In an email from Fortescue’s legal team to Vimeo, FMG says a controversial native title video is defamatory, misleading and “designed to intimidate”.
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Big Ideas Larissa Behrendt: indigenous policy — three fixes in three minutes
There have been claims that plenty of money has been spent on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with little impact. Here are three targeted policy initiatives that would give guaranteed good results, writes Larissa Behrendt, Professor of Law and director of research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology.
Left and lefter: Keane v Sparrow on political racism
There’s a lazy snobbery reflected in the assertion that our major political parties are casually racist, writes Bernard Keane.
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.
I was watching Channel 10 on Saturday night
From little things…
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Dr Nelson should lead, or give way to someone who will. Sorry, but there it is.
Vale the National Indigenous Council…
This morning, news broke that Jenny Macklin yesterday gave the National Indigenous Council, that most odious of hand-picked Indigenous Howard government advisory bodies, its marching orders, writes Chris Graham.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Rudd returns from holidays on Monday, and despite a productive start to his first term in government, the In tray on his desk is overflowing.
Graham: Indigenous Australians will be rooting for Rudd
The head says that this election - for Indigenous Australia at least - is not about who wins government, rather it’s about who wins control of the Senate, writes the editor of the National Indigenous Times, Chris Graham.
Jon Altman: in the name of the market?
The last fifteen years have seen rapid growth in the Australian economy that has thrown into stark relief the relative poverty and fundamentally different living conditions of many Indigenous Australians. Nowhere is this difference more apparent than in the Northern Territory, where over 80 per cent of the Indigenous population of 66 600 live in remote situations, primarily on Aboriginal-owned land, writes Jon Altman.
Questions from the state of national emergency
As patriotic citizens, the Crikey crew want to play their part in assisting with the emergency in indigenous Australia. So we’ve drawn up some questions for the Prime Minister or his Justice Minister, David Johnston or even the AFP media unit.
The Economy: Radical reform a red-hot go to end child abuse
This is a watershed. No one can predict the outcome, but failure to act would have been a national disgrace. Indeed, one cannot help observing that the problems in remote Aboriginal townships have been known about for decades — one had only to visit them to see.
