Category: Indigenous
All NT patrols to carry stun guns
Article posted on Wednesday 01 September 2010
Every police patrol in the NT will carry at least one stun gun by Christmas, with 100 new weapons taking the NT Police total to 230. In 2009, Kwementyaye Rubuntja, 39, died from heart failure after being stunned twice in Alice Springs. The NT coroner fou… more »
Even in the capital city, Indigenous
Australians suffer disproportionately
Article posted on Saturday 14 August 2010
Despite adequate resources and general goodwill, 'significant improvement' continues to elude Indigenous Australians, even in the national capital, Aboriginal Justice leader Brendan Church writes. He provides a 10-point list of ways improvement is possib… more »
Students help frame debates
Article posted on Monday 26 July 2010
CLA works with advanced and honours students on topics of mutual interest, where the student gains credits for 'internship' programs or honours studies, and CLA benefits from excellent research papers which help to shape a current or future dilemma. See… more »
Time to finalise matter of Mr Ward's avoidable death
Article posted on Saturday 03 July 2010
Editor, West Australian: I respond to your report 'Frustrated DPP sees flaws in quality of police probe' 29 June 2010, p7. I have read Coroner Alastair Hope's report on Aborigine elder Mr Ward's death in custody, in the back of a prison transfer van,… more »
Bells tolling for
Palm Island
Article posted on Friday 02 July 2010
The troubled island, off the Queensland coast near Townsville, started life as a penal colony for dozens of different Aboriginal groups a century ago. Is it still a purgatory for its people in a paradise-like environment? Keith McEwan tried to visit to s… more »
Eliminate discrimination
Article posted on Monday 19 April 2010
The area of 'racial vilification' is fraught with making decisions on difficult nuances of free speech and individual and group rights. What's important, Briant Tennant says, is that those responsible for anti-discrimination laws should not themselves d… more »
Aborigines bear the brunt of
'lock 'em' up' mentality
Article posted on Friday 19 March 2010
Aborigines continue to be massively over-represented in the nation's jails. But in WA, the situation is beyond dire: Aborigines are closing in on being half the total number of people jailed in the state, when they comprise only about 3% of the state's… more »
Indigenous stats
sound alarm bells
Article posted on Monday 08 March 2010
Victoria is one of the more enlightened states in looking after Indigenous people...but still the statistics are appalling, as this analysis by Keith McEwan (pictured) points out. "Life is not so good for an Indigenous person living in Victoria...or, for… more »
NZ cuts are the unkindest of all
Article posted on Saturday 06 March 2010
As governments worldwide cut back on prison numbers to save money, New Zealand is headed in the other direction, counter-intuitively cutting back on rehabilitation services, which will increase repeat offending and lead to more cost to the taxpayer.“To… more »
UN man slams NT intervention
Article posted on Thursday 25 February 2010
It's official! The UN says that the Rudd Government is acting in a racially discriminating manner and breaching international human rights obligations with its NT intervention. So says James Anaya, the Special Rapporteur, in his Advance report.NT inter… more »
Proud nation can be compassionate
Article posted on Tuesday 26 January 2010
Being proud of Australia is a good thing on Australia Day, but embedded in nationalism always lurks the danger of an exclusionary attitude to people who are not exactly like us, says James Dunn. The best nationalist is an internationalist, who knows that… more »
Australia...dark clouds dull the day
Article posted on Wednesday 20 January 2010
Despite parades and entertainment on Australia Day, dark clouds will hover over the heads of our country`s First People. Replacing Empire Day as a day of national pride in 1911, 10 years after Federation, Australia Day never achieved its objective of… more »
Time to learn tolerance
Article posted on Sunday 27 December 2009
Editor, The Age: Sir, At Christmas, it is understandable that in Australia, due to our history since settlement, great emphasis is given to the Christian religion throughout the land. However, considering the composition of today`s Australians with… more »
And still the prison population rises...
Article posted on Friday 11 December 2009
You'd think, from all the posturing by Law & Order (LO) politicians through Australia, that crime was up, but it is down. But what's really up is the prison population, by 36% (or 7759) from 21,358 to 29,317 over the past 10 years. At nearly $100,000… more »
Chance for rehabilitation
Article posted on Wednesday 09 December 2009
An Aboriginal boy, taken from his mother at four days, was taken from Australia at five years. Now a convicted murderer in the USA, he wants to return to Australia to complete his 25-year sentence. Keith McEwan, who has experience of Aboriginal adoption… more »
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