The Australian nation and its stability exists despite our limited, vague and racially discriminatory Constitution, says managing editor David Donovan. We must seize the opportunity to create a relevant, inspiring and inclusive statement of Australian nationhood in place of this highly flawed document.Our vaguely discriminatory colonial Constitution
Posted On Thursday, 02 Feb 2012 By admin. Under Australian identity, Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Republic Tags: Australian Constitution, Constitutional reform, David Donovan, Edmund Barton, flawed Australian Constitution, Governor General, Indigenous, role of Prime Minister, Thomas Jefferson
The Australian nation and its stability exists despite our limited, vague and racially discriminatory Constitution, says managing editor David Donovan. We must seize the opportunity to create a relevant, inspiring and inclusive statement of Australian nationhood in place of this highly flawed document.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.Confirmation Gillard and Abbott were never threatened by Indigenous activists
Posted On Friday, 27 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia, Media, Politics Tags: Aboriginal, bodyguards, David Donovan, demonstrations, Indigenous, ISP, John Passant, Julia Gillard, mainstream media, protective services, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott, Wil Wallace
More eyewitness accounts confirm Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were never under attack by Aboriginal protestors, but rather the victims of over-excited bodyguards. Managing editor David Donovan reports.Gillard and Abbott were never really threatened by Aboriginal protestors
Posted On Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Politics Tags: Canberra, demonstration, Gillard jostled, Indigenous, John Passant, Julia Gillard, Land rights, Porkbarrel Café, protests, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott, Treaty
The official account portrays Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as being attacked by violent Aboriginal demonstrators today in Canberra. Present at the demonstrations was John Passant — who paints a rather different picture of events.Woodside Kimberley gas hub is Exploitation Inc
Posted On Tuesday, 06 Dec 2011 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia, Mining, WA Tags: Antony Loewenstein, Barry Carbon, Broome, Canning Basin, Colin Barnett, Crikey, Environs Kimberley, fracking, Glen Klatovsky, Indigenous, James Price Point, Keystone XL, Lateline, LNG, mining, natural gas, Petroleum Titles Map, privacy, Rey Resources, Save the Kimberley, shale natural gas, The Wilderness Society, TPL, WA, Woodside, Woodside illegal filming
The Western Australian Supreme Court today quashed the State Government's gas hub land grab at James Price Point in the Kimberley region, after court action by a local Indigenous group. But neither Woodside, nor the WA Premier Colin Barnett appear to regard this ruling as another more than a minor speed-bump on the way towards the construction of this troubling and controversial $50 billion development.
Independent journalist Antony Loewenstein has been investigating this troubling and controversial development. The following exposé first appeared in Crikey last week and reappears here with the full permission of the author.Australian Health Survey is not closing the gap
Posted On Wednesday, 16 Nov 2011 By admin. Under Health, Indigenous Australia Tags: Aboriginal Australia, AHS, Andrew Laming, Australian Health Survey, closing the gap, Health, Indigenous, Indigenous health, Wendy Hoy
Not including young Indigenous Australians in the sample for the Australia Health Survey is a serious mistake, says Professor Wendy Hoy.Independent Australia applauds Bolt decision
Posted On Saturday, 01 Oct 2011 By admin. Under Discrimination, Independent Australia journal Tags: About Independent Australia, Andrew Bolt, Barry Everingham, discrimination, IA newsletter, Independent Australia, Indigenous, JD Lang, racism
Independent Australia believes the discrimination decision by Justice Bromberg was a good one for Australia — a long overdue reminder that discrimination, once such a feature of life, no longer has a place in Australia.Mick Gooda says reconciliation is an agenda of hope
Posted On Friday, 27 May 2011 By admin. Under Discrimination, Human rights, Indigenous Australia Tags: 1967 referendum, Abooriginal health statistics, Aboriginal, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission, Brian Stacey, Cairns, Christine Bruce, Constitutional reform, consulting indigenous people, Eora people, Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians, Family Wellbeing Empowerment Program, Fetal Alchohol Spectrum Disorders, Fitzroy Valley, Gadigal Elders, Ghangulu people, human rights, Independent Australia, Indigenous, Indigenous recognition, informed consent, James Christian, Kenneth Deer, Kevin Rudd, Mick Gooda, National Apology, National Apology to Indigenous people, Northern Territory, NT intervention, Relationships between Indigenous people and government, self determination, Sorry Day, UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Woorabinda, Yarrabah
On this 44th anniversary of the 1967 “Aboriginal” referendum, and every day, Independent Australia acknowledges the original owners of this land. The following is a speech given on 11 April 2011 in Sydney by Mick Gooda, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (Australian Human Rights Commission) and descendent of the Ghangulu people of central Queensland. Mr Gooda is also an ex-officio member of the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians. Reconciliation + Republic = Australia 2.1
Posted On Tuesday, 24 May 2011 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia, Republic Tags: ABC, ABC News Radio, Air Force One, American Indians, Amnesty International, Angela Long, Australian Government, Australian republic, Australian Treaty, Barack Obama, Barrie Cassidy, Britain, Carnaby St, CHOGM, Clarence House, convicts, David Cameron, David Donovan, discrimination, Doomsday cults, Dublin, Duke of Cambridge, Fiji, Frances Shand Kydd, Frank Thorne, Gillard meeting Queen, Harold Camping, Indigenous, Ireland, John Barron, Julian Assange, Julian Gillard, Kate Middleton, Keri Sutherland, Kerry-Anne Walsh, Land rights, Lizard Island, Manhattan, Maori, Mary McAleese, Naura, Obama Irish ancestry, Obama Irish connection, Paul Keating, Perth CHOGM, Prince Charles, Prince William, Princess Diana, Queen in Ireland, Queen Victoria, reconciliation, royal wedding, Somerset Maugham, Sunday Mirror, Tess Lawrence, The Beatles, The Chaser, The Commonwealth, The Insiders, The Irish Times, The Queen, The Rapture, Tim Matheson, Tom Donovan, Treaty of Waitangi, UK
On the eve of reconciliation week - Friday will be the 44th anniversary of the 1967 referendum when Australians overwhelmingly voted YES! for Aboriginal rights - Tess Lawrence expands on what happened at the Queen's meeting with Julia Gillard last month and what it all means for the Republic and Indigenous reconciliation and recognition in Australia.
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