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Summary |
Woodford organisers plan Indigenous festival |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 December 2004 |
Australia's largest folk music festival is about to get even bigger. |
Dugong, turtle hunting restricted under new agreement |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 December 2004 |
The hunting of turtle and dugong will be restricted to four months of the year under Queensland's first traditional hunting
agreement. |
Native Title Tribunal welcomes new fishing principles |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 December 2004 |
The National Native Title Tribunal says a new set of fishing principles should ensure Indigenous interests are not the last
to be dealt with in fisheries development. |
Govt says island riot a police matter |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 December 2004 |
Queensland's Acting Premier, Terry Mackenroth, says the Government will not interfere in the police handling of the aftermath
of the Palm Island riot. |
Indigenous leader claims cover-up in airfare controversy |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 December 2004 |
Queensland Gulf Indigenous leader Brad Foster has backed allegations of an attempted cover-up by the office of the state's
Indigenous Policy Minister Liddy Clark. |
Doomadgee's arresting officer transferred to Gold Coast |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 December 2004 |
The police officer who arrested Palm Island man Cameron Doomadgee has been transferred to the Gold Coast. |
Beattie tells Yanner to 'grow up' over airfare dispute |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 December 2004 |
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has told Murrandoo Yanner to "grow up", over the Palm Island airfare affair. |
Clark pays for Palm Island airfares |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 December 2004 |
Queensland Indigenous Policy Minister Liddy Clark has gone on holiday after paying a controversial bill for two Aboriginal
leaders. |
Kakadu entry fees scrapped |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 December 2004 |
Entry to Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory is free from today. |
Proposed roll changes 'lock out' Indigenous voters |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 December 2004 |
A Northern Territory MP says the Howard Government will use its Senate majority next year to lock remote Indigenous people
out of the electoral roll. |
Minister under fire for Yanner plan |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 December 2004 |
There has been no sign of Aboriginal activist Murrandoo Yanner on Palm Island in north Queensland, where he was expected
to take part in meetings to help restore peace. |
Palm Islanders want accused rioters home for Christmas |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 December 2004 |
The Palm Island community is calling for those charged over the unrest after the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee to
be allowed back to the north Queensland island for Christmas. |
Cameron Doomadgee's mother dies |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 December 2004 |
The mother of Cameron Doomadgee, the Palm Island man whose death in police custody sparked a riot, has passed away. |
NSW pledges to repay Indigenous wages |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 December 2004 |
The New South Wales Government says it will set up a fund to repay wages and other money paid into trusts for Aboriginal
people that was not passed on to them. |
Aborigine communities seek 'wash for fuel' deals |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 December 2004 |
Several Aborigine communities in Western Australia's Kimberley are negotiating with the Federal Government for similar agreements
to the deal with the Mulan community. |
ALP urged to end 'touchy feely' Indigenous affairs |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 December 2004 |
The Australian Labor Party's national vice-president, Warren Mundine, has called on his own party to end its "touchy
feely" approach to Indigenous affairs. |
Palm Island tension crosses the border into NSW |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 December 2004 |
Following weeks of tension on Palm Island, authorities in Queensland are now turning their attention to an Aboriginal community
in New South Wales. |
Rural doctors unhappy with Indigenous health figures |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 December 2004 |
A new report into the performance of the national health sector shows there has been little improvement in Indigenous health
outcomes over the past two decades. |
Hundreds attend Doomadgee's funeral |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 December 2004 |
Palm Island elders in north Queensland have called for justice rather than division at the funeral of Cameron Doomadgee. |
Palm Island farewells Cameron Doomadgee |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 December 2004 |
The funeral of Cameron Doomadgee, who died in police custody, is under way on Palm Island. |
Doomadgee's body arrives on Palm Island |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 December 2004 |
The body of Cameron Doomadgee, who died in police custody three weeks ago, has returned to Palm Island for burial today. |
Palm Island prepares for funeral |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 December 2004 |
Preparations are under way for today's funeral of the Indigenous man whose death in custody sparked last month's riot on
north Queensland's Palm Island. |
Pearson gives cautious support for shared responsibility |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 December 2004 |
A leading Indigenous affairs advovate says "shared responsibility" agreements between Aboriginal communities and
the Federal Government have to be carefully designed. |
Protestors rally in Brisbane against deaths in custody |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 December 2004 |
Hundreds have gathered in central Brisbane for a national day of action over the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on
Palm Island. |
Fuel deal will not damage Indigenous relations: PM |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 December 2004 |
The Prime Minister has dismissed concerns that a controversial shared responsibility agreement with a remote Indigenous
community could damage wider relations between Aborigines and the Federal Government. |
Aborigines offered fuel in exchange for a wash |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 December 2004 |
The Federal Government is offering to provide petrol bowsers to a remote Aboriginal community if it agrees that children
there will shower every day and household rubbish bins will be emptied twice a week. |
Most Australian's health improving, Indigenous lagging |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 December 2004 |
The major health indicators are improving for most Australians but Indigenous groups still suffer from avoidable mortality
rates, according to new figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
Palm Is rally will be peaceful, say organisers |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 December 2004 |
A north Queensland community justice group says the re-arrest of a Palm Island man for breaching his bail will not cause
added tension at an Indigenous rally in Townsville today. |
Palm Islanders set up to 'fail' bail |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 December 2004 |
A community justice group fears the men granted bail over the Palm Island riots in north Queensland have been set up to
fail. |
PM backs push to encourage Indigenous land ownership |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 December 2004 |
Prime Minister John Howard says his Government will consider ways to encourage more private land ownership among Indigenous
Australians. |
Robinson denies Indigenous body missing funds |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 December 2004 |
A high-profile ATSIC commissioner has denied claims that more than $500,000 is 'unaccounted for' at a south-east Queensland
Aboriginal corporation he once headed. |
Vanstone defends asking Aborigines to wash for fuel |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 December 2004 |
The Federal Government has defended its offer to provide a remote Indigenous community with petrol bowsers and new health
programs, if it meets conditions including ensuring children shower every day. |
Govt accused of gagging new Indigenous council |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 December 2004 |
The Federal Opposition has accused the Government of placing a gag order on the members of its new National Indigenous Council. |
High Court recognises islanders' native title rights |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 December 2004 |
Celebrations are under way on Darnley Island in the eastern Torres Strait, off Queensland's Cape York, after the islanders'
native title rights were recognised. |
Indigenous education funding changes referred to Senate inquiry |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 December 2004 |
Changes by the Federal Government to Indigenous education funding have been referred to a Senate inquiry. |
Native title rights recognised in Torres Strait |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 December 2004 |
More than a decade after the High Court's Mabo decision, the native title rights of all Torres Strait islander communities
will soon be recognised. |
New Indigenous body meets |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 December 2004 |
The National Indigenous Council has come together at Parliament House in Canberra for its first meeting. |
Torres Strait singer dies |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 December 2004 |
Australia's Indigenous community is mourning the death of Torres Strait Islander singer Rita Mills. |
Aboriginal artefacts, caves found in Tasmania |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 December 2004 |
Aboriginal artefacts and cave systems have been discovered in an area of Tasmanian forest planned for
logging. |
Accused Palm Is riot ringleader bailed |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 December 2004 |
The alleged ringleader of the riots on Palm Island in north Queensland has been granted bail at a court hearing in Townsville. |
Indigenous adviser calls for new look at land rights |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 December 2004 |
A member of the newly-appointed National Indigenous Council (NIC) has called for a new approach to communal land rights
for Aborigines. |
Accused rioters to miss Palm Island funeral |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 December 2004 |
Queensland's chief magistrate, Marshall Irwin, has granted bail to all 17 men charged over rioting and other offences last
month on Palm Island. |
Palm Is riot wasn't alcohol fuelled, council says |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 December 2004 |
The Palm Island Council in north Queensland has stressed that alcohol did not play a role in the unrest on the island last
month. |
Aboriginal MP slams curfew, alcohol bans |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 December 2004 |
Western Australian Aboriginal MP Carol Martin has accused Indigenous leaders of being out of touch
with reality, following proposals that curfews and alcohol bans be introduced in Aboriginal communities across Australia. |
PM welcomes shift over Aboriginal welfare |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 December 2004 |
Prime Minister John Howard has welcomed moves by Aboriginal leaders to embrace the principle of mutual obligation and to
open communications with his Government on Indigenous issues. |
Radical change needed in Indigenous affairs, says leader |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 December 2004 |
Aboriginal leader and member of the National Indigenous Council Warren Mundine says it is time radical changes are made
to the way Indigenous affairs are handled. |
Community discusses Palm Island action |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 December 2004 |
About 200 people are meeting in Townsville to discuss a national day of action over the Aboriginal death in custody on Palm
Island. |
Elders urge peaceful protests against custody deaths |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 December 2004 |
Aboriginal elders are urging peaceful protests over the death in police custody of 36-year-old Cameron Doomadgee on Palm
Island in north Queensland. |
Palm Island community loses faith in legal system |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 December 2004 |
There have been angry outbursts at a community meeting of about 200 people in Townsville, organised to discuss a national
day of action over the Aboriginal death in custody on Palm Island, off the north Queensland coast. |
Clark's gatecrashing resolved amicably: Vanstone |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 December 2004 |
Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone says there is no row between her and former ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark over his attendance
at a meeting today. |
Kakadu owners want greater consultation over public access |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 December 2004 |
The board of management of Kakadu National Park says it has not been approached by the federal Member for Solomon, Dave
Tollner, over plans to expand public access in the heritage area. |
Eureka Stockade remembered in solemn ceremony |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 December 2004 |
Wreaths have been laid in Ballarat to remember the 30 gold diggers and six soldiers who died in the
Eureka Stockade, 150 years ago today. |
Second autopsy to delay Palm Island funeral |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 December 2004 |
A spokesman for the Palm Island community in north Queensland says the funeral for a man who died in
police custody may be another two weeks away. |
Aboriginal art commissioned for Paris museum |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 December 2004 |
A group of Aboriginal artists has been chosen to create an artwork to cover the walls and ceilings of a major new museum
in Paris. |
Day of action set over Palm Is death |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 December 2004 |
The Queensland Government says it has no qualms about a planned national day of action over the death
of a man on Palm Island in Queensland's north as long as it is peaceful. |
Kakadu entry fee scrapped |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 December 2004 |
The Federal Government will scrap entry fees for Kakadu National Park earlier than planned. |
Labor seeks apology for Long flag ban |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 December 2004 |
Labor's Parliamentary Secretary for Indigenous Affairs has called on the Speaker of the House of Representatives
to apologise to Michael Long over an incident involving the removal of an Aboriginal flag. |
Latham joins Long walk |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 December 2004 |
Three hundred people including Federal Opposition Leader Mark Latham have joined former AFL star Michael
Long in his walk through Canberra today, while more than 100 people rallied in the Northern Territory to support the march. |
Long wants Howard to visit Indigenous communities |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 December 2004 |
Former AFL star Michael Long hopes he will be able to persuade the Prime Minister to visit Aboriginal
communities. |
Police issue apology over Goondiwindi assault |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 December 2004 |
Queensland police have apologised to property owners in Goondiwindi, saying they were not involved in
an alleged attack on an Aboriginal teenager. |
Police probe Aboriginal bashing, rope claims |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 December 2004 |
A 16-year-old Aboriginal youth is in hospital in southern Queensland amid claims he was bashed, threatened
with a gun and dragged by a rope around his neck earlier this week. |
Two to face court over noose claims |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 December 2004 |
Two men have been issued with notices to appear in court on charges of assault over an incident in the
southern Queensland border town of Goondiwindi in which an Aboriginal teenager allegedly had a noose tied around his neck. |
Indigenous Australians face alarming murder risk |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 December 2004 |
Indigenous people are murdered at a rate 11 times higher than the rest of the population, according
to a damning report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. |
Indigenous representatives stage UN hunger strike |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 December 2004 |
Seven demonstrators saying they represent Indigenous people around the world are staging a hunger strike
in the headquarters of the United Nations, claiming their rights are being undermined by powerful states. |
Palm Is payback just 'emotional talk' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 December 2004 |
Brisbane Aboriginal leader Sam Watson says there will be no payback for the death of a man in police
custody on Palm Island in north Queensland. |
Palm Is leader warns of police 'payback' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 December 2004 |
Gulf Aboriginal leader Murrandoo Yanner is standing by his warning of possible "payback" against
police if charges are not dropped against those arrested over the Palm Island riot. |
Palm Islanders claim police harassment |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 December 2004 |
Palm Islanders claim they are being harassed by north Queensland police after two local women were today
charged over last Friday's violence, sparked by a death in custody. |
Qld police considering action against Aboriginal activist |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 December 2004 |
Queensland's Police Commissioner says no decision has been made on whether to take legal action against
an Aboriginal activist who has warned of possible payback against police. |
Qld police terrorising our kids, Aboriginal activist says |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 December 2004 |
Aboriginal activist Sam Watson has told a Brisbane rally that Queensland Police's Special Emergency
Response Team could be described as "thugs in balaclavas". |
Senate debates Aboriginal deaths in custody |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 December 2004 |
The issue of Aboriginal deaths in custody has been debated in the Senate. |
Two women charged over island riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 December 2004 |
North Queensland police have laid more charges over last week's Palm Island violence. |
