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                  Australia - a racist backwater
                  By Greg Barns - posted Thursday, 22 December 2005

                  Australia is a backwater, a racist and inward-looking
country that turns its back on adventure and the opportunity to do better; a
country that has rejected leaders who provide the chance for a multiracial,
multicultural and independent nation to prosper in the region where it is,
Asia-Pacific.

                  It is a nation which periodically makes world headlines
for its racist outbursts, whether it be the disgraceful campaign of the
Howard Government in 2001 to demonise the wretched and the weak who sought
sanctuary on our shores, or the media and political leaders who barracked
for Pauline Hanson's inane and stupid rhetoric about Aboriginal Australians
and Asians, or the racist thugs now taking it upon themselves to beat up
anyone who looks as if they are from the Middle East.

                  Attacks that Prime Minister John Howard refuses to see as
examples of Australia's racism, which is exactly what they are. Perhaps
that's because he is partly to blame for last week's appalling events and
for the persecution of Muslims and Arab Australians in the community. For 20
years Australia looked as though it might move from its Anglo-European
racist conservatism towards becoming truly cosmopolitan and modern. Gough
Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating all believed in an
Australia that was different from the one in which they had grown up.

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