Welcome to ANTaR
ANTaR is the preeminent non-Indigenous national advocacy organisation dedicated specifically to the rights - and overcoming the disadvantage - of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The Federal Election 2010
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Ten years on: Are we there yet?
Ten years ago, hundreds of thousands of Australians walked across bridges in support of reconciliation.
We have much to be proud of in looking back over the past ten years, but injustice and disadvantage continue to affect Indigenous Australians. We have yet to fulfill the promise of the bridge walks to achieve equality and reconciliation.
So this year Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) calls for a year of recommitment to reconciliation.
Show your ongoing commitment to reconciliation by doing a virtual bridge walk.
Some of ANTaR's other campaigns:
A Better Way
On Monday 21st June 2010, the Senate passed legislation which partially restores the racial discrimination protections in the NT and establishes a new compulsory income management scheme.
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Close the Gap
ANTaR has been campaigning for Indigenous health rights since 2004 and is one of the founding members of the Close The Gap coalition.Read more...
What's new?
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.
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