Summary
Two years later, researchers discovered in the records of the Queensland Health Department that Aboriginal deaths from common, infectious diseases were up to 300 times higher than the white average, and the highest in the world. Australian "values" and national pride are political distractions of the moment in a nation witlessly at war in Iraq and Afghanistan - a nation with up to 43 per cent youth unemployment at home and, in some places, the majority of its black youths in custody.
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Days of Mourning in a Secret Australia
How many days of mourning have I attended? Vivid in the memory are wreaths thrown on to Sydney Harbour, and men in crumpled hats and women in loose frocks standing on foreshores where their forebears saw the first ships carrying...
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