Tony Abbott’s insensitive remarks spark Aboriginal protest at G20
‘Imagine having your whole history erased’: Indigenous rights activists burn Australian flag during G20 protests 9 News 16 Nov Indigenous rights protesters have burned Australian flags during a demonstration outside the G20 summit convention centre in Brisbane.
A man at the forefront of the protests at the Roma Street Parklands told 9NEWS the act was a direct response to Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s comments on Friday that Australia pre-white colonisation was “extraordinarily basic and raw”.
“We had no choice when Abbott declared once again there was no semblance of any government [before white colonisation],” the demonstrator Woolombi said.
“This land for 67,000 years was the greatest biodiversity land management estate ever seen on the face of the world.
“We can’t afford to have that removed from our genetic memory.”………http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/11/16/14/36/indigenous-rights-activists-burn-australian-flag-during-g20-protests
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