Indigenous people are being displaced again – by gentrification | Jack Latimore | Cities | The Guardian
►https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/apr/09/indigenous-people-are-being-displaced-again-by-gentrification-aborigina
Walking into the inner-city Brisbane suburb of West End one morning, I witnessed a group of Aboriginal “parkies” being moved on from a corner of the main road. “So nothing’s really changed for blackfellas in Brisbane,” I thought as I continued along Boundary Street, named for the city’s racist 19th-century policies of urban segregation.
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I saw the same sort of discrimination when I lived in the area in 1995: local Aboriginal people being shadowed by police vans as they walked the streets, singled out for questioning, harassed with gratuitous warrant checks or body searches. In 1993, two years prior to my arrival, the death in custody of an 18-year-old Aboriginal dancer had incited open violence between the city’s Indigenous community and the Queensland police.
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