[recoznet2] World to see warts-and-all doco on Aboriginal athletes

1999-08-27 Thread Trudy and Rod Bray
World to see warts-and-all doco on Aboriginal athletes Source: AAP | Published: Friday August 27 9:10:42 AM LONDON, Aug 27 - Millions of television viewers in 33 countries will have their pre-Olympic ideas of Australia shattered by a new warts-and-all documentary on Abori

[recoznet2] Indigenous woman wins full apology

1999-08-27 Thread Trudy and Rod Bray
The Courier-Mail 'Stolen' woman wins full apology By RACHEL MOORE and TONY KOCH 28aug99 THE Queensland Government has published a national apology to an Aboriginal woman taken from her family as a teenager and sent to work on rural properties. Lesley Williams, 52, of Gympie, won the histor

[recoznet2] The Australian Institute of Criminology presents Best Practice Interventions in

1999-08-27 Thread sioux mac
The Australian Institute of Criminology presents Best Practice Interventions in Corrections for Indigenous People 13-15 October 1999 HINDLEY PARKROYAL, ADELAIDE The aims of the conference will be to examine and compare some of the best practice interventions being used within the Australian

[recoznet2] comments on Noel Pearson's Brisbane speech

1999-08-27 Thread Hugh Southon
Can anyone provide references/sources to comments on Noel Pearson’s Brisbane Institute speech please ? Hugh Southon --- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe fro

[recoznet2] Fw: Racism Awareness

1999-08-27 Thread Lynn Pollack
In view of Trudy's comment thought I would repost this message from reconnet to Recoznet2 in case people are unaware of the online forum Hugh Southon has also pointed out that "The Radio National program ‘A Short History of Race’ Part 4, Sunday 5.0 pm, is about Australia and, judging from last w

[recoznet2] Letters to the editor

1999-08-27 Thread Trudy and Rod Bray
The Motion of Regret has unleashed a flurry of letters to the editor. Unfortunately, it seems to have flushed a lot of racists out of the woodwork. Read them at: http://www.smh.com.au/news/9908/28/text/letters.html Trudy PS Does anyone who watched 'Whiteys like Us' last night have any comments

[recoznet2] Dodson urges young not to 'sell out'

1999-08-27 Thread Trudy and Rod Bray
The Sydney Morning Herald Dodson urges young not to 'sell out' Date: 28/08/99 By TONY STEPHENS Patrick Dodson, named by Senator Aden Ridgeway this week as the father of reconciliation, called last night for a formal agreement guaranteeing the rights of indigenous Australians in the Constitutio

[recoznet2] Request to list members

1999-08-27 Thread Trudy and Rod Bray
Would everyone who posts to the list please make sure their HTML is turned off? Not everyone's system can handle email that is posted this way and the best way for these problems to be avoided is to have email in plain text only. Thank you for your cooperation! :-) Trudy

[recoznet2] Forgot this one for Sioux

1999-08-27 Thread Don Clark
Here is another site that some may find interesting.  Colin Tatz is a Social Scientist who has worked and studied with indigenous communities for many years.  I believe he is one of the foremost experts on Aboriginal youth suicide in Australia.  This booklet is very good.     Genocide in Aus

Re: [recoznet2] Speeches on the Motion

1999-08-27 Thread Don Clark
Sioux, A good place to start when looking at racism/stereotyping is http://www.hreoc.gov.au they have some very good articles on their site and they also have many publications which can be purchased. This is an interesting article about Deaths in Custody. http://138.25.138.94/acij/reportage5/R5