Aboriginal rights protesters surround Australian PM, opposition leader

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CANBERRA — Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was dragged away by security guards Thursday after she was trapped in a restaurant by rowdy protesters demonstrating for indigenous rights following a ceremony to mark Australia’s national day.

Some 200 supporters of Aboriginal rights surrounded a Canberra restaurant and banged on its windows while Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott were inside officiating at an award ceremony.

The protesters were marching at the nearby Aboriginal Tent Embassy to mark 40 years since its establishment and rushed the restaurant in response to comments by Abbott earlier in the day, The Australian newspaper reported.

“Look, I can understand why the Tent Embassy was established all those years ago. I think a lot has changed for the better since then,” Abbott said earlier Thursday.

“I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian and yes, I think a lot has changed since then and I think it probably is time to move on from that,” he said.

The newspaper reported that according to protesters, his remarks were interpreted as a call to take down the Tent Embassy, a ramshackle collection of tents and temporary shelters in the national capital that is a center point of protests against Australia Day.

This is what we need to do here in the U.S. : surround the war-mongering bourgeois politicians — Republicans AND Democrats — and let them know there is nowhere that they won’t feel the people’s anger.

boom.

“I think the indigenous people of Australia can be very proud of the respect in which they are held by every Australian and yes, I think a lot has changed since then and I think it probably is time to move on from that”

Uh, the Aborigines are still the most disadvantaged minority in Australia. Move on from that.