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QLD Government insults Aboriginal workers again
24 March 2008
The Queensland Government’s amended Stolen Wages settlement to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers has come under attack from Indigenous rights organisation, ANTaR.
New partnership paves way for health equality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
19 March 2008
The commitment today between the Government of Australia and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia to work towards achieving equality in health status and life expectancy was a monumental development welcomed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous health representatives and Australian civil society, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma said today.
Rudd Government abandons Labor platform over Stolen Generations
08 January 2008
The Rudd Government's decision to rule out compensation for members of the Stolen Generations flies in the face of the policy platform it took to the recent federal election.
The platform committed a Labor Government to "provide a comprehensive response to the Bringing them home report."
Rudd must listen to critics if he’s to stamp out child abuse
27 October 2007
Should he become Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd would need to sit down with critics of the Northern Territory intervention if he’s to have any hope of stamping out child abuse in Aboriginal communities, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) said today.
ANTaR National Director, Gary Highland said it was ill informed of Mr Rudd to suggest that critics of the intervention were “political purists” and not concerned with results.
Constitutional recognition of Indigenous rights long overdue
11 October 2007
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) said tonight it would welcome constitutional change that enshrines the distinctive rights of the first Australians, but the wording of any preamble would need to be developed on the basis of genuine negotiations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
ANTaR National Director, Gary Highland said that the Prime Minister would need to demonstrate that he is sincere about reconciliation in order to achieve support for the proposal he announced this evening - to recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution.
Little children are sacred, not political footballs
07 August 2007
Legislation introduced into Federal Parliament today will do little to protect Northern Territory Aboriginal children from abuse, according to Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR).
ANTaR National Director, Gary Highland said that none of the measures proposed by the Government were consistent with the recommendations of the Little Children Are Sacred report.
Draconian measures announced by the Prime Minister today in response to the crisis of child abuse in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities would only add to the suffering of children, according to Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR).
ANTaR National Director, Gary Highland said that the Prime Minister was right to describe the widespread abuse of Aboriginal children as a national emergency but wrong in the way his government was seeking to overcome it.
The Aboriginal health and literacy programs announced today by Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd would be an essential first step in closing the Indigenous life expectancy gap within a generation, according to Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR).
ANTaR National Director, Gary Highland said the Opposition’s proposal built on programs with a proven track record of success.
A commitment to provide home visits by health professionals to assist Aboriginal children was one glimmer of light in an otherwise bleak Federal Budget for Indigenous Australians, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) and GetUp! said tonight.
ANTaR National Director, Gary Highland said the modest increase of around $30 million in Aboriginal health spending was well below what is needed to overcome the shortfall identified by Access Economics and the Australian Medical Association.
Olympic champions Catherine Freeman and Ian Thorpe returned to Sydney's Telstra Stadium today to launch Australia's largest ever campaign to improve Indigenous health.
Catherne and Ian became the first people to sign the online Sea of Hands developed by Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR).
They joined more than forty Indigenous and non-Indigenous organisations to urge the Federal, State and Territory governments to commit to closing the life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation.
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