ABSTRACT
The street riots in Britain last year produced more action for the poor and deprived than years of rational argument, according to Professor David Donnison … In a new book, The Politics of Poverty he has written, ‘True discrimination begins when its victims believe they deserve to be scapegoats. Things will not change until the unemployed themselves demand a hearing.’ Professor Donnison’s theme makes a relevant introduction to any reminder of what the Aboriginal Embassy achieved after it was set up on Australia day 10 years ago. Today’s re-enactment will be a false gesture if it does not remind all Australians that the violence which followed the event, six months later, did much to precipitate government action for Aborigines in the past decade.
