Aborigines at U.N.
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) NEW YORK, Oct. 16. Four Australian Aborigines, wearing red headbands, yesterday presented petitions to the United Nation’s deputy director of human rights, Mr Edward Lawson, accusing the Australian Government of “genocide.” The leader of the delegation, Mr Jack Davis, of Perth, said that the headbands symbolised the blood of Aborigines killed in the colonisation and development of Australia by the white settlers.
The petitions accused the I Australian Government of systematically exterminating Aborigines and demanded s6ooom in compensation for Aboriginal land confiscated by the Government. Fall-out less
Radioactive fall-out from the recent French nuclear tests in the Pacific would be less than from the 1968 French tests series it was announced in the Australian Federal Parliament yesterday. —Canberra, Oct. 16.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32430, 17 October 1970, Page 17
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