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Australia's boom is anything but for its Aboriginal people
2013-04-28 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia's "premier tourist destination". This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked, for me, Robben Island in South Africa. Empires are never short of devil's islands; what makes Rottnest different indeed, what makes Australia different is silence and denial on an epic scale. "Five awesome reasons to visit!" the brochure says. These range from "family fun" to "historical Rottnest". The island is described as "a guiding...
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