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Saturday 19 May 2012

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AFL star Jurrah faces more charges

By tracker, May 18, 2012

Liam Jurrah makes a run for Melbourne. (AAP IMAGE/DAVID CROSLING)

NORTHERN TERRITORY: AFL star Liam Jurrah’s legal woes have worsened, with prosecutors now claiming he attacked five people, including a woman, at an altercation in Alice Springs in March.

Stronger Futures fight taken to the UN

By tracker, May 18, 2012

NATIONAL: The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples has taken the fight against the federal government’s continuation of the Northern Territory intervention to the United Nations.

Posted in General News, News | Tagged Les Malezer, National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, Stronger Futures, United Nations, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues | Leave a comment

Is reconciliation still alive, or is it just an empty concept?

By tracker, May 17, 2012

Crowds of more than 100, 000 took advantage of a perfect Sunday morning to walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the ‘Walk for Reconciliation’ as part of Corroboree 2000. (Dave Hunt/ AAPIMAGE)

NATIONAL: “Reconciliation” is a word that has a great deal of mainstream support, but is also the root of cynicism amongst many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. As a formal policy, it was first put forward by the Keating government, with the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation charged with leading the process. But how successful [...]

Posted in General News, News | Tagged Edition 13, Leah Armstrong, Reconciliation, Reconciliation Australia | 6 Comments

Newman refused to meet protesters

By tracker, May 17, 2012

QUEENSLAND: Premier Campbell Newman won’t meet with protesters who demanded to see him on Wednesday after 200 police broke up an Aboriginal protest in Brisbane.

Posted in General News, News | Tagged Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Campbell Newman, Murri Tent Embassy | 1 Comment

Embassy protesters march to Parliament

By tracker, May 16, 2012

Two men chat at the aboriginal tent embassy at Musgrave Park in South Brisbane, earlier this week. Police descended on the tent embassy this morning, making several arrests.

QUEENSLAND: Protesters evicted from an Aboriginal tent embassy have marched to Queensland’s parliament.

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Cost of police sent to gas hub protest $1m

By tracker, May 16, 2012

A file photo of a protest at the Woodside LNG gas hub site.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: The cost of a police operation to protect the interests of Woodside Petroleum against anti-gas hub protesters in WA’s remote Kimberley region is expected to exceed six figures.

Posted in General News, News | Tagged Colin Barnett, James Price Point, WA Police, Woodside | Leave a comment

Brisbane Tent Embassy not backing down

By tracker, May 15, 2012

QUEENSLAND: Protestors at a makeshift Aboriginal tent embassy are preparing to stand their ground despite being evicted from an inner-Brisbane park.

Posted in General News, News | Tagged Aboriginal Tent Embassy | Leave a comment

Mundine still aiming high despite losing title

By tracker, May 15, 2012

NATIONAL: Aboriginal boxing champion Anthony Mundine hasn’t given up on landing a fight with world champion Floyd Mayweather despite the WBA stripping him of his interim super welterweight title.

Posted in General News, News | Tagged Anthony Mundine | Leave a comment

Australians “alarmed” at Indigenous rights: poll

By tracker, May 14, 2012

NATIONAL: Changing the constitution to include words suggestive of “land rights” is “alarming” to many Australians, a new poll says.

Posted in General News, News | Tagged Constitutional Recognition | Leave a comment

Stronger Futures expected to pass Upper House

By tracker, May 9, 2012

Prime Minister Julia Gillard releasing the discussion paper Stronger Futures, which announced six weeks of consultations over the future of the NT intervention. (AAP IMAGE/ALAN PORRITT)

NATIONAL: The federal government’s controversial plans to extend the NT intervention for another 10 years is expected to pass the upper house today.

Posted in General News, News | Tagged Stronger Futures | Leave a comment