Achieving reconciliation, justice for Indigenous people and ending Indigenous disadvantage are all major national tasks. Everyone should play a part because no individual or political party has all the answers.

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Bringing Them Home

• PM said sorry - and so said more of us - Sydney Morning Herald, 18 February 2008
• Forget black armbands, this is about healing - ABC, 12 February 2008
• Even the hard men know, it must be said - Sydney Morning Herald, 9 February 2008
• A wonderful start, but compensation? - The Age, 9 February 2008
• Coalition backs Stolen Generations apology - ABC, 7 February 2008
• Much more than a simple gesture - The Australian, 5 February 2008
• The word that makes life go on - Sydney Morning Herald, 2 February 2008
• Many tears spilt over $1.12 of stolen milk - The Australian, 2 February 2008
• Coalition to back apology: Abbott - The Australian, 2 February 2008
• Nelson, Turnbull at odds over Stolen Generations apology - ABC, 1 February 2008
• Meaning of one word - The Australian, 1 February 2008
• Indigenous people urge more ways than one for Rudd to say 'sorry' - The Age, 1 February 2008
• Dodson welcomes 'monumental' apology - ABC, 31 January 2008
• Sorry words mean plenty - The Age, 30 January 2008
• Australian Government to Apologise to Members of the Stolen Generations - Press Release, Jenny Macklin MP, 30 January 2008
• An apology, but no compensation - Australia Talks program - ABC Radio National, 29 January 2008
• A sorry way to right a terrible wrong - The Age, 12 January 2008
• When "sorry" is not enough - Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, 11 January 2008
• Child-removal is genocide - Herald Sun, 8 January 2008
• Rudd must make amends - The Canberra Times, 3 December 2007
• Mean, diminished and out of touch: Why won't Nelson say sorry? - Crikey, 30 November 2007

Constitutional recognition of Indigenous rights

• Patrick Dodson's Nulungu Lecture - 21 August 2008
• Serious business - Galarrwuy Yunupingu, 27 October 2007
• The first step on a long walk to unity - The Age, 13 October 2007
• Rush will doom preamble, say experts - Sydney Morning Herald, 13 October 2007
• Many paths to reconciliation - The Australian, 13 October 2007
• Reconciliation talk now needs the walk - ANTaR's National Director Gary Highland's opinion piece for ABC, 12 October 2007
• Last minute change of heart in the face of annihilation - Sydney Morning Herald, 12 October 2007
• PM must say sorry: indigenous groups - The Australian, 12 October 2007
• PM wants referendum on Indigenous rights - AM ABC Local Radio, 12 October 2007
• PM must 'make peace with Aborigines' - ABC, 12 October 2007
• Constitutional recognition of Indigenous rights long overdue - ANTaR press release, 11 October 2007
• The Right Time - Speech made by Prime Minister John Howard, 11 October 2007

Stolen wages

• Give us back our money - Sydney Morning Herald, 15 December 2007
• Stolen indigenous wages unclaimed - Brisbane Times, 5 September 2007
• Stolen wages a major barrier to reconciliation - Gary Highland's opinion piece in The Age, 30 August 2007

Stolen generations

Statements

• Racial Discrimination Act is a vital human rights safeguard - HREOC, 8 August 2007
• Democrats renew call for national Stolen Generation compensation process following SA Judgment - Australian Democrats, 2 August 2007
• Stolen Generation compensation long overdue - HREOC, 2 August 2007
• Recognition preferable to litigation for stolen generations healing - Reconciliation Australia, 2 August 2007

Reportage

• Senate to probe NT welfare Bill - The Australian, 8 August 2007
• Labor gets behind NT intervention - The Age, 8 August 2007
• SA Govt won't challenge compensation - The Advertiser, 2 August 2007
• Stolen compo 'a wake-up call' - The Advertiser, 2 August 2007
• Expect more Aboriginal claims: Burnside - The Age, 2 August 2007
• Stolen Aboriginal man wins payout - BBC, 2 August 2007
• $525,000 for a stolen life - Herald Sun, 2 August 2007

Opinion

• One stolen life restored - The Australian, 3 August 2007
• Let us reconsider today's treatment of the stolen generation - The Age, 3 August 2007

Federal Government's intervention in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities

• Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 (PDF)

Statements

• Call to protect all children - Anglican Church, 23 October 2007
• John Howard is taking over the Territory - Rex Wild, 13 September 2007
• ANTaR's submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry into the Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008 (PDF)
• Australian Indigenous Doctors Association submission to the senate enqiry
• The Australian Greens, August 2007
• Parliament Supports Vital Reforms to Protect Aboriginal Children - The Hon Mal Brough MP, 17 August 2007
• Government’s fatally flawed NT Bills pass Senate - Australian Democrats, 17 August 2007
• Maori doctors concerned for long term improvements in Indigenous Australians' health - Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association & Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa - Maori Medical Practitioners Association, 26 July 2007
• NT Emergency Response - Good progress in first month but long road ahead - Mal Brough MP, 19 July 2007
• Bishops lash black welfare bans, 6 July 2007
• Letter to the Prime Minister regarding the Government's 'emergency plan' to address child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities (PDF) - Law Council of Australia, 4 July 2007
• Jenny Macklin, Labor's Indigenous Affairs spokeswoman speaks to ABC's Insiders, 1 July 2007
• Clare Martin, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory's Opinion piece in the Age, 29 June 2007
• Statement from Mutitjulu, 28 June 2007
• A human rights based approach is vital to address the challenges in Indigenous communities - Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 26 June 2007
• John Howard's address to the Sydney Institute, 25 June 2007
• Social Justice Commissioner's statement on the government's 'national emergency' measures - Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 22 June 2007
• Indigenous doctors demand real and long term results in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids' health (PDF) - The Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association, 22 June 2007
• SNAICC Media Release - Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care, 22 June 2007
• Indigenous Child Abuse - Australian Medical Association, 22 June 2007
• Federal Measures On Child Abuse In Indigenous Communities - Australian Labour Party, 22 June 2007
• Statement by Reconciliation Australia in response to National Emergency Measures to protect Aboriginal children - Reconciliation Australia, 21 June 2007

Reportage

• Intervention policy does not wash - Sydney Morning Herald, 3 March 2008
• Thousands to march against NT intervention - ABC, 11 February 2008
• Indigenous community gives Rudd CDEP plan - ABC, 16 December 2007
• Labor eyes expanded NT scheme - The Australian, 1 December 2007
• It's time to stop playing politics with vulnerable lives - Sydney Morning Herald, 30 November 2007
• Outback welfare cards sold for cash - The Australian, 30 November 2007
• Scheme 'based on flawed opinions' - The Australian, 29 November 2007
• Not Holding Our Breath - The Epoch Times, 27 November 2007
• Federal election ripples capsize NT leadership - Sydney Morning Herald, 27 November 2007
• Labor softens stand on intervention - The Australian, 27 November 2007
• Abolishing CDEP: Coming soon to a community near you - Crikey, 16 November 2007
• NT intervention 'a health opportunity' - SBS World News, 9 November 2007
• One policy, two camps - the takeover rift - Sydney Morning Herald, 27 October 2007
• Aboriginal MP backs intervention - The Australian, 25 October 2007
• Desert elders lash out at intervention - The Age, 25 October 2007
• Labor minister lashes party over intervention - Sydney Morning Herald, 24 October 2007
• Territory for hope - The Australian, 23 October 2007
• What indigenous health experts think of the NT intervention - Crikey, 18 October 2007
• PM's victory on land deal - The Australian, 20 September 2007
• Aborigines to get $100m health corps boost - Sydney Morning Herald, 18 September 2007
• Misdiagnosing a "National Emergency" - Crikey, 15 September 2007
• Aboriginal health: a decade-old election promise - The Lancet, 15 September 2007
• New Aboriginal alliance vows to fight NT intervention - ABC, 14 September 2007
• NT intervention threatens Aboriginal program - The Age, 13 September 2007
• Shame Job - Sunday, 26 August 2007
• The Law Report interview with Olga Havnen - ABC, 21 August 2007
• 'A sad day for Aborigines' - SBS World News Australia, 18 August 2007
• Intervention bills will let Govt 'do what is necessary' - ABC News, 17 August 2007
• Senate passes NT indigenous laws - Sydney Morning Herald, 17 August 2007
• Lack of respect will not help indigenous children - Sydney Morning Herald, 14 August 2007
• Entering dangerous territory - Sydney Morning Herald, 11 August 2007
• PM's wedge is no gift to Aborigines - The Australian, 10 August 2007
• Building a future for black Australia - The Canberra Times, 30 July 2007
• Opal fuel saved my life - The Australian, 30 July 2007
• Long to see PM over a new deal - Herald Sun, 29 July 2007
• No family favours on the bush beat - The Australian, 28 July 2007
• Kids behind some 'atrocities' - The Australian, 28 July 2007
• Fear replaced by thanks - The Daily Telegraph, 28 July 2007
• Mutitjulu requests adult health care - The Age, 27 July 2007
• Sex abuse, alcohol - and tea - The Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2007
• Fact vs Fiction: The truth behind a bandaid solution - National Indigenous Times, 26 July 2007
• National Emergency - Insight (SBS), 24 July 2007
• Aboriginal coalition's alternative plan - The Australian, 11 July 2007
• 'I asked them to act 10 years ago' - The Australian, 9 July 2007
• In Maningrida, fear is the real emergency - Crikey, 5 July 2007
• All parents to face loss of welfare payments - The Australian, 4 July 2007
• Community says no to Canberra - The Age, 3 July 2007
• Howard suffers poll backlash - Herald Sun, 2 July 2007
• How hard is Howard's way? - The Age, 1 July 2007
• Don't expect many child abuse prosecutions: task force - ABC, 30 June 2007
• 'We don’t tolerate abuse of our kids' - The West Australian, 29 July 2007
• Black children paid to study - Courier Mail, 29 July 2007
• Audio: Indigenous Panel - Triple J, 28 July 2007
• Ditch politics when children are suffering - The Australian, 28 June 2007
• Overall scenario demands attention as much as the burning issues - Letter to the editor, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 June 2007
• Road to somewhere - township visit far from remote - Sydney Morning Herald, 28 June 2007
• PM's 'got it wrong' on abuse plan - The Age, 28 June 2007
• This is 'black children overboard', say elders - The Age, 27 June 2007
• Families flee PM's clean-up pledge - The Age, 26 June 2007
• Indigenous plan 'to cost up to $4bn' - The Australian, 26 June 2007
• It's our hurricane Katrina, says emotion-charged PM - The Age, 26 June 2007
• Indigenous abuse crackdown earns mixed response - ABC, 25 June 2007
• Now comes the hard part - action - Sydney Morning Herald, 25 June 2007
• Black aid plan could do more harm than good - The Age, 24 June 2007
• Consult us and give us respect: expert's plea - Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 2007
• Anger simmers over Iemma's rejection of funding increase - Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 2007
• Attempting to make up for decades of neglect - The Age, 22 June 2007
• Attack on NT grog 'misses point': academic - The Age, 22 June 2007
• We warned PM, say indigenous leaders - The Age, 22 June 2007
• NSW govt 'downplaying' indigenous issues - Sydney Morning Herald, 22 June 2007
• NSW has failed to act, say Aboriginal advocates - ABC Radio National, 22 June 2007
• Breaking the Silence - ABC Stateline, 22 June 2007
• Alcohol, porn ban for NT indigenous - The Age, 21 June 2007

Opinion and Analysis

• NT intervention one year on - Janet Hunt (ANTaR), 21 June 2008
• Permit system protects residents - The Australian, 23 January 2008
• Go back. You are intruding on our lives and our safety - Sydney Morning Herald, 2 October 2007
• The challenge begins - The Australian, 21 September 2007
• Give Aborigines hope - The Age, 15 August 2007
• Let's fight these laws together - The Age, 13 August 2007
• They came, they saw, they left. - matjjin-nehen (blog), 4 August 2007
• The Intervention - that munanga linguist (blog), 2 August 2007
• Saving children's lives a matter of long-term will - Sydney Morning Herald, 31 July 2007
• There's no turning back now - The Australian, 28 July 2007
• Surely five years would never, ever become 99? - Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 2007
• Opinion from NSW Rape Crisis Centre, 26 July 2007
• Aboriginal child abuse: whom do you trust? - Eureka Street, 26 July 2007
• An entire culture is at stake - The Age, 14 July 2007
• What goes unmeasured is ignored - The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 July 2007
• Pearson's crucial role for Howard - The Age, 3 July 2007
• Remote Communities: Unexplained Differences - Australian Policy Online, 29 July 2007
• We must all help to stop abuse - The Daily Telegraph, 28 June 2007
• Please listen to us, PM - The Age, 27 June 2007
• The children of the Sunrise - Jeff McMullen, CEO of Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth Trust, 25 June 2007
• Indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough speaks to Insiders - ABC, 24 June 2007
• Pat O'Shane's open letter to Kevin Rudd, 24 June 2007
• Interview: Kevin Rudd on Nine's Sunday program - 24 June 2007
• The devil in the detail - Karen Middleton, The Canberra Times, 23 June 2007
• Politics aside, an end to the tears is our priority - Noel Pearson, The Australian, 23 June 2007
• Another tricky Howard ruse - Gregory Phillips, The Age, 23 June 2007
• So much for consultation being the way to fix it - Mike Carlton, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 June 2007
• Aboriginal emergency call creates both urgency and risk - Michael Gordon, The Age, 22 June 2007

Solutions

• The Four Circles of Hollow Water from Canada
• Educare: healing the layers of trauma from Gnibi: the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples, Southern Cross University, NSW
• Healing past hurts from Yorgum Aboriginal Family Counselling Service, WA
• Putting the brakes on petrol sniffing from Mt Theo-Yuendumu Substance Misuse Aboriginal Corporation, NT
• Meanwhile, Redfern tackles violence at grassroots from Wirringa Baiya Women's Legal Centre, NSW & Mudgin-Gal Aboriginal Women's Corporation, NSW & Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, NSW
• Remote Communities: What I would do from Judy Atkinson, director of the Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at the Southern Cross University
• A proposed Emergency Response and Development Plan to protect Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory (PDF 121k) from the Combined Aboriginal Organisations of the Northern Territory

Land

• After 12 years, title win state's biggest - Sydney Morning Herald, 30 November 2007
• The Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) (Township Leasing) Amendment Bill 2007 - Jenny Macklin, 12 June 2007
• Mabo legacy is still misunderstood - Noel Pearson, 2 June 2007
• Aborigines losing responsibility for the land - Patricia Karvelas, 24 April 2007
• Native Title Amendment Bill 2006 - Second Reading - Senator Andrew Bartlett, 20 March 2007
  

Reflections on the 1967 Referendum

• Vote lit the way to untapped goodness - Jackie Huggins, 23 May 2007
• After four decades, Aborigines still struggle to be heard - Wesley Aird, 22 May 2007
• No change without strong legal measures - Larissa Behrendt, 19 May 2007
• A reminder of a people left behind - Muriel Bamblett, 23 March 2007

Violence

• Good intentions are not good enough - Larissa Behrendt and Nicole Watson, 2 May 2007
• Bad dreaming, cloudy thinking - David Cooper, 10 April 2007
• A cultural kick in the guts - Cara Jenkin, 22 March 2007
• Not just a black problem - Jo Chandler, 17 March 2007
  
• Culture of denial - Louis Nowra, 7 March 2007
  

Health

• Aborigines need more than platitudes - The Age, 10 November 2007
• Indigenous health provision a step behind the rest - Canberra Times, 30 April 2007
• Addressing Indigenous health inequality within a generation - Tom Calma, 4 April 2007

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