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Authority's racist intent writ large in our history
For near 200 years, government in this country, state and federal, considered "full-blood" Aborigines no better than vermin. The "Aboriginal problem", so-called, was confined mostly to what to do about mixed-blood children fathered by white Australians. Mixed-race numbers were increasing as rapidly as full-bloods were vanishing. Which is why, from 1890 to the early 1960s, generations of part-white children were forcibly removed, in all states, from their Aboriginal mothers.
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Greens call to action on Indigenous Justice
Saturday 17th November 2007
"We need to make a new beginning in the struggle for justice and rights for Indigenous Australians," said Senator Rachel Siewert in Perth today.
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Redfern plan backfires: report
Sunanda Creagh
SMH, October 30, 2007 - 8:34AM
A $2 million State Government program for disadvantaged Redfern youth actually encouraged children to stay out on the street late at night and exacerbated tensions with local police, a secret report reveals.
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Sorry Day March - Saturday 26/05/07
by Irene Doutney
On a sparkling, warm autumn morning hundreds of people marched from the Sydney Town Hall to First Fleet Park at Circular Quay in rememberance of the emancipation of Indigenous Australians in 1967. An afternoon of music, food and free non-alcoholic beverages followed and was warmly appreciated by the friendly mob. Seen among the marchers were Greens senator Ian Cohen and the state minister for Aboriginal Affairs.
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Cardinal George Pell
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Redfern parish at war with its priests
Linda Morris Religious Affairs Writer, SMH, June 1, 2007
THE head of Sydney's Catholics has lashed out at an inner-city parish for treating church like an unruly political branch meeting.
Archbishop George Pell has accused the parishioners of St Vincent's Catholic Church in Redfern of "sad and shameful attitudes" and mounting a "program of intimidation, harassment and disturbance" on holy occasions.
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It's been a long walk: blacks unite for march
Date: April 17 2007
Paul Bibby
WHEN David Williams's uncle returned from the Korean War - exhausted and recovering from a gunshot wound - the family took him to Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital in Brisbane. The door was closed in their faces.
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Drilling at Lake Cowal
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Arrests made after mine protest turns ugly
Jano Gibson
SMH, April 9, 2007 - 8:15AM
Eighteen anti-gold mine activists have been charged following a protest in central NSW, which concluded with a man allegedly ransacking the protesters' campsite while armed with a knife.
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Dr John Kaye and Dr Ben Spies-Butcher
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"Law and order" auction fails NSW Indigenous communities
The Greens NSW will today launch their approach to reducing Indigenous incarceration rates, increasing community safety and ensuring community development.
Greens Upper House candidate John Kaye said "NSW imprisons more Indigenous people per capita than anywhere else in Australia.
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"The Block", Eveleigh Street, Redfern
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Greens Back Aboriginal Housing on the Block
Greens candidate for Marrickville, Fiona Byrne, and Greens candidate for Heffron, Ben Spies-Butcher, this week met with the Aboriginal Housing Company to discuss the AHC’s plans, and to offer their support for Aboriginal housing on the Block.
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Councillor Chris Harris
At a Council meeting on the 15th of March, the Lord Mayor moved a mayoral minute (delivered to councillors 25 minutes before the meeting), which was supported Clover Moore Party âindependentsâ and the Liberal Councillor, to abandon plans to build a skate park at the Millers Point site underneath a busy freeway (for background information on the site, [...]
I have serious concerns about the tender process that appears to have been designed to place the Cityâs tennis courts under the management of a single operator. Should the recommendation of council staff be adopted the operator at Ruchcutters Bay tennis courts will be tossed out after 25 years of service to the community. The [...]
Hot on the heels of their destruction of the habitat area at Orphan School Creek with the freshly laid concrete zig zag path, the Clover Moore Party are at it again across the road in Johnstons Canal with more habitat destruction. The proposal is a bike path that links the shared pathway emerging from Orphan [...]
The Barangaroo Authority conducted a presentation of the design ideas of British architect Richard Rogers at the City Recital Hall on 23rd February. The presentation visuals showed attractive buildings and public spaces that interfaced with the water at the cityâs western edge with a light rail service passing down Hickson Rd.
One key component of the [...]
At a council meeting of the City of Sydney on 22nd February Clover Moore Party
members and the Liberal councilor voted in tandem to donate public ratepayer funds to two private enterprises setting up in the Cityâs laneways.
The first donation to set up a new bar was approved outright.  The second grant, to the Moran Arts Foundation Ltd, was recommended [...]
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