CANBERRA - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered the Government's apology to indigenous Australians, promising that the injustices of the past will never be repeated ( Read more... )

History will judge Australians harshly if efforts are not made to help indigenous people survive ( Read more... )

( Scientist debunks nomadic Aborigine 'myth' )

Professor Dodson is Director of the ANU's National Centre for Indigenous Studies amongst many other roles. He's a Yawuru man, the Yawuru people are the traditional custodians of country around Broome (his bio can be found here  http://law.anu.edu.au/scripts/StaffDetails.asp?StaffID=344 )

Professor Mick Dodson writes:

None of us is in any doubt that ( Read more... )

Disappointment for abused Australian Aborigines

( Story inside )

Forwarded on from Kim Sattler who was a key organiser, I wasn't at this protest. This protest was held in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, Ngunnawal country - the name Canberra is based on an Aboriginal word for meeting place.

Hi all

Well done to all those hundreds who braved the cold and foggy day to march from the Tent Embassy to Garema ( Read more... )

Some stuff was posted to this excellent forum previously (long time lurker, possibly first time poster).

A lot is still up in the air, some seems a little scary and way too totalitarian, but at least, on this the 10 year anniversary of the Bringing them Home Report (an excellent report on Aboriginal children forcibly removed, it's still quite an ( Read more... )

By Michael Perry ( Read more... )

By ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press Writer ( Read more... )

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