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| $10 Billion Health Fund must be used to close Indigenous health gap 14 May 2008 - Media Release ANTaR - A significant portion of the $10 billion Nation Building Health Fund announced by the Treasurer last night should be earmarked for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care, according to Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR). |
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Death in Custody on Palm Island 12 May 2008 - Media Release - A new book, written by a journalist who closely followed the story of the death in custody of Mulrunji on Palm Island in 2004, is calling for the full release of compelling evidence which is still being kept secret. |
| Sorry Day 2008 – ENIAR celebrates with Indigenous Australia 12 May 2008 - Media Release - ENIAR will mark Sorry Day 2008 in London with a celebratory event, including a screening of Australian Prime Minister Rudd’s Apology to the Stolen Generations and a documentary made especially to commemorate this momentous event (The Apology – see below). 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. |
| Charcoal reveals Aboriginal history 7 May 2008 - Waikato University's radiocarbon dating lab is at the heart of a discovery that Aboriginal people lived as many as 35,000 years ago in Western Australia. |
| Indigenous voices and stories echo down the centuries 7 May 2008 - ABORIGINAL literature begins with the simple words, "Sir, I am very well. I hope you are very well," in a 1796 letter from the English-trained Bennelong. It continues with the contemporary, award-winning fiction of Tara June Winch, 25, one of the Herald's 2007 Best Young Australian Novelists. |
| Indigenous health budget 'a bit short': AMSANT 7 May 2008 - The Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance has described the Northern Territory budget for the next financial year as being 'light' on funding for health services in remote areas. |
| Canada taking 'bold steps' on aboriginal issues, Strahl tells UN 1 May 2008 - CBC - The Conservative government has taken unprecedented steps in protecting aboriginal human rights and improving the quality of life of indigenous peoples in Canada, Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said Thursday at the United Nations. |
| Government timetable for Indigenous employment reforms announced 30 April 2008 - Media Release - The Government will shortly begin consultations on Indigenous employment services reforms which will form part of a broader Indigenous Economic Development Strategy to be announced by the end of the year. |
| Senate inquiry hears NT intervention putting Indigenous children at greater risk 30 April 2008 - Former Indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough has announced his intention to run for the presidency of the Queensland Liberal Party. His decision to re-enter the political fray came as a Senate inquiry in the Northern Territory heard that the intervention he pioneered is placing children in remote communities in even greater danger. |
| In Australia, From Apology, a Hit Song Grows 29 April 2008 - The New York Times - A song about racial reconciliation with the Aboriginal minority has become the fourth-biggest-selling recording in Australia, even though it is available only as a download from the Web. |
| Statistics show little improvement in Indigenous life expectancy 29 April 2008 - New figures on Indigenous health and welfare indicate little improvement in mortality rates. |
| PM gets tough to protect children 26 April 2008 - THE Rudd Government is about to launch a major takeover of child protection, leveraging its control of family assistance and childcare to intervene earlier in the child abuse cycle. |
| No progress without wide support 26 April 2008 - WRITING in The Sydney Morning Herald this week, academics Megan Davis and Sarah Maddison criticised my alleged opposition to what they said was the main outcome of the indigenous stream in the 2020 Summit: the "unfinished business" of constitutional reform recognising indigenous people and laying out a clear relationship with the state. |
| A country for all of us 26 April 2008 - In the offices of Parliament House and among the leaders of indigenous Australia, a conversation that has troubled the nation has resumed. |
| Carpentaria, by Alexis Wright 25 April 2008 - Independent UK - From its opening lines, Carpentaria is never going to be your average novel. Starting before time began, it explains how the land was made: "The ancestral serpent, a creature larger than storm clouds, came down from the stars, laden with its own creativity..." |
| Forget a treaty, say Pearson, Yunupingu 25 April 2008 - TWO of the nation's most powerful Aborigines have dismissed the treaty movement as a political "dead horse" and have urged their fellow indigenous leaders to embrace the mainstream push towards constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people. |
| The gains must not be squandered 24 April 2008 - Aboriginal children "can't eat the constitution," Professor Marcia Langton said at the 2020 Summit. She is one of various high-profile indigenous commentators who have criticised the indigenous stream's emphasis on constitutional reform since the weekend. She is right, of course. Constitutional reform alone will not fix the problems facing indigenous children and their families in Australia. |
| Fight your own battles 24 April 2008 - New Zealand Herald - Ah, those unruly Irish! Fancy causing such a fuss at an Anzac Day march. And so soon after the Great War had ended, and so many Aussies and Kiwis had lost their lives on the beaches and in the trenches of Gallipoli. |
| Ruling big setback for Noongar claimants 23 April 2008 - Perth's indigenous Noongar people have had a major setback in their native title claim over the city after a court upheld a West Australian and federal government appeal against their claim. |
| Aboriginal musician astonishes Australian audiences 22 April 2008 - IHT - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu doesn't speak much, but when he takes up his guitar, he sings, literally and figuratively. |
| Call to offer Aboriginal scholarships 18 April 2008 - PRIVATE and public schools should be given annual results-based incentive payments to cover scholarships for indigenous students and staff in an "education revolution" reflecting the urgent need to address low Aboriginal education standards. |
| Yunupingu scores Sir Elton support 18 April 2008 - GEOFFREY Gurrumul Yunupingu's path to stardom will take a giant leap when he supports Elton John at his Darwin concert. |
| Aboriginal stolen children 'were used in leprosy tests' 17 April 2008 - Independent UK - The Australian government has launched an investigation into claims that aboriginal children seized from their parents during the 1920s and 1930s were secretly used as guinea pigs for leprosy treatments. |
| Aborigines to welcome Pope Benedict 17 April 2008 - Aboriginal elders will be the first Australians to officially welcome the Pope when he arrives in Sydney for the Catholic Church's World Youth Day (WYD) in July. |
| Stolen generation compo 'not expensive' 16 April 2008 - Compensating the stolen generations would not cost the federal government "billions of US dollars" and was preferable to forcing Aboriginal people through the courts, a Senate committee has been told. |
| The battle for Aboriginal rights 15 April 2008 - New Statesman UK - An apology from Kevin Rudd to Australia's aboriginals and a pledge about closing the life expectancy gap are steps in the right direction |
| Landmark housing project for NT Indigenous communities 12 April 2008 - A landmark joint housing program between the Australian and Northern Territory Governments will deliver vital construction, refurbishment and infrastructure developments, as well as jobs in 73 Northern Territory Indigenous communities and some urban areas. |
| Aboriginal skulls to return home from UK 9 April 2008 - The skulls of six Aborigines that have been gathering dust in Scotland since the 19th century will be returned to Australia within weeks. |
| Australia special: Aboriginal Sydney 9 April 2008 - The Telegraph UK - The greeting could have come from just about anyone in Australia. And the name had a comfortingly familiar ring, too. “G’day,” said Shane, “and welcome aboard. This afternoon we’re going to show you Sydney as you’ve never seen it before. Help yourselves to a drink from the cool box, then sit back and enjoy the ride.” |
| Aboriginal site among Australia's oldest 8 April 2008 - Aboriginal tools found in Western Australia and dating back 35,000 years are surprisingly sophisticated and varied, archaeologists say. |
| Rudd pledges annual update on indigenous crusade 6 April 2008 - A Progress report by the Government on how it is closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians will be made on the first working day of every parliamentary year, Kevin Rudd has pledged. |
| Pressure for Rudd on legal aid 4 April 2008 - More funding for the struggling Aboriginal Legal Aid services could be a key to economic development in remote indigenous communities, says a criminologist, Chris Cunneen.The comments by Professor Cunneen, the New South Global Professor in Criminology at the University of NSW, add to pressure on the Federal Government to increase the budget for indigenous legal services. |
| NT's Zorba troupe dreaming of Greece 3 April 2008 - THE group of Aboriginal dancers whose version of the Zorba dance became a hit video on the internet has been invited to Greece. |
| Indigenous mining share deal 1 April 2008 - More than 2500 of the country's most disadvantaged Aborigines will become shareholders in an Australian Securities Exchange-listed mining company under an innovative native title agreement. |
| Aborigines 'locked out of real economy' 1 April 2008 - Aboriginal people are condemned to poverty and treated as "museum pieces" by governments whose education policies have locked a generation out of the real economy. |
| 10 point plan to improve NT intervention 31 March 2008 - Media Release - Modifying the Northern Territory intervention legislation to maximise protection of children from abuse without racially discriminating against Indigenous people is one of the major elements of a 10 point plan outlined in the Social Justice Report 2007 officially launched in Sydney today. |
QLD Government’s insults Aboriginal workers again |
| Stolen Wages - ALERT - Queensland Government Round Two Payments 25 March 2008 - Announcement - In 2002, a reparations offer was made by the Queensland Government in the spirit of reconciliation. It recognised the historical injustices suffered by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Queenslanders through the controls imposed by the successive governments over their wages and savings during the period from the 1890s to the early 1970s. |
| Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts board appointments 25 March 2008 - Media Release - The Australia Council for the Arts welcomes Arts Minister Peter Garrett's appointment of Lynette Narkle to its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts board for a three-year term from February 2008. |
| Annual Social Justice and Native Title Reports tabled in Parliament today 20 March 2008 - Media Release - Amending the Northern Territory intervention legislation to maximise protection of children from abuse while ensuring the basic human rights of Indigenous people are protected is one of the major elements of a 10 point plan outlined in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Report 2007 tabled in federal Parliament today. |
| Historic signing of Statement of Intent between Australian Government and Indigenous peoples on health equality 20 March 2008 - Media Release - Historic signing of Statement of Intent between Australian Government and Indigenous peoples on health equality (the first from HREOC and the second from the Close the Gap coalition). |
Reconciliation Australia applauds a new alliance to turn good intentions into measurable actions |
| National Sorry Day Committee says “There is hope for compensation” 14 March 2008 - Media Release - The National Sorry Day Committee (NSDC) welcomes the Senate’s commendation that the 2008 Stolen Generation Compensation Bill be referred immediately to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee. |
Fast track for long-term detainees |
| Treatment a reflection of sad reality 12 March 2008 - The racism experienced by the 16 Aboriginal women and children from Yuendumu who had travelled to Alice Springs to attend Royal Life Saving Society of Australia swimming classes is an experience that has been shared by many indigenous Australians. |
| Hostel 'turned away' Aborigines 12 March 2008 - BBC - A backpacker hostel in Australia could face legal action after it allegedly turned away some Aborigines because of their skin colour. |
| Indigenous community determined to protect ancient rock art 11 March 2008 - An Aboriginal community in the Pilbara, in north-west Western Australia, has warned companies operating on the Burrup Peninsula that it will fight to protect ancient rock art in the area. |
| Australia's hidden empire 6 March 2008 - The New Statesman (UK) - That Canberra runs an imperial network is unmentionable, yet the chain of control stretches from the Aboriginal slums of Sydney to the South Pacific. |
Utopia study outcome bucks trends |
Attacking the great digital divide |
The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery celebrates its twentieth anniversary with the opening of a new central London gallery space |
| Mourners farewell Aboriginal elder 29 February 2008 - More than 1500 people attended the funeral today of a Warburton community elder who died after a routine prisoner transport journey from Laverton to Kalgoorlie last month. |
Sorry, What About the Stolen Generations? |
| Elder's funeral comes as a relief 28 February 2008 - The relatives of Aboriginal elder Ian Ward who collapsed in the back of a security van while being transported from Laverton to Kalgoorlie are relieved he will finally be laid to rest, but are awaiting a forensic pathology report which will determine how the tragedy occurred. |
| Guides to help do the right thing with Indigenous culture 28 February 2008 - Media Release - The Australia Council for the Arts has released a fully revised second edition of its protocol guides to help Australians better understand the use of Indigenous cultural material. |
Legal group raises more questions over prison van death |
| Financial services sector unites around reconciliation agenda 26 February 2008 - media release - In an industry where competition rules, Australia’s four big banks along with credit unions and building societies are working side by side to make their own unique contribution to reconciliation. |
WA unveils prisoner transport changes |
| Wronged Aborigines deserve a payout, too 23 February 2008 - I'm sure I'm not the only Australian who struggled to recognise my country many times during the Howard government's reign. And one of the many soul-searching moments came after the revelation of the wrongful detention of Cornelia Rau. |
| 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. |
| Govt preparing to endorse Declaration 21 February 2008 - The federal government is preparing to endorse the landmark United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was opposed by the former Howard government. |
| The Big Question: After three months in power, how has Kevin Rudd changed Australia? 20 February 2008 - The Independent UK - Elected nearly three months ago, Mr Rudd is Australia's most popular prime minister for 20 years, according to a Newspoll survey published yesterday. |
| Swedish uni returns Aboriginal remains 20 February 2008 - Lund University in southern Sweden handed over the remains of two Aboriginals to Australia at a special ceremony. |
| First Nations set to implement UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 19 February 2008 - Assembly of First Nations - Today First Nations leaders are gathering for a two-day symposium in Vancouver where they will consult representatives from the United Nations about how the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples can be implemented in Canada. AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine says First Nations are set to implement the UN Declaration. |
| UN rights experts welcome Australia's apology to indigenous peoples 18 February 2008 – UN - A group of independent United Nations human rights experts have welcomed Australia's recent apology to its indigenous peoples for the pain and indignity they endured under the Government's past laws and policies. |
| Government commitment to UN Indigenous Declaration is common sense 17 February 2008 - Media Release - Confirmation by the Foreign Affairs Minister,Stephen Smith, that Australia would acknowledge the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, is commonsense and a return to international political reality, said Les Malezer today. |
| Mother England as much to blame 16 February 2008 - The Guardian UK - THE HISTORIC apology offered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to the stolen generations was a crucial step for Australia, as novelist Richard Flanagan wrote this week. But it does not make amends for the role played by the British in the destruction and degradation of the Aboriginal race. Initially soldiers,convicts and settlers killed Aborigines as if they were animals threatening the crops. |
| We should say sorry, too 14 February 2008 - The Guardian UK - The historic apology offered by prime minister Kevin Rudd to the "stolen generations" was a crucial step for Australia, as Richard Flanagan wrote on these pages this week. But it does not make amends for the role played by the British in the destruction and degradation of the Aboriginal race. |
| Torture claims over Aboriginal custody death 14 February 2008 - In Western Australia, the Deaths in Custody Watch Committee has accused police of putting the leader of an Indigenous community in conditions akin to torture. The former Warburton elder, Ian Ward, collapsed and died in the back of a prisoner transport van last month, while the temperature outside was 43 degrees. The Government had been warned that its prisoner transport vans were below standard, with frequent breakdowns in the air conditioning systems. At a meeting in Perth last night, the Deaths in Custody Watch Committee vowed to campaign for an immediate end to the use of the vehicles. |
| Response to government to the national apology to the Stolen Generations 13 February 2008 - HREOC Tom Calma - I have been asked by the National Sorry Day Committee and the Stolen Generations Alliance; the two national bodies that represent the Stolen Generations and their families, to respond to the Parliament’s Apology and to talk briefly about the importance of today’s events. |
| 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). |
| 'Britain should apologise to Aborigines' 13 February 2008 - The Telegraph UK - Britain is facing demands to join Australia in apologising to Aborigines who were snatched from their families as children, after Kevin Rudd, the prime minister, spoke of removing a "great stain from the nation’s soul”. |
| Australian PM Rudd says sorry to Aborigines' stolen generations 13 February 2008 - The Guardian UK - The Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd, yesterday issued the text of the long-awaited apology to the country's Aboriginal population citing the "profound suffering, grief and loss" inflicted on them by decades of abuse and mistreatment. |
| The courage to right a historic wrong 13 February 2008 - The Independent UK - Politicians who match their words to their deeds are hardly ten a penny these days. And, even when they do appear on our horizon, their words and deeds are all too often designed to court cheap popularity. |
| Australia apologizes to Aborigines 13 February 2008 - Internatinal Herald Tribune - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened a new chapter in Australia's tortured relations with its indigenous peoples Wednesday with a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs and a call for bipartisan action to improve the lives of Australia's Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. |
| Anguish of the Stolen Generations 13 February 2008 - BBC - With torment still in his voice, Frank Byrne recalls the day six decades ago when he was taken from his mother and their community in Christmas Creek, Western Australia. |
| Removing the ‘Stain’ on Australia’s Soul 13 February 2008 - The New York Times - Bravo to Australia’s new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for boldly leading the effort to ease ancient tensions by organizing an official apology to his country’s indigenous people, the Aborigines. |
| Australia: ‘Sorry’ for the Indigenous 12 February 2008 - Cafebabel France - On 13 February. Big screens, daytrips to Canberra, and a historical ‘apology’ by the new Labor government, to the 13, 000 Indigenous children taken from their Aboriginal parents after British colonisation in Australia. |
| Flags fly to mark apology 12 February 2008 - THE Australian High Commission in London will mark federal parliament's formal apology to the stolen generations by flying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands flags on Wednesday. |
| Imminent Australian Government apology to Stolen Generations ‘historic’ and ‘exciting’ 12 February 2008 - Media Release eniar - 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). |
| Too many in jail for drive crime: Bowler 11 February 2008 - The death of Aboriginal elder Ian Ward in the back of a prison transport van highlights the unacceptable number of Aboriginal people imprisoned for driving offences, says Murchison-Eyre MLA John Bowler. |
| Australia's Rudd to apologise to Aborigines 10 February 2008 - Reuters South Africa - The Australian government will on Wednesday apologise to Aborigines who were taken from their families as children, with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd saying on Sunday the apology was unfinished business for the nation. |
| Aboriginal dance group 'educating' the world 10 February 2008 - Hundreds of Canberrans were lucky to see Australia's most widely toured act this morning as part of the National Multicultural Festival. |
| Rudd says apology to Aborigines will remove 'blight on nation's soul' 9 February 2008 - CanadaEast - Many Australians will disagree with a national apology to Aborigines for past mistreatment, but it will remove a "blight on the nation's soul," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Sunday. |
| Now for the hard yakka 9 February 2008 - The Howard government implemented the emergency intervention in Aboriginal communities - Labor has to make it work. |
| Another death in custody: protest called 8 February 2008 - The Western Australian Deaths in Custody Watch Committee (DCWC) has called an urgent public meeting for February 13 to plan a campaign to demand justice for an Aboriginal elder who died on January 27 in the custody of Global Solutions Ltd (GSL), which is contracted by the state government to transport prisoners. |
| Coalition to support indigenous apology 6 February 2008 - Coalition MPs have agreed in principle to support Labor's apology to the stolen generations, paving the way for a bipartisan resolution by parliament. |
| Much more than a simple gesture 5 February 2008 - Some people think that saying sorry is merely a gesture. The evidence shows it is in fact much more than that. I believe that forced removal from family or land is one of the most important factors leading to the modern indigenous circumstance. |
| Prime Minister Rudd's Apology To The Stolen Generations An Important Step, Australia 4 February 2008 - Medical News Today UK - The Federal Government's plan for a formal apology to the stolen generations - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who were removed from their families and communities as part of the assimilation policies of the governments of the day, is a welcome and long overdue move, according to the Australian Psychological Society. |
| Aboriginal languages 'dying out' 4 February 2008 - BBC UK - Campaigners in Australia have warned that indigenous languages are declining at record levels. |
| Aboriginal rock art removed 4 February 2008 - THE controversial relocation of Aboriginal rock carvings from the Pluto onshore facilities site on the Burrup Peninsula has been completed. |
| Wright writes rights 3 February 2008 - The Telegraph Calcutta - Aboriginal author Alexis Wright has spent a lifetime fighting for her people. |
| Raelian leader says Aboriginals are the Palestinians of Australia 3 February 2008 - “Australia’s indigenous people need more than a ‘sorry’. It’s time for the decolonization of Australia to actually be carried out” |
| Rudd rules out compensation 2 February 2008 - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has moved to ensure the Government's historic apology to the stolen generations is not misread as opening the way to compensation. |
| Silence on cause of elder's death in custody van 1 February 2008 - Police yesterday refused to reveal the results of a post-mortem examination on the body of an Aboriginal elder who died after he collapsed in custody while being taken to Kalgoorlie in the back of a van. |
| Australian court boosts compensation for Aborigine taken from family when child 1 February 2008 - International Herald Tribune France - An Australian judge increased the compensation that a state government must pay an Aborigine who was taken from his mother as a child in a decision Friday that contrasted with the prime minister's refusal to compensate members of the so-called "stolen generations." |
| NRL launches reconciliation action plan 1 February 2008 - Rugby league has acknowledged its importance to indigenous people by becoming the first sport in Australia to launch a formal reconciliation action plan. |
| Death of Indigenous man while in custody is a tragedy 31 January 2008 - Media Release - Amnesty International is shocked at the death of an Indigenous man over the weekend whilst allegedly in the custody of contractors for the Department of Corrective Services, which is a tragedy for his family and his community. |
| Death in custody guard told of 'bloody hot' van 31 January 2008 - A GUARD sobbed as she told a hospital doctor it was "bloody hot" in the back of the van in which Aboriginal leader Ian Ward was locked for up to 4½ hours before he collapsed, vomited and died on the weekend. |
| Australia apology to Aborigines 30 January 2008 - BBC UK - The Australian government has announced it will issue its first formal apology to Aboriginal people when parliament resumes next month. |
| Australian Government to Apologise to Members of the Stolen Generations 30 January 2008 - Media release - JENNY MACKLIN MP - The Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, today announced that a formal apology to members of the Stolen Generations would be made on Wednesday, 13 February, 2008. |
Death may have been preventable: Watch Committee |
| Cash is a mere gesture 29 January 2008 - When 25,000 Tasmanians turned out on a bleak Hobart winter day in 2000 to march in support of Aboriginal reconciliation, it was a turning point for our community. I was among those who braved the wind and rain to walk across the Tasman Bridge that day. |
| Aboriginal archive offers new DRM 29 January 2008 - BBC UK - A new method of digital rights management (DRM) which relies on a user's profile has been pioneered by Aboriginal Australians. |
Drink driver dies in custody |
| Indigenous appeal: sorry is not hard to say 27 January 2008 - "IT'S BEEN a tough year." Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service chief executive Julie Tongs knows a little about doing it tough. |
| Sorry message hangs over Australia Day 26 January 2008 - Reconciliation was a dominant theme as millions of people celebrated Australia Day, which included a mystery skywriter scrawling "sorry" above Sydney Harbour. |
| Invasion Day protests 26 January 2008 - Around the country, hundreds of people marked white invasion of Australia on January 26 by attending protests and festivals. |
| Indigenous posting jumps gun 25 January 2008 - SOUTH Australia has recycled a former ATSIC commissioner into the role of its top indigenous advocate, jumping the gun on federal moves to set up a new representative organisation for Aborigines. |
| Tasmania to pay 'stolen generation' of Aborigines £2.2m in reparations 23 January 2008 - The Guardian UK - Tasmania approved yesterday millions of pounds in compensation for more than 100 members of the "stolen generation" of Aborigines, with the state premier describing the move as an attempt to right a shameful wrong in the island's history. |
| Calma pushes all states to set up Stolen Generation funds 23 January 2008 - The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner says all states should set up a compensation fund for members of the stolen generation. |
| Stolen Generation compensation achieved via tripartisan support 22 January 2008 - Tasmanian Greens Media release - The Tasmanian Greens today supported the completion of the process of delivering compensation to members of the stolen generation of Tasmanian Aborigines and their children, reiterating the Greens’ strong commitment to this important gesture of healing and reconciliation, first initiated with a tripartisan apology in Tasmania’s House of Assembly during the balance of power Parliament in 1997, at the suggestion of the Greens to the minority Liberal government, and continued during the Labor era. |
| Reconciliation requires an Aborigine for head of state 22 January 2008 - Until now, if you wished to be appointed to the post of governor-general, two of the essential qualities were that you were white and male. The first appointment, of Lord Hopetoun, had its problems, not least because he was criticised as pallid, sickly and bedecked with too many plumes. When a youthful Prince Charles - possibly impressed by his encounter with local bikini girls - thought he might fit the bill, he was told to back off as Australians had their own blokes for the job. |
| Rudd prepares for national reconciliation 21 January 2008 - NZ Herald - Australia's new Labor Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has returned to work, facing a task that none of his predecessors could master - reconciliation with Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. |
| Museum of Scotland to return Aboriginal and Maori remains 17 January 2008 - The Scotsman - A TASMANIAN skull and a collection of Maori remains that have been in the archives of the Museum of Scotland for more than 100 years are to be returned to Australia and New Zealand. |
| State control for Aboriginal dole 17 January 2008 - BBC UK - Welfare recipients in one of Australia's largest Aboriginal communities have had half of their benefits placed under state control. |
| Indigenous Health Education: Fostering A Fresh Approach, Australia 16 January 2008 - Medical News Today UK - The Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA) released a report urging stakeholders in medical education to recognize the importance of Indigenous Health in medical school curricula. |
| Acknowledge Aboriginal history on Australia Day: Tas Govt 14 January 2008 - The State Government is encouraging Tasmanians to reflect on the country's Aboriginal history this Australia Day. |
| Australia's 'stolen' children get apology but no cash 13 January 2008 - The Observer - As one of Australia's 'stolen generation', John Moriarty was only four when he was taken away from his mother: loaded on to an army truck and sent thousands of kilometres away from his home in the Gulf of Carpentaria to be raised in a series of bleak institutions. He was given a birth date - April Fool's Day - forbidden to speak his Yanyuwa language and did not see his mother again for 10 years. |
| Grand Slam champ Goolagong uses camp to search for next aboriginal player or coach 13 January 2008 - Canadian Press - MELBOURNE, Australia - A group of aboriginal kids gather around their lifelong hero on a wind-swept tennis court in suburban Melbourne. Listening to her every word, they watch closely as Evonne Goolagong pulls the racket head back and gracefully follows through a mock shot, their mouths agape. |
| Don't just say sorry-
Fulfill the whole apology recommendation 10 January 2008 - Media Release NSDC - “Recommendation 5a of the Bringing them home Report is the proper place to start on the way forward to the formal apology to the Stolen Generations”, said National Sorry Day Committee Indigenous Co-Chair, Helen Moran. |
| Mansell predicts stolen generation compensation fund this year 10 January 2008 - Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre Inc Media Release - Tasmanian Aboriginal leader Michael Mansell predicts that the Rudd Government will establish a $1b national compensation fund for the stolen generations early this year. |
| Rudd Government abandons Labor platform over Stolen Generations 9 January 2008 - ANTaR Media release - The Rudd Government’s decision to rule out compensation for members of the Stolen Generations flies in the face of the policy platform it took to the recent federal election. |
| Bold vision of artistic rebirth 5 January 2008 - In a dusty corner of the outback, among artworks covered in dirt, Judith Ryan set out on a journey that has transformed the NGV's indigenous collection. |
| Going walkabout 2 January 2008 - Aboriginal culture can be seen and heard throughout this city |
| Musical journey to Aboriginal heart 31 December 2007 - Who would have thought conservative historian Geoffrey Blainey would inadvertently provide the name for a music group? Calling yourselves the Black Arm Band is wryly subversive, given its members are mostly indigenous singers, songwriters and performers. |
| Aboriginal dancers shoot to internet fame with 'Zorba' 29 December 2007 - The Independent UK - A quirky dance routine to the music of Zorba the Greek has earned a group of young Aborigines worldwide fame on the internet as well as invitations to perform around Australia, and also to visit Greece. |
| Aboriginals to fight Queensland invasion 21 December 2007- Media Release - We will join with other Aboriginal leaders in Queensland to fight the introduction of forced income control over Aboriginal families in Queenland. |
| An apology is the first step on a long road 20 December 2007 - Economic progress is vital to ensure better lives for Aboriginal people. |
| My NT community faces quarantined Christmas 17 December 2007 - I live in the Aboriginal community of Eva Valley, in the Northern Territory. I've got no television, but when my friend sister Olga told me we had a new Prime Minister, I was crying. When she told me what Kevin Rudd had said, I was crying and she was crying. He said "I'm going to be Prime Minister for all Australians." |
| Indigenous affairs top priority at COAG 17 December 2007 - Indigenous affairs will be a top priority when Kevin Rudd meets state and territory counterparts this week as the new prime minister pledges to turn COAG into a workhorse not a "whipping boy". |
| Unfinished business of wages at Wave Hill 15 December 2007 - The mob went on strike in 1966 and got their land back in 1975, but they're still waiting to be paid. |
| Give us back our money 15 December 2007 - For many Aborigines, making amends for past loss is not just an emotional issue, but a financial one too, writes Joel Gibson. |
| Rudd to face indigenous heads 15 December 2007 - Kevin Rudd will come face to face with indigenous leaders this morning as he prepares to deal personally with the "challenges" confronting the commonwealth intervention in Northern Territory communities amid the growing outrage over the gang-rape of a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl on Cape York. |
| Labor should consider all recommendations from Bringing Them Home Report 12 December 2007 - The Australian Democrats Media Release - Queensland Democrat Senator Andrew Bartlett says the new Labor government must consider all the unimplemented recommendations from the Bringing Them Home report. |
| Essentials for social justice start with saying sorry 11 December 2007- HREOC Media Release - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma will today join federal Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, The Hon. Jenny Macklin MP, when she officially launches Us Taken-Away Kids, a magazine commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the ‘Bringing them home’ report. |
| Working Together Towards Reconciliation 11 December 2007 - Jenny Macklin MP Media Release - Real progress on the path towards reconciliation took a step forward today with the first consultations to develop a national apology to the Stolen Generation. |
| Justice on ancient land 11 December 2007 - A special sitting of the Federal Court in a remote corner of Western Australia has ended a 10-year legal and artistic challenge for native title, |
| Aboriginal people need the fires of reconciliation to be relit 11 December 2007 - TODAY is a historic day, not only in the life of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people but in the life of this nation. |
| Native title gains continue to bring win-win results for all parties 10 December 2007 - HREOC Media Release - Yesterday’s Federal Court decision recognising the Eastern Kuku Yalanji People’s native title rights over nearly 127,000 hectares of far north Queensland’s Daintree area is another example of how negotiation and cooperation bring the best outcomes for all parties, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma said today. |
| A movable cultural centre 10 December 2007 - AFTER listening to artist George Wallaby talk about his traditional country at Lake Gregory, Alan Dodge felt he had understood the Kimberley artist's love of the Great Sandy Desert. "I bought one of his paintings and I can't go to bed without standing and looking at it for a while," he says. |
| Statue salutes a champion on field and off 10 December 2007 - WHEN Doug Nicholls left the bush and went to Melbourne to play football, the trainers at Carlton were so offended by the colour of his skin that they refused to rub him down. |
| Alone on the Soaks – The Life and Times of Alec Kruger wins Arts Non-Fiction Human Rights Award for 2007 10 December 2007 - HREOC Media Release - The 2007 Human Rights Arts Non-Fiction Award has been presented to authors Alec Kruger and Gerard Waterford for their book Alone on the Soaks – The Life and Times of Alec Kruger. |
| Title triumph as heritage land is returned 10 December 2007 - More than a century after being marched off their land and on to missions by successive waves of pastoralists and cane farmers, the Kuku Yalanji people of the Daintree rainforest yesterday had almost 1300sqkm of World Heritage-listed land returned. |
| Northern Territory Intervention - Help Or Hindrance? Australia 9 December 2007 - Medical News Today UK - The Government's Northern Territory Intervention, aimed at improving health and living conditions in Indigenous communities, has been met with mixed reviews in a collection of articles published in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. |
| Addressing extreme disadvantage through investment in capability developement 6 December 2007 - Ken Henry Secretary to the Treasury - Thank you to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), and to Dr Penny Allbon in particular, for organising this conference and inviting me to speak. The AIHW’s report ‘Australia’s welfare 2007’ is the eighth in a long standing biennial series published by the AIHW but is the first under the stewardship of Dr Allbon. |
| Election defeat for Oz's right-wing Prime Minister, John Howard 6 December 2007 - An Phoblacht - AUSTRALIA’S 11 years of conservative rule under the right-wing John Howard officially ended on Monday when the centre-left Australian Labour Party leader Kevin Rudd was sworn in as the country’s new prime minister, nine days after a landslide election victory. |
| Lucky country can say sorry, and mean it 6 December 2007 - Every day since Kevin Rudd gave his acceptance speech, there has been growing conjecture and disquiet amongst journalists and Indigenous leaders on whether he will say 'sorry'. |
| CommBank to support Aboriginal reconciliation 6 December 2007 - The Commonwealth Bank has announced it will support a formal commitment to Australia's reconciliation with Indigenous, saying the bank will now focus on a reconciliation strategy, including employment. |
| WGAR - The Working Group for Aboriginal Rights 5 December 2007 - Media Release - WGAR urges PM and Minister for Indigenous Affairs to place a Moratorium on the NT Intervention and immediately ratify and implement the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. |
| 'Invasion' must end, say indigenous leaders 5 December 2007 - A group of prominent Aboriginal leaders have called on the Rudd Government to immediately halt the federal "invasion" of the Northern Territory. |
| Rescuing the Intervention 5 December 2007 - One of the few theatrical highlights of Kevin Rudd’s lacklustre acceptance speech was the dramatic pause after his promise to be ‘a Prime Minister for Indigenous Australians’ and the opportunity this presented for the true believers to explode in rapturous applause. |
| Aboriginal Languages Slowly Making Way into Australian Schools 4 December 2007 - Voice of America - On the eve of European settlement in Australia, around 250 indigenous languages were spoken. |
| Qantas to further promote reconciliation with new Action Plan 3 December 2007 - Qantas Thursday launched a formal Reconciliation Action Plan with major objectives such as furthering Indigenous employment opportunities and support within its own ranks. |
| Relaxed Mundine sees a vision splendid 1 December 2007 - PERHAPS it has as much to do with last weekend's election result as the new perspective his career-threatening eye injury has given him. But approaching Anthony Mundine's comeback fight at Sydney Entertainment Centre on December 10, the Man is feeling "comfortable and relaxed". |
| After 12 years, title win state's biggest 30 November 2007 - In the state's largest native title determination, the Githabul people of northern NSW have won rights over an area of 112,000 hectares, including nine national parks and 13 state forests, in the Kyogle and Tenterfield shires. |
| It's time to stop playing politics with vulnerable lives 30 November 2007 - The crisis in Aboriginal society is a public spectacle, played out in a vast reality show through the media, parliaments, civil service and Aboriginal world. |
| 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. |
| “Ending Paternalism: New Leadership, New Partnerships” 29 November 2007 - SNAICC, the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, welcomes the appointment of Jenny Macklin, MP as the Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. |
| Northern Territory Indigenous Initiative Must Be Reviewed And Health Checks Extended Nationally 29 November 2007 - AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, urged the new Government to bring forward its promised review of the Northern Territory Indigenous initiative and look to extend the successful health programs nationally to benefit all Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders. |
| Scheme 'based on flawed opinions' 29 November 2007 - Pressure to water down the federal intervention in the Northern Territory increased yesterday when former Family Court chief justice Alastair Nicholson said parts of the scheme were based on flawed assumptions about Aboriginal society. |
| 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. |
| 'Stay with intervention' 29 November 2007 - Respected Aboriginal academic Marcia Langton has warned Labor to stop playing short-term politics with the commonwealth's intervention in remote communities and expressed concern about moves to wind back key elements of the reforms. |
| Aboriginal leaders letter to Editor 28 November 2007 - Kevin Rudd's election provides an opportunity for Australia and Aboriginal people to repair amage caused by the Howard years. Mr Rudd's intention to apologise to the Stolen Generations already indicates a positive change of national policy towards Aboriginal people and should he remove the NT Emergency laws Aboriginal reconciliation will be further enhanced. |
| 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. |
| Researcher calls for scrapping of 'racist' interventions policy 27 November 2007 - An Indigenous economic policy researcher has urged the new Labor Government to do away with what it describes as the "racist" elements of the Commonwealth intervention. |
| 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. |
| Maori Party Endorses Indigenous Ingenuity 27 November 2007 - Media Release The Maori Party - The Maori Party is celebrating the enterprise of indigenous leadership in forming the United League of Indigenous Nations; an international initiative which Aotearoa will formally ratify in Whakatane on November 28, 2007 (tomorrow). |
| 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. |
| Climate heat on indigenous: study 26 November 2007 - Australia's northern Aboriginal communities will bear the brunt of climate change, with increases in water-borne diseases and loss of traditional food sources, an international report says. |
| 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. |
| NT Aboriginal Vote Calls Intervention into Question 25 November 2007 - Media Release - The grassroots organisation Women for Wik, which has been monitoring the Federal intervention in the Northern Territory, has called on the incoming Rudd Labor government to honor its pre-election promises to Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. |
| Open letter to the Honorable Emperor of Japan November 2007 - We are an Australian Aboriginal Tribal Group, the Woppaburra People, of the Keppel Islands, Great Barrier Reef, of Central Queensland, Australia. The Keppel Islands are the ancestral homelands of our ancestors/forefathers, who were the original aboriginal inhabitants (custodians) of the Keppel Islands. |
| The Stolen Generation 22 November 2007 - Apologising to the Stolen Generation has become an important issue for Indigenous people in the upcoming election. |
| 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. |
| NT Intervention — the Wedge that Couldn’t 21 November 2007 - Aboriginal communities in Central Australia are the latest to be hit by the scrapping of Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) as part of the Northern Territory Intervention. In Hermmansburg, 180 kilometres west of Alice Springs, the transition is not going smoothly. |
| 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 |
| 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". |
| 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. |
| Aboriginal Lit 18 November 2007 - The New York Times - When “Carpentaria,” Alexis Wright’s epic novel about Aboriginal life, appeared last year, readers in Australia were slow to warm to its magisterial yet colloquial voice, which transformed the oral tradition of the country’s indigenous people into a swirling narrative spiked with burlesque humor and featuring a huge cast of eccentric characters. |
| Australian art from A to Z 17 November 2007 - An ambitious online dictionary records the lives and works of some 7000 Australian artists. Angela Bennie reports. |
| "It's time to get it right"- rallies show national opposition to NT
intervention 16 November 2007 - Women for Wik Media Release -This weekend, people in nine cities and towns across Australia will attend public events protesting the federal government's intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal communities. |
| Promises, promises November 2007 - The National Sorry Day Committee, commends the attempt by Prime Minister John Howard to promise to deliver what he and his government of eleven years has manage to fail to deliver whilst in power. |
| Aboriginal artist to work with World Youth Day 16 November 2007 - Independent Catholic News UK - Organisers of World Youth Day 2008 (WYD08) have announced that work by the Aboriginal artist Richard Campbell, will be used on a selection of his artwork on official WYD08 merchandise. |
| Indigenous Health Needs Significant National Solutions, Australia
15 Nov 2007 - Medical News Today UK - AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said that the health of Indigenous Australians has been forgotten in this election campaign. |
| NT Intervention Damages Sacred Site 12 November 2007- Women for Wik Media Release - The grassroots organisation Women for Wik, which has been monitoring the Federal intervention in the Northern Territory, expressed dismay at the revelation that a pit toilet has been built on a sacred site in the Aboriginal township of Numbulwar, one of the 73 communities directly affected by the intervention. |
| British based mining companies 12 November 2007 - EDM 210 - British House of Commons - That this House notes that London is the world's biggest centre for mining investment and that the activities of mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) are causing significant concern around the world; |
| Church urges treaty to help deal with Aboriginal unrest 12 November 2007- The Uniting Church is urging that the South Australian Government sign a treaty recognising Aboriginal land rights in SA. |
| Crosses greet Broome inquest 12 November 2007 - Hundreds of small white crosses symbolising the high number of Aboriginal deaths in the Kimberley will today confront State Coroner Alastair Hope as he arrives at the Broome court to resume his inquest into indigenous deaths. |
| Australia's First Aboriginal Record Label Opens in Sydney 7 November 2007 - Australia's first urban Aboriginal record label has been established in Sydney. Its founders say there is a great untapped market for Aboriginal hip-hop and rap music that deals with drugs, violence, poor health and racism. Phil Mercer reports from Sydney, where Redfern Records has released its first album, Beats from Tha (sic) Streets. |
| Synod Statement regarding Federal Government Intervention in Indigenous Communities in the Northern Territory 6 November 2007 - “We are now under three laws - our own Aboriginal Law, Australian Law for all Australians and this new white man’s law for Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory” - An Arnhem Land Church Leader. |
| Nigeria: Priest Finds African Parallels With Australian Aborigines 6 November 2007 - Wilcanna - Though surrounded by Western civilization, especially popularity of the nuclear family, the indigenous peoples of Australia still treasure their extended family system and matriarchal culture, a Nigerian priest found out. |
| Turnbull artfully dodges Burrup heritage decision 4 November 2007 - Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has rejected an application by Aboriginal custodians of WA’s Burrup Peninsula (the Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo people) for protection of their world heritage rock art. |
| Closing the Space Between Us - The Rights of Aboriginal Children 2 November 2007 - Today we begin by remembering all the journeys of the Awabakal Ancestors with their children across this land around us. I thank the Traditional Owners and I honour the strength and the value of Aboriginal Culture. This is not, as some Culture War warriors would say, romanticising the past. We cannot understand the scale of the crisis threatening Aboriginal children today unless we have a clear understanding of what has happened to these children in the longer timelines of history. |
| New Government, New Hope For Indigenous Australians? 2 Nov 2007 - The "symbolic infrastructure" of the Howard Government in Australia needs to change in order for Indigenous Health in Australia to progress, says a Special Report in this week's edition of The Lancet. |
| Burrup rock art on risk list 2nd November 2007- Ancient rock art in the Dampier Archipelago of northern WA has made the National Trust’s first list of threatened heritage sites. |
| Intervention may force Indigenous jail rates to new highs 1 November 2007 - Aboriginal people now make up almost 90 per cent of the Territory's prison population. |
| Aboriginal photographer takes on Paris 1 November 2007 - Tracking ancient stone etchings, healing gardens, or landmarks tracing the paths of Aboriginal songlines, an Australian Indigenous photographer brings the lost history of his people to the debut edition of a groundbreaking Paris art show. |
| Alcoholism in Australia: The wives who said time, gentlemen... 31 October 2007 - The Independent UK - On the banks of the Fitzroy river, in the remote Kimberley region of north-west Australia, stands the century-old Crossing Inn, a squat brick building with a facade adorned with paintings by local schoolchildren. |
| 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. |
| Aboriginal group fights Canberra's 'land grab' 27 October 2007 - AN ABORIGINAL community in Arnhem Land has launched the first legal challenge against the Federal Government's emergency intervention in the Northern Territory. |
| A chance to right many historic wrongs 27 October 2007 - AFTER many long years, we are now facing the moment when we must decide how this country will recognise the first Australians. |
| Intervention Dollars Missing Their Target 26 October 2007 - The grassroots organization Women for Wik, recently re-formed to monitor the Federal Action in the Northern Territory, responded to Galarrwuy Yunupingu's call for new ways to deal with disadvantage in Aboriginal communities, stating that Women for Wik are concerned that the intervention dollars are being spent on the wrong targets, and that this will hinder successful outcomes. |
Desert elders lash out at intervention |
| Labor minister lashes party over intervention 24 October 2007 - AUSTRALIA'S first female Aboriginal cabinet minister has broken ranks with federal Labor in a firebrand speech in Sydney, accusing it of doing little more than "hanging on to the Coalition's political apron strings" over the intervention in the Northern Territory. |
| Inspired by a journey, and still troubled times 24 October 2007 - Archie Roach never planned the release of his new album to coincide with a federal election. |
| Strong and proud: calendar celebrates Aboriginal beauty 24 October 2007 - The Independent UK - The beauty of Aboriginal women is celebrated in a calendar launched this week – but it is expected to elicit more interest overseas than in Australia. |
| Sweden returns remains of 10 Aborigines to Australia 22 October 2007 - International Herald Tribune France - Swedish museum officials on Monday handed over the remains of 10 Aborigines to an Australian delegation, nearly 100 years after they were brought to Sweden for racial studies. |
| 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 |
| A never-never land for sense 20 October 2007 - Don Watson visits a resilient Aboriginal community where the would-be protectors are the problem, not the people. |
| International Indigenous health leaders call for Improvement in the health of Australia's Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders 19 October 2007 - NACCHO Media Release - Late yesterday at the close of the 4 day international conference of the International Network of Indigenous Health Knowledge Development (INIHKD) in Rotorua the Network issued the Aotearoa Declaration. |
| Howard's Backflip on Indigenous Recognition is NOT the Key to Reconciliation 19 October 2007 - AHCSA Media Release - John Howard's decision to overturn more than a decade of resisting the recognition of Australia's Indigenous people is welcome news for many Indigenous Australians but it is not an apology says Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Health Council of SA Inc., Mary Buckskin. |
| Aeotearoa Declaration puts Australia under international microscope 18 October 2007 - Australia's poor record in overcoming Indigenous disadvantage has again come under the microscope overseas, with an international health meeting making a formal declaration to urge the Australian government to act. |
| Church criticises NT intervention 17 October 2007 - Canberra's intervention in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities is abusive and damaging, and has caused pain, sadness and confusion, the Uniting Church's Northern Synod says. |
| Aboriginal remains are to be sent home 16 October 2007 - Liverpool Echo UK - THE remains of three Aboriginees are to be returned to Australia by Liverpool museum chiefs. |
| Rock art custodians attack green light for Pluto gas project 16 October 2007 - Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has approved Woodside's Pluto gas project. |
| The battle for Cape York 16 October 2007 - The Independent UK - They call Cape York one of the last great wild places on Earth – a huge swathe of land at the north-east tip of Australia, featuring wetlands, tropical rainforests, savannah grasslands and bone-white sand dunes, all in a rare state of health and abundance. It is the kind of place that environmentalists swoon over, and dream of locking up for posterity. |
| Veteran Australian politician who was a pioneer in the fight for Aboriginal land rights 16 October 2007 - The Guardian UK - When Kim Beazley, who has died aged 90, entered Australia's federal parliament in 1945 at the age of 27, he was hailed as a politician to watch. |
| The symbolism isn't bad, but the hypocrisy and cruelty are 15 October 2007 - The poor track record of Australia's public institutions on indigenous issues remains undiminished. It is therefore significant to hear the Prime Minister finally acknowledge the psychological terra nullius that fuels indigenous detachment. |
| PM's history plan ignores Indigenous massacre, Minister says 12 October 2007 - Northern Territory Education Minister Paul Henderson says events such as the 1928 Coniston massacre would be trivialised under the Prime Minister's new history teaching plan. |
| 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. |
| Stolen wages fund should be used for health care: Aboriginal elder 10 October 2007 - A prominent Aboriginal leader says the Queensland Government should dip into the stolen wages compensation fund to provide free health care to Indigenous people in need. |
| Sweeteners to ease uranium objection 9 October 2007 - INDIGENOUS communities will be offered sweeteners to help pave the way for a dramatic expansion of uranium mining under a plan being considered by the Howard Government. |
| Pre-1788 Aborigines 'lived in houses' 8 October 2007 - A new book has disputed the claim that Aborigines did not build houses or live in villages before the white settlement of Australia. |
| 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. |
| The story of the Chagossians 4 October 2007 - "Vidisha Biswas investigates the story of the Chagossians - forcibly removed from their Indian Ocean island home - and finds, 40 years on, opinion is divided about going back |
| Go back. You are intruding on our lives and our safety 2 October 2007 - I live at Eva Valley in the Northern Territory. It is one of the communities affected by the Federal Government's intervention. I am a single mother. I look after my family, and I support my family. I have six children, some grown up, but we still live together in the community. |
| Aboriginal Tent Embassy nominated for Heritage List 1 October 2007 - A bid has been launched for Canberra's Aboriginal Tent Embassy to be added to the National Heritage list. |
| UN: On the rights of Indigenous peoples 30 September 2007 - After a decades-long struggle, the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 13 approved the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Among other points, the non-binding Declaration states that Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain their cultures and remain on their land. |
| How 'bush tucker' became flavour of the month for foodies 29 September 2007 - The Independent UK - As Aboriginal people have done for perhaps 60,000 years, Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Bauman catches long-necked turtles by hand in the billabongs of the Daly river. |
| Northern Territory Intervention Threatens Australian Tourism 28 September 2007 - Today Dr. Jan Turek, (Institute of Archaeological Heritage, Czech Republic) in his Ian Potter Foundation Keynote Address, likened the Australian government's treatment of its Aboriginal citizens to the genocidal excesses of Stalinist Russia. |
| Stolen Generations speak of cycle of violence 28 September 2007 - MARK COLVIN: Members of the Aboriginal Stolen Generation say there's a link between what many of them went through and the violence seen in many remote Aboriginal communities today. |
| Indigenous tourism in Australia 27 September 2007 - Tourists visiting indigenous communities don't want a "Disneyland experience", according to Aden Ridgeway, Executive Chairman of Indigenous Tourism Australia. |
| Bush medicine to treat farm crops 27 September 2007 - NT research could lead to Aboriginal bush medicine being used to combat disease in agricultural crops. |
| Outrage as 30,000-year-old Aboriginal rock carvings are defaced 26 September 2007 - Daily Mail UK - Prehistoric Australian rock carvings up to 30,000 years old have been vandalised, with some people pointing the finger of blame at supporters of a £5 billion liquefied natural gas plant. |
| Response of Laynhapuy Region Leaders to Memorandum of Understanding between Galarrwuy Yunupingu and Commonwealth of Australia -
99 Year Lease Proposal 25 September 2007 |
| Paternal feelings help thrash out pact for nation 21 September 2007 - ONE of the more remarkable transformations in the relationship between Aboriginal Australia and the Federal Government occurred as Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough and powerful Aboriginal leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu sat together in north-east Arnhem Land and began talking about their responsibilities as fathers. |
| National Close the Gap Day success 20 September 2007 - Media release Oxfam - National Close the Gap day on Tuesday 18 September was celebrated at more than 300 events across the nation – in all state capitals but also as far and wide as Cooper Pedy (SA), Mt Sheridan (the Gulf in Qld), Kununurra (WA), Wagga Wagga (NSW) and Launceston (Tas). |
| Healing missing from indigenous intervention 19 September 2007 - THE need for healing is missing from the Commonwealth's intervention plan to combat child abuse in the Northern Territory, Aboriginal social justice commissioner Tom Calma said today. |
| Experience The Essence Of Australia 19 September 2007 - Media Release Tourism Australia - Australia is the land of adventure and surprise; of the strange and the wonderful. A place where you will quickly appreciate the feeling of space and the fresh informal attitude that shapes the Australian way of life. A place where you you'll be welcomed like a local and invited to get involved. |
| Northern Territory Intervention Threatens Australian Tourism 18 September 2007 - Today Dr. Jan Turek, (Institute of Archaeological Heritage, Czech Republic) in his Ian Potter Foundation Keynote Address, likened the Australian government's treatment of its Aboriginal citizens to the genocidal excesses of Stalinist Russia. |
| Worldwide Women's Protest Against Federal Action In The Northern Territory 16 September 2007 - An international women's day of action is planned for Friday, October 19 to protest against the Australian Government's action in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. |
New appetite for Aboriginal art in France |
| Settlers' history rewritten: go back 30,000 years 15 September 2007 - A CACHE of charcoal, stone tools and artefacts unearthed to make way for a high-rise apartment block has been found to be 30,000 years old, more than doubling the accepted age of Aboriginal settlement in Sydney. |
| Darwin Rally Hears Federal Government has "Betrayed its Own People" 15 September 2007 - Over 500 people rallied in central Darwin this morning to support the rights of Indigenous Territorians and oppose the Federal Government's intervention into Northern Territory Indigenous communities. |
| A new independent voice for Aboriginal Australians 14 September 2007 - National Aboriginal Alliance media release - A new national political body for Aboriginal Australians, entirely independent from governments, will be established following a three-day gathering held in Alice Springs this week. |
| UN Declaration a milestone for Indigenous Peoples 14 September 2007 - HREOC Media Release - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma today welcomed the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. |
| United Nations adopts Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples 13 September 2007 – The General Assembly today adopted a landmark declaration outlining the rights of the world’s estimated 370 million indigenous people and outlawing discrimination against them – a move that followed more than two decades of debate. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been approved after 143 Member States voted in favour, 11 abstained and four – Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States – voted against the text. |
| UN indigenous rights declaration rejected 12 September 2007 - THE (Australian) Federal Government will not support a United Nations declaration on indigenous rights, in part because it puts customary law above national law, and "there should only be one law for all Australians". |
| Outback tourists spared Aboriginal alcohol ban 12 September 2007 - The Telegraph, UK - A draconian ban on drinking alcohol on Aboriginal-owned land in the Australian outback is to be ditched in order to placate the country's lucrative tourist industry. |
| NT intervention a millstone 6 September 2007 - That the cracks have begun to emerge in the Howard government's 'NT emergency intervention' should surprise no-one. |
| UN set to adopt native rights declaration, no thanks to Canada: critics 6 September 2007 - Canada was cast Thursday as a bad actor that aggressively campaigned alongside countries with tarnished human rights records in its failed bid to derail the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. |
| Surplus could help black health: Calma 6 September 2007 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma has called for some of the record federal budget surplus announced by the federal Treasurer recently to be spent on improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. |
| Traditional owners congratulated on land claim in NT 4 September 2007 - HREOC - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma has congratulated the Patta Warumungu people who successfully achieved native title recognition yesterday over 25 hectares of land in Tennant Creek. |
| Dealing with a national tragedy - failure is not an option 3 September 2007 - Since taking office in July 2004, I find myself as the sole independent statutory watchdog on Indigenous affairs in Australia. And what a roller coaster ride it’s been trying to keep track of the constant shifts in policy as new ministers seek to make their mark on this portfolio. |
| PM hints at NT intervention expansion 1 September 2007 - Prime Minister John Howard has hinted at the long-term expansion of the Federal Government's intervention into the Northern Territory's Indigenous communities. |
| Wik women sign up for a new battle in Territory 1 September2007 - HUNDREDS of women, including Lady Deane, the wife of the former governor- general, have pledged their support to the lobby group Women for Wik, which its organisers reactivated a week ago to oppose the Federal Government's intervention in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities. |
| Indigenous protesters target Aust UN mission 31 August 2007 - Demonstrators have protested outside Australia's United Nations mission in New York, calling on the Government to end its opposition to the UN's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. |
| Pearson’s Gamble, Stanner’s Dream - The Past and Future of Remote Australia August 2007 - In 1934 the Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, AE Elkin, published a small pamphlet which called for "a positive policy which aims at the welfare and development of the aborigines". To us, Elkin's words seem anodyne. |
| A journey of hope 30 August 2007 - The Australian premiere last week of former Council for Reconciliation Chairman Patrick Dodson’s first film as co-producer was a spectacular occasion. |
| Forming a new voice that speaks for Aborigines without one 31 August 2007 - A decade with John Howard has included: native title made harder to get with his "bucket loads of extinguishment" legislation; the elected body ATSIC sacked; the Reconciliation Council dumped; paternalistic funding conditions imposed (wash hands and attend school to get Commonwealth monies); the Northern Territory land rights act amended to increase access for mining; and now vulnerable Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory are invaded by troops. It has been a nightmare decade for Aborigines. |
| Tiwi Islanders hail historic lease 31 August 2007 - THE nation's first long-term lease on Aboriginal land came into effect yesterday after a community on the Tiwi Islands formally agreed to hand over control in the first step towards private home ownership and economic development. |
| Stolen wages a major barrier to reconciliation 30 August 2007 - To MOST Australians, the word "slavery" conjures up images of Africans in chains being taken across the Atlantic to work the cotton fields of America's Deep South. We struggle to comprehend that slavery is also part of our own nation's history. |
| Art tells forgotten side of stock route history 29 August 2007 - Some of Australia's most senior Aboriginal artists have just completed a journey along the 1,600 kilometre Canning Stock Route to help reinterpret history. |
| Is There Hope for the Aborigines? 26 August 2007 - The Washington Post - ALICE SPRINGS, Australia In the air-conditioned plywood room that is the Alice Springs youth court, five Aboriginal teenagers -- four boys and a pregnant 16-year-old girl whose mouth seems permanently fixed in an eerily detached smile -- face a preliminary hearing for the rape and killing of a 14-year-old indigenous girl. |
| Call for UN to supervise Govt intervention 24 August 2007 - A group of Aboriginal people in Central Australia is calling on the United Nations to oversee the Commonwealth's intervention in the Northern Territory. |
| Two-and-a-half months after declaring a national emergency, Howard is finally ready to visit an NT Aboriginal community 24 August 2007 - Prime Minister John Howard is tipped to finally make an appearance on the ground in Central Australia next week, more than two months after declaring that conditions in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory were "akin to a national emergency". |
| More needed to Close the Gap 21 August 2007 - Media Release -Northern Land Council Chief Executive, Norman Fry, welcomed the Northern Territory Government’scommitment, announced yesterday, to end Indigenous disadvantage in the Northern Territory, however is disappointed that only $286 million over 5-years will be allocated to address the significant short-fallin services to Aboriginal people. |
| Black dollars go everywhere but to blacks 21 August 2007 - HUNDREDS of millions of dollars which the Federal Government says it has spent on indigenous affairs have never been spent, have been used to benefit all Australians or have gone towards opposing Aboriginal native title claims. |
| A journey of discovery - in black and white 21 August 2007 - The actor Pete Postlethwaite has lent his very English accent to a documentary dealing with a very Australian theme. |
| Past imperfect 18 August 2007 - The Guardian (UK) - Over tea on the 15th floor of a London hotel, Kate Grenville tells a story about driving into the bush with a group of Aboriginal women. When they arrived the women sank to their knees and began digging for witchetty grubs with small, sharpened crowbars. Grenville did her best to copy but couldn't find any grubs, and when she asked what she was doing wrong they didn't help her. |
| Senate passes NT indigenous laws 17 August 2007 - Controversial laws for the Northern Territory's indigenous people have passed Federal Parliament. |
| From park layabout to head of an indigenous telecom 16 August 2007 - Eighteen years ago, Michael McLeod lived in Belmore Park near Central station - and others like it - where he passed the days between dole payments, booze binges and hits. |
| Brough's secret meeting with Yunupingu 15 August 2007 - GALARRWUY Yunupingu, the Northern Territory's most powerful Aboriginal leader, has secretly met federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough and other indigenous leaders to discuss his concerns about the Howard Government's intervention in remote indigenous communities. |
| Give Aborigines hope 15 August 2007 - Australia has the wealth to help its indigenous people, but this is the wrong way to do it, writes Fred Chaney. |
| Lack of respect will not help indigenous children 14 August 2007 - In 1964 my family joined with others to make the Yirrkala bark petition, which is now displayed in Parliament House, Canberra. The main reason for that petition was to protect our land, law and culture from people who couldn't or wouldn't understand our way of life. At the time, the federal government didn't listen to us - it allowed a big bauxite mine and town to go ahead. It also ignored our elders who wanted to prevent bad influences such as alcohol coming into our country. |
| Let's fight these laws together 13 August 2007 - ONE of the most telling facts about the rushed Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill becomes clear when you look for how many times the word "children" or "child" appears. |
| Police unite against NT permit plan 13 August 2007 - POLICE in all states and territories have rallied to reject the federal Government's planned abolition of the permit system controlling access to Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory |
| UN General Assembly Must Adopt the UN Declaration 9 August 2007 - Bangkok - On this International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, FORUM-ASIA wishes to extend solidarity to Indigenous Peoples, nations and organisations in Asia and throughout the world. We would like to emphasise the urgent need for the United Nations General Assembly (GA) to adopt the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) before the end of its 61st session in September 2007. |
| Racial Discrimination Act is a vital human rights safeguard 8 August 2007 - Media Release HREOC - The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has long been calling on governments to take action to curb violence, and child and alcohol abuse in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. However, it is vital that any action taken protects basic human rights, including the right to be protected from discrimination purely on the basis of a person’s race. |
| Parliament Should Carefully Consider NT Emergency Plan Laws 7 August 2007 - Media Release - The Law Council is urging all Parliamentarians to carefully consider the Government’s NT Emergency Plan package of legislative measures when it is introduced into the Parliament later today. |
| Little children are sacred, not political footballs 7 August 2007- Media release - Legislation introduced into Federal Parliament today will do little to protect Northern Territory Aboriginal children from abuse, according to Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR). |
| NT indigenous leaders seek meeting with PM 4 August 2007 - Galarrwuy Yunupingu, former head of the Northern Land Council, said Aboriginal leaders from areas targeted in the intervention had decided to jointly call for the meeting because "it's quite a worrying time in the communities". |
| Stolen Aboriginal man wins payout 2 August 2007 - BBC (UK) - An Aboriginal man taken from his family as a baby has been awarded compensation in a landmark case in Australia. |
| Alcohol ban for Australian town 1 August 2007 - BBC UK - Residents feared the town would draw Aborigines seeking alcohol The town of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory has become a dry zone, with drinking banned in all public places. |
| Aboriginal organisations condemn government response 30 July 2007 - Survival International - One month after the Australian government set up an 'emergency response taskforce' to tackle widespread child abuse in Aboriginal communities, its actions have been widely condemned by Aboriginal organisations. |
| Caritas applauds Indigenous communities doing it for themselves 26 July 2007 - Caritas Australia congratulates its Indigenous development partner Unity of First Peoples Australia (UFPA), for the dramatic impact its diabetes program has had in addressing this important Indigenous health issue. |
| Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 18 July 2007 - Statement as delivered at a press conference at UN Headquarters presented by Les Malezer, Chairperson of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus - I open this statement with the acknowledgement of the First Peoples of this region and, as such pay our respects to them, their ancestors and their lands and territories. |
| Consult Aborigines and then plan how to help 13 July 2007 - There is general agreement that we are long overdue in introducing policies and actions that will improve the wellbeing of Australia's indigenous population. That is why there is general approval that the Federal Government is now seen to be doing something. Much of the reaction to this initiative has, however, been superficial. |
| At the crossroads of the permit debate 12 July 2007 - To get into an Aboriginal community, journalists, tourists and almost anyone else has had to go through an often lengthy process. First, they have to contact the relevant land council, usually based in Darwin or Alice Springs. They have to explain where they want to visit, detailing the dates and reasons for going. |
| How did $100,000 in NT mining royalties end up in Mal Brough's Queensland electorate? 12 July 2007 - NIT - Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough took $100,000 from a government-controlled bank account that holds mining royalties on behalf of Northern Territory traditional owners and gave it to the organisers of a festival in his own Queensland electorate of Longman. |
| Permit removal will mean free-for-all and rampant tourism 9 July 2007 - Northern Land Council (NLC) Chief Executive, Norman Fry, today said Minister Brough's ‘onesize fits all’ approach - whereby all significant communities on Aboriginal land will be compulsorily acquired for five years with the permit system totally abolished for those communities - polarizes complex issues and will inevitably lead to High Court legal action, international complaint, and universal opposition. |
| Maori Party Releases Comment on the 'Little Children Are Sacred' report 9 July 2007 - The Maori Party today confirmed that it is carefully considering the report of the Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse which focuses on the safety of Aboriginal Children in the Northern Territory of Australia. |
| Dion Calls on Harper Government to Sign UN Rights Declaration 8 July 2007 - OTTAWA - Liberal Opposition Leader Stéphane Dion today sent a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper calling on his government to uphold Canada's reputation as a promoter and protector of human rights by ceasing its efforts to block passage of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. |
| A Statement from the Catholic Bishops of Australia on dignity and justice for Indigenous Australians 7 July 2007 - The Catholic Bishops of Australia welcome the high priority the Federal Government has now accorded to addressing the appalling problems facing people in remote Northern Territory Aboriginal communities. |
| Leaked list reveals an intervention in chaos and a minister running out of spin 6 July 2007 - NIT - The federal government's emergency intervention into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory appears to be mired in confusion and chaos and unsustainable media spin, according to documents obtained by the National Indigenous Times. |
| Worlds Apart 3 July 2007 - The Guardian (UK) - Australia's prime minister is sending in the army to tackle child abuse and alcoholism in the Aboriginal homelands. But his aggressive campaign will only make the situation worse, says Germaine Greer |
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| Why I support the aboriginal National Day of Action - Ottawa is wrong to oppose UN declaration on aboriginal rights 29 June 2007 - by Kenneth Deer - The Harper government has warned aboriginals not to engage in blockades today on the National Day of Action. Yet a Canadian envoy will speak on the floor of the UN General Assembly today to oppose the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, as adopted last June by the UN Human Rights Council. |
| “Lost year” for the rights of Indigenous peoples worldwide: Canada must stop stalling on vital United Nations declaration 28 June 2007 - Indigenous peoples, social justice organizations and independent experts today urged the government of Canada to stop obstructing an important instrument adopted one year ago by the UN Human Rights Council. |