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VIDEO Recordings of the "consultations" at Bagot Community, Ampilatwatja and Arlparra/Utopia - 5 minutes from each community"
VIDEO The Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser’s speech at the launch of the independent report "Will They Be Heard?"
VIDEO Professor Alastair Nicholson delivers his critique of the FHCSIA "consultations" and introduces Shane Charles, Larissa Behrendt and Theo Mackaay.
What does it mean when the Rudd Government says it is "consulting" a particular community as it designs policy? Not much, apparently, if that community happens to be Indigenous, writes Sarah Burnside for New Matilda.
A new report accuses the Federal Government of deliberately ignoring the views of Aboriginal people on the Northern Territory Intervention. It concludes that the Government's "consultation" sessions were a sham, which offered the communities no choice on the intervention's future. An ABC news story.
Surely, if we stand with Israel, if we want what’s best for the Jewish state, we must be honest – we must tell the leadership of our spiritual home the truth. And the truth is, President Obama is right when he says that settlement building must stop. John Friedman, JTA news service.
President Barack Obama, who vowed to revive the Arab-Israeli peace process at the start of his term, has begun with a direct and public challenge to Israel’s latest plan to build new settlements in East Jerusalem. From the New York Times.
The Australian Government’s Defence White Paper was released on 2 May 2009. Read it here.
The burqua is worn by only a tiny proportion of Muslim women in France. French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s recent call for an investigation into its banning is yet another act of political stigmatisation against an already marginalised community.
Read the findings of the WA Coroner's investigation into the death of a well respected community leader in outback Western Australia who was locked in a metal cell in the back of a prison van and driven through the desert in the searing heat. Four hours later he was dead.

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