FED: UN rapporteur slams Aboriginal policies in Australia

AAP General News (Australia)
08-27-2009
FED: UN rapporteur slams Aboriginal policies in Australia

A visiting senior United Nations official says Canberra's intervention in remote Aboriginal
communities in the Northern Territory is clearly discriminatory.

The assessment's come from the UN's special rapporteur on indigenous rights .. JAMES
ANAYA .. who also says there's entrenched racism in Australia.

Mr ANAYA wants the federal government to reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act in
the Northern Territory right away.

He's also slammed Labor's policy of demanding 40-year leases over indigenous land before
building new houses .. and says the Stolen Generations should be paid compensation.

AAP RTV jcd/sb/wz

KEYWORD: INDIGENOUS UN (CANBERRA)

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