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MAY 25, 2000

The upcoming 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia have highlighted many of the issues aboriginals in the country face, including poor health, poverty, drug abuse, and crime. Attempts to redevelop a poor aboriginal neighborhood face resistance from residents who fear higher rents will accompany the effort.

Another issue the Olympics has highlighted are the lost generations of aboriginal children taken from their homes and adopted into white families. The prime minister has refused to apologize to the aboriginal population for the government sponsored practice.

Austrialian aboriginals account for approximately 386,000 out of a majority white 19 million population. Estimated population before European contact was 1 million.

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