George Orwell wrote:
> http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23366610-2,00.html
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> A MAYORAL candidate who wants to be elected a "racist mayor" has called
for Aborigines to be relocated from his southwest Queensland ****re.
>
> Kevin Wise, 66, has single-handedly ignited racial tensions in
Cunnamulla after he distributed 100 inflammatory flyers quoting his plans
to replace indigenous families with "Vietnamese peasant families".
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> In the flyer he pledges to call on "the Federal Government to offer 25
indigenous families $50,000 each to relocate anywhere away from the Paroo
****re" and for their places to be allocated to 25 non-English speaking
Vietnamese families".
>
> "I guarantee that within that five years, these families will have
advanced this ****re's wealth and future prosperity out of all pro****tion
to that achieved to date . . ." the flyer reads.
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> Tell us what you think below
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> The man who wants to be "an elected racist Mayor for Paroo" told The
Courier-Mail he deliberately asked for indigenous homes to get the flyers.
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> "I let it be known that I preferred them to go to Aboriginal households
so that it wouldn't appear that I was running gutless and I was trying to
sectionalise the receiver****p of the do***ents," he said.
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> He calls Cunnamulla a "dead in the water" community and the Stolen
Generations a myth.
>
> Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Susan Booth said the
comments were "hurtful" and "incredibly stereotyped".
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> Ms Booth said she could not comment further in case the flyer became the
subject of a complaint and possible action.
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> Cunnamulla resident Maureen McKellar held back tears as she spoke of the
devastation she felt when she read the comments and called Mr Wise a
racist.
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> Another resident, John Mitchell, said the comments had "stirred up a
hornets nest" and the community was now depending on Aboriginal academic
Stephen Hagan to file a complaint with the Anti-Discrimination Commission.
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> Mr Wise yesterday maintained he was not racist.
>
> "Every bugger in town is saying what I am saying out loud, but they
won't say it themselves - arguing about the dead-end Aboriginal industry
and their effects on town."
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> Mr Wise said he wanted Vietnamese families to move in because they were
hard working and would tend market gardens in the community.
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> "Aboriginals are certainly not going to put in the hard yards to
establish market gardens or anything," he said.
>
> Mayor Ian Tonkin denied his community was racist and said Mr Wise should
apologise.
He has a point!!!
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