Few now remember the Indigenous Family Resettlement Scheme, an astonishingly successful pilot program to help Aboriginal families start new lives in urban centres. Billions of squadered dollars after opponents of assimilation saw it scrapped, the simple and cost-effective scheme is well worth reconsidering
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Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott agree our nation's foundation document needs tweaking to recognise Indigenous Australians. Having found common ground at last, they are both on the wrong side
A frank and distressing exchange with author and academic Stephanie Jarrett, whose book, Liberating Aboriginal People from Violence, voices a ground-breaking demand that policymakers abandon their fuzzy cliches and patronising indifference and implement realistic remedies
Senator-to-be Nova Peris may be better qualified than many of her detractors believe. After all, what better training for Canberra than a series of lucrative and well-intentioned contracts that did very little to achieve their goals?
To understand where Nova Peris stands on matters political, one place to start is Andrew Denton's 2003 Enough Rope interview. Her reluctance to say anything against ATSIC's scandal-plagued leadership must surely be a comfort to our Prime Minister
Dallas Scott: “I watched young, white identifiers roundly proclaim their connection to, and knowledge of, their 'culture', then turn around not five minutes later and abuse Aboriginal culture by speaking over an Elder.”
The rewriting of Eddie Mabo as a saint in a saintly cause is a gross rewriting of history, if the 1990 findings of facts in the Mabo case by Justice Moynihan are our guide.
It may be the debate we are not allowed to have, but are they claims we are not allowed to check?
Anita Heiss: "I am incredibly proud to be part of a thriving organisation and to lend my name and time to NASCA, which is fully governed by an all-Aboriginal board. From what I understand, we are the only organisation in the field who can claim that."
The issue is whether those benefits designed to assist Aboriginal people out of their desperate poverty should be more sharply targeted at those with a genuine need.
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