Kuku Yalanji woman Pat O鈥橲hane聽has slammed the reported failure to find staff for polling booths in Cape York communities. Kerry Smith reports.
remote Aboriginal communities
So declared George Orwell鈥檚 allegorical Joseph Stalin, Napoleon the Berkshire Boar, in his 1945 classic Animal Farm. In Australia, we鈥檝e declared war on some inequalities, like those contained in the Marriage Act, while we acquiesce to, tolerate, ignore or accept many others. Just like the animals on Orwell鈥檚 Manor Farm, in contemporary Australia, it seems all inequalities are equal but some are more equal than others.
The WA government on July 14. The spin is all about 鈥渂etter living conditions鈥, 鈥渟upporting families鈥 and 鈥渕ore opportunities鈥. However the substance is still entirely about penny pinching and withdrawing resources. Communities will close if it is implemented.
When WA premier Colin Barnett first announced that up to 150 communities would be forced to close, people responded with a massive, international protest movement to save the communities.