Tag Archives: Edition 5

Abused women scared of income management says NT report

By Amy McQuire, September 14, 2011
A file shot of an anti-Intervention rally in Melbourne. Hearings on the proposed Stronger Futures legislation, which will take over from the intervention, will be held in the NT next week.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Some Northern Territory women suffering from domestic violence would rather stay in abusive relationships than risk having their welfare payments quarantined.

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Cape York welfare reform trials extended… but opposition concerns continue

By Amy McQuire, September 13, 2011
Cape York lawyer Noel Pearson.

QUEENSLAND: The federal and Queensland governments earlier this month announced they will extend a radical welfare reform scheme in four Cape York communities. But a state opposition MP has raised concerns taxpayers aren’t getting bang for their buck, writes AMY MCQUIRE*.

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NSWALC backs Tassie call for land rights

By Tracker, September 13, 2011
Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings. (AAP IMAGE)

NEW SOUTH WALES: The nation’s largest Aboriginal land rights organisation has backed calls for the Tasmanian government to establish a comprehensive land rights regime – including a community fund – to assist Aboriginal people in that state towards self-determination.

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TO questions carbon farming benefits

By Amy McQuire, September 13, 2011

NATIONAL: A Traditional Owner and Aboriginal conservationist has expressed concerns over the federal government’s new Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI), stating it is unlikely to lead to economic benefits for Aboriginal communities on the ground.

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NEWS ROUND-UP: A celebration of land rights

By Amy McQuire, September 13, 2011

NATIONAL: A national round-up of what happened in Indigenous affairs, for the month of August.

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Peru passes historic land rights laws

By Amy McQuire, September 13, 2011
Peru’s President Ollanta Humala has less than two weeks to sign a new historic land rights law. (AP PHOTO/MARTIN MEJIA)

PERU: The country’s congress has voted unanimously to pass an “historic” new land rights law which gives Indigenous Peruvians the right to free, prior and informed consent over operations on their lands.

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Maori Party brushes off Harawira criticism

By Amy McQuire, September 13, 2011

NEW ZEALAND: The Maori Party has brushed off criticism from its former MP Hone Harawira, who dumped the party to form his own earlier this year.

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Aboriginal prison officer wins discrimination complaint

By Amy McQuire, September 13, 2011

CANADA: An Aboriginal prison guard’s discrimination complaint about his workplace has finally been settled, making it the longest-running human rights case in the country’s history.

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The elephant in the room

By Chris Graham, September 13, 2011
Elephant

NATIONAL: For decades, government report after government report has chronicled the continual failure of bureaucracies to lift Aboriginal people out of the mire of poverty and disadvantage. And for decades, Aboriginal people have been offering the same solution, as yet untried. Self-determination.

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BACK TRACKER: The cost of keeping secrets in the family

By Brian Johnstone, September 13, 2011
Report-locked

NATIONAL: This month, a troubling report was released into government expenditure in Indigenous affairs. It didn’t come without a fight though. BRIAN JOHNSTONE* details how the government tried to keep it in the “family”.

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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.