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The great federal land grab : Comments

By Jennifer Clarke, published 14/8/2007

Non-Indigenous Australians would not tolerate the routine sacrifices of property rights required of Aborigines.

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Jennifer writes about how it has become possible for compulsory acquisition of private land for private operators to deliver public services and wonders if this is a worry for non-aboriginals. It certainly is a worry! And it is also occurring to public land. For instance the Bracks Government GAVE AWAY 20 ha of public land in Royal Park - adjacent to the CBD - to Australand, which is more than 50% Singapore Government owned, PLUS $80m to encourage them to turn it into a private suburb (abutting on Melbourne Zoo) in exchange for 11 days use of the new housing to accomodate Commonwealth Games participants, and a vague promise of a very small amount of 'public housing at some future time perhaps'. To any Australian this is theft of public land, theft of our parkland and our heritage in increasingly congested and polluted circumstances - but, was it legal under these new laws? The media failed to adequately report this scandalous and frightening abrogration of a public right and one got the impression that the moral theft was so mind-boggling that few reporters, lawyers or politicians could actually take in what has happened, let alone the public. To add to the injury, the new suburb built where land was once proclaimed for our common benefit, has been largely auctioned off over the internet to overseas customers, inflating its value and contributing to a demand which Victoria is currently unable to service against a background of homelessness, debt and wage slavery.

We should all join together to safeguard Aboriginal and other land-rights in our community and not be misled into being divided and conquered on this.
Posted by Kanga, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 10:15:34 AM
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