An English newspaper describes “Aboriginal tribes” as “millionaire taxi-hailing dipsos” making a fortune from mining royalties.
“Thanks to the Australian mining boom, some land-owning aborigines have lots of money,” the paper says.
“They can afford to take thousand-dollar cab rides from relatively sober Halls Creek, where you can’t buy booze stronger than 2.7 per cent, all the way to indulgent Kununurra, where you can buy any grog from lunchtime.”
How hard can it be to check your facts before you publish?
The Telegraph [read this story]