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If Development Was Measured Not By Gross National Product, But A Society's Success In Meeting The Basic Needs Of Its People, Vietnam Would Have Been A Model. That Was Its Real "threat." From The Defeat Of The French At Dien Bien Phu In 1954 To 1972, Primary And Secondary School Enrollment In The North Increased Sevenfold, From 700,000 To Almost Five Million. In 1980, Unesco Estimated A Literacy Rate Of 90 Percent And School Enrollment Among The Highest In Asia And Throughout The Third World.

What Nixon And Kissinger Began, Pol Pot Completed.

I Grew Up In Sydney In A Very Political Household, Where We Were All For The Underdog.

In Western Australia, Minerals Are Being Dug Up From Aboriginal Land And Shipped To China For A Profit Of A Billion Dollars A Week. In This, The Richest, 'booming' State, The Prisons Bulge With Stricken Aboriginal People, Including Juveniles Whose Mothers Stand At The Prison Gates, Pleading For Their Release. The Incarceration Of Black Australians Here Is Eight Times That Of Black South Africans During The Last Decade Of Apartheid.

It Is Not Enough For Journalists To See Themselves As Mere Messengers Without Understanding The Hidden Agendas Of The Message And The Myths That Surround It.