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Est.: 15th Apr 1994. Last updated: 28 Sep 2008.
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INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS

Cooperation, reconcilliation, repair of fractures

• Aboriginal Issues at the Federal Election 2007 (www.australiavotes.org, Australia)
  [Initiatives and policies of Parties contesting Australian Federal Election of 2007. Responses to an Australian Christian Lobby questionnaire by (in alphabetic order): * Australian Democrats; * Australian Greens; * Australian Labor Party; * Christian Democratic Party; * Family First Party; * James Baker, Independent Senate Candidate for QLD; * Liberal National Coalition; * Liberty and Democracy Party.]
• The Aboriginal Support Group - Manly Warringah Pittwater (ASG) (www.asgmwp.net, Australia)
  [A community of people, located on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, who are committed to supporting Aboriginal people in their struggle for justice.]
• ANTaR - Australians for Native Title and Reconcilliation (www.antar.org.au, Australia)
  [Information Latest News & Events; How to Help; The Sea of Hands; Six Steps to Coexistence; Sign the Wik Petition; Sign the Citizen's Statement; Links to Other Sites; Contact ANTaR]
• Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (www.austlii.edu.au, Australia)
  [The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation is a cross-cultural and cross-party body established in 1991 by an Act of the Commonwealth Parliament, supported unanimously by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Council has adopted a vision statement which has guided all its endeavours: 'A united Australia which respects this land of ours; values the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage; and provides justice and equity for all.']
• Furthering Reconciliation: Trinity College (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
• Special Report: Indigenous Welfare - The Australian (www.theaustralian.news.com.au, Australia)
  [Articles published by 29th June 2007: *Soldiers go from tough to tender; *State's turnaround: we'll send advisers; *Howard, Rudd dodge indigenous 'land grab' claims; *Porn faces stricter control; *Indigenous taskforce HQ set for Alice; *Hundreds volunteer to join health effort; *Internet activists rally protesters; *Brough on road to ease tensions; *Fraser minister backs plan; *Mundine supports Territory crusade; *Alcohol bans may extend to Darwin; *Indigenous leaders divided on plan of action; * Rescue won't win votes, say pollsters; * Day 1: Scoping mission forgets its manners; * Top End man on sex charges; * Venereal diseases common in children; * Physical checks played down; * Slurs on PM's motives were predictable; * NT welfare laws ready 'within weeks'; * Aboriginal numbers grow by third in Howard era; * 'Compassion keeping people dirt poor'; * Welfare at root of social decline; * Abbott reassures indigenous parents; * State warned on police snub; * Beattie urges calm after second death; * Don't fear indigenous plan: Howard; * Kava importing banned to curb indigenous intoxication; * Man charged with abusing indigenous teenagers; * It's Cyclone Mal and whose army?; * Get parents who shield abusers: Pearson; * Aborigines told to join in; * Community residents flee, fearing children will be taken; * Move 'doomed to fail, like Iraq'; * PM cries political foul as state dissent grows; * Heavyweights to join taskforce; * Rudd must monitor plan, says Gallop; * ALP backs 'tough love' approach; * Alcohol ban 'may cause more problems'; * Indigenous communities 'preyed upon by scaremongers'; * NT community eyes Uluru ban in protest; * Welfare groups accuse Howard of welfare 'land grab'; * Howard's indigenous blueprint 'to cost up to $4bn']
• Bolt, Andrew. 28 June 2006. Noble Savage dead and gone (www.heraldsun.news.com.au, Australia)
  [28 June 2006 article by Andrew Bolt: 'Indeed, many of today's rioters there barely speak English. What's their future? No, that's a death knell you hear. The dream of the New Age reformers is over. Too many children suffer now for us to ignore the truth. For 30 years, since the Whitlam government, that dream was that Aborigines were different to anyone else.']
• Pearson, Noel. June 26, 2007. Noel Pearson discusses the issues faced by Indigenous communities (www.abc.net.au, Australia)
  ["... Noel Pearson, thanks for joining us this evening. It's now five days since the Prime Minister announced he was taking emergency action to stop the sexual abuse of Indigenous children, we've had time to watch the reaction to that play out. Are you surprised or disappointed at how quickly it's descended into a political storm?..." ]
• Rothwell, Nicolas. June 22, 2007. Nothing less than a new social order (theaustralian.news.com.au, Australia)
  ["With rapier speed and devastating force, the federal Government seized control yesterday of the Aboriginal heart of Australia, sweeping away a generation's worth of political assumptions and imposing a completely new pattern of surveillance and control over the remote indigenous communities of the centre and the north. Let there be no mistake: yesterday's declaration of a national emergency by John Howard ranks with the referendum of 1967, or the passage of land rights in the Northern Territory, as a turning point in Australian history: in what direction remains to be seen..." ]
• Sutton, Peter. 2001.The politics of suffering: Indigenous policy in Australia since the 1970s. Anthropological Forum, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2001. Department of Anthropology, The University of Western Australia. (http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/fll/eldp/sutton/2001AF.pdf a PDF document, 504KB)
• Reconciliation and Social Justice Library (www.austlii.edu.au, Australia)
  [Contents: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Australian Institute of Health - Overviews of Aboriginal Health Status, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Other Publications]
• The Sydney Line: Aboriginal Separatism (www.sydneyline.com, Australia)
  [Articles 2000 - present, by Keith Windschuttle]
• For the Native Title information and Wik Decision materials see Australian Native Title section of this WWW Virtual Library

Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

• Australian Indigenous Deaths in Custody (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
  [Links to: * Aboriginal Deaths In Custody Watch Committee (WA); * Deaths in Custody Australia * Australia Deaths in custody: How many more? * Aboriginal deaths in custody A dead issue?; * Deaths in Custody Research Register AIATSIS; * Regional Report of Inquiry into Underlying Issues in Western Australia; * Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody; * Black Deaths in Custody on Rise; * Customary law could stop the deaths in custody say black leaders; * Australian Aboriginal Deaths in Custody; * Preventing Deaths in Custody; * NSW shame as deaths in custody rise; * Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee NSW; * NSW Deaths in Custody.]
• http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,19633083%255E421,00.html (www.theadvertiser.news.com.au, Australia)
  [30 Jun 2006 article by Patricia Karvelas and Ashleigh Wilson: 'ABORIGINES may be escaping heavy jail sentences for violent crimes such as murder, rape and sexual abuse because of fears a long period in jail could lead to a "death in custody".]

"Stolen" vs. "Rescued" Generation

• Australian Indigenous Stolen Generation (P.L. Duffy Resource Centre Trinity College, WA, Australia)
  [Issues; Personal Stories; Family History]
• Be a Manne and name just 10 (www.heraldsun.news.com.au, Australia)
  [28 Jun 2006 article by Andrew Bolt: 'Let me sum up. The leading propagandist of the "stolen generations" still cannot name even 10 of the 25,000 Aboriginal children who were allegedly stolen for racist reasons. The best he can do is promise to send me a list he's now found of children allegedly taken by one man more than a century ago.']
• Name them or admit myth (www.heraldsun.news.com.au, Australia)
  [7 Jul 2006 article by Andrew Bolt: 'LAST week on 3AW, I set Prof Robert Manne a challenge: "Name just 10." Could our most famous "stolen generations" propagandist name just 10 of the 25,000 Aboriginal children he claims were "stolen" between 1910 and 1970?']
• Stolen generations: My Melbourne Writers' [2006] Festival speech (blogs.news.com.au, Australia)
  [5 Sep 2006 article by Andrew Bolt: 'We consciously leave Aboriginal children in dangers we would never tolerate if these children were of any other race. Just ask the New South Wales Child Death Review Team, which investigated why Aboriginal children of drug addicts were 10 times more likely to die under the noses of welfare officers than were children of white addicts. It blamed a fear of the "stolen generations", pleading: "A history of inappropriate intervention with Aboriginal families should not lead now to an equally inappropriate lack of intervention for Aboriginal children at serious risk".']
• Bringing them home: The 'Stolen Children' report (1997) (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Australia)
  [Site contents (as of 28 Sep 2008): The Report [18MB]; Response to government to the national apology to the Stolen Generations' by Tom Calma - 13 Feb 2008; Video of response speech; Us Taken-Away Kids commemorating the 10th anniversary - 11 Dec 2007; Bringing them home Education Module 2007 update - 11 Dec 2007); * Report resources (Read the Community Guide (2007 update); See also Bringing them home Community Guide (1997); The 54 recommendations of the report; Frequently asked questions about the 'stolen children' and the Inquiry; Who spoke out at the time; Personal stories from the report; Bringing them home Education Module (updated 2007) - Learning about the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and their families; Conference: Ten years later: Bringing them home and the Forced Removal of Children - 28 Sept 2007); Other resources (Sorry - pictures; Marking the apology - details of broadcast and suggestions for ways to mark the event on 13 February by NSW Reconciliation Council; Apologies by State and Territory Parliaments; Sorry: the unfinished business of the Bringing them home report Background note by the Australian Parliamentary Library (2008); Sorry FAQ by Reconciliation Australia; Sorry FAQ (PDF) by Reconciliation Australia; From Dispossession to Reconciliation by John Gardiner-Garden, Australian Parliamentary Library Research Paper series (1999))]
• Parry, Naomi. 2007. 'Such a longing': black and white children in welfare in New South Wales and Tasmania, 1880-1940 (unsworks.unsw.edu.au, Australia)
  [PhD Thesis. School of History. University of New South Wales. Keyword(s): Aboriginal Australians -- Relocation -- New South Wales, Stolen generations (Australia), Aboriginal Australians -- Relocation -- Tasmania, Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations]
• The Stolen Generation Apology Page (apology.west.net.au, Australia)
  [A page for Australians to add their names online to offer an apology to the stolen generation of Aboriginal children removed from their families. An initiative of Anthony Shipley. Also links to related sites.]

Alleged genocide vs. historical evidence

• Genocide in Australia (www.aiatsis.gov.au, Australia)
  [Colin Tatz. 1999. Genocide in Australia. AIATSIS Research Discussion Papers No 8. Canberra: AIATSIS. Contents: Images of Genocide; Aborigines - and First Contact; Decimation: Physical and Social; Disease as Genocide; Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Forced Assimilation; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group; Stolen or Separated?; Australia's Denialism; Apology and Acknowledgment.]
• Doctored evidence and invented incidents in Aboriginal historiography (www.sydneyline.com, Australia)
  ['Doctored evidence and invented incidents in Aboriginal historiography' by Keith Windschuttle. Paper to conference on 'Frontier Conflict, National Museum of Australia, December 13-14, 2001.
  See also K. Windschuttle's web page about the National Museum of Australia.]
• Frontier Conflict - the Australian Experience (National Museum of Australia, Australia)
  [A forum at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Thursday 13 - Friday 14 December 2001. Much debate surrounds the history of conflict between Aboriginals and Europeans on the Australian frontier. What actually happened? What is the evidence? How do we interpret it? How do we remember the histories of conflict? Why is the debate significant today? In this two-day Forum, leading historians, social commentators and community leaders confront the issues from diverse perspectives.]
• 'The Fabrication of Aboriginal History' - Reviews of Keith Windschuttle's new book (www.adelaideinstitute.org, Australia)
  [A number of articles, including: 'Paul Sheehan Our history not rewritten but put right. Accusations of genocide have been based on guesswork and blatant ideology. Sydney Morning Herald, 24 November 2002.'
  The site provides a section 'Keith Windschuttle replies to his critics'.]
• Genocide and the Silence of the Anthropologists (www.quadrant.org.au, Australia)
  [Kenneth Maddock, Quadrant Magazine History, November 2000 - Volume XLIV Number 11. Excerpt: "What I find fascinating, given the passions aroused, is that the contemporaneous anthropological record contains nothing about genocide and little about removals. [...] [I]t was common enough for anthropologists to debate the pros and cons of Aboriginal policy. [...] Yet neither [Marie] Reay nor the dozen or so Young Turks of the discipline [of anthropology] who wrote for her excellent [1964] collection on Aborigines Now: New Perspective in the Study of Aboriginal Communities bothered to mention genocide. The most natural construction to put on her silence and theirs is that there was nothing to report."]
• The Sydney Line: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History (www.sydneyline.com, Australia)
  [Articles 2000 - present, by Keith Windschuttle]

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