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PM Pleads To Nauru: Take Our Aborigines Too


In the wake of Nauru's acceptance of the Tampa refugees, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has struck a new deal with the small island nation to take our Aborigines as well.

 
 

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The deal follows a recent poll which found that the majority of Australians don't think Aborigines should be allowed in Australia. Mr Howard however denied that he was playing politics when he ordered a military evacuation of the entire indigenous population.

The Prime Minister said his government was committed to doing everything it could to stop Aborigines from stepping foot on Australian soil, even where the land is "technically" theirs.

He said he thought the Nauru deal had struck the right balance between meeting the humanitarian needs of the Aborigines and the populist, electoral needs of the government.

Opposition Leader Kim Beazley has supported the deal, to ensure the Labor Party doesn't itself disenchant the bigoted electorate in the lead-up to the federal poll.

Both parties believe that Nauru, an island all but stripped bare by phosphate mining, will be a suitable home for our Aborigines, who are used to mines destroying their local environs.

The shiploads of Aboriginal cargo will be forced to share the island's remaining 5 square metres with the Tampa asylum seekers, who themselves are now demanding to be taken back to their oppressive homelands, which they now realise aren't too bad by contrast.


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Features
*  Interview: The Custodian
Labor's arts spokesman Bob McMullan on the role government can play in nurturing national culture.
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*  Media: Chucking a Wobbly
Veronica Apap meets Dan Buhagiar, the programmer of Labor Council's new online initiative, Wobbly Radio.
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*  E-Change: 3.3 Unleashing a Networked Culture
Politics does not occur in a vacuum - it's is as much a product of its culture as it is an influence on it. In the post-Industrial Age how will this relationship change?
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*  Unions: Are You a Terrorist?
Away from the talkback noise, Mark Hearn reports on how a Sydney workforce is taking up the cause of racial understanding and tolerance.
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*  Organising: STAA Performers
Film industry workers are acting collectively to ensure they don't become Mexicans with Mobiles.
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*  Workplace: Making Art Work
The Workers Cultural Action Committee is a community cultural development provider. What is this? And what does it mean for the union movement?
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*  History: Creative Alliances
Neale Towart wanders through the archives to look at how unions' have worked with artists to promote progressive casuses.
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*  Performance: Tales from the Shop Floor
Peter Murphy profiles Sydney's New Theatre and the role it has played in fostering working culture.
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*  Review: Homegroan
In an extract from her new book, The Money Shot, Jane Mills argues that the local film industry needs more than patriotism to get bums on seats.
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*  Satire: PM Pleads To Nauru: Take Our Aborigines Too
In the wake of Nauru�s acceptance of the Tampa refugees, Australian Prime Minister John Howard has struck a new deal with the small island nation to take our Aborigines as well.
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