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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by Chestah
I'm sorry but that is completely wrong. Land is not being stolen from Aboriginals today. It may have been stolen in the past from the Aboriginals who rightfully owned it but i highly doubt land is being stolen from Aboriginals to this day that rightfully own the land.
Unfortunatly I can't quote the source atm, but last year I came across a reportage from UK journalists (BBC?) which claimed otherwise. That despite the fact that some tribe had land rights, they still were being "tricked" by a big ass company and gained absolutely nothing for letting them mining their land. (I think it was somewhere in northern Arnhem Land, but don't quote me on this).
I have no reason to think that would be untrue as i vaguely remember something of the sorts. Of course there are people in all countries in the world that try and manipulate people with certain situational disabilities etc like the aboriginals. If their consent was vitiated in whatever deal i'm guessing they agreed to then they should have taken it to court. We have a legal system for a reason and although i realise its often too expensive for most (sadly) i'm sure a lawyer would have helped them - big ass mining company = $$$$?
I guess we wouldn't know what was really happening until we viewed the evidence of both sides. Trust me... unfortunately from the experiences i've had with Aboriginals near my home town (and these are where the unfortunate stereotypes come from...) are ones of deceit, criminal in nature, where they hide behind their race and skin colour saying anyone who says that they did something wrong is racist. =/
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