The fact we are still calling for sovereignty and self-determination, 40 years on from the first steps of the tent embassy, shows just how central it is to Aboriginal aspirations, writes Amy McQuire, editor of Tracker Magazine.
Aboriginal Australia
Crikey Says: Removing race from our constitution
We don’t collectively identify as racist. And yet there is the undeniable reality that our constitution as it stands still contains two sections designed specifically to discriminate.
Beyond the despair part III: closing the gap, at the coalface
Journalism student Clare Negus writes about the fight for true reconciliation and the individuals taking ‘closing the gap’ into their own hands in indigenous WA townships.
Beyond the despair part II: the communications barrier in black Australia
Yesterday in Crikey, journalism student Clare Negus reported from aboriginal townships in mid-west Western Australia. In the second chapter of a three-part series, Negus looks at the communications barrier.
Beyond the despair: just another white fella with a notepad
A pervasive and profound sense of hopelessness has settled over much of indigenous Australia. Journalism student Clare Negus visited townships in Western Australia to report on how communities keep the faith.
The Tiger vs. Qantas battle is turning nasty
The battle of the low-cost trans-border franchises of Singapore Airlines-controlled Tiger and Qantas-directed Jetstar Asia is heating up, with Jetstar’s plans to fly twice daily between Singapore and Tokyo being shot out of the sky this morning.
Why don’t we hear these stories about Aboriginal Australia?
You might not guess it from the photos in the newspapers, but the largest concentration of Aboriginal people in Australia lives in western Sydney, writes anthropologist Professor Gillian Cowlishaw.
Samson and Delilah under the stars in Alice Springs
The Telegraph Station was an appropriate setting for a film that expresses so much about the communication gap at the heart of this country, writes Elli Rennie.
League’s Polynesian powerplay muscles in on indigenous numbers
The number of Aboriginal players in the NRL has halved since the early 1990s, with coaches keener to recruit Polynesian-type body shapes to combat the brutal collisions of the code.
Memo to Bolt: race runs deeper than skin colour
Any attention is good attention, right? There’s no other rational way to explain Andrew Bolt’s column in the Herald Sun yesterday.
A nation building and jobs plan for indigenous Australia
CDEP should never have been abolished, but this is even more the case given the predicted dire downturn in the Australian labour market in 2009 and beyond, writes Jon Altman.
Macklin’s right, the permit system needs to be reintroduced
The problem with the argument against the permit system is that its proponents can’t actually point to a single moment in the history of the Land Rights Act where the permit system has actually contributed to death, destruction, doom and gloom, writes Chris Graham.
You’re not going to do a cartoon about that are you?
No, I’m not doing it.
Redfern 1992. Notes from a parallel universe …
In 1992, Prime Minister Paul Keating spoke in the Sydney suburb of Redfern to launch the International Year of Indigenous People.
The PM and Aboriginal Australia — a timeline
John Howard’s brush with Aboriginal Australia — a timeline.
Aboriginal Australia needs you (and you’ll get an extra $37,000!)
Is working in Aboriginal Australia on behalf of the government for you? What about burn-out? Remuneration? All your Qs and As answered right here.
Howard’s war: the recruitment drive begins
Richard Farmer wrote in Tuesday’s Crikey how the government is attempting to recruit its own own to CleanUp Aboriginal Australia. Today, Crikey has the email.
Will the bureaucrats be happy to let Aboriginal Australia take over?
The irony of the PM’s rescue mission of Aboriginal Australia hasn’t gone unnoticed. Here’s a policy of helping a disadvantaged group to overcome a major social ill by using the resources and the personnel of the central government. No wonder Labor is not opposing it. It’s a good socialist policy.
Make no mistake, Howard’s NT plan is a new apartheid
Last week, the Howard Government imposed a de facto apartheid system on Australia. You may want to argue that this was necessary, desirable, a last resort, etc, etc, but first you have to acknowledge that this is apartheid, writes Guy Rundle.
