Jangari’s “Four Corners on the Intervention” pulls out a few key points from last night’s Tracking The Intervention show. You can watch the show for yourself here at the ABC. Jangari details the ways in which Aboriginal communities are being… Read More ›
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What colonialism has perpetrated and the activists fighting back
Maningrida Legal Challenge to Territory Invasion: The new Wik/Mabo?
Map of Arnhem Land showing Maningrida location [Image source: Burarra Gathering] I have a feeling the words “Maningrida” and “Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation” are going to be on everyone’s lips before long. The ABC and Age are now reporting that people… Read More ›
Charles Perkins Oration: Marion Scrymgour
[Image credit: NT Labor Party] Via Aboriginal Art & Culture, the full text of Marion Scrymgour’s Charles Perkins Oration from last week. Scrymgour is the first female Aboriginal Minister in an Australian parliament. Whose national emergency?“¨Caboolture and Kirribili? or Milikapiti… Read More ›
International Day of Action on the NT Invasion, November 17
From Fire Fly (at She Who Stumbles), the WOC blog, Vox ex Machina, Critical Bloggers, Automatic Preference, and Ubuntu: Call for Solidarity with Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory Stop the Invasion! International Day of Action, November 17th In June… Read More ›
Difference of Opinion – on the NT recolonisation
The ABC’s Difference of Opinion show this week (18 Oct 2007) examined the Northern Territory invasion and recolonisation of Aboriginal communities. You can read the full transcript of “A New Deal for Indigenous Australians?” here, or access partial video from… Read More ›
“I can’t believe I forgot!”
[JH part of the image clipped from here] Women for Wik has offered their opinion of the PM’s last-ditch effort to not be remembered as an imperialist, racist little weasel. (Good luck with that, Johnny!) MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE… Read More ›
GovThuggery round-up
Atticus has “Secret police inquiry a whitewash” at Larvatus Prodeo Here is the unsurprising conclusion of the investigation into badgeless APEC cops: Police commissioner Andrew Scipione ordered an internal inquiry by the Professional Standards Command, which found there were real… Read More ›
Nurses speak out about the NT intervention
I’m blogging today’s CATSIN press release in its entirely, as I’m not sure how much play it will get elsewhere, and I believe it is important. CATSIN is the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses. This statement comes… Read More ›
Linkfest: Cultures ‘n’ Vultures edition
The Age has this opinion piece by Claire Smith: “The Aboriginal intervention policy is failing”. Smith is an associate professor in archaeology at Flinders University, has worked with Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory for almost 20 years, and is… Read More ›
The UN Declaration.
As you probably know the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People passed by an overwhelming majority. 143 countries voted in support, 11 abstained (Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burundi, Colombia, Georgia, Kenya, Nigeria, Russian Federation, Samoa, Ukraine), and 4 voted… Read More ›
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