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  • UK Human Remains Working Group recommends Aboriginal remains be returned home.
  • Yorta Yorta prepare to lodge complaint to UN.
  • Greer challenges Australia to come to terms with its past.
  • Kakadu billabong - safe from destruction?"An environmental coup"? Mining companies vow not to mine in world heritage areas.
  • Prince Harry sparks debate.
  • Tiwi fish farmers doing well at home, and away in Scotland
  • Australia, Britain, Canada, United States accused of blocking Indigenous progress at UN
  • Ian Thorpe 'shocked at health of his fellow Australians'
  • Aboriginal art: Auction record + Selling out Aboriginal culture: yesterday, and today?
  • Manchester Museum returns Aboriginal remains
  • Meet Australia's delightful Mrs. Doubtfire
  • Max Dupain, Olive Cotton and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy: A Three Dog Night
  • Cathy Freman quits athletics - she accepted her role as the face of reconciliation although she was never totally comfortable with itCathy Freeman quits Olympics flashbank 'Pride of the land'
  • More sport: 'This is one corner of Australia cricket forgot'
  • New request not to climb Uluru
  • Deborah Mailman: national Indigenous Person of the Year
  • AUDIO: Debate on white settlement
  • "60,000 years in the making: Indigenous Australia now" - 2004 Olympic Games in Athens
  • 'one of the most significant finds of indigenous rock art for half a centurysite'Aboriginal cave paintings date back 4000 years
  • PM approves Stolen Generation memorial
  • Darren Godwell - Give white patronising a heave-ho
  • Prof. Kenneth Minogue: Apologising won't help Aborigines
  • Former PM Malcolm Fraser: 'The situation can be transformed. Other countries have done it. So can we'
  • Naomi Klein learns lessons from senior Aboriginal women
  • Gold medal winner Nova Peris fails to win sponsors
  • The German connection ... taking the brolgas to Berlin.Tribal Warrior passes Sydney Harbour Heads - First Aboriginal boat crew circumnavigates Australia
  • First Aboriginal boat crew circumnavigates Australia.
  • Australia's Aborigines may have created one of the world's oldest art forms.

  • News see the news section for our archive of news clippings from Europe and Australia, multimedia clips, ENIAR PR, newsletters + letters, and media releases by other organisations. ›› latest — eniar.org additions are listed under 'recent items' [to left]; for the latest Aboriginal Australian news via Google click here
  • Action why should Europeans be involved? what's ENIAR doing? and how can I help? find out how to get involved and what you can do right now.
  • Information background on the issues, stacks of articles and documents and links to useful websites and special collations of information —such as ›› our guide to intergovernmental, non-government + indigenous support organisations, based in Europe for Aborigines on European campaigning.
  • Events updates on what's happening in your country — check the ENIAR Bulletin Board — and our gallery of photos from ENIAR events.
  • If you're looking for a particular subject the best option is a search.



    •  now + soon  

    »The Scott Livesey Gallery, in conjunction with Papunya Tula artists. Masterpieces from the Western Desert First Nations 5-15 November 2003 at Gavin Graham Galleries, 47 Ledbury Road, London W11
    »United Nations logo    The Global Forum on Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society and the World Summit on the Information Society 10-12 December 2003, Geneva For other UN indigenous related meetings.
    »The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (Third Session) will be held 10-21 May 2004, New York

    post your info or opinion to our bulletin boardInfo on events of interest in Europe and Australia on the new ENIAR Bulletin Board guide for those interested in information about intergovernmental (European Union, United Nations), Non-Government and Indigenous Support Organisations based in Europe For aborigines on European
    campaigning
    Guide to intergovernmental, Non-Government + Indigenous Support Organisations, based in Europe.
       
    Travelling to Australia? are you prepared? The guide is the perfect tool for tourists who want to visit Australia but feel misgivings because of its racist past and present racial inequities. Sacred sites, rock art, galleries and museums are among the places of interest listed.Traveling to Australia? Are you prepared? Aborigines offer an alternative guide to their land: Travel with a Guide to Indigenous Australia
     
    The 'Sorry Ribbon' - find out more about the 'Stolen Generations'What happened to them? Why were they taken? Who are the 'stolen generations'?
     

      older highlights  

  • RABBIT PROOF CENTRAL: all the info and background on the movie.
  • International award for elders fighting nuclear dump. The World Heritage Committee rejects Australian Government proposals to weaken heritage protection. NT govt. has given go ahead for mining giant Rio Tinto to clean up Jabiluka mine site
  • Stolen Wages: "My people want ... an honest settlement which acknowledges the value of their work and the pain of their deprivation." Renowned Boxer fights from grave for prize purses
  • Australia will remain diminished until the reconciliation process has been finished
  • "The days of fringe dwelling are over". First Aboriginal Australian voted into the 147-year-old NSW Parliament. Her Inaugural speech.
  • Appalling Health Conditions denial of Human Rights says Australian of the Year. Fixing the disgraceful state of indigenous health conditions would benefit us all writes Professor Hyde.
  • Weather forecasters in Australia are turning to the ancient Lore of Aborigines. Secrets of the Stones: Aborigines lived in villages, traded and farmed
  • Marketing Aboriginal culture in Europe. Jacques Chirac: Aboriginal art fan. Aboriginal Art to invade Paris
  • Is the Aus. National Museum 'one in the eye' for the Howard Government'?
  • 52% of Australians think disadvantage a myth. Self-determination? "We're not comfortable".
  • Bridging whitefella law and clan justice. Maralinga: British Nuclear Test site - Cleanup stalled?
  • London paper: One Country, two histories. Rendering the past less unpalatable.
  • Ethics and didgeridoos.
  • History: UK policy on return of body parts set to change - with a backlash from some museums. massacre deniers challenged. Aboriginal protest of Nazis marked. Australia formally protests to Britain over its museum experiments. Aborigines clash with British scientists.
  • First compensation win for the stolen generations. A reparations tribunal for the stolen generations is being considered. When sorry is not enough.
  • Indigenous people finally get a voice in the UN.
  • Support the Stolen Wages Campaign. From 1904 to 1987, the Queensland Government withheld or underpaid wages earned by Aboriginal workers; a fraction has been offered as a settlement. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated

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