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While Redfern riots, whites do battle.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-04 		Format: Online - approximately 888 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: While Redfern riots, whites do battle.(cultural riots in Australia)

Article Excerpt
The riot of Aboriginal men, women and children against police in Sydney's inner Redfern district one sweltering summer Sunday night in February was an unmistakable political statement by Indigenous peoples. Apart from the measured and sensible comments of Australia's one Aboriginal parliamentarian, Aden Ridgeway, the domestic political establishment merely fell back on platitudes about the hard lives of policemen or said nothing or launched into florid silliness.

New South Wales opposition leader Brogden was quick to say that he'd bulldoze Redfern to remove the problem. This impressed few, however, and some days later he told the Sydney Morning Herald he had both a compassionate and tough approach to Indigenous affairs, arguing that his comments about bulldozing Redfern's Block did not mean he had no empathy for children who knew only poverty and...

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