 Isn't it about time?
"the Howard Government's record on race relations has been judged and found wanting . . . the people of Australia will judge and reject the Howard Government at the ballot box".
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The CERD Decision
The summary and the full text of the decision by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva. Also - What is CERD? |
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 Three steps towards overcoming the impasse
The submission, by Margaret Reynolds, to the Inquiry into Consistency of the Native Title Amendment Act 1998 with Australia's international obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
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 Rock art must be preserved for future generations
As the struggle continues over ownership and control of our cultural heritage, liaison officer Colin Graham tells the story behind some of the work being undertaken by FAIRA Aboriginal Corporation's Indigenous Culture, Heritage and Biodiversity Agency at Chullawong Park, west of Brisbane.
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 Laws must protect traditional knowledge, Seville conference told
Greg Egert, a member of the Governing Committee of FAIRA, has recently returned from Seville, Spain, where he was attending a conference on biological diversity that the Australian Government hastily chose not to attend after its recent humiliation at the United Nations CERD hearing.
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| Queensland extinguishment law in doubt
Some of Queensland's native title legislation is in serious doubt, following a Federal Court decision on April 5 in a NSW case that pastoral grazing leases did not extinguish native title.
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| Judgment winds back native title rights
An appeal by the West Australian and Northern Territory governments over the landmark Miriuwung-Gajerrong claim was upheld in part on 3 March 2000 by the Full Court of the Federal Court.
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| Dumb politics wins the day
We are witnessing, in the polarised debate about mandatory sentencing (which provides for compulsory sentencing of offenders) following three convictions in two jurisdictions, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, a return to the Pauline Hanson One Nation Party dumbing down of Australian politics and policy.
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| Concern over public order laws falls on deaf ears
Civil libertarian concerns regarding QLD's Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000 have fallen on the seemingly deaf ears of Police Minister Tom Barton.
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| Working group catches out mining council
The Queensland Mining Council has been caught red-handed making "misleading and deceptive public statements" on native title, the Queensland Indigenous Working Group says.
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| State legislation deserves to fail
The Queensland Government's native title legislation deserves the same fate as the Northern Territory's, says the Queensland Indigenous Working Group.
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| Cartoons
Re-White-ing History by David Rowe and Free Choice at Work by Kevin Lindeberg.
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| Editorial - An ethical leadership
One of the requirements for statesman-like leadership is for the leader to have the courage and vision of his or her country's place in the world. And not just in the economic sense, but in the political and cultural sense as well.
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| ANTaR News... - Australia's dirty laundry aired in public
- ANTaR supports abolition of mandatory sentencing
- International day
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| Democrats concerned over new police powers
The Brisbane media awoke very slowly to the fact that the Beattie Government last month rushed laws through Parliament giving dramatically increased powers to the Queensland Police Service and security officers.
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| What They Said...
A sample of responses to the Four Corners program on ABC Television last month, which investigated claims that a mining company with links to the brother of the West Australian Premier and the head of the Liberal Party was involved in funding a native title claim over its competitors.
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| Call for urgent native title inquiry
There must be an urgent inquiry into the state of native title in Western Australia, the chair of the National Indigenous Working Group on native title, Parry Agius, says.
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| National Art Award
Indigenous Australians will have their chance of a brush with fame by entering one of the nation's most prestigious Indigenous art competitions - the National NAIDOC Art Award.
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| Discriminating against spiritual and cultural attachment
This article is the 13th in a continuing series by John Sheehan, right, dealing with the developing accommodation between compensation law and valuation practice, and native title.
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| Fresh faces and changing structures
In March, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, like communities throughout Queensland, voted in local government elections. Residents of Aurukun and Mornington Island voted for shire councils, while 32 other communities passed judgment on Aboriginal or Islander community councils.
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| Queenfish poisoning a warning to all
Since our last issue of Land Rights Queensland, some of you will have read the fish toxin warning about ciguatera.
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| Councils undergo training in native title processes
Ed Wensing, who recently conducted a workshop in Brisbane for traditional owners on native title agreements with local governments, describes the workshops for local government workers and other interested parties designed to ensure councils take account of native title rights and interests under current legislation.
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| Book Reviews
Book reviews on Public Expenditure on Services for Indigenous People - Education, Employment, Health and Housing; The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander - Women's Task Force on Violence Report and Passport to Nowhere - Aborigines in Australian Cricket 1850-1939.
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