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It's paradise - by Morge and The One Man Army |
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HREOC Report: Social Justice |
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In March 2008, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission launched a report: Social Justice Report 2007. The report focusses on Indigenous communities dealing with family violence and abuse and the Northern Territory intervention. |
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ABS statistics - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: a snapshot, 2006 |
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released a report on law and justice statistics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, for the year 2006. Part of this report covers exposure to violence. Read the report ... |
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A proposed Emergency Response and Development Plan to protect Aboriginal children in NT |
A preliminary response to the Australian Government's proposals
by the Combined Aboriginal Organisations of the Northern Territory
Extract Only: What follows is an edited compilation of the full proposal's Summary and Introduction sections. You can also download the full plan (PDF 121k).
These proposals to protect children in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities have been developed by the Combined Aboriginal Organisations (representing Aboriginal organisations in Darwin, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Katherine) and community sector organisations from across the country. |
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After sacking Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Milton Orkopoulos who had been charged with child sex offences, NSW Premier, Morris Iemma, declared war on the state's child abusers. "If you are a pedophile, I am your enemy," he said in Parliament last November. However, while the Premier talked tough, his government went to water when it came to responding to Breaking the Silence, a 300 page report on child abuse in Aboriginal communities. |
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Indigenous men: stereotypically violent? |
 In recent times there has been much public discussion about violence within Aboriginal communities, from different political and social commentators, notably the media.
‘…[journalists have] devoted endless column inches to portraying black men universally as violent sexual predators. All this is supposedly out of fear for the safety of black women’ 1
The colonial views of gender roles within Aboriginal communities still affect the views of commentators today, writes Amy Luschwitz.
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