“The Federal Government has thrown its support behind a plan to quarantine the
welfare payments of families in some Queensland Indigenous communities.” From ABC news Govt backs Indigenous welfare quarantine
PRESS RELEASE
from Queensland Aboriginal leaders Les Malezer, Terry O’Shane, Bob Weatherall, Jacqui Katona, Victor Hart
ABORIGINALS TO FIGHT QUEENSLAND INVASION
21 December 2007
We will join with other Aboriginal leaders in [...]
Entries from December 2007
December 21, 2007
N.T. Aboriginal Intervention extended to Qld’s Cape York
December 13, 2007
Aurukun rape, gaol and customary law
It saddens me greatly to see the chorus of Aboriginal people calling for the Aurukun rape perpetrators to be sent to gaol. Some of those same spokespeople were calling for Aboriginal people to stay out of gaol in the 90s. The dominant colonial paradigm has only offered gaol or total neglect as the options to [...]
December 7, 2007
It is still O.K. for Australian police to kill Aborigines
The 2004 Palm Island death in custody, where an Aboriginal man was unlawfully arrested and died of massive internal injuries inflicted while in police custody, remains unresolved. The arresting officer and the person who delivered the fatal blow was aquitted on charges of manslaughter but the deceased’s family is still pursuing civil charges and compensation [...]
December 5, 2007
Aborigines and Conservationism. Land Rights and Green Activism Not Necessarily Aligned
The following article is written by Tyson Yunkaporta. (his profile here)
In it he covers issues that I have raised in previous articles such as “Terra Nullius and Ecology” and “The Environment movement and Aboriginal Australia”.
I have included this article partly because it backs up controversial things that I have said in my own articles, but [...]
