| election2007 : news index |
| Sorry business more than a word 30 November 2007 - media release - Indigenous Co-Chair of the National Sorry Day Committee (NSDC) and Stolen Generations Survivor Helen Moran today said: “The apology to Indigenous Australians needs to be powerful and retain the original intent of Recommendation 5a of the Bringing Them Home Report which calls for Consultation, Acknowledgement and Responsibility.” |
| National Aboriginal Alliance welcomes Jenny Macklin to ministerial post 29 November 2007 - The National Aboriginal Alliance welcomes the appointment of Jenny Macklin as Indigenous Affairs Minister but calls on Prime Minister elect Kevin Rudd to directly involve himself in dealing with Aboriginal issues, Spokesman Michael Mansell said today. |
| Rudd reveals new Cabinet 29 November 2007 - Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd has announced his new ministry, dropping six frontbenchers, opting for a raft of new faces and rewarding some trusted performers. |
| New PM Kevin Rudd to apologise to Aborigines 27 November 2007 - The Telegragh UK - Newly-elected Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has promised to apologise to Aborigines for historic injustices, as the conservative party he defeated faced a bruising leadership battle. |
| Dawn of a new era 27 November 2007 - Kevin Rudd, prime minister-elect, has declared his hand openly on the issue of a national elected Indigenous representative body and hopefully Labor will implement it within the first 12 months of their new term. |
| Rudd promises apology to Aborigines 27 November 2007 - Press TV Iran - Australia's new government has promised to issue a formal apology to indigenous Aborigines for the abuses they suffered in the past |
| Australia's PM-elect to say sorry to Aborigines 26 November 2007 - Reuters UK - Australia's Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd is set to repair race relations with Aborigines by saying "sorry" for past injustices, ending more than a decade of bitter division over racial reconciliation. |
| Australian PM makes work of Kyoto Treaty 26 November 2007 - Radio Netherlands - On his first day in office, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd started work on plans to sign the Kyoto Protocol. |
| Spillover of the Federal Political Landslide to NT Government Provide Ground-Breaking Opportunity to Aboriginal Minister 26 November 2007 - Media Release Women for Wik - The spillover of the Federal political landslide to the NT government has provided a ground-breaking opportunity for NT Minister for Family and Community Services and Child Protection, Marion Scrymgour, who has become the first Indigenous woman to become Deputy Leader of a State or Territory government. |
| NT deputy Scrymgour makes history 26 November 2007 - The Northern Territory's new deputy chief minister, Marion Scrymgour, is the highest-ranked indigenous person in government in Australia's history. |
| A call for action on an apology to the Stolen Generations 26 November 2007 - Media release - The National Sorry Day Committee congratulates the ALP on its election victory and in welcoming the advent of a Federal Labor Government, calls on Prime Minister Elect, Kevin Rudd, to honour his pre-election promises for an Apology, towards Reconciliation, and about Human Rights. |
| Rudd vows formal apology 26 November 2007 - Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd says his government will make a formal apology to indigenous Australians early in its first term. |
| A decade of John Howard has left a country of timidity, fear and shame 26 November 2007 - The Guardian UK - John Howard famously said the times were his, and for more than a decade it seemed they were. Australia experienced the greatest and most sustained boom in its history. |
| Dodson backs Labor on reconciliation 26 November 2007 - Leading Aboriginal activist Mick Dodson says he is confident progress on reconciliation will be achieved with the new Labor government. |
| Brough’s Loss is Aboriginal People’s Win 25 November 2007 - Media Release - The grassroots organisation Women for Wik, which has been monitoring the Federal intervention in the Northern Territory, has described the change of Federal government as a potentially transforming moment in relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, lost his seat, with a swing of around 10%, considerably higher than the national average. “Mal Brough has lost the trust of Aboriginal people, and John Howard has lost the trust of the Australian people,” said Olga Havnen, CEO of the Combined Aboriginal Organisations of the NT. |
| Indigenous leaders welcome Howard defeat 25 November2007 - Some indigenous leaders have welcomed the end of the Howard government and expressed relief that Mal Brough has been forced out of parliament. |
| Australia hails Rudd as it finally votes for Howard's end 25 November 2007 - Observer UK -For eleven years he dominated his country's politics, an often controversial figure who led Australia into a war against Iraq and resisted efforts to curb global warming. But yesterday John Howard, the leader of its conservative Liberal Party, was decisively defeated by a bookish Christian promising a gentler and more unified country. |
| Greens vow to push Indigenous rights 22 November 2007 - The Australian Greens say the major parties are not doing enough to address the disadvantages faced by Indigenous Australian. |
| Aus election may bring apology 20 November 2007 - News 24 South Africa - If Prime Minister John Howard loses Saturday's election, as predicted, Aborigines in the camps around Alice Springs will finally hear the word he has steadfastly refused to say: "Sorry". |
| A call for action on stolen generations issues 20 November 2007 - As the Federal Election looms when the result yet may see Australian voters close the Gap between the major parties, the National Sorry Day Committee (NSDC) urges whatever Federal Government is elected to action a whole of government approach in its first 100 days of office that commits to the following recommendations |
| Saying sorry is a necessary step to reconciliation 19 November 2007 - On the eve of the election campaign Prime Minister John Howard made a dramatic confession, with a promise of amends. |
| MP damns welfare controls 30 October 2007 - LABOR's vice-president, Linda Burney, has condemned the Federal Government's policy of welfare quarantining and declared she does not trust John Howard to deliver his promised referendum to acknowledge indigenous people in the constitution. |
| John Howard's brush with Aboriginal Australia -- a timeline |
| Latest Audit Office report again shows mainstreaming and paternalism fails Indigenous Australians - it's time for a whole new approach 20 October 2007 - Media Statement - Senator Andrew Bartlett |
| John Howard U-turn on Aborigine policy 12 October 2007 The Times UK - John Howard, the Australian Prime Minister, promised yesterday to hold a referendum to recognise Aborigines in the Constitution in a dramatic policy shift weeks before going to the polls. |
| Howard calls for 'New Reconciliation' referendum for indigenous people 11 October 2007 - SYDNEY: The Australian prime minister, John Howard, proposed a referendum Thursday to change the country's Constitution to recognize the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia's history. |
| Constitutional recognition of Indigenous rights long overdue 11 October 2007 - media release - Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) said tonight it would welcome constitutional change that enshrines the distinctive rights of the first Australians, but the wording of any preamble would need to be developed on the basis of genuine negotiations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. |
| Labor spells out indigenous plan 6 October 2007 - A LABOR government would retain the 30-year old Aboriginal work-for-the dole scheme in the Northern Territory, in its first major departure from the Government over its controversial emergency intervention in the NT. |
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