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Keywords: Remote Aboriginal Community

  • INFORMATION

    Strange times

    • 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

    Grass roots

    • Lachlan Harris
    • 24 June 2006

    Local government meets Indigenous culture.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Who cares about the facts?

    • Moira Rayner
    • 18 June 2006

    More evidence emerges for the stolen generation.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Ways of reading sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities

    • 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

    An ancient culture in peril

    • 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

    Future nation

    • 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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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Stark images in black and white

    • Mark Byrne
    • 25 April 2006

    Australian film-makers have to date been much better at reflecting the often ugly reality of racial relations than at imagining a different future

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Through a prism darkly

    • Andrew Thackrah
    • 23 April 2006

    The politics of crisis is undermining the rights of indigenous Australians

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Sniffing at tragedy

    • 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

    Spreading seeds of culture

    • 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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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A year spent observing

    • Brian McCoy
    • 21 April 2006

    Brian McCoy on Mary Ellen Jordan’s Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Like warriors of old

    • Jacqueline Healy
    • 20 April 2006

    Jacqueline  Healy  on Geoffrey and James Bardon’s  Papunya:  A  Place  Made  After  the  Story.

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