SMH Jabiluka stand 'like racist US' Date: 25/06/99 By MURRAY HOGARTH, Environment Editor Australia's treatment of Aborigines opposed to the Jabiluka uranium mine has been likened by an US Congresswoman to the racism experienced by black Americans in the Deep South. Ms Cynthia McKinney has organised a petition of 30 US politicians to President Clinton opposing the mine and supporting Kakadu's nomination to the World Heritage in-danger list. In an ABC radio interview yesterday, Ms McKinney described the Government's stand as "sheer arrogance ... we had the same kinds of sentiments expressed by racist southerners when Afro-Americans were trying to get the right to vote." The Minister for the Environment, Senator Hill, will send Government advocate Mr Howard Bamsey to the US next week to provide Ms McKinney with the "full facts" about the mine. The US, along with Australia, is among the 21 nations which will vote on Kakadu's fate at an extraordinary meeting of the United Nations' World Heritage Committee in Paris on July 12. Ms McKinney met this week with Ms Jacqui Katona of the Mirrar people, the traditional owners of the Jabiluka land. She is being assisted in Washington by the Sierra Club, one of America's biggest green groups. This material is subject to copyright and any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited. ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
