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McMullen’s 10 point plan to give our First Peoples dignity and hope

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Award winning journalist and a highly respected activist for Indigenous rights, Jeff McMullen delivered a compelling address to the Family Relations Australia Conference in Canberra in March. His logic and reasoning makes this a "must read" if Federal, State and Territory governments genuinely desire to address the burden of poverty and death that confront so many Indigenous families and communities in Australia today. Better still, McMullen lists 10 separate actions governments should and could take which would go a long way toward...

 

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Last Updated on Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:10

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Rottnest depicts silence, denial on epic scale as a booming WA “racks and stacks” Indigenous misery

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Marianne-MackayBy renowned journalist and rights activist, John Pilger of The Guardian

Eleven miles by ferry from Perth is Western Australia's "premier tourist destination". This is Rottnest Island, whose scabrous wild beauty and isolation evoked, for me, Robben Island in South Africa.

Empires are never short of devil's islands; what makes Rottnest different – indeed, what makes Australia...

 

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 07:13

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