Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal caves (2020)

Re:Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal cav... by rajandatta on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:58PM (#27988111)

This is a crime against humanity - our culture and history. It's profoundly disturbing that Rio Tinto gets to do this repeatedly with no consequences. To all Australians - what the hell??

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Re:Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal cav... by worik on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:56PM (#27988945)

(Sorry Australians) Australia is a deeply racist society. Indigenous Australians are very much "other". Not quite people.

They were only designated fully human (as in counted in the census, given most civil rights) in 1967. It took a referendum.

To give the Australians their due the vote was >90%bin favour

EDIT It was until 1983 that indigenous Australians had the same voting obligations as other Australians.

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