Archive for August, 2007
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
500 pages in one day (updated)
A lot has happened in Canberra overnight, as it’s the start of the first parliamentary sitting since John Howard and Mal Brough announced their intervention plan. I pointed out weeks ago that their actions implied that they were simply ignoring the 97 recommendations of the Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle report. The feeling is still shared by co-author of the [...]
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
They came, they saw, they left.
Or, in a bid to be linguistically egalitarian: Veni, vidi, ba-ya-nggi¹. Kybrook Farm was visited yesterday by one of the federal government survey teams that are travelling around aboriginal communities in the Territory in a bid to explain the policy changes involved in Howard and Brough’s intervention. Wamut, in Ngukurr, writes about his experience with [...]
