Aborigines plan Commonwealth Games protest

May 23, 2005
Issue 
627
News

MELBOURNE — On May 18, 90 people, including Indigenous leaders from around Australia, meeting at the Victorian Trades Hall, bar called a mass protest of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Melbourne to coincide with the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Long-time Aboriginal activist Gary Foley told the crowd, "Native title is not land rights, reconciliation is not justice and the struggle for Indigenous rights in Australia continues".

Another long-time Aboriginal activist, Marji Thorpe, told the meeting that PM John Howard's "practical reconciliation is nothing more then assimilation".

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Kim Bullimore

From Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly, May 25, 2005.
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