Australia called racist country
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PERTH, July 24.
An African churchman the Rev. Canon Burgess Carr, has declared in Perth that Australia is a racist country. He said that this was in the way she treats Aborigines, in the white Australia policy, and in her close affinity with Rhodesia and South Africa.
Speaking at Perth Airport yesterday, Canon Carr, an Episcopalian, who is the general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches, said that he was in Australia to promote the Inter-Denom-inational Action for World Development programme. He said that Australian Aborigines should concentrate on building up a good body of white liberal opinion that understood their situation. Aborigines seemed to be interested in land rights and establishing their identity — but the bigger question was justice, he said. Canon Carr was the chairman of a conference that ne-
gotiated the peace settlement ending the civil war in south Sudan earlier this year.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32977, 25 July 1972, Page 13
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