ACTION FOR ABORIGINAL RIGHTS: LINKS PAGE

Links:
Australian Indigenous Websites:Information Networks

CERN/ANU Aboriginal Studies WWW VL The list with links to just about everything Aboriginal on the net.
VICNET Aboriginal Page a comprehensive community list of varied sites for anyone who is looking for information on indigenous peoples - mostly here in Australia, but some elsewhere.
AITSIS links page Lots of places listed here.
Indiginet A good place to look for current issues..
Learning about Native Title An online resource for Indigenous communities.
Koorie Heritage Trust Melbourne's own
Aboriginal Languages lots of them - a great new site.
Aboriginal Deaths In Custody : Royal Commission Report - individual cases, underlying causes. NB: The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation draws your attention to the cultural sensitivity of issues and material in the individual death reports of the Royal Commission. The Council asks that, in accessing and using these reports, you be aware of this and of the sensitivities of the living relatives and friends of those whose deaths are recorded in these documents.
Bring Them Home The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's Stolen Children Report ; you can check it out quickly first via their summary .
NIADOC Victoria promotes the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage through public activities and conferences.
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice - amongst other things.

Australian Indigenous Websites: Opinion

Budawang Aborigines Milton- Ulladulla region
Irati Wanti Produced in consultation with the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, the Senior Aboriginal Women from Coober Pedy, South Australia. Documents their knowledge of atomic tests in the 1950's and 60's and their continued struggle against the proposed waste dump in their traditional lands.
ANTaR Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation; their site has some great information, and things you can join in on, - the Sea of Hands etc.
Reconciliaction Events, newsletters, competitions and more, organised by ANTaR and Lets Talk, all for the purpose of reconciliation.
Reconciliation Australia National reconciliation body with partners in each State - includes archives of the old Council For Reconciliation.
Apology Australia sign in if you still want to say sorry...
Australians for Native Title Another group doing things, including the Sorry Books, Sea of Hands, and Fax Direct.
Inform-OZ National Public Discussion - Native Title and Reconciliation .

Media Coverage of Indigenous Issues:

CERD (UNITED NATIONS) RECENT PRESS RELEASES Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - in particular covering UN comments on Australia's racism.

The Koori Mail Excellent coverage of current Indigenous issues. It is a newspaper, so students needing published articles: this is for YOU!

Australian Native Title Documents

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies New web resource on Native Title at AIATSIS : Regional Agreements in Australia: An Overview Paper by Patrick Sullivan (Native Title Issues Paper No 16).
‘Not One Iota of Land Justice’: The Yorta Yorta Case Reflections on the Yorta Yorta Native Title Claim, 1994-2003 by Wayne Atkinson, Principle Claimant - and also
Balancing the Scales of Indigenous Land Justice
Native Title Rod Hagen's new and comprehensive page - he has compiled background on: The Rights of Indigenous Australians, Mabo, Wik, The Native Title Act, The Ten Point Plan, and more.
National Native Title Tribunal Homepage. straight from the horse's mouth.
Native Title Act 1993 (U.Technology Sydney,Australia)
Mabo Papers: A great summary. and access to the whole Mabo public archive as well.
Miriuwung- Gajerrong Decision (the document itself).

World Indigenous Links:

Bill's Aboriginal Links - World-wide Indigenous People's Links. VERY COMPREHENSIVE.
Fiji's Native Land Trust Board Launched May 2001; Interesting contrast between here and there... have a look.
People of the Standing Stone Differences everywhere; a very thought provoking site.
British Columbian Native Rights issues Very legalese language and attititudes, which could be useful.

text marked up by Sarah Peckham queries to: email us

last updated 12th Feb 2006
Begun February 1996.