Keywords: Michele Madigan
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AUSTRALIA
- Michele Madigan
- 30 June 2015
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This week sees the new budget allocations for Aboriginal communities take effect, with deep soul-destroying cuts being spun as 'advancement'. They reflect a redefinition of reality faced by many Australians, with indigenous people unsure how they have benefited from the Tony Abbott declaring himself the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and putting the Indigenous Affairs Office within his own Department.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michele Madigan
- 07 April 2015
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WA accepted the Federal Government's one off $90 million grant to transfer funding for remote Aboriginal communities, many of which will be closed down. Meanwhile in South Australia, the State Government is challenging the Federal Government to uphold the responsibilities it has held since 1973. But it is cutting the communities' funding by 90 per cent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michele Madigan Somerville
- 15 December 2009
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spires
nosed upwards to touch
the celestial concert of bodies ... We emulate with half-lame gestures, insufficient and diffuse, dissolving into air like smoke ascending from a goat on an altar —
as if God were open to flattery
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