In overseas media coverage, Howard's cynical election stunt (this
election campaign's equivalent of the Tampa/child-overboard saga) over
child abuse in remote Aboriginal communities in the NT, is being
correctly labelled racist. E.g.:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,2109494,00.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/22/asia/AS-GEN-Australia-Child-Abuse.php


But almost all the mainstream, newspapers in Australia have welcomed
it. Racism remains prevalent and deeprooted in Australia, as Professor
Larissa Behrendt said in the Mabo Oration recently:
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Australia-remains-racist-says-academic/2007\
/06/15/1181414539797.html>

As Sam Watson, Qld Senate candidate and Socialist Alliance Indigenous
Affairs spokesperson says:

"Howard's headline-grabbing, prejudice-tapping `emergency program' is
not designed to address any of our community's problems. It's simply a
way to press the racist button in the coming federal elections. It is
this election's Tampa.

"Indigenous Australians realise that we are the football in a cynical
political game between the Coalition and Kevin Rudd's spineless Labor
`opposition'. Once again, without a second thought, Labor has been
cowered into standing `shoulder-to-shoulder' with the racist and
authoritarian Coalition."
More: http://www.socialist-alliance.org/page.php?page=663