Popular Canberra author and former Director of an ACT Business of the Year, Troy Simpson, has announced his intention to run for the Federal seat of Fraser as an Independent at the next election.JUST IN: Troy Simpson new Independent candidate for Fraser
Posted On Monday, 28 Feb 2011 By admin. Under Independent politics, Politics Tags: ACT, Andrew Leigh, candidates, Federal election, Federal politics, Fraser electorate, Independent politicians, Independents, Labor, Liberal, non-partisan politics, Troy Simpson
Popular Canberra author and former Director of an ACT Business of the Year, Troy Simpson, has announced his intention to run for the Federal seat of Fraser as an Independent at the next election.The new “republican” Queensland constitutional preamble
Posted On Monday, 28 Feb 2011 By admin. Under Australian history, Queensland, Republic Tags: ARM, Australian republic, Glenn Davies, Peter Carey, popular sovereignty, preambles, Queensland, Queensland constitutional preamble, Samuel Griffith
The new preamble to the Queensland’s Constitution shows its people have republican aspirations, writes Glenn Davies.Opposition to a carbon price is against our best interests
Posted On Saturday, 26 Feb 2011 By admin. Under Environment, Politics Tags: carbon pricing, Carbon tax, Environment, Nick Carson, renewables, Tony Abbott
Manufactured opposition to a carbon price is against our best interests, says Nick Carson. We should be transitioning to 100 per cent renewables.The carbon tax is a “con-job” that will do nothing
Posted On Friday, 25 Feb 2011 By admin. Under Environment, Politics Tags: Bob Brown, Carbon tax, Environment, ETS, Gillard lies, Tim Badrick
Tim Badrick believes that a carbon tax is a "con-job" that will do nothing to reduce environmental damage, but alot to damage the lives of ordinary Australians.David Hicks’ first interview details US torture allegations
Posted On Friday, 25 Feb 2011 By admin. Under International Tags: AFP, ASIO, CIA, David Hicks, Guantanamo Bay, Jason Leopold, Lt Col Mori, terrorism, Truthout, US Government, US Marines, US torture allegations, War on terror
David Hicks last week gave his first interview since being released from Guantanamo Bay, in which he spoke about the horrific details of the torture and medical experimentation he endured whilst detained at Guantanamo Bay. A transcript of David Hicks harrowing interview with Jason Leopold may be found here, reproduced with the full permission of www.truthout.org. The almost unchangeable laws of succession
Posted On Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 By admin. Under Republic Tags: changing the laws of succession, Laws of Succession, Lewis Holden, Lord McNally, The 1701 Act of Settlement, the Balfour Declaration, the Statute of Westminster
The Statute of Westminster includes reference to a Convention that all the Queen's realms neeed to agree to any changes to the laws of succession. Lewis Holden says, not likely.The flood levy debate: pointless partisan politics
Posted On Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 By admin. Under Politics Tags: Australia's public debt compared with OECD, Australian economy, Australian politics, Bob Hawke, David Donovan, Democracy, flood reconstruction, Howard Government, John Howard, Julie Gillard, Keating Government, Labor, Labor's economic management record, Liberals, natural disasters, Partisan politics, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, political system, public debt, Queensland flood, sovereign debt, The flood levy debate, Tony Abbott
The flood levy issue is perhaps the most pointless and perverse political debate seen in Australia in recent times, says David Donovan.Why Egypt’s military will not be able to Govern
Posted On Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 By admin. Under Democracy, International Tags: Clement Henry, Democracy, Egypt, Egypt uprising, Egyptian military, Hosni Mubarak, Middle-East, Middle-East democracy, Robert Springborg, Tunisia, Tunisian uprising
Egypt’s military does not have the stranglehold on power that many think, and a real Tunisian solution – a civilian government free of military involvement – could come to Egypt as well. Clement Henry and Robert Springborg comment.The Queen, David Hicks and the Australian Government
Posted On Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011 By admin. Under Australian history, International, Politics, Republic Tags: Alexander Downer, Barry Everingham, British Foreign Office, British Government, David Hicks, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Guantanamo Bay, John Howard, Margaret Beckett, Nicholas Jankowski, terrorism, The Queen, Unites States anti-terrorism, US treatment of terrorists, Whitehall
With reports that the Director of Public Prosecutions is examining David Hick’s legal position regarding the royalties from his published memoirs, Barry Everingham explains his history with the Guantanamo Bay detainee.Paul Keating’s Redfern Speech: Indigenous recognition begins
Posted On Wednesday, 23 Feb 2011 By admin. Under Australian history, Discrimination, Indigenous Australia Tags: Aboriginal Australia, constitutional recognition of Aborigines, Equality, great Australian speeches, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous dispossion, Indigenous recognition, Injustice towards Aboringinal, murder of Aboriginals, Paul Keating, Paul Keating Redfern address, racism, reconciliation, Redfern, Redfern speech, speeches, Torres Strait Islander people
As Australia plans for a referendum on Indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution in 2013, it is worthwhile revisiting the speech that helped bring about these important moves.
On the 10th of December 1992, then Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating, gave a speech at Redfern Park – in an inner city suburb of Sydney with an historically large Aboriginal population – for the Australian Launch of the 'International Year for the World's Indigenous People'. The speech kick-started moves for the official recognition of Indigenous rights and wrongs and inevitably led to an official apology to Indigenous people by the Australian Government in 2007.
The following is Keating's speech reproduced verbatim, along with videos of the speech (split into 2 parts):
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