‘Aborigines are in concentration camps’
Thursday, August 14th, 200814/8/08
The recent Federal Government apology to the stolen generation does not go nearly far enough, provocative intellectual Germaine Greer says. Years of ill treatment had been eating away at Aboriginal communities and threatened their future, she told ABC Television last night. “We’re only on the edge of what we’ve done to these people, we have ripped away everything, language, culture, land, self esteem,” she said. “You name any of the things that make you a human being and they have all been stripped away.” Professor Greer said she feared that it was already too late for many Aboriginal communities, criticising the Federal Gvernment’s intervention in the Northern Territory.
