Hand-Picked Articles.

This page is very much under construction; please bookmark it, and come back. It's going to end up a list of the things we get asked about the most, by the look of it!

Headings so far are:

Aboriginal History

Housing. This will clarify your ideas on traditional lifestyles; read this if you have never heard of stone houses with chimneys, grassland maintenance, farming, or food storage as part of indigenous culture in Australia.

Yorta Yorta Struggle by Wayne Atkinson; here he tells their whole story.

Aboriginal management of the natural environment.This article gives a good outline of the way the First Australians managed the land, and contrasts it with the way western culture does it.

The Kimberley Stockmen's Strike, and the Gurinji Land Claim
Both of these events are icons in Australian History.

Invasion.  An article by Phillip Adams ..."The aliens are already among us" ... a good start for secondary level students trying to look at the idea of being invaded, and relating it to Aboriginal experience over the last 200 years.

Land Rights

What's happened in the Wik Hearings

"The Mabo judgement and its implications." This is one of our pamphlets.. now with a cyber-life. Short and to the point.

Affirm, not extinguish, Aboriginal rights. Henry Reynold's article : "White Australia can have unencumbered pastoral leases or reconciliation. It can't have both."
published in "The Australian" 9/1/96 .

Warrior from a far country: a well written piece by James Button reporting on Murrandoo Yanner, and the RTZ-CRA Century Zinc mine he is a big voice against. Interesting; and it also points out the difficulty anyone with no media savvy has, in getting media attention. Yanner has what it takes for the press to take notice. Read what he says.

Health

Next Time You Hear Something About Aboriginal Health Remember This.... A piece from June '96 Brisbane Courier Mail which points out the inequities of far North Queensland's food supply and costs to the consumer. Thanks to Gary Harper for supplying this, with his comments.

Deaths in Custody

 Death by Default  28/7/00 ..An extraordinary spate of deaths in custody has brought the spotlight back to WA's tough stance on law and order, writes David Reardon.

1986 "Who are the victims".. 5 case studies published by "Action for World Development - A Christian movement of people for Justice and Peace".

1995...Nineteen black deaths in custody. Colin Tatz reviewing Royal Commission findings, recommendations, and what has happened since.

Stolen Children

"White Lies and Stolen Lives" ... a profile on Archie Roach, retelling his life; a moving example of what forced removal of children from their families does. Useful for all you students doing issues of identity and studying Sally Morgan's "My Place".
If you have any articles that you think should be on this list, then let's have 'em!
Send them to: e-mail: sarah@netconnect.com.au

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text marked up by Sarah Peckham; last updated 16/8/00.