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Australia: protests against discrimination against Aborigines

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During a protest rally against the deaths of indigenous people in custody on June 18, 2022 in Sydney.

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In Australia, several demonstrations took place in the country this Saturday, June 18 to fight against discrimination against the Aboriginal community.

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With our correspondent in Sydney,

Shouting slogans from the anti-racist movement

and displaying numerous Aboriginal flags, hundreds of people took to the streets this Saturday to protest against discrimination against this community.

In Sydney, a few hundred people marched in the streets to demand an end to the presence of armed police in indigenous communities.

The demonstrators denounce the racism of the police and call for the disarming of the police.

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,” said a protester.

Indigenous people represent 2.5% of the population but are, for example, overrepresented in prisons.

It was the acquittal last March of a police officer who had shot dead an Aboriginal teenager in the Northern Territory state that set the fire to the powder.

With the coming to power of the new Labor government of Anthony Albanese, the Aboriginal community

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But the protesters assure him, they will ensure that the promises made by the new Prime Minister are kept.

The newly elected Labor government has indeed undertaken to meet one of their main demands:

representative of all the indigenous communities of Australia, which could give its opinion on all the laws re.

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