Aboriginal academic, community leader and Professor Marcia Langton said, The Australian Greens pretends to support indigenous rights while they supported Queensland’s Wild Rivers Laws. She also accused the environmental movement of displaying a “distinctly Australian form or environmental racism.”
Tony Abbott has campaigned against the law, passed by Queensland Labor government and to limit the development that affect the rivers. Professor Langton said voting the Greens believing that they are sympathetic towards the indigenous rights were mistaken. She said, “They can’t say they are standing up for indigenous rights and support the denial of the right of economic development.” They either agree with indigenous rights or they don’t.
