Riot Highlights Australia Race Problems

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Riot Highlights Australia Race Problems

SYDNEY, Australia - A young Aborigine dies. His family and friends bitterly blame police, and within hours gasoline bombs and rocks rain down on a Sydney ghetto. Cars and a train station are torched.

Australians like to think of their society as fair and egalitarian. But a riot in Sydney's Redfern neighborhood has dramatically highlighted problems of race that have haunted this country ever since the first white settlers arrived more than two centuries ago.

Forty police were wounded, eight of them hospitalized, in a nine-hour street battle with a mainly Aboriginal mob Sunday night and Monday morning in and around a slum known as "The Block." It's not clear how many protesters were hurt.

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Riot Highlights Australia Race Problems

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1. Blame the victims

where ever the euros have gone to steal the land and mistreat the natives,world opinion has always been with the intruders,the original people in America,the natives in New Zealand,the natives on the continent of Africa,when will people wake up and demand that all people have rights as humans?.

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2. Indigenous funding...

From the article:

"Discounting government employment projects, unemployment among Aborigines runs at about 40 percent, according to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, an elected body that distributes about $780 million in government funding each year."

And the reason why there's such a massive unemployment rate is because there's not enough funding, and what funding there is goes into pointless and ridiculous ventures like setting up training schemes in remote locations where people are trained in jobs where there's no demand for the skills in the areas they live. For much more detailed information on Commonwealth funding for indigenous Australians, in 2001 the Commonwealth Grants Commission released its report on the Indigenous Funding Inquiry. http://www.cgc.gov.au/IFI_Pages/ifi_final_report_complete.htm
It's a massive thing to read, but in a nutshell the message that there isn't enough funding comes through on every page of the report....

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