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| Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: City capitulates and calls arrival 'invasion' in plan preamble Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:15 am | |
| THE City of Sydney has been forced to use the word ''invasion'' to describe white settlement, after its Aboriginal advisory panel threatened to quit if the word was omitted.
After a week of acrimonious argument about using the word in the preamble in the city's plan for 2030, the council last night included the term, which last week caused a split among councillors who believed it was ''divisive''.
In an attempt to heal the rift among her own group of six that controls the council's numbers, the lord mayor, Clover Moore, had tried to remove the word ''invasion'' but conceded last night that she had underestimated the depth of feeling on the issue, and it was simply impossible to get agreement on any middle ground.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/city-capitulates-and-calls-arrival-invasion-in-plan-preamble-20110627-1gnly.html |
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