Daryl Melham, Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
April 9, 2000
Reporter - Laurie Oakes
The Prime Minister's attempts to push Aboriginal issues off the
political
agenda have blown up in his face. He's already abandoned his own
year end deadline for a formal reconciliation between black and wh
so we have
one liberal - Graham Young
one rehabilitated labor and now lurving it green - Jim Duffield
i am aligned to no party - it is sovereignty or bust for me - just can't
see evidence of democracy being for the common good at all
in my logic system - sovereign selves are the only people wh
> Thin end of wedge politics
>
> By MIKE CARLTON
>
> ... a miserly, mingy, minatory
> bunch if ever there was. It has a head but no heart, a brain but no
> soul. Without generosity of spirit, devoid of compassion, absorbed
> in narrow political self-intere
Neil,
I don't think it is wise to generalise like that. We wouldn't even be
having this debate if there weren't people of European descent who are
nothing like the description below.
Trudy
neil wrote:
>
> > Thin end of wedge politics
> >
> > By MIKE CARLTON
> >
>
> > .
Monday, 10 April, 2000
PM must restate commitment to
reconciliation
IF THE Prime Minister is sincere about
reconciliation, he needs to do two things.
Firstly, call a press conference, restate his
commitment to the nation and encourage all
Australians to join his government in reconci
National
9:39 am AEST April 10 2000
Perkins issues ultimatum over Games protests
AAP -- Veteran Aboriginal leader Charles Perkins has reportedly issued
an ultimatum to Prime Minister
John Howard over the stolen generation.
Mr Perkins has given Mr Howard one month to say sorry to Aborigine
ABC News
Sun, 9 Apr 2000 16:23 AEST
Thousands protest
mandatory sentencing
More than 2,000 protestors have taken to the
streets of Melbourne, calling for an end to
Australia's mandatory sentencing laws.
A range of speakers addressed the crowd, all
calling on the Federal Government to intervene
ABC News
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 7:20 AEST
PM urged to consider
sentencing impact on adults
Aboriginal aid groups in northern Australia have
reminded the Prime Minister that mandatory
sentencing is harmful for adults as well as
children.
The legal and indigenous groups have written to
John Howard urgi
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At 10:29 am 4/9/00 +1000, you wrote:
>The Sydney Morning Herald
>Saturday April 8, 2000
>
>Time to gag in the race debate
>
>By RICHARD GLOVER
>
>There's a point where the debate gets so puerile, the logic so
>infanti
