Binnah Pownall presents the most comprehensive summary yet seen of the Australia Day ‘Tent Embassy’ conflagration — along with the reasons why the Embassy won't be moving on any time soon.The Tent Embassy remains until a Treaty is sealed
Posted On Saturday, 18 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia Tags: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, AUS, Binnah Pownall, Canberra, Denis Walker, Indigenous Sovereignty, Jerry Prus-Butwilowicz, Julia Gillard, Land rights, Michael McMurtrie, Paul Coe, Porkbarrell Cafe, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott
Binnah Pownall presents the most comprehensive summary yet seen of the Australia Day ‘Tent Embassy’ conflagration — along with the reasons why the Embassy won't be moving on any time soon.A house divided
Posted On Monday, 30 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Australian history, Australian identity, Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Politics Tags: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Australia Day, Australian identity, exclusionary nationalism, Henry Pill, Indigenous, John Howard, leadership, Martin Flanagan, nationalism, racial divisions, racism
“Exclusionary nationalism is a sickness caused by the divisive and opportunistic leadership of Howard,” says Henry Pill. “It will remain strong, and racial tensions will remain high, and debates over the meaning of Australia day will rage ever longer, without leadership which rejects the ever-dangerous spoils of racial politics.”Tony Abbott and the Tent Embassy
Posted On Saturday, 28 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia, Politics Tags: Abbott comments about Tent Embassy, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Indigenous, John Turnbull, Julia Gillard, protests, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott
Why did Tony Abbott retract his comments about it being time for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to move on? John Turnbull comments.Australia Day in black and white
Posted On Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Australian history, Australian identity, Indigenous Australia Tags: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Australia Day, Barack Obama, Colonialism, Dispossession, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous recognition, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Lynne Kosky, Mabo, Malcolm Fraser, Memphis, Mick Dodson, Night of the Iguana, reconciliation, Ron Barassi, Tess Lawrence, Treaty
"Many of our people call it invasion day," said Mr Mick Dodson, a professor of law at the Australian National University. "To many indigenous Australians, in fact, most indigenous Australians, it really reflects the day in which our world came crashing down."
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