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Australia’s new Consitutional Committee – for uranium miners more than for Aborigines?

Noel Pearson,……. increasing his personal wealth through deals with mining companies and rightwing politicians.….. It would also be a very good idea for Marcia Langton and Pat Dodson to inform the Aboriginal people of the purpose and outcomes of their private meeting with Queen Elizabeth II in London 1999. This was a meeting, I understand, organized by the hierarchy of Rio Tinto. How can we place or have any trust in these sorts of people?……

Appalled at the people on the constitutional committee. Indymedia Australia,  Commentary by Michael Anderson, last survivor of the four founders of the Aboriginal Embassy and leader of the Euahlayi Nation. Goodooga, northwest NSW, 18 January 2011

I am appalled at the announcement of the people who are to sit on this farcical constitutional committee to consider a proposal for the recognition of Aboriginal people in the Australian constitution….. Noel Pearson, who argues that the problems of his people are of their own making and works in concert to further demoralize them while at the same time increasing his personal wealth through deals with mining companies and rightwing politicians……

It would also be a very good idea for Marcia Langton and Pat Dodson to inform the Aboriginal people of the purpose and outcomes of their private meeting with Queen Elizabeth II in London 1999. This was a meeting, I understand, organized by the hierarchy of Rio Tinto. How can we place or have any trust in these sorts of people?……

So why then do we have to accept these chosen golden children of the British Empire and our oppressors? Appalled at the people on the constitutional committee | Indymedia Australia

January 16, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | aboriginal issues, AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL