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Media releases from european network for Indigenous australian rights

Ian Thorpe signing the Close the Gap pledge 4 April 2007

protest outside british natural history museum february 2007

long walk london 2005

sorry day uk 2006

These media releases include eniar's previous organisations, the National Indigenous Working Group (UK 1997-8) and ANTaR UK (1998).

• Sorry Day 2008 – ENIAR celebrates with Indigenous Australia
  8 May 2008 - Media Release - ENIAR will mark Sorry Day 2008 with a celebratory event, including a screening of Australian Prime Minister Rudd’s Apology to the Stolen Generations. After decades of hard work, Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous supporters have achieved a monumental milestone in the fight for recognition of the truth of the Stolen Generations, and this is worth celebrating, says ENIAR.
• British MPs’ motion to support Australia’s ‘sorry’ to Indigenous people welcome
  23 February 2008 - Media Release - The European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR) has welcomed the British MPs’ motion acknowledging responsibility for ill-treatment of Indigenous Australians. The motion supports the Australian government’s recent apology to the stolen generations of Indigenous children and their families and communities, and comes at a significant and moving time in Australian history, says ENIAR.
• Australian Government apology sincere; important step in reconciliation process
  13 February 2008 - Media release ENIAR - The apology by the recently elected Australian Government to the ‘Stolen Generations’ of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,* delivered at 8.55am (AEST), 13 February 2008 marks an exciting turning point in Australian history and should be used as momentum to carry forward the enormous task of remedying the severe inequalities in health, education, employment and the general exclusion from Australian society, facing Indigenous people today, say the European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR).
• Imminent Australian Government apology to Stolen Generations ‘historic’ and ‘exciting’
  12 February 2008 - The apology on 13 February 2008 (EST) from the recently elected Australian Government to the ‘Stolen Generations’ of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is an exciting turning point in Australian history and most importantly in the healing process for stolen children and their families and communities. Heralded as a huge step towards reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, the apology is strongly supported by the European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR).
• Sorry Day Event -  London  UK 25 May 2007
  19 May 2007 - European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR) - Press Release - Come celebrate Australian Indigenous culture and remember the Stolen Generations on Friday 25 May at Victoria Embankment Gardens from 6pm to 8pm.
• ustralians overseas can help ‘Close the Gap’ in Indigenous health
  5 April 2007 - (eniar media release) - Australian Olympic gold medallists Ian Thorpe and Cathy Freeman have launched an Indigenous health campaign that aims to ‘Close the Gap’ in life expectancy between Indigenous Australians and the broader community.
• Aboriginal leaders to hold protest at London's natural history museum
  23 February 2007 - (eniar media release) - Clyde Mansell, Chairman of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Lands Council and Bob Weatherall, Chairman of the Brisbane-based Centre for Indigenous Cultural Policy, will be holding a public protest on the steps to the entrance of the Natural History Museum in London Friday 11.30am 23 February 2007.
• London to host Sorry Day event remembering the Stolen Generations
  25 May 2006 - (eniar media release) - London's Victoria Embankment Gardens will host a commemoration of Sorry Day on Thursday 25 May from 6pm - 8pm. Sorry Day is the annual day in which Australia remembers the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children who were forcibly removed from their families. The UK event will conclude on Thursday evening as dawn breaks in Australia on Friday 26 May.
• The Long Walk in London 2005
  25 November 2005 - (eniar media release) - This year's event follows on from indigenous AFL legend Michael Long's walk in 2004. This year there are events happening all across Australia, with the main one taking place in Melbourne.
• A didgeridoo for Lincoln's Inn Fields
  20 May 2005 - (eniar media release) - An annual day when Australians remember the 'stolen generations' of Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families will be commemorated in London for the first time next week.
  Letter From London
  November 2003 - (eniar media release) - ANTaR New South Wales Newsletter - Hi folks at ANTaR. Here I am back in Sydney again. As always, I am amazed that few people are aware there is a London based Aboriginal Rights group, so I am delighted to have this opportunity to tell you about ENIAR.
• ENIAR | Doris Pilkington Garimara Lecture: Monday November 4th
  1 November 2002 - (eniar media release) Doris Pilkington Garimara, is the author of 'Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence' on which the new movie Rabbit-Proof Fence is based.
• ENIAR co-hosted a 'Dialogue on Indigenous Peoples in the Commonwealth', June 7
• Aboriginal fire ceremony on Dover's beach
  3 September 2001 - (eniar media release) - An Aboriginal fire ceremony , was performed yesterday on Dover's beach by a delegation from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra. Isabell Coe, Leader of the delegation explained that the traditional fire ceremony was to "let the land know we are here.''
• 49 MPs sign ‘Sorry’ motion in House of Commons
  25 May 2001- (eniar media release) - As Sorry Day looms again, still without an official apology from the Australian Government, the news from Britain is that 49 MPs have now signed Early Day Motion 927 tabled by Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn apologising to Aboriginal people for past British policies and calling on Australian Governments to redress current discrimination.
• Celebrating Aboriginal genocide?
  14 July 2000 - (eniar media release) - Aboriginal leaders will join Australian and British supporters of Aboriginal rights in protests to mark Prime Minister John Howard's London visit.
• 'Sorry' motion in House of Commons
  5 July 2000 - (eniar media release) - On the day that Australian Prime Minster John Howard visited the House of Commons to hear warm words from Tony Blair and William Hague, a Labour MP tabled a motion apologising to Aboriginal people for past British policies and calling on Australian Governments to redress current discrimination.
• Sea of Hands comes to London
  July 2000 - (eniar media release) - 6000 hands in the colours of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags made a stunning display in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London.
• Sea of Hands information sheet
  July 2000 - (eniar media release) - Accompanying the Sea of Hands
  
• It's Time for a Treaty
  7 April 1999 - ADVERT - We call for the UK Government and citizens to strongly advocate a Treaty between the Australian Government and the Aboriginal Peoples and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. This Treaty should be concluded by 26 January 2001 (Invasion Day in the Centenary of Australian Federation) as a symbolic date for negotiated settlement between the nation and the Indigenous Peoples.
• Report on Time for a Treaty Launch 22 March 1999.
  22 March 1999 - REPORT - Report on the launch of the 'Time for a Treaty' Campaign at the House of Commons, London.
  
• Aboriginal call for British responsibility
  22 March 1999 - (eniar media release) - In Parliament House today MP's, Trade Unions, NGO's and influential speakers will stand in solidarity with Aboriginal people as they call on the British to finally act with responsibility towards them.
• Aboriginal leader warns that Australia is on the brink
  2 October 1998 - (eniar media release) - Leading Aboriginal spokesperson Marcia Langton has told Britons that tomorrow's Australian elections could have a catastrophic impact on Australian race relations.
• Vote for a fair go for all Australians
  September 1998 - (eniar media release) Flyer: The fair go for all, that most Australian of values, is under threat from a rising tide of racism.
• Londoners to see black films lift lid on white Australia
  July 1998 - (eniar media release) - Londoners can this week get a rare insight into the turbulent world of Australian race relations, when the capital plays host to blackfella/whitestate, a free showcase of contemporary Aboriginal film and poetry.
• DIGEST for MPs
  7 April 1998 - NIWG - "SORRY BOOK" EVENT, House of Commons. This briefing was prepared by the National Indigenous Working Group on Native Title (NIWG).
• British MP's were invited to sign the "Sorry Book"
  7 April 1998 - (eniar media release) - "Sorry Book" event, Room W6, The House of Commons, Westminster, London - "The truth is sometimes difficult to accept, but we must all accept responsibility," Anne Clewyd MP.
  
• Prominent Australians lead London protest for Aboriginal rights
  27 March 1998 - (eniar media release) - A group of prominent Australians yesterday made a formal apology to the Aboriginal peoples - and then called on the Australian Government to face up to the past.
• 'Sorry' book launch: what they said
  26 March 1998 - (eniar media release) - "The little we have done to redress the great wrong done to the Aborigines must be built on, and quickly, if white Australians are not to become the outcasts of the world," Dr Germaine Greer
• 'Sorry' book launch: what they wrote
  26 March 1998 - (eniar media release) -"Sorry. Here's to a much better future for all Australians." Jonathan Coleman.
• High Commissioner may snub 'Sorry Book'
  25 March 1998 - (eniar media release) - An Australian Government representative may tomorrow refuse to apologise to Aboriginal peoples for past injustices, such as the theft of their land and children.
• Prominent Australians to launch 'Sorry Book'
  24 March 1998 - (eniar media release) - This week a group of prominent Australians will formally apologise for the injustices done to Aborigines - because the Australian Government refuses to do so.
• Wik Bill slammed as racist by British MP
  19 February 1998 - NIWG - The Chairman of a British Parliamentary Group has labeled John Howard's Wik Bill as racist.
• High Commissioner to get a grilling
  18 February 1998 - NIWG - Australian High Commissioner Neil Blewitt today faces a grilling from British MP's over John Howard's controversial Wik Bill.
• Germaine Greer slams "cynical" plan to extinguish Aboriginal land rights
  11 November 1997 - NIWG - Dr. Germaine Greer spoke out yesterday against an Australian Government plan which will leave most Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples without any meaningful rights to their ancestral lands.
• Germaine Greer speaks out for Aboriginal rights
  6 November 1997 - NIWG - Dr Germaine Greer will lead a protest in London next week against an Australian Government plan which could leave Aboriginal peoples without any meaningful rights to their ancestral lands.
• 'Ordinary' Britons call on Blair to stand up for Aboriginal rights
  November 1997- NIWG - International human rights groups deliver some 500 letters, faxes and e-mails to Prime Minister Tony Blair from 'ordinary' Britons protesting against an Australian Government plan which will deny basic human rights to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
• Australian Government tries to turn back the clock to the days of dispossession
  October 1997 - NIWG - The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia have only had their land rights recognised since 1992. In that year the High Court finally overthrew the 200-year-old legal fiction of terra nullius'

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