April 25, 2012
To lay any fears to rest it seems that the recent police shooting in Kings Cross will see the beginning of comments from various sources confirming just how racist this country is. We here in Australia have at least one commentator who thinks that the public is more concerned about violent indigenous [...]
Tags: Aboriginal title, Australia, Ethnic groups in Europe, George Ikners, ikners.com, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous People, Racism
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April 22, 2012
Gethin Chamberlain The Observer, Sunday 22 April 2012 Article history Undercover investigators film Link to this video Trundling along the dirt roads of the Amazon, the giant logging lorry dwarfed the vehicle of the investigators following it. The trunks of nine huge trees were piled high on the back – incontrovertible proof of the continuing destruction of [...]
Tags: Brazil, Colin Firth, European Economic Community, Fiona Watson, Fundação Nacional do Índio, Maranhão, Survival International, World Bank
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April 22, 2012
Many US Native Americans live in federally recognised tribal areas plagued with poverty, alcoholism other social problems. Photograph: Jennifer Brown/Corbis link http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/22/un-investigate-us-native-americans The UN is to conduct an investigation into the plight of US Native Americans, the first such mission in its history. The human rights inquiry led by James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur [...]
Tags: Alaska Native, Human rights, James Anaya, Native American, Native Americans in the United States, United States, University of Arizona, Washington DC
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April 19, 2012
Indigenous mobilisation has brought environmental politics to the streets [AFP] Miami, FL - Indigenous politics tend to be understood as local anecdotes, rather than political events of international significance. So it is of little surprise that the funeral of Bernardo Vásquez in San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico, generated little international attention. Vásquez was the second anti-mining activist [...]
Tags: Indigenous People, Latin America, Mexico, Miami, Oaxaca, San José del Progreso, Zapotec, Zapotec peoples
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April 19, 2012
Enlarge (Photo: University of Copenhagen) Malcolm Fraser, University Report Score Govt’s Aboriginal Intervention Program By ERIK PINEDA: Subscribe to Erik’s RSS feed March 8, 2012 9:22 PM EST The Australian government has been accused of conducting sham dialogues that were supposed to back its Stronger Futures legislation for the indigenous communities of the Northern Territory. Former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser was convinced [...]
Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous People, Larissa Behrendt, Malcolm Fraser, Northern Territory, University of Technology Sydney
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April 19, 2012
This is a better copy of material I posted in another article. George Ikners ikners.com Differentiating Aboriginal suicide “Think different” is the wording of a current Apple Macintosh computer advertisement. The phrase could well apply to the suicides of Aboriginal youth. Their suicide has different wellsprings, histories, sociologies, patterns, and even [...]
Tags: Aboriginal, Aborigine, Australia, Australian Aborigine, Australian Capital Territory, Indigenous People, New South Wales, New Zealand
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April 18, 2012
Preventing Suicide among Indigenous Australians Sven Silburn, Belle Glaskin, Darrell Henry and Neil Drew OVERVIEW This chapter begins with an overview of the recent epidemiological trends in suicide and attempted suicide for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and how this compares with the situation in other post-colonial English-speaking nations such as [...]
Tags: Australia, First Nations, Indigenous Australians, Northern Territory, South Australia, Suicide, United States, Western Australia
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April 4, 2012
This article deals with a ‘doctrine’ that has and still does affect the indigenous people of Australia. While some view the Australian attitude to the indigenous as “paternal” that word carries with it some concept of actually caring for and being concerned about the peoples being made the subject of some or any [...]
Tags: Australia, Catholic Church, Discovery doctrine, Indigenous People, Iraq, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, United States, Valladolid Debate, WCC, White Australia Policy, World Council of Churches
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June 27, 2011
Aboriginal groups: ‘End the intervention, restore community control’ Saturday, June 25, 2011 Darwin rally against the intervention, June 22. On June 22, the federal government announced a six-week consulting period before creating new laws to continue the Northern Territory intervention. Prime Minister Julia Gillard “left no doubt that abolishing the intervention was not on the [...]
Tags: Alice Springs, Australia, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous People, Julia Gillard, Northern Territory, Northern Territory National Emergency Response, Racial Discrimination Act 1975, Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program
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May 17, 2011
For tourists the right kind of equipment is necessary. Understanding the people is essential as well as knowing your way around. To get ready if you are in any doubt phone a friend look for the top spots, fly discount, stay at backpacker accom and just basically get in the groove. Queen begins historic Ireland [...]
Tags: Dublin, Duke of Edinburgh, Elizabeth II, Ireland, Irish people, Irish Sea, Monarchy of the United Kingdom, State visit
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
Tags: California, Higher education, Mexico, Mexico City, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, San Francisco, United State, University of California Los Angeles, University of Leeds
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May 7, 2011
‘They chose to create a future for their grandchildren’: $1.5b native title deal Courtney Trenwith May 7, 2011 – 10:26AM An aerial photo of the cliff line at James Price Point 60 km north of Broome , the site of a proposed LNG hub. Photo: Glenn Campbell The most significant native title agreement in [...]
Tags: Australia, Dampier Peninsula, Indigenous People, Kimberley, Kimberley Land Council, Liquefied natural gas, Mark McGowan, Woodside Petroleum
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May 2, 2011
A quote from white Australian author Xavier Herbert displayed at the entrance to Oyster Cove. The movement for land rights has been a major focus of Aboriginal political agitation across Australia for many years. Aboriginal people in Tasmania have participated in this struggle, and presented an Aboriginal Land Claim to the State Parliament in 1977. [...]
Tags: Australia, Cape Barren Island, Cape Grim, Indigenous land rights, Rocky Cape National Park, Tasmania, Tasmanian Aborigines, Xavier Herbert
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May 1, 2011
There is an excellent video called, ” Australian Aboriginal Genocide It is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7eubc-Yk3M What is proposed is that there will be regular material on indigenous sites in Australia. It is a fairly sad event to see that the above video ceased comments owing the the “huge amount of racism“. Just another indication of the [...]
Tags: Australia, Australian Aborigines, Australian Labor Party, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous People, Labor Party, Racism, United States
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May 1, 2011
Indigenous Australians Explore interpretations of Aboriginal culture, history, language and art through the Library’s stunning collections of manuscripts, artworks, photographs and printed books. Through Eora, discover Aboriginal Sydney in the early years of the Colony. Read about George Augustus Robinson (1791-1866), the last Protector of Aborigines, whose travels throughout Tasmania and Victoria give us an unparalleled [...]
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Chomsky- a brief matter
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
Tags: California, Higher education, Mexico, Mexico City, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, San Francisco, United State, University of California Los Angeles, University of Leeds
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