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How the Murdoch press keeps Australia’s dirty secret : Comments
By John Pilger, published 17/5/2011The most enduring and insidious Murdoch campaign has been against Aboriginal people who have never been allowed to recover.
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In the last thirty years, Aboriginal people have asserted themselves, seized opportunities, created more than 25,000 university graduates, halved the gap in home ownership (all such bourgeois measures ! Sniff, says Pilger) and participated in Australia's open society. Yes, there is a population immured in welfare-dependence, perhaps a third of the total Indigenous population, suffering the worst health, imprisonment and suicide rates - but this is precisely the population which the Pilgers of the world would tout as exemplars for the rest: living in remote areas and on the outskirts of cities, unemployed and unemployable, alienated - and dead in the water.
Save it for your gullible overseas readers, mate.
Joe Lane
Adelaide