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Date |
Summary |
ALP refuses to back Ranger shutdown |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
31 August 2004 |
The federal Labor Party has refused to support calls for the Northern Territory's Ranger uranium mine to be permanently closed,
after a series of recent contamination incidents. |
Indigenous council plans put on hold |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
31 August 2004 |
The Federal Government has postponed announcing its planned Indigenous advisory council. |
Ranger mine owners urged to overhaul safety standards |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
31 August 2004 |
Traditional owners say the operator of the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory should be stripped of its export
licence unless it immediately overhauls its safety and environmental management. |
Govt may appeal against Clark ruling |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 August 2004 |
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone says the Government will consider appealing against a Federal Court decision
which found ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark was wrongly suspended. |
Clark wins ATSIC suspension appeal |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 August 2004 |
Aboriginal leader Geoff Clark has won an appeal against his suspension as chairman of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission (ATSIC). |
Senator doubtful Govt will heed ATSIC inquiry findings |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 August 2004 |
The head of a Senate committee into the abolition of ATSIC has expressed doubt the Federal Government will listen to the
outcomes of the inquiry. |
Training program to improve Indigenous healthcare |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 August 2004 |
Aboriginal leaders and the medical profession are hopeful a new program launched today will result in better health outcomes
for Indigenous Australians. |
Murderer 'prefers death' to tribal punishment |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 August 2004 |
The Supreme Court in Perth has been told a Halls Creek woman would rather take her own life than face tribal punishment from
the Aboriginal community where she killed her de facto husband. |
Townsville labelled racist city |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 August 2004 |
The National Indigenous Human Rights Congress has declared Townsville, in north Queensland, a racist city. |
Spears fly in gold mine feud |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
25 August 2004 |
A dispute between Aboriginal groups over an agreement with the controversial Lake Cowal gold mine, near West Wyalong on the
NSW central western slopes, appears to have turned ugly. |
Ministers address Indigenous foetal alcohol syndrome |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 August 2004 |
State and territory ministers for the status of women are considering methods of improving awareness
of foetal alcohol syndrome among Indigenous communities. |
Aboriginal remains returned to community |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 August 2004 |
Aboriginal remains which have been held by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery for 95 years have today
been returned to a north-west Victorian Indigenous community. |
Handback ceremony to mark Wave Hill protest |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 August 2004 |
Aboriginal groups will celebrate the historic Wave Hill protest in the Northern Territory today with
a land handback ceremony. |
Minister rejects homelessness, grog ban link |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 August 2004 |
Queensland's Indigenous Policy Minister Liddy Clark says there is no substance to rumours that people
with alcohol addictions are moving to other towns to escape grog bans. |
Kakadu park entry fees to be scrapped |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 August 2004 |
The Federal Government has announced it is scrapping entry fees for Kakadu National Park. |
Communities in bid to soak up sea sponge benefits |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 August 2004 |
A science venture is working with Indigenous groups in northern Australia to farm sea sponges for commercial
sale. |
Coroner due to report on Hickey's death |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 August 2004 |
The New South Wales coroner is due to hand down his findings today from the inquest for Aboriginal teenager
Thomas 'TJ' Hickey, whose death sparked the Redfern riot earlier this year. |
Land handover recognises traditional owners |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 August 2004 |
An area near Cobar in New South Wales's far west will today be handed to the Aboriginal community, just
the second such handover of land to traditional owners in the state. |
Wind farm may threaten Indigenous sites |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 August 2004 |
There is concern a controversial York Peninsula wind farm development could pave the way for the loss
of Aboriginal heritage sites across South Australia. |
Indigenous courts cut prison numbers: report |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 August 2004 |
New research shows that Indigenous courts are helping to address the over-representation of Aboriginal
Australians in the criminal justice system. |
Carr says police have learnt from Redfern riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 August 2004 |
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr says a lot of lessons have been learnt from the riots in the Sydney
suburb of Redfern earlier this year, and action has been taken to address some of the issues. |
Police use pepper spray on menacing bull |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 August 2004 |
A Northern Territory police officer has used pepper spray on a bull while investigating a domestic disturbance in the community
of Barunga, south-east of Katherine. |
Yunupingu resigns from Northern Land Council |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 August 2004 |
The Northern Land Council chairman, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, has resigned, saying he wants to concentrate
on business interests and his family. |
Sydney City Council recognises tent embassy |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 August 2004 |
Sydney's inner-city Aboriginal community will sit down with members of the Sydney City Council tomorrow
to draw up a memorandum of understanding aimed at resolving long-standing issues about land ownership and race relations. |
Sydney Aboriginal tent embassy dismantled |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 August 2004 |
The Aboriginal protest camp in Victoria Park in Sydney is being packed up tonight. |
Senate committee finds little support for ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 August 2004 |
An inquiry into the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) has found little support for
maintaining the organisation, so far. |
Aboriginal Children's Day focuses on family violence |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 August 2004 |
"Our childhood, our chance" is the theme of today's national Aboriginal Children's Day. |
Carr defends Redfern riot inquiry |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 August 2004 |
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has defended the effectiveness of an Upper House inquiry into the Redfern
riots in Sydney. |
Report suggests shifting Redfern's needle van |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 August 2004 |
A New South Wales parliamentary committee has recommended a needle van be moved off the area known as
The Block in Sydney's Redfern. |
Dozens arrested in Redfern drug raid |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 July 2004 |
Police have made 35 arrests during raids on suspected drug houses in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. |
Famed Aboriginal artwork passed in at auction |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 July 2004 |
An Aboriginal artwork that had been tipped to fetch $1 million failed to sell at auction in Melbourne
last night. |
Aboriginal painting fails to sell |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 July 2004 |
An Aboriginal painting expected to reach $1 million at a Melbourne auction has failed to sell. |
UK museums up in arms over art grab |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 July 2004 |
Two British museums have warned that international cooperation could be at risk after the earliest known
Aboriginal bark etchings and a ceremonial headdress were seized while on a loan at an exhibition in Australia. |
National Indigenous body essential, committee hears |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 July 2004 |
A Senate select committee has heard that it is essential that a democratically-elected national body
be set up to represent Indigenous people. |
Land handover recognises traditional owners |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 July 2004 |
An area near Cobar in New South Wales's far west will today be handed to the Aboriginal community, just the second such handover
of land to traditional owners in the state. |
Indigenous Tasmanians protest over legal changes |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 July 2004 |
A group of Indigenous Tasmanians has used a visit by federal Treasurer Peter Costello to protest against plans to invite
private law firms to tender for Aboriginal legal services. |
Ex-ATSIC man denies $4.8m slurge |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 July 2004 |
Former ATSIC deputy chairman Ray Robinson has angrily dismissed claims that he gambled almost $5 million at Queensland casinos. |
Hickey inquest adjourned |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 July 2004 |
The inquest into the death of Redfern teenager Thomas James Hickey has been adjourned until the end of August. |
NSW ups Redfern police resources |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 July 2004 |
New South Wales Police Minister John Watkins has announced extra resources for Redfern, but denies it is an attempt to avert
strike action by police. |
Work begins to eradicate yellow crazy ants |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 July 2004 |
The CSIRO and the Northern Land Council have begun efforts to eradicate the yellow crazy ant from Arnhem Land. |
Indigenous groups form national coalition |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 July 2004 |
A coalition of Indigenous community groups has been established following the Federal Government's decision to abolish ATSIC. |
Relative admits not seeing Hickey chase, media criticised |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 July 2004 |
A relative of Thomas 'TJ' Hickey has told the coronial inquest investigating the teenager's death that he did not see police
chasing him but "put one and one together". |
Govt reinstates 'reconciliation' as dept's aim |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 July 2004 |
Prime Minister John Howard has moved to address concerns about the Government's commitment to reconciliation under new plans
for the delivery of Indigenous programs. |
Carr to stay out of tent embassy dispute |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 July 2004 |
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr says he will not intervene in a dispute between Sydney City Council and the organisers of
an Aboriginal tent embassy in a Sydney park. |
Hickey inquest adjourned |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 July 2004 |
The coronial inquest into the death which sparked the Redfern riot in Sydney has been adjourned until Monday. |
Constable quizzed at Hickey inquiry |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 July 2004 |
A Sydney police officer has come under heavy questioning about her movements and conversations on the day an Aboriginal teenager
died in inner Sydney. |
Redfern inquest told police discussed teenager's death |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 July 2004 |
A coronial inquest into the death of TJ Hickey in Sydney's Redfern has been told four police officers discussed the 17-year-old's
accident before preparing their statements about the incident. |
Police considered Hickey high risk inquest hears |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 July 2004 |
The coronial inquest into the death of Thomas Hickey has heard the 17-year-old was considered by police as a high risk-offender
at the time of his death. |
Inquest into Redfern teenager's death begins |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 July 2004 |
The coronial inquest into the death of an Aboriginal teenager in an incident which sparked riots at Redfern in Sydney in
February has heard there was a targeted police operation on the morning he suffered fatal injuries. |
Land council takes control of rock art site |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 July 2004 |
Tasmania's Aboriginal Land Council has taken over the management of a site in the state's west that features Aboriginal rock
carvings. |
Deal reached on Pilbara's ancient rock art |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 July 2004 |
Two Aboriginal groups in Western Australia's Pilbara region have agreed to the relocation of almost 2,000 ancient Aboriginal
rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula near Karratha. |
Australia struggling with reconciliation: HREOC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 June 2004 |
The president of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) has told a conference in Darwin that Australia
is struggling to come to terms with its past. |
OECD gives Australia poor marks for equity in education |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 June 2004 |
One of the world's leading maths educators has given Australia a poor report card for its treatment of students from disadvantaged
backgrounds. |
Inquiry asks for ATSIC axe to be put on hold |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 June 2004 |
The head of the Senate inquiry into the Bill relating to the dismantling of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
(ATSIC) says any further winding back of the indigenous body should be put on hold until after the committee submits its report. |
Baby bonus fuels Indigenous violence: ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 June 2004 |
An ATSIC regional councillor in the Northern Territory says the Federal Government's $600 child bonus is proving disastrous
for Aboriginal communities. |
Indigenous snapshot shows mixed news |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 June 2004 |
New figures show more Aboriginal people are getting jobs and higher education qualifications than ever before. |
Darwin native title case nears end |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 June 2004 |
Lawyers in the first native title claim over an Australian capital city have begun their closing submissions in the Federal
Court in Darwin. |
ATSIC employees fear for jobs |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 June 2004 |
Employees at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and its Services (ATSIS) unit are afraid they will
lose their jobs once the group is absorbed into the mainstream. |
WA lawyers back Indigenous consideration in sentencing |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 June 2004 |
The Western Australian Law Society says the racial backgrounds of Aboriginal offenders should be considered by the courts
during sentencing. |
Man's sentence reduced because of 'aboriginality' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 June 2004 |
South Australia's Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced a jail sentence given to a man who broke into an elderly couple's
house because he is Aboriginal. |
Labor to request Senate inquiry into ATSIC's future |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 June 2004 |
The Federal Opposition has announced it will call for a Senate inquiry into the Government's plan to abolish the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). |
Minister remembers Myall Creek massacre |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 June 2004 |
NSW Mineral Resources Minister Kerry Hickey represented the Premier on the weekend at a ceremony held in memory of those
who died in the Myall Creek massacre of 1838. |
Dignitaries join memorial for ATSIC leader |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
13 June 2004 |
A memorial service for former ATSIC chairman Mr Djerrkura has begun in the small Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in East
Arnhem Land. |
Vanstone pays tribute to former ATSIC head |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
13 June 2004 |
The federal Minister overseeing the abolition of ATSIC will today pay tribute to one of the organisation's former leaders
at a ceremony in Arnhem Land, Mr Djerrkura. |
Email sacking bungle infuriates ATSIC workers |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 June 2004 |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) workers are considering legal action today after an official email
was mistakenly sent out advising them they had been fired. |
Yorta Yorta land deal 'shonky' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 June 2004 |
Some members of the Yorta Yorta community have vowed to protest against a new Victorian Government land management deal. |
Indigenous land agreement said to be first |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 June 2004 |
An agreement giving Aborigines more say in the management of public land in Victoria's north and east will be signed at Echuca
today. |
Chief Minister backs regional bodies to replace ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 June 2004 |
Northern Territory Chief Minister Clare Martin believes stronger regional authorities are the key to giving Aboriginal people
a voice once ATSIC is dismantled. |
Minister promises more police for Redfern |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 June 2004 |
New South Wales Police Minister John Watkins has vowed that whatever extra police resources are needed to tackle crime in
the troubled Sydney suburb of Redfern will be delivered. |
Redfern 'block' sealed off after police chase |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 June 2004 |
Senior police say dozens of officers sealed off the Block in Redfern today because of fears a robbery in a nearby suburb
may have led to another outbreak of violence at the Aboriginal community. |
Communities urged to help combat Indigenous abuse |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 June 2004 |
The National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (NAPCAN) says welfare agencies need to develop specialised
cultural skills for dealing with abuse in Aboriginal communities. |
More police needed in Redfern, inquiry told |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 June 2004 |
The New South Wales police union has called for more detectives to be based at Redfern amid revelations that there is only
one officer assigned to investigate robberies in the area. |
Redfern inquiry hears child abuse ignored |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 June 2004 |
The Director General of the Department of Community Services (DOCS) has told the Parliamentary inquiry on Redfern that a
new plan is being devised for dealing with serious child abuse reports currently not being attended to. |
Stolen Generations case may go before UN |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 June 2004 |
Legal avenues are being explored to take the case of the Stolen Generations to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. |
Stolen children return for 'healing ceremony' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 June 2004 |
Aboriginal families whose children were forcibly taken from them in the 1940s will return to the site of the former Phillip
Creek Mission in the Northern Territory for a healing ceremony today. |
National strategy needed on Aboriginal child health: report |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 June 2004 |
The authors of a report into Aboriginal child health say the alarming and disturbing statistics highlight the need for a
national strategy to combat the problem. |
Labor demands inquiry into ATSIC dismantling |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 June 2004 |
The Federal Opposition is demanding a Senate inquiry into Government plans to dismantle the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Commission (ATSIC). |
Constitution to recognise Victoria's Aborigines |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 May 2004 |
The Victorian Government will amend the state's constitution to recognise the contribution's of Victoria's Aboriginal people. |
Govt plan to scrap ATSIC an act of revenge: Robinson |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 May 2004 |
Aboriginal leaders say the Howard Government's motivation for scrapping ATSIC has absolutely nothing to do with the body's
performance and is more about revenge. |
Aboriginal leaders turn out for sculpture dedication |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 May 2004 |
Leaders of the Aboriginal community will attend the dedication by Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone of a new sculpture
this morning at Reconciliation Place. |
Vanstone admits ATSIC's dismantling a long process |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 May 2004 |
Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone has rejected claims that the Government has mismanaged the dismantling of ATSIC,
but admits theprocess may take longer than originally thought. |
Govt presses Senate to pass ATSIC changes |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 May 2004 |
Programs delivering services to Indigenous Australians will be "mainstreamed", even if the Senate blocks a Bill
to abolish the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and its administrative wing, ATSIS. |
ATSIC axing legislation goes before Parliament |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 May 2004 |
Legislation abolishing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) has been introduced to Federal Parliament,
with the Government promising to maintain all existing Indigenous programs and current funding levels. |
Reconciliation Aust urged to release funds |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 May 2004 |
The Australian Democrats have called on Reconciliation Australia to distribute its recent budget windfall of $15 million
to local reconciliation groups in urgent need of resources. |
Tributes paid to former ATSIC chair |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 May 2004 |
Tributes have been paid to the former chairman of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), Mr Djerrkura,
after he died in hospital in Nhulunbuy, on the Northern Territory's Gove Peninsula. |
Inquiry told of police problems during Redfern riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
25 May 2004 |
Redfern police commander Dennis Smith has revealed police had to break into a storage area at the Sydney Police Centre to
get to equipment to take to the scene of February's riot. |
Police may get bravery awards over Redfern riots |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 May 2004 |
New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney says he will consider giving bravery awards to the police called to respond
the Redfern riot. |
Protesters rally over ATSIC abolishment plan |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 May 2004 |
Indigenous Australians from around the country have marched on Federal Parliament in protest against the Government's decision
to scrap the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Commission (ATSIC). |
Media banned from Redfern inquiry |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 May 2004 |
The New South Wales Opposition says it is disturbed about the handling of conflict at the parliamentary inquiry into the
Redfern riot three months ago. |
MPs clash at Redfern inquiry |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 May 2004 |
There have been repeated clashes between MPs at an inquiry into the Sydney suburbs of Redfern and Waterloo which was set
up after a riot in the area three months ago. |
Redfern riot inquiry to begin |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 May 2004 |
A parliamentary inquiry will begin today into policing the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern. |
Redfern inquiry hears no effort made on police, Indigenous relations |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 May 2004 |
An Aboriginal community leader says "no consistent effort" was made to build relationships between the police and
the Indigenous communities in the Sydney suburbs of Redfern and Waterloo. |
