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All Palm Is accused to defend charges |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 November 2004 |
The solicitor for a group of men arrested over last Friday's Palm Island riot, sparked by the death
of a local man in police custody, says all will be defending the charges at next week's bail hearing. |
Arnhem Land doco in competition at Sundance |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 November 2004 |
The Sundance Film Festival, the premier US showcase for independent cinema, has named the films that
will compete at its 2005 festival in January, including an Australian documentary. |
Long walk cut short as PM agrees to meeting |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 November 2004 |
Former Essendon champion and Norm Smith medallist Michael Long has ended his walk from Melbourne to
Canberra after Prime Minister John Howard agreed to meet him to discuss Indigenous issues. |
Police appeal for Palm Is funeral calm |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 November 2004 |
Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson is appealing to Palm Islanders in north Queensland to ensure
the funeral for Cameron Doomadgee is without incident. |
Police told to steer clear of Palm Is funeral |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 November 2004 |
Palm Islanders say police are not welcome at the funeral of a man whose death in custody sparked last
week's riot in the north Queensland Indigenous community. |
Reconciliation Australia sees new opportunity |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 November 2004 |
Reconciliation Australia says it is time for another concerted push for reconciliation. |
Angry scenes at Palm Is court hearing |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 November 2004 |
There have been angry scenes inside and outside a north Queensland court after the first appearance
of 18 people charged with rioting and other offences on Palm Island. |
Minister admits progress slow in Indigenous justice |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 November 2004 |
Federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison admits there has been little progress on developing a national
Indigenous justice strategy. |
MP dismisses Qld Govt's Palm Island plan |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 November 2004 |
Federal Liberal MP Peter Lindsay has dismissed the Queensland Government's five-point plan for Palm
Island as a recipe for more of the same. |
Palm Islanders to face court |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 November 2004 |
Thirteen people from Palm Island in north Queensland will appear in a Townsville court this morning
on charges including arson and rioting. |
Second opinion sought on Palm Is death |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 November 2004 |
Queensland's coroner has called for a second autopsy on the body of a Palm Island man whose death in
police custody sparked last Friday's riot. |
Stun guns used in Palm Is arrests |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 November 2004 |
Queensland Police Minister Judy Spence has revealed that police used stun guns on three occasions during
arrests on Palm Island. |
Indigenous leader's funeral prompts Uluru closure |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 November 2004 |
A funeral will be held later today for one of Australia's most senior Indigenous leaders. |
Palm Is residents criticise police tactics |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 November 2004 |
Police sent to restore order on Palm Island off the north Queensland coast have been criticised by some
residents for using heavy-handed tactics. |
Police deny heavy-handed approach to Palm Is |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 November 2004 |
The Queensland Police Union has defended the actions of officers in the troubled Indigenous community
of Palm Island. |
Toads tipped to hit Indigenous food sources |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 November 2004 |
A Charles Darwin University researcher says Indigenous people who eat native wildlife will notice the
impact of cane toads on wildlife. |
9 charged over Palm Island riot |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 November 2004 |
Nine men have been charged over yesterday's riot on Palm Island in north Queensland. |
Deceased Palm Island man's family speaks out |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 November 2004 |
Relatives of the north Queensland man who died in police custody on Palm Island last week say the local
Indigenous community is desperate for justice. |
Gulpilil honoured as NT's Australian of the Year |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 November 2004 |
Actor David Gulpilil has been named as the Northern Territory Australian of the Year. |
Island leaders could have prevented riot: Beattie |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 November 2004 |
The Queensland Government is calling for better leadership on Palm Island in the wake of a riot that
has destroyed the police station. |
Police suggest island riot was planned |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 November 2004 |
Police say the water was turned off and roads blocked ahead of yesterday's riot on Palm Island in north
Queensland, indicating the unrest was premeditated. |
Senator urges PM to join reconciliation walk |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 November 2004 |
Northern Territory Labor Senator Trish Crossin says the Prime Minister should use his early morning
walk to join Michael Long as he arrives in Canberra. |
Tragic tale wins inaugural Indigenous writing award |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 November 2004 |
A tragic traditional story has won the major prize at the first Indigenous Languages Story Writing Competition
in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. |
Riot not planned: Palm Is leaders |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 November 2004 |
Community leaders on Palm Island off north Queensland have rejected suggestions that Friday's riot was
premeditated. |
Rioters burn Palm Is police station |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 November 2004 |
A riot has broken out in the Indigenous community on North Queensland's Palm Island, after the release
of an autopsy conducted on a man who died in police custody. |
ATSIC moves closer to High Court challenge |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 November 2004 |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) representatives are a step closer to going
to the High Court over the abolition of the Indigenous body. |
Uluru to close for mourning |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 November 2004 |
The rock climb at Uluru will be closed this Sunday as traditional owners mourn the death of a senior
Anangu law man. |
Expert criticises National Indigenous Council concept |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 November 2004 |
One of the world's leading experts on Indigenous rights and representation has criticised the Federal
Government's new National Indigenous Council (NIC) model. |
Youth group wants bigger subsidy for 'high-free' petrol |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 November 2004 |
An Alice Springs social worker says a new petrol variant that will not make sniffers high will be useless
if they can get regular unleaded at a nearby roadhouse. |
Howard calls for action on AIDS |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 November 2004 |
Prime Minister John Howard has made a strong statement on the international problem of HIV and AIDS
at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders summit in Chile. |
ATSIC abolition causing 'confusion' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 November 2004 |
Northern Territory Labor Senator Trish Crossin says Indigenous people are still unclear about the Government's
changes to Indigenous affairs. |
Early Indigenous artist Billiamook honoured |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 November 2004 |
The first Indigenous artist to be exhibited in Australia will be honoured tonight at the opening of
a new exhibition featuring artwork from the first days of settlement in the Northern Territory to the present day. |
Press watchdog criticises Indigenous newspaper raid |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 November 2004 |
The international press freedom group Reporters Without Borders has condemned a police raid on the offices
of the "National Indigenous Times" newspaper in Canberra. |
Communities to develop dugong, turtle plans |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 November 2004 |
The Federal Government has given the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance $3.8
million to develop local community plans for the sustainable management of dugong and marine turtles. |
Fraser Is resort dingo killed |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 November 2004 |
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service has destroyed a dingo that approached a baby at a Fraser Island
resort in south-east Queensland. |
Indigenous welfare plan may breach race act |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 November 2004 |
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has issued a warning about the Federal Government's
plan to link Aboriginal welfare to behavioural change. |
Racist taunts rife in Army, former trainee soldier says |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 November 2004 |
The publication of a photograph of soldiers dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan has prompted one
Aboriginal man to come forward saying he was hounded out of the Army by racists. |
Welfare plan labelled 'mission mentality' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 November 2004 |
Wiradjuri elder Flo Grant, from Wagga Wagga in southern NSW, says the Federal Government's proposed welfare reforms for Indigenous
people are a step backwards for Aboriginal relations. |
Aboriginals' payments may be linked to behaviour |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 November 2004 |
The Federal Government says it is still considering a radical plan to rebuild the Aboriginal welfare
system, which could make financial assistance dependent on behavioural change. |
Desert volleyball plans for Indigenous community |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 November 2004 |
The remote Indigenous community of Ltyentye Apurte will use its own red desert sand to build a beach
volleyball court 1,000 kilometres from the nearest ocean. |
Howard orders police raid on Indigenous paper |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 November 2004 |
Federal Police have confirmed the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet ordered a raid on an Indigenous
newspaper which published leaked cabinet documents. |
Indigenous welfare reforms 'a step backwards' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 November 2004 |
The Federal Government's plans to overhaul Indigenous welfare have been condemned as racially discriminatory
by Aboriginal leaders. |
New petrol provides no high for sniffers |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 November 2004 |
Petroleum giant BP has made a major breakthrough in the fight against petrol sniffing in remote Aboriginal
communities. |
Petrol sniffers 'can recover' from brain damage |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 November 2004 |
A Northern Territory research centre has claimed a world first in discovering that the brain can completely
recover from damage caused from petrol sniffing. |
Dictionary aims to help preserve Indigenous language |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 November 2004 |
Linguists in the Pilbara, in north-west Western Australia, have taken steps to preserve one of the rarest
languages in the world. |
Vanstone defends Indigenous council |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 November 2004 |
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone has defended the recently announced national Indigenous
advisory council. |
Indigenous hunting sparks dugong extinction fears |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 November 2004 |
Indigenous communities could be hunting the dugong to extinction, a report commissioned by the Federal
Government has found. |
Concerns raised over Tas exclusion from Indigenous Council |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 November 2004 |
There are concerns Tasmania's Indigenous community will not be represented by the new unelected National
Indigenous Council. |
ATSIC attacks new National Indigenous Council |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 November 2004 |
Representatives of ATSIC have attacked the Government's appointment of 14 people to the new National
Indigenous Council. |
Govt announces new Indigenous council |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 November 2004 |
The new National Indigenous Council, to be headed by Perth magistrate Dr Sue Gordon, has been unveiled
by the Federal Government. |
Constitution change recognises Indigenous Victorians |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 November 2004 |
In an Australian first, Victoria's Indigenous community has been acknowledged as the original custodians
of the state's land in a constitutional amendment bill passed by Parliament. |
Labor urges Govt to step up reconciliation efforts |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 November 2004 |
The Federal Opposition has urged the Prime Minister to use his Government's fourth term to achieve reconciliation
between Indigenous Australians and the wider community. |
Boarding school 'too late' for Indigenous literacy push |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 November 2004 |
An Alice Springs principal has welcomed a call for more Indigenous students to be sent to boarding schools
but says early education attendance must be improved for such a measure to work. |
UN rates Indigenous health poorly |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 November 2004 |
The Australian Nursing Federation says the United Nations has rated Indigenous Australians as having
the second worst quality of life in the world after China. |
Literacy rate low in Indigenous communities |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 November 2004 |
A new study illustrates the extremely low rates of literacy in Australia's remote Indigenous communities. |
