Blacks protest at Commonwealth

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JODD DASL the police draconian powers of injustice and the destrucof arrest and detention - tion of aboriginal culture' the purpose being to (Budger Davidson, cosquash any sort of protest ordinator BPC). at all. There is also a protest in But support for the BPC London. Shorty O'Neill, a SEVEN thousand people from all over Australia marched in Brisbane last Saturday, 26th, on the eve of the beginning of the Commonwealth Games.

The march is the beginning of two weeks of protest against the treatment of the Aboriginal people in Australia around the theme 'Land Rights, not Games'.

The Black Protest Committee organised the march and has the support of virtually every Black community in Australia, the Australian Labour Party, and a substantial section of the labour movement, including the Transport Workers' Union, the Builders' Labourers' Federation, the Building Workers' Industrial Union Australian Worl ers' Union in Brisbane.

*Racist Queensland's right-wing racist premier Joh Bjelke Petersen has responded by rushing through the Commonwealth Games Act. The area round the Games will be made 'notified' , giving

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remains undeterred, and Sunday's demonstration bodes well for the rest of tha artinn durin o tha LIC Games.

There is a Cultural Revival Festival taking place during the Games as an alternative way of showing what Aboriginal history is. And there's a national day of protest on September 29, the day before the Games begin, for 'Aboriginal land rights, self-determination. and the exnnsure PM Malcolm Fraser.

Northern "Territory Land Council representative now in London, told us that there will be a picket of Queensland House from 10.30am on Wednesday September 29. Other activities will be announced at the picket. RE DO FiFTE ICINI EMBASSY

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