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Guest post - International Womens Day 2008 by Fiona Noble

Paradigm Oz - March 14, 2008 - 12:29am

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY MARCH 8, 2008

To Everything, Turn, Turn, Turn…
There Is A Season, Turn, Turn, Turn…
There Is A Time For Peace, Turn, Turn, Turn.

My name is Fiona Noble. I do Treaty under the Sacred Treaty Circles of Oodgeroo of the Tribe, Nunuccal, I am a mother of four children, two of which have non-Indigenous fathers and two of which have an Indigenous father. Read more »

Kevin Rudd’s Sorry statement has to say why the government is sorry - press release from Michael Anderson

Paradigm Oz - January 29, 2008 - 1:23pm

Press release:  Michael Anderson, Goodooga, NSW, 29 January 2008

In a statement from Goodooga in NW NSW, Michael Anderson said today:

“In our family’s experience, my grandmother taken from Angledool, NW NSW in 1914 and had to find her own way home. She always wanted recognition of the government’s cruel judgement to breed out the colour and culture of Aboriginal people.” Read more »

Reflections on indigenous issues by a non-indigenous person for the consideration of non-indigenous people.

Paradigm Oz - February 8, 2008 - 11:32am

This is a post I have written for the blog “Public Polity” which is Run by Sam Clifford who is an active member of the Queensland Greens.     I will be writing regularly for Public Polity.  Read more »

N.T. Aboriginal Intervention extended to Qld’s Cape York

Paradigm Oz - December 21, 2007 - 11:17pm

“The Federal Government has thrown its support behind a plan to quarantine the
welfare payments of families in some Queensland Indigenous communities.”  
From ABC news Govt backs Indigenous welfare quarantine

PRESS RELEASE
from Queensland Aboriginal leaders Les Malezer, Terry O’Shane, Bob Weatherall, Jacqui Katona, Victor Hart

ABORIGINALS TO FIGHT QUEENSLAND INVASION
21 December 2007 Read more »

It is still O.K. for Australian police to kill Aborigines

Paradigm Oz - December 7, 2007 - 5:17pm

The 2004 Palm Island death in custody, where an Aboriginal man was unlawfully arrested and died of massive internal injuries inflicted while in police custody, remains unresolved. The arresting officer and the person who delivered the fatal blow was aquitted on charges of manslaughter but the deceased’s family is still pursuing civil charges and compensation for the death. Read more »