MORE than 1,000 West Australian university students – many of them drunk and at least some of them naked – hit the streets of Perth early yesterday morning to help promote racist hate-speech which depicts Aboriginal people as lazy, alcoholic, petrol sniffers, and which attacks land rights, tent embassies and Aboriginal art.
NATIONAL: In a sign that the political cracks are starting to appear, the NSW Labor Party’s annual state conference has passed a resolution calling on federal Labor to abandon compulsory income management across the nation, and instead direct funding to boost social services and job creation.
NATIONAL: Australian Aboriginal people’s knowledge on managing the environment will be shared through a new global network, announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
WEST AUSTRALIA: State police have voted to ban all high-speed car chases unless the government passes laws to protect them from prosecution in the event of death or injury.
BALGO, WA: Two children from the remote Balgo Aboriginal community in Western Australia’s Kimberley region are in a stable condition after being flown to Perth with serious burns.
WEST AUSTRALIA: Threats to suspend a $1.3 billion native title deal for traditional owners of Woodside Petroleum’s proposed $30 billion Kimberley gas hub site have seen the owners drop a bid to discontinue their claim over the area.
WEST AUSTRALIA: The state government has dismissed reports claiming a new native title deal has been struck for Woodside’s Browse gas hub project in the Kimberley region.
WEST AUSTRALIA: The state government has dismissed reports claiming a new native title deal has been struck for Woodside’s Browse gas hub project in the Kimberley region.
WEST AUSTRALIA: The state’s youngest ever attorney-general Christian Porter has rocked the Liberal Party with his resignation from state parliament to pursue a career in federal politics.
AFL INDIGENOUS ROUND: This weekend the AFL celebrates and honours the contribution of Aboriginal players to the Aboriginal game of Marngrook, or as its commonly known, AFL.
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AMAZING PEOPLE, PLACES: Chris Graham travelled to Central Australia to research the affects of the Northern Territory intervention.
Drunk, naked West Australian uni students hit the streets to sell racist hate-speech… all in the name of charity
MORE than 1,000 West Australian university students – many of them drunk and at least some of them naked – hit the streets of Perth early yesterday morning to help promote racist hate-speech which depicts Aboriginal people as lazy, alcoholic, petrol sniffers, and which attacks land rights, tent embassies and Aboriginal art.