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Call for aboriginal summit

here in Australia the government has spin doctors operating full time to hide the true state of play in respect of Aboriginal people. They are paid big dollars to convince the white Australian public that what they do for Aborigines is in the interest of the Aboriginal people and that special measures are necessary. “

Aboriginal struggle like those in China and Iran Goodooga, northwest NSW, 3 January 2010 – – A NSW activist likens the struggle for Aboriginal rights to the uprisings to win freedom in China and Iran.

“The repressive and discriminatory laws that we are subject to here in Australia would not be tolerated anywhere else in the free world,” Michael Anderson writes .

Mr Anderson is the last survivor of the four young Black Power men who set up the Aboriginal embassy in Canberra in 1972. He leads the 3,000 Euahlayi of northwest NSW.

He is calling Elders from across the country to a summit in Canberra on 30 January and 1 February.

Citing a 1968 cabinet decision, he argues that all Australian governments continue to pursue assimilation of Aborigines and to ignore that they have and want to practise their own cultures.

“By continuing their assimilation policies, despite the success of the 1967 referendum,” Mr Anderson writes, “the Australian federal and state governments should realise that some of the people may be fooled sometimes but we will not all be fooled all the time.”

“It is important for our people to understand the deceit and deception that continue to be peddled by all political parties in Aboriginal affairs.”…….

“The repressive and discriminate laws that we are subject to here in Australia would not be tolerated anywhere else in the free world. But here in Australia the government has spin doctors operating full time to hide the true state of play in respect of Aboriginal people. They are paid big dollars to convince the white Australian public that what they do for Aborigines is in the interest of the Aboriginal people and that special measures are necessary. “

January 3, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | aboriginal issues, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, nuclear