CANBERRA, (Reuters) – A senior United Nations official condemned yesterday Australia’s controversial intervention into remote Aboriginal communities, describing the measures as discriminatory and finding entrenched racism in Australia.
The UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous People, James Anaya, made the findings after a 12-day visit to Australia, where he visited indigenous communities and held talks with the Australian government.
Australia’s former conservative government sent police and troops to remote Aboriginal communities in June 2007, and made special bans on alcohol and pornography, to stamp out widespread child sex abuse fuelled by chronic alcoholism.
