Article |
Source |
Date |
Summary |
Aboriginal massacre memorial vandalised |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
31 January 2005 |
Vandals have attacked a site commemorating the murder of dozens of Aborigines in northern
New South Wales. |
Infant death plagues Indigenous communities |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
31 January 2005 |
A national organisation targeting Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) says Aboriginal babies
are six times more likely to die from the condition than non-Aboriginal children. |
Questions asked over presence of Palm Is security video |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
31 January 2005 |
A gulf Aboriginal leader is questioning why the Queensland Police and the Criminal Misconduct
Commission (CMC) have not told the public that there is a security video taken on the night Cameron Doomadgee died in custody
on Palm Island. |
Call for boost to 'atrocious' Indigenous health funding |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 January 2005 |
A doctor who provides an Aboriginal medical service to thousands of people in northern New
South Wales, says some Aboriginal communities remain in third-world conditions in Australia. |
Crocodile clears Darwin swimming pool |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 January 2005 |
A one-metre salt water crocodile has been found swimming in a public pool in Palmerston,
south of Darwin. |
Aboriginal bones found on wind farm site |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 January 2005 |
Aborigines on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula are calling for human bones discovered on
the site of a new wind farm development to be dated. |
NT backs Indigenous health funding call |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 January 2005 |
The Northern Territory Government has thrown its support behind the Australian Medical Association's
(AMA) call for an extra $400 million in federal funding for Indigenous health. |
Vanstone moves to protect ATSIC assets |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 January 2005 |
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone says she has moved to stop any
improper sale of assets held by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). |
Abbott rejects Indigenous health funding appeal |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 January 2005 |
Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has rejected a call by the Australian Medical Association
(AMA) for a doubling in funding for Indigenous health. |
AMA seeks more funds for Indigenous health |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 January 2005 |
Lobby groups have already begun their pitch for more funding from the Federal Government
ahead of the May Budget. |
Early settlers' fires 'made Australian deserts' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 January 2005 |
US and Australian researchers say settlers who came to Australia 50,000 years ago and set
fires that burned off natural flora and fauna may have triggered a cataclysmic weather change that turned the country's interior
into the dry desert it is today. |
Govt to block ATSIC assets sale |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 January 2005 |
The Federal Government says it will do everything in its power to prevent the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) selling its historic art collection to fund a legal battle aimed at keeping the
organisation operating. |
ATSIC chairman silent on asset sale |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 January 2005 |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) chairman Geoff Clark has refused
to confirm whether the stripped-back commission is considering selling some of its assets to fund a legal challenge. |
Elders step in to defuse NT pub brawl |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 January 2005 |
Northern Territory police say community elders helped break up a massive brawl overnight at the Borroloola Hotel
in a community 700 kilometres south-east of Darwin. |
Govt accused of isolating Indigenous public servants |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 January 2005 |
A national reconciliation group says the federal Government's main-streaming of Indigenous services into government
departments will continue to isolate Aboriginal public servants. |
Indigenous leaders criticise Palm Island alcohol plan |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 January 2005 |
Aboriginal leaders claim the Queensland Government could face more trouble on Palm Island in the north of the
state if it tries to introduce a radical alcohol management plan into the community without providing back-up services. |
Alleged Palm Is rioters consider legal action against police |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 January 2005 |
Those arrested over last year's riot on Palm Island in north Queensland may take legal action against the Queensland
police service. |
Audit office finds taxpayers' money misspent |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 January 2005 |
The Australian National Audit Office has found 11 federal bodies have broken the law by investing more than $500
million of public money without proper authorisation. |
Goondiwindi community divided after 'noose' attack |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 January 2005 |
An Aboriginal elder says an attack on an Indigenous teenager has divided the Goondiwindi community in Queensland's
southern border region. |
Protesters in scuffle outside noose attack hearing |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 January 2005 |
Police quelled scuffles outside a court hearing today for two men accused of an attack on a 16-year-old Aboriginal
boy in the southern Queensland town of Goondiwindi. |
UK museum returns Indigenous remains |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 January 2005 |
A museum in south-western England has formally handed over four Australian Indigenous skulls for repatriation. |
Spirituality vital to Indigenous health |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
13 January 2005 |
Health professionals need to improve their understanding of the role spirituality plays in Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander communities, a new study argues. |
Councils flag rate rise to fund land handback |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 January 2005 |
Council rates could rise to help fund a plan by four Adelaide councils to hand back unused Crown land to Aboriginal
people. |
Aborigines seek licence to export native animals |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 January 2005 |
The North Queensland Land Council wants a licence to export native flora and fauna. |
Govt to double services for Indigenous family violence victims |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 January 2005 |
The Federal Government is advertising nationally for organisations to provide legal and support services to Indigenous
victims of family violence. |
Accused Palm Island rioter jailed for breaching bail |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 January 2005 |
A court has heard an alleged Palm Island rioter breached his bail conditions because he feared homophobia in
Townsville. |
Parks laws to offer native title certainty |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 January 2005 |
The Northern Territory Government plans to introduce legislation next month covering 27 parks and reserves to
offset any future native title claims and to create certainty over their future use. |
ALP backs claims Kakadu services suffering |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 January 2005 |
The federal Labor Party says services are suffering at Kakadu National Park because of the Howard Government's
decision to abolish entry fees. |
Govt rejects claims services suffering at Kakadu |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 January 2005 |
The Federal Government has rejected claims that services at Kakadu National Park have been changed because of
the abolition of entrance fees. |
