Chroming not the issue

I would like to congratulate Gary Meyerhoff for his very well researched, comprehensive, no holes bared article on chroming (NIT, October 27, 2005).

After reading about the issue in the mainstream media I was angered to see Opal fuel being offered as the panacea.

No analysis of what is driving our Indigenous brothers and sisters to take such desperate measures, no mention of the third world like conditions - only suggestions on bandaid fixes that just happen to make money for multinational corporations and help remove a blatant in your face contradiction (the growing gapbetween the haves and have-nots) from within our wealthy country.

Gary Meyerhoff's expertise and opinion expressed in the article has obviously been drawn from many years of experience working on the ground in this area and his views deserves careful consideration by everyone especially our politicians, the mainstream media and some writers of this paper.

It's a shame it hasn't been published more widely.

Well done and congratulations for expressing what so many of us already knew but could not put into words so eloquently.

Gary Harper
Bundoora, Vic

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Pubdate: Thur, 10 November 2005
Source: National Indigenous Times (Australia)
Author: Gary Harper (letter to the editor)
Website: http://www.nit.com.au/