Contents - 01 Jul 2000 Cover Story: The Roebuck Plains land scandal - Dennis Schulz Editorial: Issues for the Defence White Paper - Peter Westmore Canberra Observed: National Party caravan still hitched to Coalition Economics: World’s farm subsidies rising: wake up Australia - Pat Byrne Rural: Dairy deregulation turning sour - Pat Byrne Straws in the Wind - Max Teichmann News Weekly, National Civic Council, Colin Teese, TRansurban, CityLink, Steve Bracks, Victoria, GST, toll roads, Victorian Labor Government - Colin Teese Economics: Funny flags and Australian shipping - Russell Brennan United Nations: Family groups attacked at UN meeting East Asia: Japanese election: more of the same? - Marcus L'Estrange Education: Drugs in schools: adults failing the challenge Books: 'The Australian Century: Political Struggle in the building of a Nation' - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Letter: Aboriginal land claims - Rev. M. J. Crowe Letter: Benalla by-election postscript - Kevin O'Neill Letter: 'Pitch Black' obscenities - Michael Darby

Sir,

Congratulations on your Canberra Observed (News Weekly, June 17, 2000). My observation of Aboriginal people as a priest of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn for 59 years, is that they care little for what happened to their ancestors but they, like their fellow white Australians, are concerned about their day-to-day problems of living.

Their ancestors had their land taken from them, but so did many of their fellow white Australians who were dispossessed of their land in many countries overseas. We don’t hear the Irish, the English or the Italians in Australia moaning of how their ancestors were robbed of land in centuries gone by. That's history.

We're all Aussies. We like it that way.

Rev. M. J. Crowe,
Garran, ACT
 
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