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ANTaR: working in support of justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples |
On the 13th of February, the government will apologise to the stolen generations. However, there are a few misconceptions about the national apology. Get the facts... Latest News |
Convergence on Canberra, February 2008
The convergence on Canberra will take place on Tuesday, February 12 2008. Meet at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy at 11:30am, and march to Parliament for 1pm.
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Rudd Government abandons Labor platform over Stolen Generations |
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The Rudd Government's decision to rule out compensation for members of the Stolen Generations flies in the face of the policy platform it took to the recent federal election. |
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Child-removal is genocide |
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Marcia Langton's opinion piece in The Herald Sun.
THE report of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission inquiry a decade ago revealed that race-based child-removal policies were a special instance of genocide under the definition of the UN Convention. |
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Jukurrpa Calendar 2008
The calendar for 2008 features 13 different artworks by established and emerging artists from Central Australia. 30 x 30cm.
Price: was $27.00, now $17.00 (add 15% for postage and handling)
See more items in ANTaR's catalogue... |
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Stopping child abuse in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities |
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On 21 June last year the then-Prime Minister, John Howard and Indigenous Affairs Minister, Mal Brough announced the Federal Government was seizing control of 60 remote Aboriginal communities in an attempt to overcome child abuse in the Northern Territory.
So dramatic was the Federal Government's intervention, that it prompted the Weekend Australian's Nicholas Rothwell to say that it ranks with the referendum of 1967, or the passage of land rights in the NT, as a turning point in Australian history. |
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Mean, diminished and out of touch: Why won't Nelson say sorry? |
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Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue writes for Crikey:
I am saddened to hear that the new opposition leader, Brendan Nelson, will not say Sorry to Aboriginal people. But I am not surprised.
Brendan Nelson represents a party that is out of touch. They just don't get it. He would do well to talk to former Liberal Prime Minister, Malcolm
Fraser, to learn something about genuine liberal values.
Nelson's are the mean-spirited responses of denial that diminish him as a person and diminish Australia as a nation. At the very historical moment when new, courageous collaboration is possible, this new Liberal leader, just like
Howard before him, fuels the fires of division. |
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