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A conversation with Helen Hughes.(Devine)(Interview)
THE 1967 REFERENDUM on the status of Aborigines did not, as has come commonly to be believed, confer Australian citizenship on them. They had had that since 1947, when Australian--rather than British--citizenship was introduced. Nor did the referendum give Aborigines the right to vote. They had had that since 1965. The referendum removed from the Constitution a passage that said the Commonwealth government could "make laws in respect of any race, other than the Aboriginal race". The objective of the amendment was to enable the government to make laws benefiting Aborigines.
The "yes" vote was over 90 per cent. The regrettably brief debate that followed centred on ...
- From Aborigine neighborhoods, cries rise for Freeman.(The Dallas Morning News)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Blackistone, Kevin B. September 25, 2000 700+ words
...neighborhood Aborigines, whooped and...and yellow Aborigine flag as Freeman...t the first Aborigine athletic hero...And still Aborigines suffered...Olympics, some Aborigines urged Freeman and fellow Aborigine Olympic athletes...
- Black and blue: Australia. (aborigines)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 2, 1992 700+ words
...Fosters too many, but aborigines are not so fortunate...in jail rose by 25%. Aborigines make up about 1.5...detention centres are aborigine. Even Aussies with no great feelings for aborigines were shocked recently...
- Native unrest: battle over land rights between aborigines and ranchers...
- Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication January 23, 1998 700+ words
...Australia's history that Aborigines owned the land before...in the late 1700s. Aborigine groups have since filed...the national court. Aborigines number about 300...In other cases, the Aborigines want land back...Europeans," said one Aborigine leader. "Our land...
- Olympics allow Aborigines to take the stage in Sydney.(By Moryt Milo)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Milo, Moryt September 13, 2000 700+ words
...to the Olympics in Sydney, the Aborigines will have a unique opportunity to press their legitimate claims. Aborigines represent only 2 percent of Australia...music, dance, art and dream lore. Aborigines lived in close-knit clans and...
- 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
...For more than 50,000 years Aborigines (1) successfully inhabited...settlers forever changed the Aborigine reality, introducing diseases...question, "Should Australian Aborigines succumb to capitalism...however, "What path should Aborigines take to preserve their culture...
- White apathy 'is killing Aborigines'
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Robert Milliken in Alice Springs May 28, 1995 700+ words
...scandals, the deplorable state of its Aborigines' health. The issue has been overshadowed...strides on other fronts, such as the Aborigines' victory in their 200-year battle...state governments aimed at bringing Aborigines' health up to the same standard as...
- ABORIGINE
- Reference information from: Young Students Learning Library January 1, 1996 700+ words
...any region are called aborigines. The term comes from...beginning.' ' The name aborigine or aboriginal is most...and magical meaning. Aborigines believe that ancestral...now protected as an aborigine monument. FIND OUT MORE Australia Some aborigines believed that they...
- Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship
- Magazine article from: Melbourne Journal of Politics Teghe, Daniel January 1, 1998 700+ words
...Galligan, Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship, Melbourne...institutional arrangements through which Aborigines were excluded from Australian citizenship...exposition of the systematic exclusion of Aborigines from the Australian polis. The major...
