An investigation has been launched after a prominent Aboriginal woman in Australia was left for dead after collapsing at a busy city bus stop

BBC News:

Singer Delmae Barton, 62, says she lay for more than five hours in a pool of her own vomit after suffering a suspected stroke or diabetes attack.

Her plight was ignored by hundreds of commuters who passed by in the Queensland city of Brisbane.

State officials have apologised and promised an urgent inquiry.

Ms Barton, a well-respected opera singer and indigenous elder, says she believes she was left unattended because of her race.

"I think it did make a difference," she told ABC radio.

I think it is more likely that the other commuters thought that she was a drunk who had passed out from drinking too much alcohol.

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