Monthly Archives: September 2008
Racial tolerance in South Australia ‘too high’
Tory Shepherd: The Advertiser | September 30, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24423463-2682,00.html The “disappointing” results are from a 10-year survey called Challenging Racism, to be released at the 4Rs (rights, reconciliation, respect and responsibility) International Conference in Sydney this week. A cultural gap yes, but we’re not racist ONE in two South Australians do not like the idea [...]
40pc believe others don’t belong here
The Advertiser | September 28, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24415273-5005962,00.html FORTY per cent of Australians believe some ethnic groups do not belong in the country with one in 10 having outwardly racist views, a new study shows. New South Wales tops the list with racist views, but lead researcher on the project Kevin Dunn puts it down to [...]
US 'said no to Israel bombing Iran'
From correspondents in London: The Advertiser | September 26, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24405383-5005962,00.html ISRAEL seriously considered bombing Iran’s nuclear sites earlier this year but US President George W Bush refused to support such a strike, a British newspaper reported today. Quoting senior European diplomatic sources, The Guardian said Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert raised the issue with [...]
Life in Aboriginal Australia: Girl sexually abused as she lay dying
Nigel Adlam: The Advertiser | September 26, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24405406-911,00.html A 14-YEAR-old girl who ran away from hospital was beaten with a lump of wood by a younger girl before being dragged into bushes by boys who tried to rape her as she was dying, a coroner has been told. Observers sat in stunned silence in [...]
Anti-racism academic cheesed off with Coon
David Barbeler: News.com.au | September 26, 2008 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24405098-421,00.html AN anti-racism campaigner says Coon cheese is next on his hit-list after the Queensland Government ruled a grandstand being rebuilt in the state’s south would not be renamed after E.S. “Nigger” Brown. Toowoomba Sports Ground Trust chairman John McDonald said yesterday that while the grandstand bearing Brown’s [...]



