The Sydney Morning Herald
'A sad and happy day' as tribal bones return home
Date: 22/06/2001
By Tony Stephens
Sydney University handed back to a group of Kimberley Aborigines the bones of
their own people yesterday.
In a moving and solemn ceremony, black and white men shook hands and signed
The Sydney Morning Herald
June 22, 2001
Letters: More care needed when criticising Aboriginal leaders
Date: 22/06/2001
Your newspaper should not have published the rape allegations concerning Geoff
Clark. No person has ever been accused of criminal
activity in a reputable publication where
.
Trudy
Bridget Carrick wrote:
Trudy why would Rudduck feel uncomfortable being supported by racists when
he comes across (to me at least) as being exceptionally racist himself!!??
Bridget
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I'm sure you'll join me in thanking Les Harsant for the tremendous job he did
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I just noticed on the list mention of Indigenous Electoral
officers being dismissed. Can you anyone give me some
background on that issue please.
thanks
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Our society is so easy on rape that it's a crime
Date: 19/06/2001
When the chance of a rapist being convicted is one in 100, writes Marea
Donnelly, sexual assault has been effectively
decriminalised.
If Australian criminal law makes rape - or more properly, sexual
MEDIA RELEASE
June 22, 2001
NATIONAL ABORIGINAL JUSTICE ADVISORY COUNCIL
At the 17th session of the National Aboriginal Justice Advisory Council meeting
held in Brisbane on the 19-21st June 2001. Recent statements by Aboriginal
Leaders and other prominent Indigenous individuals
I've made some more changes. Hope this one works.
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THE AGE
'Scurrilous attack': Geoff Clark's statement
Wednesday 20 June 2001
The following is the edited text of a statement issued last night by ATSIC
chairman
Geoff Clark in response to claims by four women in The Age that he raped them.
This is the first time in the modern history
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Deb,
Thanks a lot. I use Law Portal usually and could not find
In case anyone missed me ...
We had a motherboard meltdown on Monday so we've been off-line until just a few
minutes ago.
Everything seems OK now after a suitable infusion of money to our local computer
store. :-)
Trudy
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MEDIA RELEASE
Wednesday 21st of March
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal identity comes in many colours
Date: 11/07/2001
As big as the gulf dividing black and white in Australia, writes Stan Grant, is
that which separates black from black.
I have a cousin, let's call him Len. I sat with Len last month as he celebrated
his 43rd
Interesting to see what kind of people the Right attracts ... Trudy
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: We're living in a free land ... free to go without
Date: 12/07/2001
Tony Abbott's simplistic comments on the working poor and freedom reminded me of
a verse I once heard: Australia is a free
The Independent (UK)
12 July 2001 14:01 GMT+1
Aborigines offer alternative guide to their land
By Kathy Marks in Tilba Tilba
11 July 2001
There she goes, said Lino Thomas, peering through the drizzle at
the mist-veiled mountain rising ahead. Look at that grey cloak.
She's wearing her
Herald Sun
Singer's Kutcha culture coup
By JEREMY CALVERT
14jul01
VICTORIAN musician Kutcha Edwards was last night named indigenous person of the
year.
Mr Edwards was presented with the award at a ceremony in Melbourne marking the
National
Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee
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Can someone please provide me with the official High Court
name of the Wik
case please?
Howard doesn't seem to understand that governments do not have a 'moral
obligation' - as if it was charity - but a legal obligation. He couldn't be
clearer on what he thinks is the 'problem' with Aboriginal communities ... Trudy
THE AGE
PM backs
The Sydney Morning Herald
July 20, 2001
OBITUARIES
Paddy Roe
Aboriginal elder, 1912-2001
For many, there can be no greater loss than the death of Paddy Roe. A character
known far beyond his home country around Broome in
Western Australia, Roe was not only respected as an elder holding profound
The Sydney Morning Herald
Knockabout kind of thinker creates kit house for the outback
Date: 25/07/2001
One-time Utzon associate Peter Myers is not afraid to step into difficult
territory, writes Geraldine O'Brien.
Architecture can have its genesis in the most unlikely places. For Peter
New UN forum to give indigenous peoples more clout
Source: AAP|Published: Friday July 27, 12:20 PM
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson announced today the
creation of a permanent forum for the world's indigenous peoples,
which will enhance their position in the UN
URGENT MEDIA RELEASE
-From the Aboriginal Tent Embassy Canberra-
PLEASE CIRCULATE
The Cops Have Done It Again
In the name of Reconciliation the National Capital Authority (NCA) and the
Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Monday the 30th July 2001 at 4:30 in
the
afternoon once again
Subject: Candle Light Walk in Adelaide
Hi
Just a reminder that the Candle Light Walk for Justice
and Peace is on 3 August in Adelaide - starting at the
(winter) times: gather at 6.30pm for a 7.30pm start.
It will be the eighteenth walk !
Candle Light Walks are held monthly in Adelaide at
From KooriNet ...
REPARATIONS FOR THE STOLEN GENERATIONS CONFERENCE
ATSIC, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the
Public Interest Advocacy Centre are hosting a national conference to
facilitate public debate about reparations for the Stolen Generations.
The Reparations
The Canberra Times
Aug 1, 2001
Police move in to quell Aboriginal protesters' fire
By KIRSTEN LAWSON
Aboriginal protesters clashed with security staff outside Parliament House last
night, as their fire was extinguished and
their protest disbanded.
Aboriginal Tent Embassy spokesman Kevin
ABC Indigenous News
Monday August 13, 2001
Public debate over accuracy of National
Museum exhibit
The National Museum of Australia is planning to hold a public debate
over whether an exhibit in the indigenous gallery misrepresents history.
Historian Keith Windschuttle has criticised a display
The Inside Story
Within our detention centres are probably
the most traumatised people on the face of the
planet - clinical psychologist Zachary Steel.
Last September, at the Sydney Olympic
Games, Australia was the toast of the world.
On centre stage: our multicultural heritage and
our
Hi Rod,
Good letter! I think you are correct in your judgement and the fact that two of
the escapees were interviewed in Sydney by Four Corners while the immigration
dept can't find them, bears out your assertions.
Trudy
Rod Hagen wrote:
I've just sent the following to The Age:
The West Australian
August 15, 2001
WA still a youth lock-up leader
By Julie Butler
WA STILL detains young people at one of the
highest rates in Australia, according to the latest
Australian Institute of Criminology figures.
WA also has the worst over-representation of
Hi Suze,
It shocked me too - the number of people voting 'no' especially in light of the
readership of the SMH. I guess it shows how successful Ruddock's smear campaign
and villification of the refugees has been.
I think if an Australian from even 30 years ago could return from the grave, he
or
The Canberra Times
August 15, 2001
Enter illegally at your peril
By CRISPIN HULL
THE LATIN phrase habeas corpus means ''you should have the body''. For 800
years,
habeas corpus has been part of the law we inherited from England.
In 1215 King John granted the right of habeas corpus to his
endorse them.
Tim
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Hi Tim,
I agree with you - up to a point. Yes, a lot of these polls are
manipulated and
when you
we are just being
agents in our own manipulation. Ignore them and get on with important
things.
Tim
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Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:34 PM
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Hi Suze
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: Whatever happened to compassion?
Date: 16/08/2001
What has happened to fairness and decency in this country? An escapee's family
from Villawood is deported as a retaliatory act of
revenge. The parents of a traumatised six-year-old boy are blamed by the
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: Compassion for whales but not refugees
Date: 15/08/2001
When a dog is mistreated, the RSPCA is called. Hundreds of concerned Australians
rush to help stranded whales. A six-year-old Iraqi
asylum seeker slips silently towards death through post-traumatic
http://www.smh.com.au/news/specials/vote/index.html
The Sydney Morning Herald is conducting a poll on whether people think that
Shayan's family should be released from Villawood.
Trudy
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Letters
August 15, 2001
Conservation first, then land rights
NSW has a maze of complex legislation designed to transfer public land to the
ownership of Aboriginal organisations. Although I support
economic compensation for the Aboriginal community, I cannot support it
Rod,
I'm also a bit wary of a treaty but only because I think it may, in the long
run, not guarantee Indigenous rights because it can so easily be ignored.
All human rights, including Aboriginal land rights, would be a whole lot safer
in a Bill of Rights enshrined in the Constitution.
I know
The Sydney Morning Herald
August 17, 2001
Letters
What a funny mob we are. We howl with righteous anger at a murderous regime
which would execute people for promoting
unacceptable religious beliefs. When its desperate citizens flee that same
murderous regime, we put them in jail.
Cara Minns,
...so long as people who are not refugees induce some of their family members
to illicit public sympathy ...
Ruddock's comment on the little boy who has no will to live.
I sometimes think that Ruddock needs psychiatric assessment - he is so divorced
from reality.
Trudy
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Oh, well, the 27th is not that far off. Thanks for the notice!
Trudy
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ABC News
Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:21 AEST
Swing against CLP could deliver
govt to Labor
A big swing against the Country Liberal Party (CLP) in
the Northern Territory could deliver government for the
first time to the Labor Party.
With almost 60 per cent of the vote counted, the swing
against the
THE AGE
Labor in Territory poll shock
By DARRIN FARRANT
DARWIN
Sunday 19 August 2001
In a stunning upset yesterday , the Labor party was close to gaining power in
the
Northern Territory for the first time since self-government was granted in the
1970s.
The result was too close to call
The Treaty process as political football ...
Trudy
=
The Vancouver Sun
Monday 20 August 2001
B.C. Liberals likely to
'water down' native treaty
referendum, says report
DENE MOORE
VANCOUVER (CP) - British Columbia's Liberal government will
Phillip,
Men and women do not have different brain structures. Size difference in whole
or in part does not constitute a difference in structure.
Men's brains are bigger in general but not necessarily individually. As a ratio
to body weight, women's brains are bigger than men in general but not
The Sydney Morning Herald
Expectations and extenuations in the Territory
Date: 24/08/2001
Will a new government in the Top End bring any real change on mandatory
sentencing, asks Richard Ackland?
Few will mourn the departure of one of the meanest little cliques in Australia -
the 27-year-old
Phillip,
While there are differences in size of structures and in information processing,
the brain's structures in men and women are the same.
The brain's development is very largely dependent on hormones and, since these
are highly variable, the resulting brain can also show great variation
Phillip,
I said I wouldn't say any more about it but ... you sound angry because I didn't
accept your interpretation of the study. I hope you have read more than this one
book. It is important to differentiate between differences and variations. What
the authors are talking about are variations
Hi Phillip,
I can't advise you how to frame what you are trying to say. I respect your
beliefs and opinions but I do not necessarily share all of them.
I think there is too much variation in human behaviour to be able to put them in
boxes saying men and women. But I do agree that a great
The Courier-Mail
British museums move to return aboriginal artefacts
Christine Middap and Justine Nolan
27aug01
SOME of Britain's largest museums will return aboriginal artefacts to their
owners.
At least 40 museums are believed to be preparing to give back all or part of
disputed
ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY TO LEAD PEOPLE'S MARCH ON CHOGM
By Karen Fredericks -Green Left Weekly, 29 Aug, 2001 www.greenleft.org.au
BRISBANE - The traditional owners of Brisbane and surrounding areas will
throw their backing behind planned protest plans against the Commonwealth
Heads of Government
media release
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Monday, August 27, 2001
Aboriginal Woman Dies at
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/survey.asp
The Canberra Times has a pre-election survey on what is important to you and has
room for comments.
Trudy
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Aborigine found dead in Qld prison cell
An Aboriginal man was found hanging in his cell on Tuesday at Arthur Gorrie
Correctional Centre, west of Brisbane.
A spokesman for the Department of Corrective Services said the 48-year-old man
If the GST scam is not a scam because only a 'small' amount of money was
involved, does that mean that Aboriginal teenagers in the NT will now be let out
of jail? Those who took things like biscuits and other things of minor worth can
no longer be accused of theft, can they?
Trudy
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The Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/webdiary/0108/30/A59363-2001Aug29.html
Moral panic
MARGO KINGSTON'S Webdiary
Wednesday, August 29
From the very beginning, the Government treated it as an act of war by
the boat people. Now, we're at war with Norway.
From the beginning,
I have sent a message of support to the address below and asked them to relay
the message to the captain of the Tampa.
Anyone who also wants to send messages of support to the Tampa can do so at the
address below.
Royal Norwegian Consulate-General
Tel : (02) 9255 0818
Fax : (02) 9247 9290
The Canberra Times
Refugees under arrest, tyranny on the loose
By Bob Ellis
PEOPLE fleeing Afghanistan for no good cause have hijacked the ship Tampa and
will be arrested for piracy, tried and
jailed in Australia and their wives and children sent home to the tender care
of the Taliban.
Media Release
August 30, 2001
INDIGENOUS HEALTH: GREATER RISKS, SHORTER LIFE EXPECTANCY
Indigenous Australians have higher death rates, shorter life expectancy, and
are more likely to be hospitalised than other Australians, according to a major
biennial report
launched in
http://www.smh.com.au/news/webdiary/0108/30/A59512-2001Aug30.html
Margo Kingston's webdiary A legal minefield
It has the legislation that Howard drew up so hastily.
It's worth a look.
Trudy
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Tampa asylum seekers - let them land on Christmas Island
The Now We The People conference statement included a call for an end to
mandatroy detention for asylum seekers, and a humane dignified process for
dealing with them. The Tampa case shows that the howard governmetn is travelling
fast in
One of the contributors to Margo Kingston's Web Diary draws a very
accurate parallel.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/webdiary/0108/31/A59494-2001Aug29.html
David Anderson
For the first time possibly the world will get a glimpse the Australian
xenophobia. The refugee story is the lead on the BBC
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters
August 31, 2001
Su Carter mentions the SS St Louis incident (Letters, August 29). It reminded me
of a recent visit to Washington D.C. where I attended
the Holocaust Museum. Among many solemn reminders of mankind's inhumanity was a
letter to the Australian
rhetorical points.
Cheers - Tim
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One of the contributors to Margo Kingston's Web Diary draws a very
Australia owes the Afghans and should help them help themselves
Noel Bon
Monday, 3 September 2001
Dear Canberra Times
This is purely an observation of one Indigenous Person and it should not be
misconstrued as a generic feeling amongst
the Indigenous Population
As an indigenous
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters: Skipper heard mayday - so should Australia
Date: 04/09/2001
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 3,200 kilometres from Panama (during our
19,300-kilometre voyage from England to Australia by
sailing boat), my wife, two teenage daughters and I had the great
I get incensed when I think back to the rise of PH and all the political parties
excluding Howard stood against her and what she stood for.
Now Hansonist policies are the mainstream thanks to Howard and Beazley.
What happened to us to have sunk so low?
Trudy
tim dunlop wrote:
Laurie wrote:
Damien Short (Sociology Department)
Human Rights Centre
Essex University
UK
Reconciliation Questions,
Please sate if you give permission for the publication of of your answers and
whether or not you wish your contribution to be
anonymous.
Name:
Email:
1) In your view, what would
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Subject: Shoalhaven Bridge Walk - Moving Forward Together
On behalf of the Shoalhaven Aboriginal Advisory Committee, we would like to
invite your
http://www.smh.com.au/news/webdiary/0109/04/A60133-2001Sep3.html
If anyone is interested in some figures of fact rather than J. Dubya Howard's
delusions, there are some interesting tables posted in Margo Kingston's web
diary.
BTW the country listed as number one in the number of asylum seekers
Hi Rod,
Thanks for the additional information. The country that takes in the most, I
believe in resettlement is Turkey. They have taken in and settled about 10
million so far. This for a population of 65 million. I don't think the US comes
close to that even and it makes our figures look very
From Margo Kingston's web diary
http://www.smh.com.au/news/webdiary/0109/05/A60347-2001Sep4.html
Helen Carmody in Melbourne
Regarding the Tampa and tolerance, can I draw attention to the problem
of TOLERANCE written about by Aboriginal leader Evelyn Scott? on the
10 August 2001. She wrote:
Hi Phillip,
That statement would get you killed in Afghanistan. That is just one of the
reasons there are so many refugees from Afghanistan.
Trudy
philip wrote:
the solution is to empower afghani women.
there needs to be a statement from mankind to taliban men to empower women.
my
The Sydney Morning Herald
Margo Kingston's Web Diary
06/09/01
Jenny Forster
Germaine Greer Germaine Greer said at the recent Ideas at the
Powerhouse festival in Brisbane that white Australians had to come to
terms with their past and present relationship with the indigenous
community of
For those who wonder why migrants would condemn asylum seekers one needs to
understand the position in which migrants to Australia find themselves. For a
migrant (other than those who are white and speak English) Australia is, on the
whole, a very unaccepting place. Differences are not allowed to
The Sydney Morning Herald
Margo Kingston's Web Diary
Friday, September 7, edition 3.
Matt Eggers
When injustices were being committed against Aboriginal people in the not
too distant past, the community didn't get up in arms about things. The
problem generally wasn't in their own
Parliament honours black land
Date: 09/09/2001
By Fia Cumming, Political Correspondent
Aboriginal ownership of Australia is likely to be acknowledged in an indigenous
opening ceremony for the new Federal Parliament.
The ceremony in the open air forecourt of Parliament House would recognise
Good letter, Rod. Very well put!
Trudy
Rod Hagen wrote:
Have sent a shortened version of this to The Age
Cheers
Rod
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Wednesday, 5 September 2001
Oh, Australia, what a fearful nation we are! Put to rout by 432
miserable, long suffering men, women and
The West Australian
September 6, 2001
Bogged down in racist past
By Andre Malan
THIS week I was at the receiving end of what some
would consider a mild form of racism.
On the Web site of a South African newspaper I read
that two Aboriginal delegates at the United Nations
I apologise profusely for inflicting the same article on you again! I meant to
send that to Jim but my fingers were on automatic and my brain was missing in
action.
Trudy
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The Independent (UK)
Britain blocks protection for indigenous people
By Alex Duval Smith in Durban
07 September 2001
Britain is blocking an attempt by the world's 300 million indigenous peoples
including Maoris, Aboriginals and Native Americans to have their rights
protected under
This particular time it was. I thought it was pretty clear - they don't publish
them that way. :-)
Trudy
Liam wrote:
These seemed pretty supportive of asylum seekers Trudy. Is this an edited
list of letters?
Liam
on 4/9/01 12:01 AM, Trudy Bray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
The Advertiser
Museum's new website
05sep01
THE South Australian Museum yesterday launched a new website to complement its
Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery.
The Ingarnendi website takes its name from the Kuarna word meaning to look
about and
inquire. It will provide access to the
The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters
September 7, 2001
Judiciary is not the fount of all wisdom
It is a bit rich that Justice Mary Gaudron accuses the Attorney-General, who
granted a fiat to the Catholic Church to intervene in the IVF
case before the High Court, as close to an abuse of process
The SMH
Margo Kingston's Web Diary
BIG PICTURE
Justin Koek
Why Australia is not a true liberal democracy
Not-in-my-backyard syndrome has gripped Australia. It is disheartening
that in one of the world's vaunted champions of western democracy,
compassion and open-mindedness finds no home.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Margo Kingston's Web Diary
September 10, 2001
Bob Howard in Albany, Western Australia
Xavier Herbert in his novel Poor Fellow My Country describes in scathing
terms how weak-kneed politicians came up with the 'Brisbane line' from
their bunkers in Canberra as they
The Sydney Morning Herald
Canada tries to remain a refuge for the persecuted
Date: 21/09/2001
By James Smith in Montreal
The bouncy seven-year-old Congolese girl and her four brothers and sisters
playing in the halls of a Montreal refugee centre hardly look
like a threat to Canada's national
From KooriNet ...
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:45:51 +0100
Subject: indigenous internet
From: Kyra Landzelius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Priority: 3
By way of introduction, let me say that I am in the process of
compiling an edited volume on the use of Internet telecommunications
Last financial year, Australia took 406 Afghan refugees from offshore out of an
offshore refugee and special humanitarian intake of
8,261. Most places under the program went to Europeans.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/26/text/national1.html
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Letters
Sep 27, 2001
No hard evidence
Keith Windschuttle's search for evidence of Aboriginal killings is bound to be
difficult due to the self-evident lack of solid evidence of a
kind that he finds acceptable (Herald, September 22).
Aboriginal oral history may be
The Canberra Times
September 30, 2001
Aboriginal support
NOT all Aboriginal people agree with the views on asylum-seekers expressed by
ATSIC bureaucrat Marion Hansen
(CT, Sept 22). If we as Aboriginal people are true to our culture and
spiritual beliefs, we should be telling the
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:26:35 +0800
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Friends,
The Sydney Morning Herald
October 4, 2001
Spike
Back to school
The Howard Government's reputation for being an accomplished marketeer might
become unstuck, judging by the latest taxpayer-funded
promotion.
All 3,000 high schools in Australia - among other recipients - have been sent a
glossy
has something of value he can sell, he may be lucky and be smuggled in a
leaky boat to end up in Nauru or a hell-hole in the desert
in Australia. Have a good trip, Mr Dwyer. You may learn something.
Trudy Bray, Camden, October 4
The Canberra Times
Letters to the Editor (19/10/01)
Friday, 19 October 2001
Parties' policy on refugees morally bankrupt
STEVE PRATT (Letters, October 18) declared a significant number of boat
people are not refugees). I don't knock
down tall poppies habitually, but this is
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