<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Fran Baum</b> <<a href="mailto:Fran.Baum@flinders.edu.au">Fran.Baum@flinders.edu.au</a>><br>Date: Aug 7, 2007 8:48 AM<br><br></span>
<div><font size="3">The Australian Government government is introducing legislation in to our Federal Government which will make welfare payments for Aboriginal people dependent on their behavior and roll back years of land rights. I got an op ed  in the Melbourne paper 'The Age' (
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/apartheid-to-be-enforced-on-aborigines/2007/08/06/1186252625016.html?page=2" target="_blank"> http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/apartheid-to-be-enforced-on-aborigines/2007/08/06/1186252625016.html?page=2
</a> ) . PLs send emails to our Prime Minister John Howard (<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm" target="_blank"> http://www.pm.gov.au/contact/index.cfm</a>
) and the Leader of the Labor Opposition (<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Kevin.Rudd.MP@aph.gov.au" target="_blank">Kevin.Rudd.MP@aph.gov.au</a> )  (who may vote FOR the legislation) would be great to tell them that this move is right out of step with UN human rights and that internationally people are watching Australia.
<br>Fran<br><br></font></div><br clear="all">