A new indigenous representative body
ABC News from a few days ago: A new national representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has been unveiled in Sydney this morning. The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples is the first Indigenous representative body since 2005, [...]
Racist theft
Crossposted from No Right Turn. Australia has some of the worst racial disparities in the developed world. The average household income of indigenous Australians is only 60% of the average. The proportion with high-school or higher educations is only half [...]
Entrenched racism
Crossposted from No Right Turn. In the run-up to the 2007 election, then-Australian Prime Minister John Howard decided to repeat his successful racial wedge tactics with Aborigines as the victims, declaring a “state of emergency” in Northern Australia, taking over [...]
On Rage: Germaine Greer reviewed
Well, as I noted on another thread about Germaine Greer, I’ve bought and now read On Rage. I’d like this post to stick to discussion of the merits of her arguments, which I continue to think has been something largely [...]
On Rage: Raging against Germaine
As a bit of a follow up to the discussion of Germaine Greer’s latest book On Rage here, I was interested to see Gary Sauer-Thompson observe that most of the reaction (and there’s been tons of it) to her writing [...]
Mutual obligation and Indigenous policy
In the wake of discussion of Andrew Forrest’s proposal for the creation of 50 000 full time jobs for Indigenous Australians (discussed here at LP) and Germaine Greer’s remarks on the continuing force of history in shaping Indigenous responses to [...]
The ultimate public-private partnership?
In the (new) tradition of rich dude saves the world, someone I’d never heard of, Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest – apparently Australia’s richest man, has been putting his head together with Noel Pearson and Kevin Rudd to announce a plan to [...]
No plan?
I’m finding the comments of the chair of the NT Intervention Taskforce just a bit rich. Dr Gordon said she would ask Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin, who meets the entire Territory Indigenous Intervention Taskforce for the first time on [...]
Anna Bligh: the first hundred days
It’s been a bumper year for Queenslanders with a brand shiny new Premier as well as a PM. So what’s the report card on Anna Bligh’s time in office? So far, so good, I’d say – though the big problem [...]
Tracking The Intervention: Discarding and devaluing Aboriginal work
Guest Post from Lauredhel Crossposted from Hoyden About Town and also crossposted yesterday at LP in exile, but I wasn’t able to access LP to post it here until now! You may comment over at LP in exile while comments [...]
Sickened! Sickened!
Interesting to see a few suggestions that Cap’n Brough might be in trouble in Longman. We can only hope. I was going to write on the latest moralising mendacity from the Minister for It’s the Kiddies! but Ken L has [...]
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