The Australian government has ordered the country's cricket team not to tour Zimbabwe in September. John Howard, the prime minister, said it was not fair to leave the decision up to Cricket Australia and the players. Read more here.
Yet these same people would have had no problem touring Ian Smith's Rhodesia or Apartheid South Africa. Talk about racist double standards. This of course does not justify what is going on in Zimbabwe politically. Perhaps we should boycott visits to Australia because of their institutionalised discrimination of the Aboriginal population.
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