Article |
Source |
Date |
Summary |
Theft trial begins for tent-embassy activist |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 March 2005 |
The trial of an Aboriginal activist charged with stealing a bronze plaque from outside Old Parliament House in
Canberra has started in the ACT Supreme Court. |
Media warned at Palm Island hearing |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 March 2005 |
A directions hearing into the death of a Palm Island man has heard newspaper articles published ahead of a second
inquest may be in contempt. |
Doomadgee family pushes for interpreters at inquest |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
29 March 2005 |
To Queensland now, and the second inquest into the death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee opens with a directions
hearing in Brisbane today, and language is shaping up as one of the key issues of contention. |
Beattie cleared of Palm Island bribery allegations |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 March 2005 |
Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) has cleared Premier Peter Beattie of any official wrongdoing
in the alleged Palm Island bribery affair. |
ATSIC is no longer |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 March 2005 |
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) has been officially abolished. |
Tas to hand land to Aboriginal communities |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
23 March 2005 |
Parcels of land in the Furneaux Group of islands will be handed back to the Aboriginal community after a historic
vote this afternoon in Tasmania's Legislative Council. |
Mourners honour first Aboriginal judge at state funeral |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 March 2005 |
Australia's first Aboriginal judge, Bob Bellear, has been given a state funeral at Sydney's Town Hall today. |
Govt defends human rights record to UN |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 March 2005 |
The Federal Government says it is not dragging its heels on human rights. |
Rights groups say Govt dragging heels on reforms |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 March 2005 |
The Federal Government has been accused by various human rights groups of dragging its heels, following criticism
of Australia's racial discrimination record by the United Nations. |
Ingrid clean-up to take months |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 March 2005 |
The head of the Nhulunbuy Corporation in north-eastern Arnhem Land estimates it will take about three months
to clean up debris from Cyclone Ingrid. |
Work inquiry wants Indigenous success stories |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 March 2005 |
Australians with positive stories or experiences about Indigenous employment are being invited to make submissions
to a new federal parliamentary inquiry. |
Indigenous leaders lament ATSIC's demise |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 March 2005 |
Indigenous leaders say Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have lost their voice with the formal scrapping
of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). |
Rock throwers attack Palm Is police |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 March 2005 |
Rock throwers targeted police on Palm Island in north Queensland last night after a heated community meeting. |
First Aboriginal judge dies |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
16 March 2005 |
The country's first Aboriginal judge, Robert Bellear, has died. |
Return Aborigines to traditional lifestyle: Egan |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 March 2005 |
The Northern Territory's Administrator has proposed a radical new approach to Aboriginal housing saying the building
of houses has done Indigenous people no favours. |
Parties divided over timetable to abolish ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 March 2005 |
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) is one step closer to being abolished, with amended
legislation to dissolve the Indigenous body passing the Senate last night. |
ATSIC became 'too strong', Clark says |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 March 2005 |
The head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) remains indignant over the Government's
decision to abolish the organisation. |
Rann Government denies ignoring petrol sniffing issue |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 March 2005 |
The South Australia Government insists it has not ignored the issue of petrol sniffing in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara
Lands in the state's far north-west. |
Opposition dismisses legal advice clearing Beattie |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 March 2005 |
The Queensland Opposition has dismissed legal advice that clears Premier Peter Beattie of personal wrongdoing
in the alleged bribery matter at Palm Island. |
Croker Island reeling after cyclone |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 March 2005 |
Cyclone Ingrid has left the 200 residents of Croker Island, about 200 kilometres north-east of Darwin, with no
running water and only enough food for two days. |
Asbestos devastates Aboriginal community |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
13 March 2005 |
There are a lot of very sick people among the Bunjalung Aboriginal people of Baryulgil in northern New South
Wales. |
Protesters demand new Hickey inquest |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
11 March 2005 |
A small but angry group of protesters have gathered outside the New South Wales Parliament as part of their campaign
to re-open the inquest into the death of Thomas "TJ" Hickey. |
Vanstone rejects call for nationally-elected Aboriginal group |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 March 2005 |
Indigenous Affairs Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone has rejected the findings of a Senate report that wants a
new nationally-elected Indigenous body set up to replace the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). |
Rally to seek fresh Hickey hearings |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 March 2005 |
A community rally calling for the reopening of the inquest into the death of Aboriginal teenager Thomas 'TJ'
Hickey will be held at Walgett in northern New South Wales today. |
Report seeks nationally elected body to replace ATSIC |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 March 2005 |
A report expected to be tabled in Federal Parliament today is set to call for the establishment of a nationally
elected Indigenous body in Australia. |
Stomach ulcers plague Indigenous Australians |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 March 2005 |
Indigenous Australians are almost four times more likely than the rest of the population to carry the bacteria
that cause stomach ulcers, according to a report in the "Medical Journal of Australia". |
ATSIC chairman stands by assets decision |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 March 2005 |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) chairman Geoff Clark says he is yet to receive a letter
from the Indigenous Affairs Minister asking him to justify why he should not be suspended. |
New inquest into Palm Is death |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 March 2005 |
A new inquest will be held into the death in custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji Doomadgee. |
Beattie names new Indigenous Policy Minister |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 March 2005 |
John Mickel is Queensland's new Indigenous Policy Minister. |
Report criticises Indigenous housing, education |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 March 2005 |
A new report has proposed the granting of individual property rights in Aboriginal communities as one way of
helping to address serious social problems facing Indigenous Australians. |
Palm Island inquest adjourned amid bias concerns |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 March 2005 |
Queensland coroner Michael Barnes has adjourned the coronial inquest into a death in custody on Palm Island until
Thursday. |
Clark leaves Qld Cabinet amid CMC inquiry |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 March 2005 |
Liddy Clark has resigned as Queensland's Indigenous policy minister, after only a year in the role. |
