Keywords: Forgotten Australians
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AUSTRALIA
I have just returned from visiting friends in remote Aboriginal communities. It was a sad trip. A large number of young people have died in recent years, some close friends. They represent the trifecta of young peoples' deaths: car accidents, suicides and chronic disease.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul W. Newbury
- 19 April 2011
21 Comments
In 1790, resistance hero Pemulwuy killed Governor Phillip's convict gamekeeper for his abuse of Aboriginal women. The subsequent Frontier Wars raged for 140 years. Anzac celebrations tend to neglect the many Indigenous Australians who died in defence of their land.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 21 February 2011
24 Comments
Immigration Minister Chris Bowen's speech on multiculturalism could be seen as laying the ground for a formal apology for the White Australia Policy. The parallels with the 2008 Apology to the Stolen Generations and the 2009 Apology to the Forgotten Australians are striking.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 11 November 2010
12 Comments
Nine prime ministers have been observant Christians. Two have been conventional Christians. Ten have been nominal Christians. Five have been articulate atheists or agnostics. One was a nominal atheist or agnostic.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Bill Collopy
- 25 August 2010
11 Comments
X people work hard. Y people are natural athletes. Z
people treat the world like they own it. Q people are violent. R people
are drunkards. S people mistreat women. V
people are queue jumpers. Racial generalising becomes racist only if we
accept its false premise.
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AUSTRALIA
Julia Gillard has invited people to say what they feel on the issue of how Australia should manage its borders. It's worth recalling what happened when
an Australian Government last instructed its defence force
to vigorously repel asylum-seeker boats.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Ben Coleridge
- 29 June 2010
16 Comments
The latest G8 meeting sparked new protests at the failure of rich countries to honour their promises to increase aid. The protest pointed not only to the failures of the G8 governments, but also to the limitations of the mantras 'make poverty history' and 'an end to poverty'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 12 April 2010
19 Comments
In his Easter
message, Cardinal George Pell made an oblique reference to sexual abuse in the Church. While most Australians dismiss such utterances as too
little too late, it is possible to look at them optimistically when
set against actions of the recent past.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 25 January 2010
1 Comment
Australia Day remindes us of stories of separation within our country, such as the stories of the Stolen Generations. Separation from a parent is something Prince William understands. 'Did your mummy die?' a six-year old asked him during his visit last week.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Honner
- 13 January 2010
The Prime Minister offered his apology to those who spent their childhood in care, via a carefully crafted speech. He said it is an 'ugly story' that must be told without fear or favour. Some who worked in or were associated with these children's homes may not like this judgement. November 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Gillian Bouras
- 25 November 2009
4 Comments
My generation of Australians grew up with bigotry: the cordial loathing between Catholics and Protestants has faded only recently.
But only when I married into a Greek family did I learn of the bitter and complicated antipathy of the Greeks for Albanians.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 23 November 2009
5 Comments
A Wesley Mission survey
of 1200 adults found that being bullied as children caused 70 per cent
of them to suffer from low self-esteem and a lack of assertiveness
later in life. Federal Labor must explain what has become of its promise to appoint a
children's commissioner.
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