Article |
Source |
Date |
Summary |
Petrol sniffing closes NT school |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 March 2004 |
The problem of petrol sniffing has forced one Aboriginal community in central Australia to cancel all secondary schooling
and sack its two teachers. |
Indigenous crisis ignored, forum told |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 March 2004 |
The Central Zone Commissioner of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission has criticised health and child welfare
workers for using culture as an excuse to ignore domestic violence, substance abuse and child abuse amongst Aboriginal communities. |
Racist email circulates among NSW police |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 March 2004 |
An email containing racist slurs against Aborigines has been circulated on the New South Wales police internal email system. |
Land council wants native title funds review |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 March 2004 |
An Aboriginal land council in Western Australia's Kimberley region is calling for an urgent Federal Government review of
what it calls a "crisis" in the native title system. |
Two more arrested over Redfern riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 March 2004 |
Two more men have been arrested over the riot in the Sydney suburb of Redfern last month. |
Military chiefs to front Senate committee hearing |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 March 2004 |
The mother of a 19-year-old soldier who committed suicide after allegedly enduring racial abuse from a Defence instructor
is expected to tell her story to a Senate committee hearing in Canberra today. |
Tribunal may consider 'stolen wages' reparations |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 March 2004 |
The New South Wales Premier says a tribunal may be set up to work out how to repay Aboriginal workers whose wages were paid
into government trust funds, but never given to them. |
Choir gets long-awaited festival call-up |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 February 2004 |
An Aboriginal choir from South Australia's far north has finally performed at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, nearly 40 years
after first trying to take part. |
Postcard campaign highlights Afghans' settlement role |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 February 2004 |
Several national identities are supporting a new postcard campaign to change the Federal Government's asylum seeker policies. |
Aboriginal women to defy police by dancing topless |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 February 2004 |
ATSIC's central zone commissioner says she and other Aboriginal women will demonstrate their right to preserve traditional
law today by dancing topless at the opening of a cultural centre in Alice Springs. |
Apology 'will not end' topless dance dispute |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 February 2004 |
The Northern Territory's Deputy Police Commissioner says an incident between police and Papunya women, who were moved on
last week for dancing topless, will not be resolved with a simple apology. |
Hickey's aunt bailed on riot charges |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 February 2004 |
The aunt of Thomas Hickey, whose death sparked a riot in Sydney's Redfern area two weeks ago, has been released on bail. |
Indigenous snapshot shows young population |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 February 2004 |
A snapshot of Indigenous Australians reveals a young population, with a high birthrate and low incomes. |
Parliamentary inquiry to investigate Redfern riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 February 2004 |
The New South Wales Upper House has voted to hold a parliamentary inquiry into Redfern in light of the recent riot. |
Indigenous call centre opens in Townsville |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
25 February 2004 |
Residents of Indigenous communities now have access to trained telecommunications staff who understand their culture, languages
and problems. |
Indigenous leaders welcome Torres Strait land use agreement |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
25 February 2004 |
Torres Strait Indigenous leaders have welcomed a land use agreement with the Federal Government to establish a new defence
radar system in the region. |
Man charged over Redfern riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
25 February 2004 |
A man accused of setting Redfern railway station alight during last week's riot has appeared briefly in a Sydney court. |
Police tell of attack after Hickey funeral |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
25 February 2004 |
Police in the New South Wales town of Walgett say they were attacked with bricks and bottles early this morning, by people
attending a party after the funeral of teenager Thomas Hickey. |
Latham pledges to end Indigenous inequality |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 February 2004 |
Federal Opposition leader Mark Latham has promised a Labor government would give Indigenous issues huge priority. |
Police praise Hickey mourners |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 February 2004 |
Police have praised the behaviour of mourners at the funeral of the Aboriginal teenager whose death sparked a riot in inner
Sydney last week. |
Redfern remembers Thomas Hickey |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 February 2004 |
More than 200 people have gathered in Redfern for a memorial service for 17-year-old Thomas 'TJ' Hickey and a protest march. |
Walgett prepares for Hickey funeral |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 February 2004 |
Busloads of mourners from Sydney have made the 10-hour trip to the north-western New South Wales town of Walgett to attend
today's funeral for Thomas 'TJ' Hickey. |
Aboriginal art dealer wins Age defamation payout |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 February 2004 |
A Northern Territory woman says she hopes she can rebuild her reputation after Melbourne's Age newspaper paid her $430,000
for a defamatory article published in November, 2000. |
Union calls for permanent police riot squad |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 February 2004 |
New South Wales police in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern will meet today amid claims officers were ill-equipped to properly
respond to last week's riot. |
Carr '100pc behind' Redfern police |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 February 2004 |
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr says police in inner Sydney have always had the Government's full support over the handling
of last weekend's riot in Redfern. |
NSW police deny Redfern ban plan |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 February 2004 |
The New South Wales Police Association has played down a newspaper report that officers at the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern
will impose a work ban on the site of last Sunday night's riot. |
Aboriginal academic brands Qld minister racist |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 February 2004 |
An Indigenous academic is calling on the Queensland Government to apologise for comments made by new Child Protection Minister
Mike Reynolds. |
Redfern teen's death prompts Canberra protest |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 February 2004 |
A stand-off has developed between police and Aboriginal protesters outside the Australian Federal Police (AFP) headquarters
in Canberra. |
Aunt refused bail on riot charges |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 February 2004 |
A Sydney magistrate has been forced to clear his court room after refusing bail to the aunt of Aboriginal teenager Thomas
Hickey, whose death last weekend sparked rioting in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. |
Latham vows Stolen Generations apology |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 February 2004 |
Federal Opposition leader Mark Latham has promised a Labor Government would apologise to the Stolen Generations. |
Woman charged over Redfern riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 February 2004 |
A 37-year-old woman has been charged over her alleged involvement in the riot in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern on Sunday
night. |
Redfern remembers Thomas Hickey |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 February 2004 |
The Aboriginal community of Redfern in Sydney has held a memorial service for 17-year-old Thomas Hickey this afternoon. |
Indigenous protesters complain of camp shooting |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 February 2004 |
Indigenous protesters at a Lake Cowal in southern NSW are complaining they have been under attack in the past few months. |
Calm overnight in Redfern |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 February 2004 |
It has been calm overnight in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern after Sunday night's violent riot. |
First female Indigenous minister starts job |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 February 2004 |
Australia's first female Indigenous minister will today sit on the front bench of the Northern Territory Parliament. |
Man fears tribal curse after court stops payback |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 February 2004 |
The Northern Territory Supreme Court has restricted the bail conditions for a man who wants to undergo tribal punishment
as payback for the death of his wife. |
Policeman recovers from Redfern knock-out |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 February 2004 |
A New South Wales policeman is recovering after being knocked out when he was hit in the head with a brick during Sydney's
Redfern riot. |
Charges expected over brawls |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 February 2004 |
Police in Tamworth and Armidale, in northern New South Wales, are investigating savage brawls which have left a number of
people in hospital in both centres. |
Fifty police injured in Redfern riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 February 2004 |
Calm has returned to the inner Sydney streets of Redfern after a night of rioting during which more than 50 police were injured. |
Ongoing tensions helped fuel riot, academic says |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 February 2004 |
A senior academic says last night's riot in Redfern shows relations between police and the Aboriginal community remain volatile,
despite years of State Government policy work. |
NSW Opposition says neglect led to riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 February 2004 |
The New South Wales Opposition's police spokesman, Peter Debnam, says the Redfern riot is a result of years of neglect. |
A car burnt out during the Redfern riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 February 2004 |
The Aboriginal community has been holding a BBQ in Redfern tonight after elders called for no further violence following
last night's riots. |
NT uni launches Yolngu culture course |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 February 2004 |
Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory is conducting courses on Yolngu culture. |
High Court upholds unlawful sex sentence |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
13 February 2004 |
The High Court has refused to hear an appeal by a Northern Territory Aboriginal man convicted of unlawful sex with his 15-year-old
promised wife. |
Governments urged to act on Indigenous problems |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 February 2004 |
Reconciliation Australia says last year, governments recognised that there had not been much positive change for Aboriginal
people but this must be followed by action this year. |
Melbourne police accused of brutality |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 February 2004 |
Police are investigating claims a 26-year-old was bashed during his arrest in Melbourne on the weekend. |
ATSIC wants trust document released |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 February 2004 |
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) is calling for the public release of a New South Wales Government
document on tens of millions of dollars owed to Indigenous people in the state. |
Babies offered uni music course |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 February 2004 |
Babies will be able to enrol at the Australian National University in Canberra as part of a new music course aimed at boosting
self-esteem. |
Springborg hears Indigenous child abuse concerns |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 February 2004 |
Queensland Opposition leader Lawrence Springborg has met Indigenous leaders in the south Burnett community of Cherbourg to
hear their concerns about child abuse. |
Sleeping campers survive croc attack |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 January 2004 |
Two campers are recovering in Kununurra in the Kimberley in Western Australia after a crocodile attacked the tent they were
sleeping in. |
Govt urged to resolve Clark's future |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 January 2004 |
The Federal Opposition is demanding the Government act quickly to resolve the future of suspended ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark. |
Legal aid decries lack of sniffing rehabilitation |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 January 2004 |
The Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service says it is frustrated there are still no appropriate programs to rehabilitate
offenders who are petrol sniffers. |
Clark to take suspension fight to higher court |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 January 2004 |
Suspended ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark will take his fight to be reinstated to the Federal Court. |
Australian software used as US shoots for Mars |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 January 2004 |
NASA is using Australian software first designed to measure the brain function of Aborigines affected by petrol sniffing
for experiments on what people would need to survive the hostile environment of Mars. |
Museum's loss of Indigenous remains revealed |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 January 2004 |
The Victorian Opposition is calling for an investigation into the loss of Aboriginal human remains from the Melbourne Museum. |
Indigenous people reap jobs from new rail link |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 January 2004 |
The Northern Land Council says the first train from Adelaide to Darwin marks a new era for the Northern Territory's Aboriginal
people. |
Inspiration for 'Rabbit Proof Fence' passes away |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 January 2004 |
The 87-year-old Aboriginal woman upon whose life the film Rabbit Proof Fence was based, has died at Jigalong in Western Australia's
north. |
Clark ATSIC case adjourned for a week |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 January 2004 |
Suspended Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) leader Geoff Clark says he is pleased to hear a decision
will be made about his future by the end of next week. |
NT plans Indigenous croc safari jobs |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 January 2004 |
The Northern Territory Government says Aboriginal communities on Arnhem Land or on the Tiwi Islands north of Darwin have
the potential to run safari hunts for saltwater crocodiles. |
Music lessons 'fall by wayside' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 January 2004 |
A conference in Hobart has heard that almost 80 per cent of Australia's government school students are missing out on music
lessons at school. |
Quartermaine says violence has no place in culture |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 January 2004 |
The acting head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission says domestic violence in Indigenous communities
has reached epidemic proportions. |
New funding better spent on health services: ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 January 2004 |
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) has welcomed new funding for Indigenous health research, but
says the money should have been allocated to health services. |
Indigenous community grieves Aunty's passing |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 January 2004 |
Queensland's Indigenous community is mourning the loss of one of its most respected leaders. |
Beattie draws fire in Indigenous foster care debate |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 December 2003 |
An Indigenous leader says overturning the system of placing at-risk Indigenous children with Indigenous foster families will
not work. |
Indigenous job programs failing |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 December 2003 |
Aboriginal work-for-the-dole programs are set to be overhauled with revelations that the programs have debts of at least
$2 million. |
No suspects in tent embassy arson: police |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 December 2003 |
ACT police say security tapes from Old Parliament House have not helped them identify who carried out an arson attack on
the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in June. |
Indigenous leaders seek SA treaty |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 December 2003 |
Njarrindjeri leaders have demanded the recognition of Indigenous ownership of traditional lands and waters in a petition
to South Australian Governor Marjorie Jackson Nelson. |
WA considers Aboriginal fishing rights |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 December 2003 |
The Western Australian Department of Fisheries says further consultation will be needed before a proposed Aboriginal fishing
strategy is finalised. |
Expert disputes claim emissions harm rock art |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 December 2003 |
The chairman of an independent committee says there is no scientific basis for claims that industry emissions are affecting
rock art in the Burrup near Dampier in Western Australia's north-west. |
Police nab 400kg of kava |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 December 2003 |
Northern Territory police have uncovered about 400 kilograms of kava, with an estimated street value of $400,000. |
Traditional owners win native title rights in Kimberley |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 December 2003 |
The Federal Court has granted traditional owners in the north Kimberley native title rights to a large parcel of land in
the region. |
Cities 'prefer to ignore Aboriginal issues' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 December 2003 |
A high-profile journalist says attracting attention to the problems facing Aboriginal communities has always been a struggle
because people in cities prefer to ignore them. |
ATSIC puts up rival reform plan |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 December 2003 |
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) board has put forward its own proposals for reform, following
the release of the Federal Government's review of the commission's structure. |
ATSIC board behind Clark |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 December 2003 |
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission has called on the Prime Minister reinstate suspended chairman Geoff
Clark. |
No logging for Tas Aboriginal rock art site |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 December 2003 |
Forestry Tasmania will not log the area where 35 ancient Aboriginal paintings have been found in the State's south-western
wilderness. |
Ancient rock art found in Tasmania |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 December 2003 |
Aboriginal rock paintings believed to be thousands of years old have been discovered in Tasmania's south-west. |
Future unclear: Geoff Clark guilty of obstructing police |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 December 2003 |
Clark's future in doubt after appeal ruling. |
Prosecution wants Clark case thrown out of court |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 December 2003 |
Police in Victoria have finished giving evidence at the appeal by suspended Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
(ATSIC) chairman Geoff Clark against convictions for obstructing police and riotous behaviour. |
