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June 28, 2007

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Weldon

The clips I saw on television showed the government representatives being confronted by the history of race relations in the form of the children being taken away by the assimilationists. The policies of paternalistic assimilation and integration in which the Commonwealthn had control of the reserves and settlements, left a legacy of misery.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 10:52 PM | | Comments (2)
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The woman laying down is thinking...lookout son, he's another one of them white Polla-philes

the sentiments were expressed in terms of a fear of the police and army taking the children away. Fear is a response to a "jackboot approach".