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Old 03-13-2008, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Talkingmime View Post
Back to australian aborigionies (aborigonals? Anyway...) I'm not suprised that they don't integrate all that much. From 1963 to 1967, the australian government conducted atomic bomb tests on inhabited land, resulting in many deaths from radiation poisoning. That's almost a Spanish low. (In the americas, intentional gifts of small-pox infected blankets killed over 1.5 million native americans. The remainder were enslaved. This caused the collapse of 2 separate empires.)
P.S. The situation in australia, however, has improved greatly over the past 25 years. Still, don't expect them to forget.
Actually it was the British Government not the Australian Government..The place was Maralinga in South Australia plus a few other areas between 1952 and 1963..

To make matters worse Britain "loaned" the USA Australian soil to test theirs..
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