Tag Archives: Land Rights

THE CONTRARIAN: Liberation through acquisition

By Gary Foley, May 6, 2013
Cape York lawyer Noel Pearson.

NATIONAL: Melbourne was recently privileged to receive a visit from Queensland’s most famous Lutheran since peanut farming Premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson, writes GARY FOLEY.

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THE CUSTODIAN: Doing it for ourselves

By Tracker, May 1, 2013
Aboriginal superstar Ben Barba playing for the Indigenous All Stars.

RUGBY LEAGUE: Canterbury Bulldogs fullback Ben Barba won the Dally M award last year and was a key player in taking his team to the grand final. This month Barba signed on as an ambassador for the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, and hopes to promote land rights throughout the state. This is his first monthly [...]

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NRL superstar Barba to promote land rights

By Tracker, April 17, 2013
Canterbury Bulldogs fullback Ben Barba with NSWALC Councillor for the North West Region Anne Dennis. Barba has signed on as a NSWALC ambassador.

NEW SOUTH WALES: The state’s peak body for Aboriginal interests, the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) has announced that Canterbury Bulldogs superstar Ben Barba will be its ambassador for 2013.

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Aboriginal tent embassy charges dropped

By Tracker, March 15, 2013

QUEENSLAND: Police have dropped charges against three Aboriginal activists who were arrested while trying to re-establish a tent embassy in Brisbane.

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Unmet need: The people land rights forgot

By Brian Johnstone, March 13, 2013
Aboriginal-flag

NATIONAL: There are about 26 children living in Bellwood mission in Nambucca Heads, a picturesque town on the mid north coast of New South Wales.

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Cabinet documents reveal Hawke backtrack on land rights

By Brian Johnstone, February 28, 2013
A 1984 photo of Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister.

NATIONAL: Aboriginal groups in NSW and the Wran Labor government were a prominent part of the political push which was instrumental in the Hawke government’s decision to abandon its plans to introduce a watered down version of national land rights legislation in 1985.

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Land Rights: Breaking new ground

By Brian Johnstone, February 28, 2013
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NEW SOUTH WALES: Brian Johnstone reports on the Aboriginal Land Rights Act Review.

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EDITORIAL: We must renew calls for national land rights

By Amy McQuire, February 28, 2013

NATIONAL: There is an exciting movement currently occurring across the Pacific. 
Idle No More is an Aboriginal-controlled protest movement, writes AMY MCQUIRE.

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THE CONTRARIAN: How Bob Hawke killed land rights

By Gary Foley, February 28, 2013
Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke.

NATIONAL: A major theme in all the talks, lectures and raves that I do these days relates to what I believe to have been the greatest sell-out of Aboriginal peoples in my lifetime.

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GUEST TRACKER: Review of the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act

By Tracker, February 28, 2013
NSW Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Victor Dominello.

NEW SOUTH WALES: In November 22 last year, I tabled in Parliament a historic review of the 30-year-old NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act, writes VICTOR DOMINELLO*.

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