Have a NACAF Summer

First the PM, and now Peter Costello and Maurice Iemma, they all say that “Australia is not a racist country.” It is as if repeating the refrain will somehow transform our current grim reality.
Costello’s other claim is that the media – including Alan Jones – didn’t “whip” anything up.
“I think racism can be easily whipped [...]

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It takes a riot to get Australian news into the world media.
This week we even made SF Gate’s World Views with the unflattering headline: “Australia’s Leb Bashings” the other piece in the column this week was on the international reaction to the US torture policy – fine comapnion pieces:
War, bombings and torture in other places [...]

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