Keywords: Remote Aboriginal Communities
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AUSTRALIA
- Jonathan Hill
- 23 December 2006
10 Comments
After a visit to Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, a return home to Sydney and the horrifying reality of a culture that measures progress by the extent to which humans can destroy the land.
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AUSTRALIA
- Joan Healy
- 04 September 2006
Four Josephite sisters and a child protection expert visit the western desert of South Australia. They hear that when parents cannot care for their children properly due to petrol sniffing and other factors, the 'Anangu way' is for grandmothers and aunties to step in. But they need financial support.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 21 August 2006
12 Comments
It was one thing for some of our politicians to reveal that they clearly misunderstand Aboriginal people and their culture. It is quite another thing when a reporter goes to live in a community for ten days and thinks she got the measure of 'the cultural and social issues at play'.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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AUSTRALIA
- Lachlan Harris
- 24 June 2006
Local government meets Indigenous culture.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 18 June 2006
More evidence emerges for the stolen generation.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 12 June 2006
4 Comments
It has become unpopular to invoke cultural and individual factors to explain the appalling conditions of Australia's Indigenous population. Some of the pronouncements emanating from government and other quarters are patronising and couched in terms that suggest that Indigenous people are wilfully recalcitrant.
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AUSTRALIA
- Juliette Hughes
- 14 May 2006
George Silberbauer’s links with Botswana go back a long way, but his special concern is for Kalahari Bushmen on the verge of losing their ancestral homeland.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gerard Brennan
- 11 May 2006
Sir Gerard Brennan’s address at the launch of Mark McKenna’s This Country: A Reconciled Republic?
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Thackrah
- 23 April 2006
The politics of crisis is undermining the rights of indigenous Australians
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AUSTRALIA
- Graham Ring
- 21 April 2006
Aboriginal communities across central Australia, struggling with the scourge of petrol sniffing, have been told it’s their problem—fix it.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michele Gierck
- 21 April 2006
Determined to preserve old stories and encourage young voices, tribal elders in Western Australia took a bold publishing step.
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