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Consultation Video

2009-11-30T16:47:19Z

VIDEO Recordings of the "consultations" at Bagot Community, Ampilatwatja and Arlparra/Utopia - 5 minutes from each community"

MF Speech

2009-11-30T16:46:41Z

VIDEO The Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser’s speech at the launch of the independent report "Will They Be Heard?"

Alastair Nicholson Video

2009-11-30T16:45:54Z

VIDEO Professor Alastair Nicholson delivers his critique of the FHCSIA "consultations" and introduces Shane Charles, Larissa Behrendt and Theo Mackaay.

New Matilda

2009-11-30T16:40:25Z

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.

ABC

2009-11-30T16:39:47Z

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.

Obama

2009-08-13T10:31:59Z

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.

Barack Obama

2009-08-13T10:28:40Z

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.

White Paper

2009-07-14T15:59:12Z

The Australian Government’s Defence White Paper was released on 2 May 2009. Read it here.

Burqua

2009-07-13T16:20:13Z

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.

ABC

2009-06-23T16:35:07Z

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.

Mikhail Gorbachev

2009-06-23T16:34:06Z

“One of the most urgent problems of today’s world is the danger of nuclear weapons. The unexpected nuclear test by North Korea on May 25 and its test-firing of a series of short-range missiles is the latest, frightening reminder.” Mikhail Gorbachev

Problems of border control

2009-04-22T15:21:52Z

An over-reliance on border control was discredited during the years of the Howard Government for two principle reasons. First, it results in excessive cruelty, expense and breaches of human rights. Second, it subtly fuels the trade in people smuggling, whose purveyors know that the market pressure for their 'services' remains while governments make no effort to tackle its causes. From Eureka Street.

Some asylum seekers won't get the same medical assistance

2009-04-22T15:21:23Z

Immigration lawyers say a group of 29 asylum seekers who were taken to an oil rig after their boat exploded will not get the same assistance as those who were brought to the Australian mainland for medical help. From ABC Radio’s AM

Barack Obama on nuclear weapons

2009-04-22T15:03:31Z

From The Economist: Peace, love and understanding. Barack Obama proposes a world free of nuclear weapons.

UN says intervention 'discriminatory'

2009-04-22T15:02:49Z

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is calling on the Federal Government to redesign its ‘discriminatory’ intervention into Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.

Emma Rogers

2009-04-22T15:00:44Z

Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has announced a statement of support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, reversing the stance of the previous government, which voted against it in 2007. The declaration outlines Indigenous people’s rights in international law, but it is not legally binding and cannot override domestic law.

Jewel Topsfield

2009-04-22T14:59:53Z

A national inquiry will provide the first national picture into the health, education, housing and employment barriers experienced by Africans, many of whom came to Australia as traumatised refugees.

HEROC report

2009-04-22T14:59:05Z

A new report from The Australian Human Rights Commission highlights ongoing problems in immigration detention. Commissioner Graeme Innes called on the government to translate its ‘new directions’ for Australia’s immigration detention system into policy, practice and legislative change as soon as possible.

Susan Rice

2009-02-09T22:05:50Z

In her first speech to the United Nations Security Council, new United States Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, has signaled a shift in US policy towards the International Criminal Court. “The International Criminal Court, which has started its first trial this week, looks to become an important and credible instrument for trying to hold accountable the senior leadership responsible for atrocities committed in the Congo, Uganda, and Darfur.”

The Guardian

2009-02-09T22:05:50Z

Can Obama really deliver on his Guantánamo pledge? The Guardian surveys the mixed online reaction