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  • Sorry Day is this Wednesday May 26
  • Black Voice catches ear of world
  • Australian Government stooge misleads UN
  • Right to a fair trial being eroded
  • Didgeridoo mistaken for rocket launcher
  • Democracy for Iraq but not Aborigines?
  • How Indigenous women can take a greater leadership role
  • Australian foreign policy should not be based on the Anglosphere concept
  • New auction record set in London for Aboriginal Photographs
  • La Tierra tiene una nueva era
  • Redfern Riot: inquiry opens
  • Australia's Crimminal Past: A History Lesson for Muslims
  • The Senate must act to stop the erosion of Indigenous representation
  • German proposes stolen generation film
  • Institutional racism in Australian healthcare: a plea for decency
  • 2004 Budget: real issues in Aboriginal Health forgotten
  • "Our paternalistic model of government"
  • New indigenous political party launched
  • SA files court appeal against nuclear waste dump
  • Letter from London
  • A healing from the past, for the future
  • Australian Footie: Aboriginal first
  • The Boomerang is British?!
  • Clan leaders look for a way forward
  • Aboriginal child caged for 500km drive to jail
  • Reconciliation at the crossroads
  • Aboriginal models hit EuropeA landmark deal finally gives the traditional owners the right to veto the future development of the site in the heart of Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory.
  • Jabiluka victory: Mirrar people get veto over uranium mine in National Park
  • ANZAC Day: ATSI contribution remembered at last
  • UK Parliament remembers Molly Kelly
  • Stolen Wages apology from New South Wales, but $ offer not enough
  • United Nations to hear Aboriginal plight
  • Mulheres indígenas têm menos direitos, diz fórum da ONU
  • UK opposes indigenous rights: take action
  • New York: UN forum for indigenous people
  • UNESCO: International Dance Day Message by Stephen Page
  • What Canada can teach Australia
  • Kimberley band hits St Petersburg
  • Pro bono lawyer sought for British reparations test case
  • New study: Aboriginal health much worse in Australia than US, Canada
  • Long history of failure in Aboriginal Affairs We have reached a sort of blind alley in the search for national Aboriginal reconciliation and it is no longer enough to talk about walking onwards. Rather we must now start to work together to build new pathways and bridges.
  • Former Govenor: We have reached a sort of blind alley
  • New York Times: Aborigines Say Australia Pushes Their Plight to Sideline
  • The end of self-determination? Aboriginal advocates silenced. Government matches Labor policy and will abolish ATSIC, no elected replacement
  • Bone-pointing curse put on PM John Howard
  • Actor hopes to expose Australian racism in New York
  • Dispute resolution Aboriginal-style
  • Right-wing Australian Journalist Questions ‘Stolen Generation’
  • Reports: Aboriginal health is 'getting worse
  • Australian welfare support is less for Aborigines
  • Coming: BBC blast for 'white' Australia
  • What did Cathy Freeman do next?
  • Les aborigènes, peintres du temps
  • Tanya Koolmatrie, an Aboriginal Australian, and her Shetlander partner Davie Thomason met in southeast Australia five years ago, but decided to return to his native land in June 2002 to build a future together. That future looks to be shortlived since Koolmatrie is facing deportation. Thomason says if Tanya is forced to leave with young Magnie, he will not hesitate to join them, and another young family will have turned their backs on the Northern Isles.Remote Scottish islanders want to keep their Aboriginal neighbour
  • Tourists returning pilfered pieces of Uluru
  • So-called 'practical reconciliation' is "flawed"
  • Ken Colburg: a lifetime of activism
  • Kakadu Park: water polluted by uranium mine
  • Slave descendents sue Lloyds
  • Is the 'Moomba'Festival name a Aboriginal joke?
  • What difference could a C19th treaty have made?
  • Activist condemns Australian human rights appointment
  • Redfern riot: All clippings + backgroundso what caused the Redfern riot?
  • Aljazeera: "Australia is not all cuddly koalas"
  • Native Title: Tradition bound?
  • Indigenous tourism push
  • Where's Aboriginal tourism at?

    MORE RECENT ITEMS

    • UK
    » Ongoing: details of Didge events in the UK
    HET, NETHERLANDS
    » Until 29 August: Het Aboriginal Art Museum. Zien hoe Aboriginal kunstenaars beesten en geesten uit hun omgeving afbeelden (how aboriginal artists represents animals and spirits from their surroundings)
    LYON
    » 2 March - 30 May: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Lyon. Aborigènes, les couleurs du Rêve.
    UTRECHT
    » 25 March - 12 September: Aboriginal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands. Brenda L. Croft - Images
    KLOSTERNEUBURG, AUSTRIA
    » 2 April - 29 August: The Essl Collection of Contemporary Art: Spirit + Vision - Aboriginal Art. Apart from the presentation of traditional Aboriginal Art, the exhibition focuses on new tendencies and new media, the so-called Urban Art.
    REUTLINGEN, GERMANY
    » 4 April - 6 June: Städtisches Kunstmuseum. Picture worlds in Utopia, Woodcuts and paintings of Aborigines.
    LONDON
    » 22 April - 15 June: The Rebecca Hossack Gallery. Yilpinji, Love, Magic & Ceremony
    LONDON
    » 20 May - 26 June: The Rebecca Hossack Gallery. Aboriginal artists from Haasts Bluff in the Northern Territory.
    LONDON
    »     26 May: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies. Bill Gammage (ANU):' ... far more happier than we Europeans': Aborigines and farmers. E-mail
    AUSTRALIA
    » 26 May: Sorry Day: Journey of Healing Events
    » 28 May: Sorry Day: Unveiling of two memorials
    KöLN
    » 28 May: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum. Ausstellung australischer Aboriginal Kunst und Objekte. Mit Autorenlesung aus dem Buch Lyrische Austalien unserem Stand (Exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art and objects).
    BRUSSELS
    » 30 May: Assemblee Generale 2004 d' I.C.R.A. International (16eme Annee). Est un mouvement mondial de solidarité avec les peuples autochtones.
    STUTTGART
    » 4+5 June: Didge - Days Stuttgart im Kulturwerk
    ÅTVIDABERG, SWEDEN
    » 6 - 27 June: The Orangery at Adelsnäs. Yilpinji, Love, Magic & Ceremony
    LONDON
    » 16 June: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies. James Jupp (ANU): Speaking on his new book The English in Australia – Myths and Realities (CUP). E-mail
    BERLIN
    » 18-20 June: Dreamtime Berlin
    SANKT AUGUSTIN, GERMANY
    » 24 June - 31 July Haus der Völker und Kulturen. Different Vision.
    FoRDE, NORWAY
    » 1- 4 July: Førde Internasjonale Folkemusikkfestival
    LONDON
    » 1 July - 31 July: The Rebecca Hossack Gallery. David Whitaker, Aboriginal prints.
    ATHENS
    » 1 July - 30 August: Benaki Museum. 'Our Place - Indigenous Australia Now', Australian Indigenous art and cultural artefacts (part of Cultural Olympiad).
    WIEDLISBACH, SWITZERLAND
    » 2 - 4 July: Swizzeridoo
    BEDFORD, UK
    » 3 + 4 July: Bedford River Festival: Didje meeting area, workshops and performances.
    BANGKOK
    » 11-16 July: XV International AIDS Conference
    GENEVA
    » 19 - 23 July: UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations (WGIP). e-mail.
    ARHUS, DENMARK
    » 25 - 31 July: Bruun's Galleri. Yilpinji, Love, Magic & Ceremony
    BARCELONA
    » 27-31 July: Didg Week
    BARCELONA
    » 1-3 August: Tribales Festival
    LONDON
    » 5 August - 4 September: The Rebecca Hossack Gallery. Ampilatwatja flowers.
    AUSTRALIA
    » 6-9 August: Garma Festival of Traditional Culture and Yidaki Master Class with Djalu Gurruwiwi / e-mail
    EISENBACH
    » 6 - 8 August: Australien Weekend im Schwarzwald
    BARCELONA
    » 17 - 21 August: Universal Fòrum of Cultures 2004
    AUSTRIA
    »     27-29 August: Austria Didge- Festival
    GENEVA
    » 30 August - 26 November 2004 - International Labor Organisation. Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Fellowship Programme
    GENEVA
    » 1-4 September: International Conference on System Science in Health Care
    DORSTEN, GERMANY
    » 3 September: Down under im Pott: Didgeridoo und Weltmusik Festival.
    LONDON
    » 9 September - 9 October: The Rebecca Hossack Gallery. Maningrida burial poles
    CALGARY, CANADA
    » 13 + 14 September: 3rd Annual Forum Aboriginal-Energy Partnerships
    ICELAND
    » 15 September: Yolngu performance and yidaki course
    CAPE TOWN
    » 26 - 28 September: Entertainment-Education Conference for Social Change
    DAKAR, SENEGAL
    » 4 - 6 October: 4th International Conference & Exhibition on Traditional Medicine
    LONDON
    » 6 November: Development Studies Association annual conference
    GLOBAL
    » 1 December: World AIDS Day

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  • 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.
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