Australia: Aboriginal Activity

The way most Australians see it, their only race problems are taken care of by the strict immigration laws that fence the country off from the dark-skinned peoples of Africa and Asia. As for the Australian Aborigines—the dark-skinned people who were already there when the first white men arrived—they have long since been driven deep into the arid outback. Hopelessly backward by the lights of European civilization, they have often been treated not as second-class citizens but as a subhuman species, a kind of ethnological curiosity.

"Dogs, horses, cattle and sheep get counted in the national census," complains Aborigine Leader...

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