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Delegates
at a national reconciliation workshop turned their backs on Amanda Vanstone.
31 May 2005. ABC TV. |
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| The Age - Aborigines
living under 'world's worst practice'. - 16 September 2005. Indigenous
development goals are needed to address Indigenous disadvantage, says Labor
MP Bob McMullan, in an essay released yesterday. More>>.
The full essay can be found here>> |
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| Media release - Federal
Government¹s practical reconciliation slashes Indigenous education
funding, AEU survey says. 12 September 2005. More>> |
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| Courier Mail - Nothing but
a monumental racist rip-off. 10 September 2005. More>> |
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| AAP - Govt rules out major
land rights changes. 6 September 2005. More>> |
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| AAP - Indigenous
health still well below par. 26 August 2005. More>> |
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| Canberra Times - Editorial:
Sit-down time in black affairs. 13 August 2005. More>> |
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| Media Release - ANTaR
- URGENT ACTION ON PETROL SNIFFING NEEDED. 12 August 2005. More>> |
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| National Indigenous Times - NIC
asked for feedback and then ignored it. 8 August 2005. More>> |
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| AAP - Football legend
to walk again. 2 August 2005. Football legend and Aboriginal activist
Michael Long will stage a second Long Walk, in November. More>> |
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| AAP - Costello rules
out aboriginal apology. 25 July 2005. More>> |
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| The Age - Costello
backs Pearson's radical reforms. 22 July 2005. More>> |
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The Australian
- Inequality in black and white. 12 July 2005.
The chasm between black and white Australia on every social and economic
measure is as wide today as it was two years ago, according to the latest
national scorecard of indigenous disadvantage. More>>
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| Media release - Largest
ever determination of native title. 30 June 2005. Ngaanyatjarra traditional
owners have received title to their lands in the Western Australian central
desert region. More>> |
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| Media release - Minister
announces new Indigenous representation arrangements. 29 June 2005.
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| The Financial Review - Minchin
moves to water down claims. 27 June 2005. Finance Minister Nick Minchin
has called for the government to consider using its imminent Senate majority
to water down the rights of indigenous groups. More>> |
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| The Age - Aboriginal
town considers legal push. 17 June 2005. The Northern Territory Aboriginal
community of Wadeye, scene of a recent visit by the PM, is considering mounting
a racial discrimination case against government over its failure to provide
adequate education. A recent study found that government spending on education
at Wadeye is only 26% of that spent on other NT children. More>> |
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| SMH - The
Race is on. 17 June 2005. Race politics has entered the Northern
Territory election campaign. More>> |
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| ABC News Online - Regions
to be consulted about new Indigenous body. 9 June 2005. More>> |
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| ABC News Online - Report
finds high Indigenous kidney failure risk. 8 June 2005. More>> |
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| The Australian - Pearson
no Messiah: O'Donoghue. 6 June 2005. More>> |
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| The Sunday Age - PM,
time to attack our indigenous health crisis. 5 June 2005. More>> |
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| Aden Ridgeway - 2005
Mabo Lecture: "Addressing the economic exclusion of Indigenous Australians
through native title". 3 June 2005. More>> |
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| The Australian - O'Donoghue
goes on attack over Aboriginal social problems. 3 June 2005. More>> |
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| ABC News - Ridgeway
promises to fight for stolen wages. 2 June 2005. More>> |
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| ABC News - Panel
to administer lost Aboriginal trust money. 1 June 2005. More>> |
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| SMH - Editorial:
Inching forward on reconciliation. 1 June 2005. More>> |
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ABC News - Vanstone
snubbed at reconciliation talks. 31 May 2005. More>>
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| The Australian - Pearson
stung by painful racist slur. 31 May 2005. More>> |
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| Speech - Patrick
Dodson's address at the National Reconciliation Planning Workshop. 31
May 2005. More>> |
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| ABC Lateline - Deep
schism revealed in reconciliation strategy. 30 May 2005. More>> |
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| Sun Herald - Aborigines
will keep dying young, health authorities warn. 28 May 2005. More>> |
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| The Age - Treaty:
the big idea whose time is overdue. 26 May 2005. More>> |
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| AAP - Stolen
forever: Tamara, 14, gives dead mother's speech. 25 May 2005. More>> |
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| ABC - Targeted
program births healthier Indigenous children. 21 May 2005. More>> |
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| National Indigenous Times
- Land rights debate has been simplistic: Tom Calma.
12 May 2005. More>> |
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The Age - Forget
PM, join reconciliation push: Fraser. 28 April 2005. More>>
Photo: Malcolm Fraser and Doris Pilkington Garimara
launching the new National Day of Healing. 27 April 2005. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer
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| The Australian - Noel
Pearson - Reconciliation a building block. 19 April 2005. More>> |
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| The Australian - Pearson
warns PM on home title fears. 14 April 2005. More>> |
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| The Age - Howard
tilts at title fight. 10 April 2005. More>> |
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| ANTaR - Land
Rights under threat. April 2005. More>> |
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| The Australian - Island
of distress. 29 March 2005. More>> |
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| The Courier Mail - Stolen
wages compo deal "an insult". 28 March 2005. More>> |
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| SMH - Geneva
v Canberra. 28 March 2005. More>> |
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| AAP - Tendering
could lead to more Aboriginals in jail. 4 March 2005. More>> |
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| AAP - Officials
to front UN race committee. 1 March 2005. More>> |
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| Canberra Times - Aborigines
will not cross that black line. 28 February 2005. More>> |
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| SMH - Aborigines
still wait for millions in wages. 22 February 2005. More>> |
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| Media release - Freedon
Riders find communities still divided. 17 February 2005. More>> |
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| AAP - Dodson says
govt ATSIC plan 'deplorable'. 3 February 2005. More>> |
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| AAP - Committee
told not to abolish ATSIC. 31 January 2005. More>> |
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| The Age - The
true figures about Aborigines.
20 Dec 2004. More>> |
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NSW
Govt - Aboriginal Trust Fund Repayment Scheme
Announced. 16 Dec 2004. More>> |
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| The
Age - The dangers of mutual obligation. 15
Dec 2004. Pat Dodson and Noel Pearson. More>> |
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| ABC
News - Rural docrors unhappy with Indigenous health
figures. 12 Dec 2004. More>> |
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| SMH
- Nothing mutual about denying Aborigines a voice.
8 Dec 2004. The Government's rhetoric on indigenous affairs masks a dictatorial
policy, writes Larissa Behrendt. More>> |
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| The
Age - Split on eve of new Aboriginal council.
8 Dec 2004. More>> |
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| The
Australian - Patrick Dodson - Why I've changed my
mind. 7 Dec 2004. More>> |
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| The
Independent - The anger of the Aborigines.
3 Dec 2004. More>> |
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| SMH
- Rope put round neck of black teenager. 2 Dec
2004. More>> |
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| Open
Letter from Palm Island Aboriginal Council to the Qld Premier. 28
Nov 2004. More>>
See also related item: ANTaR media
release, 1 Dec 04. |
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| The
Times - Riots erupt after Aboriginal man dies in
custody. 27 Nov 2004. More>> |
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| The
Age - Howard's quiet revolution. 24 Nov 2004.
For Aborigines, it's out with the "rights" agenda and in with
mutual obligation, writes Michelle Grattan. More>> |
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