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newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 13, 2008
12 August, 2008 Dear Minister We welcome you on your first visit to our community at Ernabella/Pukatja. We are happy to hear that the Government will pay for the repair of the Ernabella Church. That church is part …
Also tagged: featured, housing, jenny macklin, australian politics, makinti minutjukur, pukatja, ernabella
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Jul 22, 2008
Elizabeth Doomadgee invited me to dinner, along with the lawyers representing the Palm Island community at the inquest into her brother’s death. She covered the table with a purple batik cloth and upon it laid a large …
Also tagged: featured, palm island, civil society, tall man, indigenous justice, andrew boe, chloe hooper, cameron doomadgee
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Jul 8, 2008
Nyangatjatjara College, Yulara Campus, sits high on a hill in a wide red open space. Modern buildings nestle on a spiky spinifex carpet. The basketball court, red as the dust it is levelled upon, stretches between …
Also tagged: featured, civil society, indigenous education, remote schools, claudia leigh
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - May 2, 2008
I’ve just been on the road with the Senate Inquiry into the NT Emergency Response Consolidation Bill - the Government’s proposed changes to Howard’s original legislation. It has been obvious for a while that there are …
Also tagged: hero, darwin, alice springs, australian politics, indigenous australians, northern territory intervention
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Apr 14, 2008
Productivity Agenda: Paid Parental Leave Program A national paid parental leave program for both men and women, which includes incentives that promote affordable and accessible childcare, will help to address the …
Also tagged: health, climate change, arts, infrastructure, immigration, democracy, childcare, youth, pharmaceuticals, hero, refugees, parental leave, 2020, civil society, civics, arts funding, rural australia, voting age, australian politics, 2020 summit
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Apr 2, 2008
The Oz’s breathless "expose" - that the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin and her party had stayed on a boat during a recent visit to the western Cape York Indigenous community of Aurukun - appears to have …
Also tagged: media, jenny macklin, australian politics
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Mar 13, 2008
In December, a triumphant Kevin Rudd presided over a meeting of hand-picked Indigenous leaders in Darwin. The new Prime Minister had travelled to the Top End to court Aboriginal people on their own country, dubbing …
Also tagged: hero, kevin rudd, indigenous affairs, jenny macklin, australian politics, northern territory intervention
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Feb 29, 2008
On February 13, in the flush of the nation’s new-found sense of momentum and generosity, there wasn’t a lot of scrutiny of what the national apology meant in policy terms for the Stolen Generations. read more
Also tagged: apology, kevin rudd, australian politics, stolen generations
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Feb 29, 2008
Post-apology, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has asked us to "embrace the possibility of new solutions to enduring problems where old approaches have failed," asserting that the mistakes of Indigenous policy of the past …
Also tagged: australian politics
newmatilda.com » newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Feb 28, 2008
When I tell friends in Melbourne that I have been to 50 funerals in the last 10 years they are genuinely gobsmacked. This is not because of morbid fascination. I could easily have attended twice this number had other …
Also tagged: hero, kimberley, australian politics