Keywords: Indigenous Working Group
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
1 Comment
The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 30 April 2008
7 Comments
The abuse of children in remote communities has been the catalyst for revising
romantic notion of land rights and self-determination. 2020 summiteers were allowed to dream and strategise about closing gaps while wondering how best to recognise the enduring rights of
indigenous Australians.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 07 April 2008
1 Comment
Zimbabwe's struggle for freedom took a wrong turn when Robert Mugabe opted for a strategy of vindictiveness. Recently Australia's 'father of Reconciliation' Pat Dodson identified
the secret of Nelson Mandela's success in building the nation of South
Africa from the ruins of the apartheid regime: Love your enemy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Thackrah
- 11 March 2008
3 Comments
One of our biggest challenges – tackling climate
change – has resulted from the failures of free markets. But Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and other
Australian policy makers remain uncertain about how, and to
what extent, governments should intervene in the operations of the
capitalist system.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Robin Koning
- 24 January 2008
14 Comments
Too often, generic statements about missionaries colluding with colonialism and destroying indigenous cultures are presumed to say all that needs to be said. Detailed study of mission history is essential if we are to move beyond the clichés.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 18 May 2007
Juliette Hughes tells it like it is (or, how it should be).
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 24 December 2006
2 Comments
It was one thing for some of our politicians to reveal that they clearly misunderstand Aboriginal people and their culture. It is quite another thing when a reporter goes to live in a community for ten days and thinks she got the measure of 'the cultural and social issues at play'. From 22 August 2006.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jonathan Hill
- 23 December 2006
10 Comments
After a visit to Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, a return home to Sydney and the horrifying reality of a culture that measures progress by the extent to which humans can destroy the land.
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INFORMATION
The respnse to Brian McCoy's latest article Why change Aborigines into images of ourselves? has been vocal. Here are some of the letters...
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 21 August 2006
12 Comments
It was one thing for some of our politicians to reveal that they clearly misunderstand Aboriginal people and their culture. It is quite another thing when a reporter goes to live in a community for ten days and thinks she got the measure of 'the cultural and social issues at play'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Juliette Hughes
- 09 July 2006
Juliette Hughes interviews Dawn Cardona, principal of Darwin’s Nungalinya Theological College.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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