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Rottnest depicts silence, denial on epic scale as a booming WA “racks and stacks” Indigenous misery

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Marianne-MackayBy renowned journalist and rights activist, John Pilger of The Guardian

Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia's "premier tourist destination". This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked, for me, Robben Island in South Africa.

Empires are never short of devil's islands; what makes Rottnest different – indeed, what makes Australia...

 

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 07:13

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How can we call ourselves a “just nation” when Australia leads the world as a jailer of Indigenous people at rates higher than those inflicted by Apartheid South Africa?

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Brian-SteelsGerry Georgatos, a member of the National Indigenous Times, is a PhD researcher in Australian Custodial Systems and Australian Deaths in Custody. He is a prison reform advocate who believes children and adults should not be incarcerated for non-violent offences. He has visited prisons on a number of occasions to inspire the incarcerated to various opportunities pre-release and...

 

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