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Category: Queensland
The Kangaroo Klux Klan
Killing raises Ku Klux Klan link in Queensland
The Courier-Mail | May 14, 2010
THE Ku Klux Klan is alive and growing in Queensland, much to the chagrin of the national membership director of the Ku Klux Klan in America.
Travis Pierce represents Arkansas’s Ku Klux Klan LLC, what he calls the only legally constituted Ku Klux Klan group in America.
Mr Pierce said Queensland white supremacists were giving themselves Klan titles without recognition from official US Klan leaders.
“Anybody can wake up one morning and decide they’re going to form a Klan group,” Mr Pierce said. “They’ve watched …
Jewish Authors Claim Australia is a Land of Bigots
221 years on we remain a land of bigots
Tory Shepherd, Health Reporter: The Advertiser | March 25, 2009
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25247299-5006301,00.html
MORE than 200 years after Europeans arrived, Aboriginal people face discrimination in public places and institutions, Flinders University researchers have found.
And the distress racism causes affects Aboriginal health.
The authors of In Our Own Backyard said it appeared racism was alive and well, with more than nine in ten Aboriginal people experiencing bias, abuse and violence, and two thirds experiencing it often.
They also found twice as many Aboriginal people were teetotallers, compared to non-Aborigines, while three times as …
Qld State Premier Says Federal Immigration Minister Racist
Immigration Minister ‘racist’: Bligh
Tony Moore | Brisbane Times | October 5, 2007 – 11:29AM
Premier Anna Bligh has launched a scathing attack on Federal Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews, describing his comments about the Sudanese community as “racist” and as coming from the “deep south of America in the 1950s”.
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Mr Andrews earlier this week cut the number of African refugees to be accepted into Australia each year, citing the failure of Sudanese refugees to properly integrate as one of the reasons behind the decision.
It prompted talkback callers to raise minor crime issues and talk of Sudanese …
