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We will Tell You How you can Spend Your Welfare29 comments

reb wrote 4 weeks ago: With Liberal party infighting currently dominating mainstream media, another Government initiative i … more →

Tags: Australian politics, Welfare, restrictions, Quarantine, youth allowance, newstart

Can the Govt Fix Indigenous Housing?13 comments

reb wrote 1 month ago: Tonight on Insight (SBS 7.30pm), host Jenny Brockie will be discussing the issue of Indigenous Housi … more →

Tags: Australian politics, Australian Society, Mal Brough, indigenous housing, Rob Knight

TheMHS Mental Health Weekly Digest

themhs wrote 2 months ago: Please find below news and articles of note from the previous week regarding Mental Health. National … more →

Tags: Latest Mental Health News Links, TheMHS, carer engagement program, mental healthnews

We're sorry for the Abuse and Neglect (again)36 comments

reb wrote 3 months ago: Are you suffering from apology fatigue? Well too bad. Hot on the heels of the Federal Labor governme … more →

Tags: Australian politics, Australian Society, Kevin Rudd, forgotten Australians, Abuse, neglect, apology

Interstate travel concession for seniors

pdalbury wrote 5 months ago: [AAP] Older people across the nation will now be able to travel interstate more cheaply. Community S … more →

Tags: Politics-Federal, National Seniors Transport Scheme

Testimony proves NT Intervention consultations 'farcical'1 comment

Drew wrote 6 months ago: media release… media release… media release… media release… media release… 15/6/09 for immediate rel … more →

Tags: Media Releases, Racial Discrimination Act, Northern Territory Intervention

I no has money 4 cheeseburger.2 comments

redaccordian wrote 6 months ago: Okay I admit it, my segues from memes into the issues are getting tenuous.. but SHUT UP! Ms Macklin … more →

Tags: 1, Julia Gillard, Welfare, poverty, Centrelink, malcolm turnbull, Carers, welfarism, poverty line

Macklin delays town camps takeover

Drew wrote 6 months ago: ABC: 4 Jun 09: “The Federal Government has had to delay its plan to compulsorily acquire Abori … more →

Tags: News, Tangentyere

Macklin extends town camps deadline

Drew wrote 6 months ago: Koori Mail 4 Jun 09: “The Federal Government has had to delay its plan to compulsorily acquire … more →

Tags: News, Tangentyere Council

Aboriginal assimilation: the Hub of the matter 1 comment

Drew wrote 6 months ago: Since anthropologist Donald Thompson visited Arnhemland in the late 1930s and early 1940s missionari … more →

Tags: Opinion, Kevin Rudd, Arnhemland, John Tomlinson, assimilation, Aboriginal Sovereignty

Takeover of Aboriginal Land marks Opening of Reconciliation Week1 comment

Drew wrote 7 months ago: Media Release Intervention Rollback Action Group Takeover of Aboriginal Land marks Opening of Reconc … more →

Tags: Media Releases, Land rights, Intervention Rollback Action Group, Tangentyere Counc

Macklin advancing to the past

Siri wrote 7 months ago: photo: galdu.org Jenny Macklin has responded to Tangentyere township’s refusal to lease their … more →

Tags: Aboriginal Australia, child abuse, UN, Australian government

Intervention: Macklin. Views?

redaccordian wrote 7 months ago: The Federal Government will introduce legislation to reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act in the … more →

Tags: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Issues, Alice Springs, child abuse, Discrimination Act, Northern Territory, NT intervention, The little children are scared

Aboriginal leader wants minister to resign over "services dictatorship"

Drew wrote 8 months ago: Goodooga NSW. April 24th, 2009. Michael Anderson, co-founder of the Aboriginal Embassy and leader of … more →

Tags: Media Releases, Opinion, Clyde Holding

Rudd government endorses UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Drew wrote 8 months ago: National Indigenous Times:3 Apr 09: “The Rudd government has officially endorsed the landmark … more →

Tags: News, United Nations, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous

Outback alchemy: mining royalties to be put to good use in Aboriginal art centres

Meaghan wrote 9 months ago:     It always makes my cynical heart (yes – there’s an ongoing theme here) swell with jo … more →

Tags: Art, Contemporary Art, australian art, Aboriginal Art, art centres, Mining, Good News!, Jon Altman

Intervention a historical ressurection

verbalminestrone wrote 1 year ago: I’m hoping to get this piece out into the wider media so any comments most welcome. When Indig … more →

Tags: living in Malaysia, Darwin, Indigenous affairs minister, quarantining of welfare, alcohol abuse, Indigenous intervention, indigenous, indigenous communites, rivers of grog

Pensioners and Poverty2 comments

casey wrote 1 year ago: The piece of paper we have to accept as a newspaper put a very touching story on a page with multino … more →

Tags: Pensioners, multinova, parliament house, draft excluder, Luggage

Pensioner Protest

casey wrote 1 year ago: Congratulation to the protesters in Melbourne these pensioners have the courage of their convictions … more →

Tags: melbourne protest, pensioners protest, australian pensioners, Howard, Costello, Abbott, Refugees, Nelson, Justice


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