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Number36
Number35
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Troops out of Indigenous communities
Military invasion is no solution to poverty and violence
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A young protester participates in the February 2005 action to demand justice for T.J. Hickey, killed in police custody.
Photo by Debbie Brennan.
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The Howard Government, citing violence and child sexual abuse,has seized Indigenous country by force and is attempting to complete the dispossession of the first Nations of central and northern Australia. The federal government has said it intends to extend its seizure to Indigenous communities in the states. These vicious hypocrites will do this by using the amendment supported by 90% of Australians in the famous referendum of 1967. That was the provision intended to give the federal parliament power to stop violence, abuse and neglect by state authorities.
Prime Minister John Howard is trying to deprive the Territory's original peoples of the core of their economy and their national culture — their homelands. In imposing martial law on Indigenous Territorians, this government has turned 219 years of undeclared colonial war into an armed annexation.
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