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“Racist” iPhone app

May 1, 2009 – 5:21 am

From NZ Herald
An iPhone application where the aim is to kill off islanders has been criticised as racist by members of the Pacific Island community.
Pocket God opens with a “meet the islanders” screen, before brown-skinned men wearing hula skirts are shown on an island with a volcano in the background.
To score points, the player kills [...]

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Sorry day and saving the future

April 16, 2009 – 1:02 am

On the 13th February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made an apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples on behalf of the Parliament of Australia. The State Library of Queensland, with assistance from Queensland University of Technology and Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, has captured responses to this historic event. Patricia Lees (pictured) is one [...]

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Dodson’s ‘invasion day’ debate is a step backwards

January 26, 2009 – 4:40 pm

Australian of the year, Mick Dodson, has called for a national discussion of the idea that Australia Day should be moved, Prime Minister Rudd has quickly cut Dodson’s idea adrift before it did him any collateral political damage, as has Malcolm Turnbull.
The problem with Dodson’s idea is that it is essentially divisive. What Dodson, and [...]

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