Calls grow for Sartor to resign

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SYDNEY — NSW planning minister Frank Sartor's racist remarks on Koori Radio on September 19 have generated widespread calls for him to resign.

Sartor, in charge of driving through a land grab in the Redfern-Waterloo area under the former Premier Bob Carr, called on community leader Mick Mundine to get off his "black arse" to meet him to discuss the project. He was reacting to an article that Mundine had published in a local Koori newspaper.

Mundine, head of the Aboriginal Housing Company, initially accepted Sartor's apology, but community anger led to Mundine joining the call for Sartor's resignation. Sartor is refusing to go, and is being backed by NSW Premier Morris Iemma.

Pip Hinman

From Green Left Weekly, September 28, 2005.
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