Media releases
ANTaR launches Are we there yet? campaign
31 May 2010
Dr Janet Hunt, ANTaR President, looks back over the last ten years to assess our progress on the reconciliation journey. Calling for a year of recommitment to reconciliation, Dr Hunt highlights key priorities for reform, including constitutional change, recognition of Indigenous human rights and the negotiation of a treaty with Australia's First Peoples.
ANTaR welcomes new Indigenous body
03 May 2010
ANTaR has today welcomed the establishment of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples as a significant development.
The National Congress is expected to provide an independent, national Indigenous voice on key policy issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
ANTaR Makes Australia Day Call for A Year of Re-commitment to Addressing the Unfinished Business of ‘Reconciliation’
22 January 2010
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) called on governments and community organisations to revisit the reconciliation process and in particular address the unfinished business.
“Despite the apparent resolve of governments to close the gap in health and wellbeing outcomes between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, progress is slow; our politicians and policy makers continue to scratch their heads and wonder why,” ANTaR spokesperson, Dr Peter Lewis said today.
Remote Indigenous Services report welcomed
03 December 2009
ANTaR has welcomed the first report of the Coordinator General for Remote Indigenous Services released today.
ANTaR National President, Dr Janet Hunt, says the report is honest about the state of the 29 Remote Indigenous Locations where the Coordinator-General currently has powers.
ANTaR welcomes the end Perth native title litigation
26 November 2009
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) applauds the West Australian Government decision to end its litigation against the Federal Court Native Title decision over the Perth metropolitan area.
"I understand the Noongar people are very pleased about this, it is a historic turning point in Western Australian government policy and a matter of national significance." said the National Director of ANTaR, Mr Mark Drury.
Concerns remain about the Northern Territory Emergency Response
25 November 2009
Extending income management to all welfare recipients in the Northern Territory will disproportionately and adversely affect Aboriginal people in Northern Territory," said ANTaR National President, Dr Janet Hunt.
“It appears that the mooted idea that compulsory income management could be made a special measure under the Racial Discrimination Act, has been discarded by the Government as indefensible,” says ANTaR National President, Dr Janet Hunt. ANTaR has consistently opposed ideas that income quarantining could be seen as a special measure.
Racial Discrimination Act changes crucial to re-engage Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory
25 November 2009
Draft legislation to reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) in relation to the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) is a crucial opportunity to turn around the Federal Government's troubled relationship with Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation) said today.
"Reports released on Monday on the Federal Government's consultation process for 'redesigning' the NTER indicate the urgent need for fundamental change in the government's approach to dealing with Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory", ANTaR President, Dr Janet Hunt said.
Forming alliances the only solution
28 October 2009
Opinion piece by Janet Hunt, President of ANTaR. First published in the Canberra Times, 29 October 2009
One year ago the Federal Government received the final report of the Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Panel. It concluded “the intervention diminished its own effectiveness through its failure to engage constructively with the Aboriginal people it intended to help”.
"A Better Way" for NT Aboriginal communities
27 October 2009
ANTaR is launching its "A Better Way" campaign today. The campaign aims to highlight that there is a better way to work with Aboriginal people than the coercive and stigmatising approaches still continuing under the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) and related Aboriginal policies.
One year ago the Rudd Government's independent review recommended that governments must genuinely and respectfully engage with Aboriginal people to find solutions to child abuse and related community problems. Yet, punitive and discriminatory measures remain in place for the 73 prescribed Aboriginal communities.
This little ditty is at the heart of an innovative Aboriginal Men’s Centre.
The Goori Men’s Recovery Centre, in Cleveland, has been awarded the ANTaR Qld 3rd Annual Close the Gap Award for their well-structured and culturally appropriate approach to helping men recover from drug and alcohol addiction problems.
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