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Under Cover of Racist Myth, A New Land Grab in Australia: Claims of child abuse are proving a fertile pretext to menace the Aboriginal communities lying in the way of uranium mining – John Pilger

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(Dated Piece) 26 October 2008

Its banks secured in the warmth of the southern spring, Australia is not news.  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.

The facts are not in dispute: thousands of black Australians never reach the age of 40; an entirely preventable disease, trachoma, blinds black children as epidemics of rheumatic fever ravage their communities; suicide among the despairing young is common. No other developed country has such a record. A pervasive white myth, that Aborigines leech Continue reading

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