1. Thousands of Australians are lobbying the Rudd government to reinstate anti-racism laws put on hold as part of the federal intervention in the Northern Territory. The intervention, initiated by the previous government last year to tackle child sex abuse in remote indigenous communities, was exempted from the Racial Discrimination Act. "It is wrong that a law designed to protect all Australians ... has been suspended to enable laws which discriminate against Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory," spokesman James Ensor said in a statement.
This makes me wonder why the law was suspended. Could it be because the government knew that any intervention among the Aborigines would be met by cries of "racism" as those Aborigines tried to cover their own backs, and thus they removed their power to use the race card to prevent important work being done? If so, it all seems entirely reasonable to me.
2. The Golliwog Returns: Mum Denies Racism.
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