Social Justice Report 2006
Native Title Report 2006
Sorry business more than a word, Indigenous Co-Chair, National Sorry Day Committee, 30 November 2007
Traditional laws and customs for Githabul People set to live on forever, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 30 November 2007
Scheme 'based on flawed opinions', Chris Merritt, 29 November 2007
Aboriginal leaders letter to Editor
28 November 2007
Researcher calls for scrapping of 'racist' interventions policy, ABC, 27 November 2007
A decade of John Howard has left a country of timidity, fear and shame, Richard Flanagan, 26 November 2007
NT Aboriginal vote calls intervention into question, Women for Wik, 25 November 2007
What’s the Score? A survey of cultural diversity and racism in Australian sport, Race Discrimination Commissioner, 16 October 2007
Statement by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner on the Prime Minister’s call for a ‘new reconciliation’, 12 October 2007
Informing debate about race issues in Australia, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 19 September 2007
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 9 August 2007
Aborigines lose welfare appeal right, Annabel Stafford, 7 August 2007
Aboriginal organisations condemn government response, Survival International, 30 July 2007
Grabbing Aboriginal land for corporations, Dr Hannah Middleton, 25 July 2007
An entire culture is at stake, Patrick Dodson, 14 July 2007
Solidarity with indigenous Australian communities on 14 July 2007
Demonising plan will fail to save vulnerable, Kumanan Rasanathan and Alexandra Macmillan, 13 July 2007
Black or white - a man’s home is his castle, Jocelynne Scutt, 13 July 2007
At the crossroads of the permit debate, Tara Ravens, 12 July 2007
Government not helping Indigenous communities govern themselves: report, Adam Gartrell, 10 July 2007
Indigenous governance can succeed: study, Australian National University, 9 July 2007
Australian government could face legal action over Aborigine plans, Tara Ravens, 9 July 2007
Never as simple as black and white: turning good intention into results, Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 4 July 2007
Continuity and change through the new arrangements – Lessons for addressing the crisis of child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory, Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 3 July 2007
Worlds apart: Australia's prime minister is sending in the army to tackle child abuse and alcoholism in the Aboriginal homelands, but his aggressive campaign will only make the situation worse, Germaine Greer, 3 July 2007
A National Crisis: what John Howard isn’t doing, Professor Judy Atkinson, 3 July 2007
Howard's New Tampa: Aboriginal Children Overboard, Jennifer Martiniello, 28 June 2007
Charge of the Band-Aid Brigade - Part One: On the 'Little Children Are Sacred' report into child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory - Part Two: Presenting the myths on child sexual abuse, as reported in the 'Little Children are Sacred', 28 June 2007
Aboriginal alliance says government plan ‘unworkable’, National Indigenous Times, 28 June 2007
Howard repeats history, National Sorry Day Committee, 28 June 2007
Administrator wanted: no experience required, National Indigenous Times, 28 June 2007
Editorial: Communities prepare for the next invasion, National Indigenous Times, 28 June 2007
Statement on Intervention in the NT, Australian Council of Social Service and others, 27 June 2007
Terrified families flee in panic, Lindsay Murdoch and Stephanie Peatling, 27 June 2007
Dealing in hypocrisy: the 'art' of doing violence whilst preaching against it, Jocelynne Scutt, 26 June 2007
Delegation to hand Aboriginal re-think letter to Howard, National Indigenous Times, 26 June 2007
A human rights based approach is vital to address the challenges in Indigenous communities, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 26 June 2007
Howard and Rudd on the wrong path on child abuse prevention, SNAICC, 26 June 2007
Open letter to Mal Brough, Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Australian Council of Social Service, SNAICC and more than 150 community organisations, 26 June 2007
Troops and police on the ground in NT, National Indigenous Times, 25 June 2007
Statement from the leaders of the Mutitjulu community, 25 June 2007
Social Justice Commissioner’s statement on the government’s ‘national emergency’ measures, Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 22 June 2007
Yet another failed Howard experiment in indigenous affairs?, Professor Jon Altman, 22 June 2007
Prime Minister Told of neglect and abuse in the Territory four years ago, says Chair of Peak Indigenous Children’s Services Body, SNAICC, 22 June 2007
Aboriginal land council attacks Howard's reforms, Tara Ravens, 22 June 2007
Federal Response to Indigenous Child Abuse Must Strengthen Not Weaken Families, says Indigenous Child and Family Services Leader, SNAICC, 20 June 2007
NT community wins challenge to administrator, Margaret Scheikowski, 18 June 2007
This page was semi-archived in 2003 due to lack of resources to keep it regularly updated. More recent material will be added above from time to time.
Australia-UN relations hit new low, ABC News, 7 May 2003
Ruddock fury over Woomera computer game, Sean Nicholls, 30 April 2003
Australian Human Peace Shields in Iraq - "we will stick it out, we will not be moved", Baghdad, 18 March 2003
Unrepentant PM won't budge, Mark Riley, Lee Glendinning and Ellen Connolly, 11 March 2003
Howard readies for war as US struggles for votes, Mark Riley and Caroline Overington, 10 March 2003
PMs plan Pacific anti-terror unit, Vernon Small, 10 March 2003
The undeclared war, with or without Australian SAS, AAP and AFP, 5 March 2003
Defence push for Australian missile shield, Tom Allard, 27 February 2003
The streets were full but still they came, Neil Mercer, Sean Nicholls and Ellen Connolly, 17 February 2003
Howard rejects global protests, Matt Wade, Peter Fray, Neil Mercer and Aban Contractor, 17 Februaru 2003
Australian Opposition in Angry Clash with US Over Iraq, AFP, 12 February 2003
Final Forward Deployment Of ADF Elements, Australian Defence Force, 7 February 2003
NZ's envoy backs Downer, Nick Venter, 6 February 2003
PM's road to conflict may bypass Parliament, Cynthia Banham and Mark Riley, 6 February 2003
PM 'locked in' to war months ago, Mark Riley and Marian Wilkinson, 6 February 2003
Australian PM Suffers Historic Censure for Sending Troops to Gulf, AFP, 5 February 2003
Australia puts more pressure on United Nations over Iraq, Peter O'Connor, 29 January 2003
PNG PM urges Howard to consider Pacific Islands nations desire for peace in the region, Sir Michael Somare, 28 January 2003
'Don't use Bali bomb as pretext for attack', Rob Griffin, 26 January 2003
Australia - Troops ordered to the Gulf, Mark Forbes, 23 January 2003
Australia - 'No' to going it alone, Annabel Crabb, 18 January 2003
George Bush's other poodle - John Howard, Australia's PM, is the mouse that roars for America, whipping his country into war fever and paranoia about terrorism within, John Pilger, 17 January 2003
The case against war with Iraq, General Peter Gration (chief of the Australian Defence Force during the Gulf War), 2 January 2003
Using war criminals to fight terrorism replaces one poison with another, James Dunn, 14 November 2002
Howard's racist ASIO raids - who's next? Sarah Stephen, 6 November 2002
ASIO puts its foot in it again, Terry Lane, 3 November 2002
World rocked for a Muslim family living the quiet life, Linda Morris and Deborah Cameron, 31 October 2002
Australian secret police target terror suspects, Greg Ansley, 31 October 2002
Muslims in Australia face Bali backlash, Kathy Marks, 5 November 2002
Aid to be used to fight terrorism, AAP, 30 October 2002
Bali - the lies go on, John Pilger, 25 October 2002
Briefing: Impact Of The Bali Bombings, ICG, 24 October 2002
Bali terror: Indonesian military ties NOT the answer! ASAP, 24 October 2002
Australians turn on government over US alliance, Andrew Gumbel, 19 October 2002
Lethal Hypocrisy: for 40 years, Australian governments have colluded with state terrorism, John Pilger, 17 Oct 2002
Pine Gap Protest! 5 to 7 October 2002
Australians accused of torture in East Timor, Peter O'Connor, 4 October 2002
Pine Gap gears for war with eye on Iraq, Craig Skehan, 30 September 2002
Expose Pine Gap! Media Alert, 20 September 2002
Asylum minister's daughter protests at hardline policy, Kathy Marks, 17 September 2002
Aborigines halt Rio Tinto project, Jason Nissé, 15 September 2002
Raising the sovereignty stakes: the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra may not be the most picturesque of monuments, but it remains an important symbol of indigenous defiance, David Fickling, 19 August 2002
'Still Drifting' - update of 'Adrift in the Pacific the Implications of Australia’s Pacific Refugee Solution', Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, 15 August 2002
Shamed by two lost boys on the other side of the world, Independent Leader, 19 July 2002
Inquiry into Australia's relationship with Papua New Guinea and other Pacific island countries, PMA 25 June 2002 - deadline is 8 July 2002.
Fight For Country, Aziz Choudry, 27 June 2002
Timor gas billions all at sea, Hamish McDonald, 27 March 2002
Letter re Australian intercepts about East Timor crimes, IHRC, 24 March 2002
Playing With Children's Lives: A Tried and Tested Tactic for Australian Government, Aziz Choudry, 29 March 2002
Journalism in Australia has a courageous history, but Murdochism has turned it into a disgrace, John Pilger, 21 February 2002
Few asylum-seekers actually reach Australia's shores, and if they do, their treatment beggars belief, John Pilger, 25 January 2002
Australia: refugees, PMA, 30 August 2001
Downer seeks closer military ties with Indonesia, 8 December 2000
Canberra fails to get Jabiluka all-clear, The Age, 25 November 2000
Australia bans UN human rights inspections, online responses due, WILPF, 1 September 2000
Letter Regarding the Stolen Generation, WILPF, 30 July 2000
Australia could become a NMD target, 18 July 2000
Walking for reconciliation in Australia, 6 June 2000
Ranger water leak raises questions about Kakadu, 3 May 2000
How New Zealand Overshadows Australia, its Larger Neighbour 29 May 2000
Australian government attacks UN Treaty system, 30 March 2000
Abolition of Mandatory Jail Laws Gains Support, 29 March 2000
Mandatory Sentencing in WA and the Northern Territory, 10 March 2000
Sharp Drop in Gun Crime Follows Tough Australian Firearm Laws, 1 February 2000
Australian government defends forced removal of Aboriginal children, 10 November 1999
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights, 6 December 1999
Racist 'justice': Australia, 27 September 1999
Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Radio Australia, 10 August 1999
Jabiluka : urgent update 11 July 1999
Update : Jabiluka latest, 29 June 1999
Update : Jabiluka, 13 April 1999
Jabiluka/Mirrar women jailed, 8 March 1999
Jabiluka Alert, 17 November 1999
Urgent - Jabiluka/Kakadu Fax before 22 June 1998, 6 June 1999
Follow-up to Madeleine Albright visit alert, 18 August 1998
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