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Indigenous Welfare Reform in the Northern Territory and Cape York: A Comparative Analysis  new

A 41-page Australian working paper providing a comparative analysis of welfare reform activities in two locations ( J.C. Altman and M. Johns , CAEPR, 2008

http://www.anu.edu.au/caepr/Publications/WP/CAEPRWP44.pdf

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US, Australia, US, New Zealand Reject Indigenous Declaration

The United States, Australia and New Zealand are the only countries that remain in opposition to the proposed United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People, which recognises the principle of sovereignty. (Haider Rizvi, IPS News, 24 May 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33358

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A Tale of Two Nations: The Divergent Pathways for Indigenous Labour Force Outcomes in Australia and New Zealand Since 1991

The analysis provides two main insights: first that Maori populations are more fully integrated into the New Zealand economy and business cycle than indigenous Australians are into the Australian economy. The second finding is that while Maori are performing very well in terms of employment growth, the prospect for future improvements may be constrained by unresolved cultural conflict embodied in the high ongoing rates of Maori arrest. While there is a similar level of cultural conflict between indigenous and other Australians, it is probable that the historical difference in the treatment of the respective indigenous populations is partially responsible for the different economic outcomes in the two nations. (Boyd Hunter, Centre for Indigenous Governance and Development, 2005)

http://cigad.massey.ac.nz/documents/wps_hunter_7_2005.pdf

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Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Report 2005

This report covers the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005. It considers two issues that are of major concern to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The first is progress in achieving lasting improvements in the health status of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Chapter 2 of the report examines existing commitments and processes for addressing the health inequality experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and sets out a human rights framework for achieving such equality within a generation. The second is progress in the introduction and implementation of new arrangements for the administration of indigenous affairs at the federal level. Chapter 3 of the report considers these new arrangements from the perspective of whether they ensure the effective participation of Indigenous peoples in decision making that affects their daily lives. Both issues go to the core of the commitments made by all governments to address the situation faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. They seek to establish whether the rhetoric heavy commitments of governments are being matched with solid action as well as transparent and accountable processes, and on a basis of true partnership with Indigenous communities.

http://www.humanrights.gov.au/social_justice/sjreport05/

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice

Initiative of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. In 1993 the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner was established by the Federal Government in response to issues of discrimination and disadvantage highlighted by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and HREOC's National Inquiry into Racist Violence. The Commission's goal is to achieve the practical enjoyment of human rights by Indigenous Australians. Contains an excellent range of resources and information.

http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/index.html

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Aboriginal Australia

Aboriginal Australia enables indigenous organizations to come together to trade, tell stories, and engage in song and dance.

http://www.aboriginalaustralia.com/

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Aborigines lose claim to mine land

By Cynthia Banham and Daniel Lewis, August 9 2002, Sydney Morning herald. In the most important native title decision since the Wik case, the High Court has found that legislation in Western Australia extinguishes any rights indigenous people might have held over mineral and oil deposits.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/08/1028157991715.html

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Addressing family violence in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities - Key Issues

The speech of Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner, at the 'Ending Violence in Indigenous Communities Forum, Canberra.

http://www.humanrights.gov.au/speeches/social_justice/violence20060619.html

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After the Verdict

In this article the author, a leader of the Awas Tingni, looks at the rights and stautus of indigenous people in Nicaragua - including the failure of the government to implement the decisions of international human rights tribunals. (Esther Melba McLean Cornelio, 27 March 2006, Cultural Survival Quarterly)

http://209.200.101.189/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=1894

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Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle: Little Children are Sacred

Report of the Northern Territory Board of Inquiry onto the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse (Northern Territory Government, 2007.)

http://www.nt.gov.au/dcm/inquirysaac/pdf/bipacsa_final_report.pdf

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Australian Government's Plan to Deal with Child Abuse--Social Justice Commissioner's statement on the government's 'national emergency' measures

Social Justice Commissioner comments on the Howard government's 'national emergency measures' to help curb sex abuse against children (Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 22 June 2007)).

http://www.hreoc.gov.au/media_releases/2007/44_07.html

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Black protest starts at Commonwealth Games

Thousands of Aboriginal people from around Australia are coming to the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne to highlight the continuing injustices of Government-enforced destruction of Indigenous societies. In a parallel cultural event billed "The Stolenwealth Games," protesters are gathering in peaceful gathering on Boon Wurrong Land known as Kings Domain in the city (Map Ref 2F J8) for the next two weeks under the banner of "The Black GST" - standing for Genocide, Sovereignty and Treaty. From www.blackgst.com

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Stolenwealth.pdf

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Bringing them Home

Report of the Australian National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families This report is a tribute to the strength and struggles of many thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people affected by forcible removal. We acknowledge the hardships they endured and the sacrifices they made. We remember and lament all the children who will never come home. We dedicate this report with thanks and admiration to those who found the strength to tell their stories to the Inquiry and to the generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people separated from their families and communities.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/special/rsjproject/rsjlibrary/hreoc/stolen/

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Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Archive

This site contains all the documents and history of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation for the ten-year period of their existence to December 2000.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/car/

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Court 'restores' Perth to Aborigines

John Howard, the Australian prime minister, has expressed "considerable concern" after a surprise federal court decision granted Aborigines a title claim over one of Australia's major cities, Perth. The judge found that the Nyoongar people had proven native title over more than 6,000 square km covering Perth and its surroundings by continuing to observe traditional customs despite being largely dispossessed by white settlement in 1829. The ruling gives the Nyoongar people the rights to access the land and carry out traditional activities such as fishing, hunting and maintaining sacred sites, and will possibly give them more control over minig activities. (Al Jazeera, 20 September 2006)

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5B6FA7A3-D42E-41DC-8914-8318EFD9431C.htm

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Crackdown on Aborigine child sex abuse

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has cited a "national emergency" to justify a radical takeover of indigenous affairs that will give the Federal Government control over almost every aspect of Aboriginal life in the Northern Territory. (Stuff, 22 June 2007).

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4103726a12.html

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Debwengidinook Web Documentary Pilot

Debwengidinook is the Ojibwe word for voices. The voices in this web-documentary pilot are those of First nation, Inuit and Metis youth from communities across Canada, who shared their ideas and personal stories through interviews.

http://www.pentafolio.com/aboriginal/

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European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR)

European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights' (ENIAR) aim is to promote awareness on indigenous issues and to provide information for Indigenous Australians about Europe and international organisations. ENIAR is not affiliated to any government or commercial bodies, is non profit-making and run entirely by volunteers.

http://www.eniar.org/

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Green and Black

In various pockets across Australia, people are 'talking up strong' against the nuclear industry, taking action against uranium mining companies, and scrutinizing the way that companies and government agencies interact with their communities in negotiating 'consent' to expand the industry. In the face of ongoing dispossession and marginalization, Aboriginal communities are inspiring the wider Australian community to take action with some amazing outcomes. (Alex Kelly and Carla Deane, New Internationalist, September 2005)

http://www.newint.org/features/2005/09/01/green_and_black/

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Howard's New Tampa - Aboriginal Children Overboard

Howard's new Tampa children overboard are our Aboriginal children. The Little Children are Sacred report does not advocate physically and psychologically invasive examinations of Aboriginal children, which could only be carried out anally and vaginally. It does not recommend scrapping the permit system to enter Aboriginal lands, nor does it recommend taking over Aboriginal 'towns' by enforced leases. These latter two points in the Howard scheme hide the true reason for the Federal Government's use of the latest report for blatant political opportunism. It has been an openly stated agenda that Howard wants to move Aboriginal people off their lands, and has made recent attempts to buy off Aboriginal people by offering them millions for agreeing to lease their lands to the Federal Government, e.g. Tiwi Islands and Tangentyere in Alice Springs. There was also the statement by the Federal Government that it could not continue (?!) to provide essential services to remote communities, which raised an uproar of responses in the press. The focus on the sexual abuse of children is guaranteed to evoke the most emotive responses, and therefore command attention, just like the manipulation of the Tampa situation. But while the attention of the media and the public is being emotionally coerced, what is being sneaked in under the covers? (Jennifer Martiniello, Project Safecom.Inc, 25 June 2007).

http://www.safecom.org.au/howards-new-tampa.htm

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Ignoring Abuse of Aboriginal Women, Children

Revelations of horrific levels of sexual abuse and violence suffered by women and children in Australia's aboriginal communities have surfaced, as the fifth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) gets underway in New York. Some point to culture and close-knit kinship ties which have helped create a blanket of silence, and others blame government inaction and neglect for a tragedy that has its roots in racist subjugation by European colonisers. (Neena Bhandari, IPS News, 22 May 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33317

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In pictures: Aborigines in the outback

This photographer tells some of the stories of Toomelah, a small town in NEw South Wales. Elder Auntie Ada Jarrett says, "I just hurt so much for the young people today. Because they don't know anything, all the good things that we had - traditional dances in the night, story telling. They're not able to survive." (Heather Faulkner, BBC, 2006)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/asia_pac_aborigines_in_the_outback/html/1.stm

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Island of lost souls

Palm Island (pop 3,000) is home to one of Australia's largest Aboriginal communities and is the most dangerous place on earth outside a combat zone. The death of yet another man in custody has pushed the community to breaking point. (Chloe Hooper, The Observer, 23 July 2006)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,1824986,00.html

(Added: Mon Aug 28 2006   Hits: 100)

Koori Web

Koori Web is place in cyberspace for indigenous peoples of Australia and is also the homepage of The Aboriginal Provisional Government

http://www.kooriweb.org/

(Added: Thu Jul 13 2006   Hits: 34)

MP Harawira brands Australian PM 'racist bastard'

Maori Party MP Hone Harawira has labelled Australian Prime Minister John Howard a "racist bastard" for his radical intervention aimed at stopping child abuse in Aboriginal communities.(New Zealand Herald, 9 July 2007).

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10450536

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