An Aboriginal Australian in Sydney, Australia.(Photo: tunnelarmr)
How the Murdoch Press Keeps Australia's Dirty Secret
Friday 13 May 2011
by: John Pilger, Truthout
The most enduring and insidious Murdoch campaign has been against the Aboriginal people, who were dispossessed by the arrival of the British in the late 18th century and have never been allowed to recover. "Nigger hunts" continued into the 1960s and beyond. The officially-inspired theft of children from Aboriginal families, justified by the racist theories of the eugenics movement, produced those known as the Stolen Generation, and in 1997 was identified as
genocide. Today, the first Australians have the shortest life
expectancy of any of the world's 90 indigenous peoples. Australia imprisons Aborigines at five times the rate South Africa did during the apartheid years. In the state of Western Australia, the figure is eight times the apartheid rate.
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