Indigenous News Updates – Politics

by Robbo on 30/08/2009

News

  • UN condemns Austraia’s 2007 Indigenous Intervention policies describing them as racist http://bit.ly/xEgTl
  • The shadow of the stolen generation still casts a lot of pain, the wounds are still open http://bit.ly/Gcto6
  • UN urges Australia to pay reparations to indigenous communities http://bit.ly/fyTUO
  • A foreign view of the Intervention “Putting a band-aid on Genocide http://bit.ly/KANjR
  • AP: Australia debating whether Intervention Aboriginal Policy is racist. http://bit.ly/472F0H (I would suggest it is)
  • Barnett crows about “significant successes” in the employment of Aboriginal people on mining projects. http://bit.ly/2iGIGb- Overstated
  • Australian aboriginals make up nearly every 3 in 100 Australians. One in every four prisoners is Aboriginal http://bit.ly/3jFHjD

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.
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