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WSWS : News & Analysis : Australia & South Pacific
 
Aboriginal Issues

     

28 August 2008
Australian media attacks Germaine Greer over essay on Aboriginal violence

25 August 2008
Northern Territory intervention
The need for a socialist strategy
Part 7 


Central Australian portraits by John Hulme

6 August 2008
Northern Territory intervention
Aboriginal education: a portrait of government discrimination and neglect
Part 6

24 July 2008

Northern Territory intervention
Aboriginal oppositional voices ignored and censored by the media
Part 5

15 July 2008
Northern Territory intervention
Manipulating social tragedies for political gain
Part 4


Photographs of conditions for Aborigines in the Northern Territory

2 July 2008

Northern Territory intervention
A "third-world" health catastrophe Part 3

26 June 2008

Northern Territory intervention "Unintended consequences" or deliberate destruction
Part 2

25 June 2008
Australia: Protestors denounce Labor's Northern Territory intervention

21 June 2008

Northern Territory intervention:
an on-the-spot report

Rudd Labor deepens Howard's assault on Aboriginal communities
Part 1

22 May 2008
NT intervention extended:
Australian Labor budget punishes society's most disadvantaged

9 April 2008
On-the-spot report from central Australia CAAMA radio interviews WSWS on NT intervention

7 April 2008
On-the-spot report from central Australia Conditions of Aboriginal people in Alice Springs and the town camps

5 April 2008
New pamphlet from Mehring Books in Australia

2 April 2008
Australia: SBS television's bogus debate on Northern Territory intervention

28 March 2008
Australia: Federal and NT Labor governments expand punitive measures in Aboriginal communities

4 March 2008
After Rudd's "apology" to indigenous people
Australian government extends welfare "quarantining" and land grab

25 February 2008
Australia: "Lefts" sign-up with Rudd Labor

22 February 2008
An exchange on Australia's "Sorry Day"

15 February 2008
Australia: Press blacks out Aboriginal protest over Northern Territory intervention

14 February 2008
Australia: "Stolen generations" speak out in Canberra

13 February 2008
Australian Prime Minister apologises to "stolen generation": rhetoric versus reality

12 February 2008
Australian federal parliament's "sorry" resolution: the real agenda

21 December 2007
Australian media uses Aurukun Aboriginal child rape case to push right-wing agenda

27 October 2007
The real face of Howard's Northern Territory intervention: welfare cuts and community closures

17 October 2007
Australia: Howard's Aboriginal "reconciliation" pledge a cynical fraud

3 September 2007
Protests in Aboriginal communities as Australian parliament passes military takeover bills

21 August 2007
Australian government wages two-year vilification campaign to justify takeover of Mutitjulu

8 August 2007
Australian government rams bills through parliament to take over Aboriginal communities

18 July 2007
Aboriginal people condemn police-military intervention in Northern Territory

Australian police officer acquitted of manslaughter of Palm Island Aborigine

13 July 2007
Australia: Protests against Howard's takeover of Aboriginal communities

5 July 2007
Australia: Scepticism mounts towards Howard's Aboriginal intervention

30 June 2007
Australian government takeover of Aboriginal communities: the real content of the "Children are Sacred" report

29 June 2007
Australian journalist Glenn Milne's "twisted logic" on Northern Territory deployment

28 June 2007
Australian neo-colonialism comes home: The Northern Territory and the Solomon Islands

27 June 2007
Australia: Growing opposition to police-military takeover of Aboriginal communities

23 June 2007
Australian government imposes military-police regime on Aborigines

3 February 2007
Australia: Police officer faces charges for killing Aboriginal prisoner

19 December 2006
Australia: No charges against police for killing Aboriginal prisoner

10 October 2006
Australian coroner: Police killed Aboriginal prisoner on Palm Island

24 August 2006
Wadeye: a case study of the Australian government's Aboriginal agenda

14 July 2006
Australia: Aboriginal town camp residents organise first-ever rally

12 June 2006
Chronic ill-health in Australia's Aboriginal prison population

7 June 2006
Australia: Riot squad called to shut down Aboriginal community

25 May 2006
The crisis in Australia's Aboriginal communities
How right-wing ideologues stand reality on its head

23 May 2006
Australian government moves to abolish Aboriginal "land rights"

20 May 2006
Official response to Aboriginal child sexual abuse in Australia: more law and order

27 April 2006
Jenissa Ryan: the violent death of an Australian aboriginal teenager

2 March 2005
Australia: Palm Island's dark history of Aboriginal repression--Part Two

1 March 2005
Australia: Palm Island's dark history of Aboriginal repression--Part One

3 December 2004
Australia: Aboriginal death in custody triggers Palm Island riot

23 November 2004
Australian police raid Aboriginal newspaper

16 November 2004
Australian Aborigines become first target for "welfare reform"

15 September 2004
Australia: Coroner's findings whitewash police role in death of TJ Hickey

9 August 2004
Following TJ Hickey's death
Australian parliamentary report rubberstamps police buildup in Redfern

28 July 2004
Australia: TJ Hickey inquest concludes Police involvement in death of Aboriginal youth exposed

Interview with Bowie Hickey:
"There's 67 percent poor people-we need our own government"

15 July 2004
Aboriginal family dies in house fire: a tragedy caused by poverty

6 May 2004
TJ Hickey and the plight of young Aboriginal Australians

25 February 2004
Australia: Hundreds mourn the death of TJ Hickey

23 February 2004
Australia: Police victimisation stepped up following Redfern riot

20 February 2004
Australia: Government and media attack Aboriginal community after Redfern riot

17 February 2004
Australia: Riots in Sydney as police blamed for death of 17-year-old Aboriginal boy

The death of "TJ" Hickey--the social and economic circumstances

23 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 10: Private property, the nation state and socialism

22 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 9: Windschuttle's liberal critics

21 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 8: Extermination of the Aborigines and the Nazi holocaust

20 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 7: Inequality and the development of racial theory

19 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 6: Keating versus Howard

16 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 5: John Howard and "the Australian way of life"

15 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 4: From "White Australia" to Geoffrey Blainey

14 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 3: The doctrine of "White Australia"

13 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 2: The establishment of the Australian nation-state

12 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 1: Competing political agendas

18 September 2003
Nick Beams reviews Keith Windschuttle's The Fabrication of Aboriginal History
An assault on historical truth
Part 3

17 September 2003
Nick Beams reviews Keith Windschuttle's The Fabrication of Aboriginal History
An assault on historical truth
Part 2

16 September 2003
Nick Beams reviews Keith Windschuttle's The Fabrication of Aboriginal History
An assault on historical truth
Part 1

15 September 2003
West Australian government exploits boy's death to attack Aboriginal community

5 September 2003
New book published in controversy over Australian Aboriginal history

5 August 2003
A major discovery of Aboriginal cave paintings in Australia

4 August 2003
Australia: Anti-welfare agenda behind moves to oust Aboriginal leaders

19 September 2002
Racism and small-town bigotry
Australian Rules, directed by Paul Goldman

A cause worth fighting for
An interview with Phillip Gwynne and Lisa Flanagan

4 July 2002
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1932-2002)
Pioneer of contemporary Aboriginal art dies

24 August 2001
Papunya Tula—the birthplace of contemporary Australian Aboriginal art

2 August 2001
Australia: "Anti-social conduct" outlawed in the Northern Territory

25 July 2001
Australia: Aboriginal leader pushes anti-welfare agenda

23 June 2001
Australian newspaper chain launches unprecedented smear against Aboriginal official

8 May 2001
Western Australian Ombudsman's report highlights deteriorating prison conditions

20 October 2000
Australian Reconciliation Minister's comments denounced

26 September 2000
Australian government under pressure to drop its attack on UN committees

21 August 2000
An inevitable outcome
Australian court dismisses "Stolen Generations" test case

1 June 2000
A quarter of a million march in support of Australia's Aborigines
But who are the beneficiaries of "reconciliation"?

14 April 2000
Australian government's deal on mandatory sentencing
Hypocrisy across the board

10 April 2000
Backbench revolt over mandatory sentencing
Australian government in deep political crisis

19 February 2000
Public outcry in Australia over jailed Aboriginal boy's suicide

10 November 1999
"Stolen generations" court case
Australian government defends forced removal of Aboriginal children

"Stolen Generations" court case
Children lived in fear of seizure

7 September 1999
Genocide in Australia: Report details crimes against Aborigines

30 August 1999
Australian parliament "regrets" injustice to Aboriginal people
Behind the politics of "reconciliation"

14 August 1999
A damning report on Australian Aboriginal health and welfare

7 May 1999
Review: Emily Kame Kngwarreye retrospective
Alhalkere—Paintings from Utopia
The Art of the “Dreaming”

14 April 1999
Yabu Bilyana 1944-1999
Aboriginal socialist buried in Brisbane

10 April 1999
Aboriginal bilingual education axed in Australia's Northern Territory

7 April 1999
Yabu Bilyana, 1944-1999
Aboriginal socialist dies in Brisbane, Australia, aged 54

Yabu Bilyana's speech to 1996 election rally
'The oppression of Aboriginal people is not a race question but a class question'

16 October 1998
Questions on globalization and Aboriginal rights

2 June 1998
The politics of Australia's 'National Sorry Day'

16 June 1997
The political economy of 'reconciliation'

7 February 1997
The Politics of the Wik debate

 

Featured Articles

20 May 2006
Official response to Aboriginal child sexual abuse in Australia: more law and order

16 November 2004
Australian Aborigines become first target for "welfare reform"

28 July 2004
Australia: TJ Hickey inquest concludes Police involvement in death of Aboriginal youth exposed

17 February 2004
The death of "TJ" Hickey--the social and economic circumstances

12 July 2004
What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars"
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10

16 September 2003
Nick Beams reviews Keith Windschuttle's The Fabrication of Aboriginal History
An assault on historical truth
Part 1
Part 2 Part 3

25 July 2001
Australia: Aboriginal leader pushes anti-welfare agenda

1 June 2000
A quarter of a million march in support of Australia's Aborigines
But who are the beneficiaries of "reconciliation"?

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