below the surface, have women really made it in the halls of Australia’s parliament, asks AMY McQUIRE*.
Is it an optical illusion? When newly crowned Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull held a press conference last week to unveil his revamped front bench, it was a woman who helped occupy […]

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