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Budget a mixed result for Indigenous people: ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 May 2004 |
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission's acting chairman Lionel Quartermiane says last night's Budget was a
mixed result for Indigenous people with the Government adopting some of the organisation's key initiatives but still pushing ahead with the
peak body's abolition. |
Indigenous women need more rights: UN forum |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 May 2004 |
An Australian Aboriginal woman has told a United Nations forum on Indigenous people that violence against Indigenous women
remains unacceptably high. |
Govt shifts ATSIC funding to communities |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 May 2004 |
Treasurer Peter Costello says the Government will maintain all funding previously allocated to the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Island Commission (ATSIC), which it is abolishing. |
Stolen Generation orphanage developed into retirement village |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 May 2004 |
An orphanage that was home to Aboriginal children of the Stolen Generation in the 1930s and 40s is to be developed into a
retirement village to house many of those same residents. |
National Indigenous political party launched |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 May 2004 |
A new political party for Indigenous Australians could be up and running in time for the Federal election. |
Hundreds rally against ATSIC abolishment |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 May 2004 |
About 600 people have rallied in Adelaide this afternoon to protest over the Federal Government's plan to abolish the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). |
Classics strike right note with itinerants |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 May 2004 |
In the Northern Territory, the Katherine Region Tourist Association says it has been able to significantly reduce anti-social
behaviour around the local visitors' centre by playing classical music. |
Carr says sorry over missing wages for Aborigines |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 May 2004 |
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has apologised for taking so long to work out how to repay Aboriginal workers who had their
wages stolen or lost. |
Tree clearing laws stymie Napranum deal |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 May 2004 |
A Sydney-based agricultural company says it will fight to save a unique business deal with a Cape York Aboriginal community. |
Aboriginal group to take health concerns to UN |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 May 2004 |
The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACHO) is to take its concerns about the state of Aboriginal
health in Australia to the United Nations. |
Mediation defuses Wadeye standoff |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 May 2004 |
A confrontation provoked by an attack on a young man at the remote Aboriginal community of Wadeye, in the Northern Territory,
has been defused without further violence. |
Clark challenges suspension despite ATSIC scrapping |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 April 2004 |
Former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) leader Geoff Clark is continuing his Federal Court challenge
over his suspension as chairman, despite the body ceasing to exist. |
SA launches Indigenous home loan scheme |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 April 2004 |
In what is being promoted as an Australian first, the South Australian Government is set to provide Aborigines with special
housing loans. |
Vanstone confirms ATSIC demise |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 April 2004 |
The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister has formally advised Indigenous organisations of the Government's plans to abolish
ATSIC. |
Democrats want ATSIC rethink |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 April 2004 |
The Australian Democrats are urging the Federal Government to reconsider its plan to scrap ATSIC. |
Hundreds protest ATSIC scrapping |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 April 2004 |
A few hundred people have gathered in Brisbane, Queensland, to protest against the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). |
Indigenous advocates seek legal aid plan boycott |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 April 2004 |
The Northern Territory Aboriginal Justice Advocacy Committee says putting Indigenous legal aid services out to tender will
turn the clock back 30 years. |
Curse on PM no joke: Indigenous leader |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 April 2004 |
A Queensland Indigenous leader says an ancient Aboriginal curse placed on Prime Minister John Howard is no laughing matter
and could even have deadly consequences. |
No charges in 'winegate' affair |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 April 2004 |
The Queensland Opposition is outraged that the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) has cleared the Government in the 'winegate'
affair. |
Aboriginal groups invited by Mugabe |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 April 2004 |
Australian Indigenous groups have been invited by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to attend a land reform conference. |
AMA wants Indigenous health on election agenda |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 April 2004 |
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) wants Indigenous health issues to be placed on the agenda for this year's federal
election. |
Aboriginal group 'points bone' at Howard |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 April 2004 |
Suspended Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission chairman Geoff Clark and a group of Aboriginal people have told
the Prime Minister he is not welcome on their traditional land. |
Vanstone reviews Imparja's funding over booze ads |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 April 2004 |
Alice Springs-based broadcaster Imparja says the continuation of its Federal funding will depend on its service level, not
on whether it advertises alcohol. |
Vanstone defends Indigenous legal aid tender |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 April 2004 |
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone says putting Aboriginal Legal Aid services out to tender is about providing
the best service possible. |
Govt moves to sell ATSIC decision |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 April 2004 |
The Federal Government has gone on the attack to sell its plans to abolish the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
(ATSIC). |
Vanstone says ATSIC scrapping won't affect jobs |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 April 2004 |
The Federal Government says it does not expect any jobs will be lost when it abolishes the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission (ATSIC). |
ATSIS officer suspended on fraud charges |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 April 2004 |
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone says an officer of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services
(ATSIS) has been suspended without pay over an alleged fraud involving $400,000. |
Aboriginal leaders warn scrapping ATSIC is folly |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 April 2004 |
Prominent Cape York Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson says the Howard Government is making a terrible mistake by abolishing
the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and mainstreaming its functions. |
Jobs in doubt after ATSIC decision |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 April 2004 |
Unions have met with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services (ATSIS) management to discuss the fate of 1,200 employees
after the Federal Government's announcement on Thursday that the agency will close. |
Indigenous groups condemn ATSIC decision |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 April 2004 |
Indigenous groups say it is no surprise the Federal Government has moved to abolish the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission (ATSIC). |
Howard axes ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 April 2004 |
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) will be abolished. |
Cape York alcohol bans begin amid legal threats |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 April 2004 |
Controversial alcohol restrictions take effect today in seven more Cape York Peninsula Indigenous communities in far north
Queensland. |
Kowanyama leader faces alcohol charge |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
13 April 2004 |
A prominent Queensland Aboriginal leader has become the latest high profile victim of the Government's tough Indigenous alcohol
laws. |
ATSIC to challenge Fed Govt in High Court |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 April 2004 |
The Australian and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) has lodged a writ with the High Court to challenge whether the
Federal Government has the power to re-direct its funds through an executive body. |
Tas Parliament to acknowledge traditional owners |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 April 2004 |
The Tasmanian Parliament resumes today with a formal acknowledgement of the traditional owners of the land on which Parliament
stands. |
Aboriginal education funding boost announced |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 April 2004 |
The Federal Education Minister Doctor Brendan Nelson says there will be a 20 per cent increase in funding for Aboriginal
education, especially in remote areas. |
Schools keen on Stolen Generations lessons |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 April 2004 |
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission says it has received more than 450 requests from teachers and schools
for an education module about the past practice of separating Indigenous children from their families. |
ATSIC boss labels Vanstone 'coward' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 April 2004 |
Queensland ATSIC leader Ray Robinson has labelled Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone a "coward" for attacking
him under parliamentary privilege. |
Pope seeks Aboriginal welfare update |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 April 2004 |
A Queensland Bishop says the Pope has asked about the welfare of Aborigines during a visit by Australian Catholic Bishops. |
Boycott hits Vanstone's Aboriginal legal tender |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 April 2004 |
The Indigenous Affairs Minister, Senator Amanda Vanstone, says a proposed Northern Territory-wide boycott of a Federal Government
tender scheme for Indigenous legal services is concerning. |
Police still searching for some Redfern rioters |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 April 2004 |
Sydney police say they are still looking for a number of people involved in February's Redfern riots. |
Howard hints at abolishing ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
31 March 2004 |
Prime Minister John Howard has strongly indicated he believes the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner (ATSIC)
should be abolished. |
NT politicians push to outlaw petrol sniffing |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
31 March 2004 |
The Northern Territory's Assistant Indigenous Affairs Minister, John Ah Kit, has endorsed a push to make petrol sniffing
illegal in the Territory. |
Robinson backs Opposition's plans to scrap ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
31 March 2004 |
Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) head Ray Robinson is urging Aborigines and Torres Strait
Islanders not to panic over a plan by Federal Labor to dump the body. |
Vanstone attacks commissioner's support for ATSIC shelving |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
31 March 2004 |
Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone has hit out at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) commissioner
Ray Robinson over his support for Labor's plan to abolish the peak Indigenous body and its related agency the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies Unit (ATSIS). |
Activists finish uranium protest trek |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 March 2004 |
Anti-nuclear activists have arrived at Parliament House in Canberra, after walking more than 2,000 kilometres from the Roxby
Downs uranium mine in South Australia. |
Call to put Indigenous health services on national agenda |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 March 2004 |
The Democrats have identified Indigenous health as a key issue for the upcoming federal Budget. |
Latham to scrap 'incapable' ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 March 2004 |
The Federal Opposition has announced it will scrap the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) if it wins
government. |
Reid report 'fails Indigenous Australians' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 March 2004 |
A senior health economist says the Reid report released yesterday has failed to properly acknowledge the grave state of Indigenous
health in Western Australia. |
Claim Govt warned about Redfern problems before riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 March 2004 |
Former New South Wales assistant police commissioner Clive Small has revealed he warned the State Government about problems
in Redfern just three months before a violent riot erupted last month. |
Mine contamination sparks Indigenous concerns |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 March 2004 |
The traditional owners of the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory say a contamination incident has exposed Aboriginal
communities to an unprecedented threat. |
Mine operator reveals third contamination case |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 March 2004 |
The operator of the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory has now revealed three cases of water contamination. |
Payback brings harmony to community: lawyer |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 March 2004 |
The lawyer for a Lajamanu man who has been accused of breaching his bail by volunteering himself for traditional punishment
says the act has brought harmony back to the man's Northern Territory community. |
Aboriginal elder banished after stabbing |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
25 March 2004 |
The South Australian Supreme Court has banished a respected Aboriginal leader from his traditional lands for one year. |
Date set for Hickey inquest |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
25 March 2004 |
A date has been set for the coronial inquest into the death of the Aboriginal teenager Thomas Hickey. |
Call for royal commission in Redfern death |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 March 2004 |
People from the Aboriginal community at Redfern in Sydney's inner-west and their supporters are marching to State Parliament
to demand a royal commission into the circumstances surrounding the death of teenager Thomas Hickey. |
Parenting orders 'would burden Indigenous families' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 March 2004 |
There has been a sceptical response to plans for a West Australian version of a British scheme that has seen a drop in juvenile
crime by 50 per cent among those involved. |
Indigenous people win access rights in north Qld |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 March 2004 |
The Federal Court has formally recognised the traditional rights of four Indigenous groups in the Gulf of Carpentaria. |
Indigenous legal aid tender a 'shambles': MP |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 March 2004 |
Federal Member for Lingiari in the Northern Territory, Warren Snowdon, says if Indigenous legal aid services are tendered
out more Aboriginal people will be jailed. |
Officer faces penalty over racist email |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 March 2004 |
The New South Wales Ombudsman will help decide how to discipline a police officer from Bourke who sent a racist email to
his colleagues. |
Premier to look into Redfern riot criticisms |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 March 2004 |
The New South Wales Premier has vowed to seriously examine damning criticisms by a former police inspector about police tactics
during last month's Redfern riot. |
Magistrate awarded $200,000 in defamation case |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 March 2004 |
The Supreme Court in Sydney has awarded Aboriginal magistrate Pat O'Shane more than $200,000 in damages in a defamation case. |
Ewamian people negotiate historic farm access |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 March 2004 |
Aboriginal people and pastoralists in North Queensland have signed an historic agreement credited with promoting reconciliation. |
ATSIC commissioner criticises funding arrrangements |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 March 2004 |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) Northern Zone commissioner Kim Hill says the present funding arrangement
set up by the Federal Government means Aboriginal communities cannot plan their future. |
Howard's practical reconciliation 'a failure' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 March 2004 |
In his final report on Indigenous policy, social justice commissioner Bill Jonas has labelled the Federal Government's "practical" approach
to reconciliation a failure. |
Liddy knew about wine all along: report |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 March 2004 |
The Beattie Government has been rocked by more revelations in the Lockhart River wine controversy. |
PM questions ATSIC's future |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 March 2004 |
Prime Minister John Howard has questioned whether the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) should continue
to exist, after it spent $85,000 covering the legal costs of its suspended chairman, Geoff Clark. |
Unstable ATSIC suits Govt agenda: Jonas |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 March 2004 |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Bill Jonas says it appears to suit the Federal Government's
agenda to allow ATSIC to fall into a state of disarray. |
ATSIC to challenge Govt over new Indigenous body |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 March 2004 |
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) will launch a High Court challenge to the Federal Government's
decision to establish a seperate body to deliver services to Indigenous people. |
Safety plan calls for Redfern renewal |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 March 2004 |
The City of Sydney has endorsed a plan to renew Redfern, including the area known as 'the Block'. |
Beattie re-hires sacked media advisor |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 March 2004 |
In a bizarre twist, Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has reinstated the media adviser who was sacked for taking a bottle
of wine into an Aboriginal community. |
Vanstone worried by books of corporation once led by ATSIC boss |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 March 2004 |
The Indigenous Affairs Minister has aired concerns in Federal Parliament about the finances of an Aboriginal corporation
formerly led by ATSIC Commissioner Ray Robinson. |
ATSIC leader backs maximum penalty in wine row |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 March 2004 |
The head of Australia's peak Indigenous body, ATSIC, is demanding the maximum penalty for whoever took a bottle of wine into
a dry Aboriginal community in far north Queensland. |
Senator blasts failure to tackle Indigenous domestic violence |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 March 2004 |
Northern Territory Labor Senator Trish Crossin says the Federal Government has failed to tackle domestic violence and drug
abuse in Indigenous communities. |
Reconciliation 'still on Govt agenda' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 March 2004 |
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone has rejected claims Prime Minister John Howard has tried to shut
down debate on reconciliation. |
PM 'shutting down' reconciliation debate |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 March 2004 |
A former chair of the Aboriginal and Torres State Islander Commission (ATSIC) claims the Prime Minister has tried to shut
down debate on reconciliation. |
Sacked media adviser hits out at Premier's trip |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 March 2004 |
The media adviser sacked because she took a bottle of wine into a dry Aboriginal community in Queensland has criticised the
Premier's trip to Lockhart River to apologise for the incident. |
Eight charged over riot in Qld Aboriginal community |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 March 2004 |
Eight people have been charged after a riot in the central Queensland Aboriginal community of Woorabinda last night. |
Muse of 'Rabbit Proof Fence' remembered |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 March 2004 |
The life of the woman who inspired the film Rabbit Proof Fence will be remembered at a funeral ceremony near Newman in Western
Australia on Saturday. |
