Australian Indigenous Peoples
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Institutionalised Racism in Western Australia
The Ward Campaign for Justice was sparked by the death of an Aboriginal elder in a prison van, the latest in a long history of Aboriginal deaths in custody.
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Aboriginal Dreaming and Sacred Sites
At the end of the Dreaming, spirit ancestors returned to the earth creating landforms and symbolic sites that remain an integral part of Aboriginal culture.
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A Change of Date for Australia Day?
Australia Day is a contentious subject for the country's indigenous peoples. The current political debate is: should there be a change of date for Australia Day?
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Australia Day or Invasion Day?
Australia Day is celebrated every year on January 26 but for many Australians, it commemorates the day Aboriginal people were culturally and geographically displaced.
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Aboriginal Culture and the Dreamtime
According to Australian Aboriginal culture, all living things were created by ancient spirit ancestors. These stories of creation are known as the Dreamtime, or Dreaming.
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Historic Maori Land Compensation Agreement
On June 25th, 2008, the New Zealand government signed a treaty with a group of Maori tribes, agreeing to offer reparations for land acquired in the 19th century.
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Reconciliation and Colonialism
Excerpts from an open letter to the Australian Prime Minister by Gungalidda Elder Wadjularbinna Nulyarimma in 2005, on the realities of reconciliation.
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Native Rites of Passage Today
Amidst conflicting gender roles and stereotypes, Indigenous boys explore their options for becoming men in the modern world.
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Howard and Aboriginal Australia
The record of John Howard's interaction with Australian Aborigines from 1996 to 2007 reveals an aggressive colonial agenda.
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Wangkumarra, Native Title, Mining
Mining giant Santos is ripping off the Wangkumarra people and destroying the land through petroleum mining and "seismic line" exploration techniques.
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Aboriginal Syndrome X
The myth of Aboriginal genetic deficit is becoming reality through malnutrition and a plague of Syndrome X that is becoming hereditary through intergenerational poverty.
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Paul Keating's Redfern Speech
An excerpt from Keating's 1992 speech at Redfern, Sydney. The political climate around Aboriginal rights has certainly changed since then.
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Indigenous Cosmology and Science
Aboriginal cosmology, dismissed as "myth", has a lot to offer science in the quest for "extra-terrestrial life and intelligence". The problem is defining the terms.
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Pearson's Aboriginal Literacy Push
In Australia, millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on a phonics program to turn back the clock on Indigenous education.
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Kaurna Cultural Recovery
Excerpts from a speech by Georgina Williams Yambo Kartanya, Ngangkiburka Kaurnayerta (Senior Woman, Kaurna Country), about recovering stolen identities.
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Government Intervention in NT
The Howard Settler Government's invasion of the Northern territory is land-grabbing racism nothing more. Statement from activist Robbie Thorpe.
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Military in Aboriginal Communities
In Australia, the military has been deployed in an Indigenous community in response to allegations of paedophilia.
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Stolen Generation Story
The harrowing story of Millicent, an Aboriginal child labelled "half-caste" and taken from her family by the Aboriginal Protection Board then repeatedly sexually abused.
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Definition of Aboriginal
The myth of race has long dominated definitions of Aboriginality in Australia, impacting on the plethora of Aboriginal policies that continue to marginalise our peoples.
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Aboriginal Mental Health
Australian Aborigines suffer far higher rates of mental illness than non-Indigenous peoples. But who is causing this crisis, and more importantly, who is measuring it?
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Talk-Back Radio Racism
Aboriginal issues are perceived negatively by the wider public because of media portrayals, with talk-back radio hosts the most blatant culprits.
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Aboriginal Role Models
A critical examination of the way Aboriginal role models are presented in the media indicates that the aim is not inspiration, but assimilation.
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Courtroom Culture Bias
Courtroom language is culturally biased and aggressively colonial, alienating Indigenous defendants from mainstream justice and law.
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Yagan’s Head
In Western Australia, neo-colonial community attitudes are revealed in the decapitation and emasculation of an Aboriginal warrior's memorial by vandals and lobby groups.
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The Freedom Rides
Aboriginal activism of the sixties - this protest was a turning point in the dismantling of the infamous "White Australia Policy".
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