more pilger on iraq, page-11

re: john pilger is a traitor
Oh, I forgot - if you hover your cursor over the "Australia" link on the website - http://pilger.carlton.com/australia - on the page with the heading - The Secret Shame Behind The Sydney Olympics - it reveals the following statement:

"In a sports-mad nation, many of the greatest performers are aboriginal. This section exposes a secret & shameful past in which Aborigines were denied the right to represent their country simply because of their ethnic origin."


What it conveniently fails to inform the reader, is the fact that there were at least 12 Aboriginal Australians competing at the Sydney Olympics - that I would say would be a reasonable representation of aboriginals in relation to the percentage of Australians that are aboriginal.

Those Aboriginal athletes competing at the Sydney Olympics were:

Cathy Freeman
Nova Peris-Kneebone
Kyle Van Der Kuyp
Henry Collins
Patrick Johnson
James Swan
Kasey Werhman
Daniel Geale
Anthony Martin
Bradley Hore
Bridgette Starr
Warren Lawton


Let's not let the facts get in the way of a good story - hey John Pilger?