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White Australia Has a Black Past
29 oct  |  A video about indigenous policy in Australia from the last hope for the Australian Democrats, Queensland Senator Andrew Bartlett. . . read more
Starting the Apology - From Paul Keating
3 feb  |  We non-Aboriginal Australians should perhaps remind ourselves that Australia once reached out for us. Didn't Australia provide opportunity and care for the dispossessed Irish? The poor of Britain? The refugees from war and famine and persecution in the countries of Europe and Asia? Isn't it reasonable to say that if we can build a prosperous and remarkably harmonious multicultural society in Australia, surely we can find just solutions to the problems which beset the first Australians - the people to whom the most injustice has been done.

And, as I say, the starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts with us non-Aboriginal Australians. It begins, I think, with the act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion.

It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us. With some noble exceptions, we failed to make the most basic human response and enter into their hearts and minds. We failed to ask - how would I feel if this were done to me? As a consequence, we failed to see that what we were doing degraded all of us.

[Part of Prime Minister Paul Keating's speech at Redfern, December 1992] . . read more

Working With Stanley Kubrick
20 feb  |  Actor Alan Cumming describes working with iconic director and notorious perfectionist Stanley Kubrick on the set of Kubrick's final film, 1999's Eyes Wide Shut. . . read more
Charge of the Band-Aid Brigade
4 jul  |  There have been millions of words written in mainstream media in the past fortnight about the 316-page Little Children Are Sacred report into child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory. Precious few have actually quoted from the report. Even fewer have reported its core findings... . . read more
Pink Oblong - Make Art Not War
4 feb  |  Australians recently celebrated another year of one version of an Australian story, and after the first step in the process of reconciliation, ROSA VIERECK considers what it means to be an Australian and looks to Sidney Nolan and indigenous peoples for inspiration. . . read more
Koori History
23 jun  |  Information on Black Australia's 200+ year struggle for justice . . read more
Sorry is the First Step
13 feb  |  On the day of apology for the stolen generations, laid out before the Australian Parliament, 4000 candles flickered spelling out the words 'Sorry, the first step'.  . . read more
Moral Blindness - From Tom Morton
12 feb  |  In its initial response to the 'Bringing them Home' Report in 1997, the Howard government argued that 'We do not believe our generation should be asked to accept responsibility for the acts of earlier generations.' But many of those acts occurred within the lifetimes of generations now living.

Mick Dodson: “Who are these people, who is this generation that took my grandmother, my father, my mother and my grandfather and my two sisters? Who is this generation that tried to take me from my family in 1960? What generation do we look to if Mr Howard says it wasn't this one? Where is this mythical group of Australians who made these laws, adopted these policies, put them into practice, who took the kids?”.

Critics of the 'Bringing them Home' Report believe the report demonises the white officials who were involved in removing indigenous children. The late Editor of Quadrant magazine, P.P. McGuinness, reiterated this point in an editorial.”To denigrate the honest and sincere efforts of so many people who thought they were doing the right thing”, says McGuinness, “is merely a historical ignorance.” But according to philosopher Raimond Gaita, this view represents a kind of moral blindness about our immediate past. [More] . . read more

Howard Challenged on Aboriginal Policy
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LES JOHNSON, former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in the Whitlam Labor Government, believes Prime Minister John Howard must respond to suggestions that his decision to deal with Aboriginal child molestation has been motivated by the desire to exploit this emotive and sensitive matter to secure political advantage. . . read more

Australia Sings For Lebanon
7 apr  |  Leading film-makers are seeking to change the way we think about other countries. This is one of a series of films to be shown on Pangea Day, May 10, "the day the world comes together through film". . . read more
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