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Australia restores race laws after Aboriginal crackdown
There are now just 470,000 Aborigines out of a population of 22 million.
Australia reinstated race laws in the remote Northern Territory region Tuesday after suspending them for three years to pursue a controversial crime crackdown in poor Aboriginal townships.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin called the suspension, enacted under conservative former prime minister John Howard but amended in...