Tag Archives: Edition 15

LITTLE BLACK DUCK: What defines Aboriginal Australia?

By Tracker, July 30, 2012
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NATIONAL: Australia often looks at Aboriginal people through a negative lens. NICOLE WATSON* believes it is time we celebrate our positive attributes.

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BOARD MATTERS: The deep end… black water rights in NSW

By Tracker, July 30, 2012
NSWALC deputy chair Craig Cromelin.

LALC LAND: The uncharted issue of black water rights is slowly gaining momentum across the country. *Craig Cromelin takes a closer look at the issue in his home state of NSW.

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The land rights legacy of Frank Walker

By Tracker, July 30, 2012
Frank Walker, the former NSW Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, who passed away last month, aged 69.

LALC LAND: Frank Walker, the NSW Labor Minister who guided the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act through parliament in 1983, passed away last month after a long battle with cancer.

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A loss to land rights, and Lightning Ridge

By Tracker, July 30, 2012
Uncle Roy and Aunty June Barker, who passed away within weeks of each other in Lightning Ridge.

LALC LAND: The NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Network would be aware that only a few weeks ago, Aunty June Barker of Lightning Ridge passed away. Tragically, her loving husband Uncle Roy also passed away only 12 days later, also in Lightning Ridge.

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THROUGH THE CHAIR: Audits, mining and a land rights review

By Tracker, July 30, 2012
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LALC LAND: A monthly round-up of issues facing the NSW Aboriginal land rights network, by Chairman of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, Stephen Ryan.

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BAD AUNTY: The truth about the NT intervention and the case for an independent media

By Tracker, July 30, 2012
Bad Aunty

NATIONAL: The Australian media has been in decline for a very long time, argues CHRIS GRAHAM*.

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EVIDENTLY: In for a penny, in for a pound

By Jon Altman, July 26, 2012
Prime Minister Julia Gillard releasing the discussion paper Stronger Futures. (AAP IMAGE/ALAN PORRITT)

NATIONAL: The federal government is forging on with the NT intervention, and the outcomes thus far don’t matter, writes PROFESSOR JON ALTMAN.

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Are Little Children still Sacred?

By Tracker, July 25, 2012
Patricia Anderson, co-author of Little Children are Sacred, speaks to the media regarding the inquiry into the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bills, Canberra, August 10, 2007. (AAP IMAGE/MARK GRAHAM)

NATIONAL: The intervention was sparked by the NT government-commissioned Little Children Are Sacred report. But how far removed is it from Stronger Futures, asks MICHAEL BRULL*.

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Warlpiri celebrate signing of largest IPA in Australian history

By Tracker, July 25, 2012
Aboriginal dancers celebrate ahead of the signing of the Southern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Central Australia earlier this month. More than 100,000 sq kms of land, including Tanami and the Great Sandy Desert have become part of Australia’s largest every conservation zone. (AAP IMAGE/XAVIER LA CANNA)

NORTHERN TERRITORY: An area the size of Portugal has been signed off in the southern Tanami desert in the Northern Territory, making it the largest Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in the country.

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Family mourns as they await answers over Briscoe death

By Amy McQuire, July 25, 2012
Patricia Morton-Thomas, the aunt of Kwementyaye Briscoe, who died aged 27 in police custody on January 5 (AAP IMAGE/XAVIER LA CANNA).

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Kwementyaye Briscoe’s aunty Patricia Morton-Thomas doesn’t know what the word ‘justice’ is supposed to mean.

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AFL Indigenous Round

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.