Info Nation at the crossroads “We have to ask why Australia has failed, why Australian governments have failed to deal with the racism that Aboriginal people continue to experience, why some governments have even sought to exploit racist tendencies in Australian society for political gain.” Dr Naomi Mayers OAM is the Chief Executive Officer of the Redfern Aboriginal Medical Service writes in the guest editorial in the South Sydney Herald of August 2007.
I have been involved in Aboriginal Affairs since 1957. I
have seen governments come and go. I have read most of the reports into
Aboriginal Affairs in that time and all the reports into Aboriginal health. My