Race discrimination
Sir—Mr Alan Wilkinson, leader of the Values Party, (July 22) states that blatant legally enforced racial discrimination is unique to South Africa. It is not. The plight of the Australian Aboriginal has been carefully concealed. According to an Aboriginal girl who came to New Zealand some years ago to reveal the oppression, there have been cases in the Northern Territory where black stock boys have been killed and buried on outback stations without any notification of death. Separate bars for blacks is the norm in Western Australia. A New Zealander just back from the western state had the distinction of being the first white
person served in a Derby hotel, normally patronised by blacks only, for about two years. Internally we have our own system of apartheid where even the whites cannot agree and hence the need for a South Island Movement. The Maori seats and the special voting privileges given the Maoris is our idea of racial accord. Labour would like even more Maori seats, not for fairer representation but for safe votes. Mr Wilkinson has a queer set of values.—Yours, etc.,
L. J. STEVENS. July 22, 1981.
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