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Land rights--the next battleground.(Australia)(Australian Aborigines)(land tenure)
IN EARLY NOVEMBER 1961, on the last day of sitting of the twenty-third federal parliament, the Chairman of the Select Committee on Voting Rights for Aborigines, George Pearce, tabled his Committee's Report in the House of Representatives. It recommended unanimously that all Australian Aborigines should have the right to vote.
But the other members had different things on their mind as they rushed to get back to their electorates. The next election was due on December 9; at that stage no one had an inkling that the ALP, under Arthur Calwell, was going to push the Coalition to within one seat of losing office. The Menzies government was saved by the 200 preferences ...
- Australian Aborigines are of Indian origin: study.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. July 23, 2009 700+ words
Australian Aborigines are of Indian origin: study...exclusively shared by the Australian Aborigines indicating humans reached...that share traits specific to Australian Aborigines, The Australian newspaper...
- Australian Aborigines
- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture Santich, Barbara January 1, 2003 700+ words
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. Australian Aborigines are believed to have first arrived in northern Australia forty to sixty thousand years ago. They gradually spread throughout the continent, adapting to a vast range of environments...
- Should Australian aborigines succumb to capitalism?
- Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues Grant, Randy R. Kleiber, Kandice L. McAllister, Charles E. June 1, 2005 700+ words
...exist between Aboriginal Australians and modern capitalist values, this paper asks the question, "Should Australian Aborigines succumb to capitalism?" The underlying question is, however, "What path should Aborigines take to preserve...
- Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Australian Aboriginal Studies Boeck, George March 22, 2002 700+ words
Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines D. Unaipon The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, xlviii + 232 pp, ISBN 0522849059 Note by George...
- Going the Whiteman's Way: Kinship and Marriage among Australian...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Tonkinson, Robert December 1, 2005 700+ words
MCKNIGHT, DAVID. Going the whiteman's way: kinship and marriage among Australian Aborigines. xxxi, 252 pp., maps, figs, tables, bibliogr. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. [pounds sterling]45.00 (cloth) McKnight...
- Drawing from the mists of time.(auction of artworks by Australian...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 6, 1998 700+ words
FOR years, art collectors considered the scribbles of Australian aborigines to be little more than colourful scratchings, and they were prepared to pay only a pittance for them. Today, however, it can...
- Australian Aborigines Face Aids Ravage: Minister
- Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire July 8, 1996 700+ words
Australia's aborigines are confronted with a ravage of HIV-AIDS and the country would face a one billion dollars (770 million US dollars) health bill unless coordinated action is taken to curb the spread of the virus, Health Minister Michael Wooldridge said today. Addressing a national conference
- AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES RECEIVE APOLOGY.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) May 27, 1997 700+ words
A policy that sought to ``save'' Aborigine children by forcibly taking them from their parents spawned lasting trauma and resulted in a ``stolen generation Australia's premier said yesterday in an apology. John Howard offered his regrets personally, not on behalf of the government, for the policy
