Last week's National Roundtable Forum in Canberra was billed by the federal government as the start of new drive to seriously tackle the poverty, discrimination and social dysfunction endemic to many Aboriginal communities.
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In an article in 91̳ Weekly #418, I criticised Aboriginal commentator Noel Pearson's attacks (expressed in his August 13 Chifley memorial lecture) on "progressive" ideas about welfare provision for Aboriginal people. A few
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The New Zealand government has announced that an amnesty will be granted to up to 8000 immigrants living in the country without a visa. The Australian government has responded by attacking the decision, claiming that it amounts to
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The opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games portrayed a shorthand version of Australian history that international visitors and news services would find easy to digest, even if a little bizarre. Aboriginal performers gave way
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Nike is the world market leader in sports shoes. Its profits amounted to US$965 million in 1999. This huge figure in part flows from the sales generated from the vast volume of advertising Nike subjects the planet to. But mostly,
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BY SIMON BUTLER & BRONWEN BEECHEY Ten Iraqi asylum seekers, charged with inciting the desperate riots at the Woomera detention centre in August, are now being systematically denied even their most basic rights as prisoners, according to lawyers
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Federal employment minister Tony Abbott has come to the defence of Centacare, the Catholic Church's government-funded employment agency, arguing that it should be able to sack employees it discovers are homosexuals. Abbott's
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The recent escalation of racist rhetoric and policy from the Howard government naturally raises the question of whether the Labor opposition is an anti-racist alternative. The answer: not at all. The ALP and the Coalition government
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It seems that for the federal Coalition government to even pretend to respect the human rights of refugees, women or Aborigines has become far too tedious and burdensome to bother with. On August 28, a desperate protest by asylum
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Why Pearson is wrong on Aboriginal welfareFormer Labor prime minister Ben Chifley was no radical. He was a staunch supporter of the "white Australia policy" and infamously called in the army to break the coalminers' strike in
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Refugee forced into prostitutionA Colombian asylum seeker, who was forced into prostitution in Australia, has been refused a protection visa by the Refugee Review Tribunal. She may now be forcibly returned to her home country,
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ALP waters down native title policyAt its national conference in Hobart, the Australian Labor Party quietly discarded its commitment to the right of native titleholders to negotiate at the exploration stage of mineral projects