How do you miss 73,000 Aboriginal people in a Census count?
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Indigenous Australians have been included in the national population count since 1971. But as it turns out, we missed a few. CHRIS GRAHAM reports on yet another fiddle in the fraud-filled world of Indigenous affairs.
EDITORIAL: When ‘whoops’ just won’t do
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Dr John Taylor’s work in uncovering the massive undercounting of the Aboriginal population by the Australian Bureau of Statistics should be applauded.
INVISIBLE ABORIGINAL: Out of sight, out of mind, out of pocket
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Dr John Taylor, the author of the now infamous Taylor report which revealed massive government underspending in the remote NT community of Wadeye, is a demographer with the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Officer could face charges over Wadeye teen death
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: A police officer who fatally shot an Aboriginal teenager during rioting at a remote Top End community could face fresh charges, an inquest heard on Monday.
Fed govt offers to fund fees
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: The federal government offered a group of Aboriginal people legal funding to appear before a coronial inquest into Aboriginal deaths in Western Australia’s north after the state government refused.
Australia named as top ‘hot spot’ for vanishing languages
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Linguists alarmed at the unceasing extinction of many Indigenous languages have identified five global “hot spots” where the problem is worst, led by northern Australia and a region of South America.
Outback travel subsidy not good enough: report
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Sick people in regional and remote areas are not getting the medical attention they need because government travel subsidies are too stingy, a new report has found.
Spoken crossroad
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: The federal government’s NT Indigenous intervention will spell the end for many Indigenous languages, Adelaide linguistics expert Rob Amery says.
Potential nuke dump site to be assessed
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: A fourth potential site for a radioactive waste dump in the Northern Territory will be assessed for its suitability, Science Minister Julie Bishop said last week.
More child sex charges laid in WA community of Kalumburu
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Charges have been laid in the wake of fresh child sex abuse allegations in the remote and troubled West Australian Aboriginal community of Kalumburu, police say.
Light beer expected to escape ban
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: All but light beer sales are likely to be banned in an alcohol-ravaged Kimberley town after the local pub said it would not oppose plans for Western Australia’s strictest liquor licensing conditions.
Compensation for Stolen Generation urgent: Calma
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice commissioner Tom Calma has called for a national scheme to properly compensate all victims of the Stolen Generation.
Child care plan welcomed
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: The federal government’s Indigenous Child Care Services Plan, designed to offer culturally appropriate early childhood services to Indigenous children, has been welcomed by the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC).
Siewert calls on WA, fed govt to repay stolen wages
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Tens of millions of dollars stolen from Aboriginal workers must be repaid by the West Australian and Commonwealth governments, Senator Rachel Siewert says.
Aboriginal art: the French connection
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: After fetching record prices in Australia, Aboriginal art is carving out a place on the art market in France, spurred by the opening last year of Paris’ Quai Branly museum of tribal arts.
31 charged in Aurukun riot
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Thirty-one people have been charged after a riot in the remote Queensland Aboriginal community of Aurukun in mid September.
‘Don’t give us Disneyland’: tourists
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Tourists visiting Indigenous communities don’t want a “Disneyland experience”, according to Aden Ridgeway, Executive Chairman of Indigenous Tourism Australia.
Cairns hearing into policing
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: The Crime and Misconduct Commission will hold a one day public hearing in Cairns as part of its inquiry into policing in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities.
Researchers look to bush medicine for answers
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: NT research could lead to Aboriginal bush medicine being used to combat disease in agricultural crops.
Tiwi islands under threat : Greens
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: The Tiwi islands, off Darwin, are in danger of becoming a wasteland because of excessive land clearing, the Australian Greens say.
Building blocks for business
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: A new style of small business training designed especially for the needs and learning styles of Indigenous entrepreneurs has been successfully piloted on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
Melbourne standard for Aboriginal art
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Australia’s first Code of Practice for galleries and retailers on Indigenous art has been launched by the City of Melbourne.
Education the key to empowerment
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Education leading to real jobs is the key to addressing the challenges faced by Aboriginal people in Australia today, according to a speaker at the recent Charles Darwin Symposium.
Trainees woo Gorge visitors
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Tourists are learning about the Mossman Gorge and Aboriginal culture from two formerly unemployed Indigenous locals, thanks to funded traineeships.
Rangers protecting our borders
Issue 139, October 4, 2007: Indigenous ranger groups in Northeast Arnhem Land have recently received a welcome boost from Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education with the introduction of on-the-job training by specialists in natural and cultural resource management.
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