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One Nation calls for indigenous seats (Sydney Morning Herald)

The political party founded by firebrand Pauline Hanson has called for two dedicated seats in federal parliament for indigenous people. Queensland One Nation Senate candidate Rod Evans said the two major parties had a paternalistic attitude towards Aborigines. "For too long we are hearing and...

21 July, 2010

Explain native title, Rann urged (The Australian)

Determined to forge a new legal-historical narrative in South Australia, native title groups are asking Premier Mike Rann to begin negotiations on "unfinished business" arising from the state's 1836 Letters Patent. A meeting of the 27 native title groups at Clare over the weekend unanimously...

17 May, 2010

Old treaties face new laws: Supreme Court decision to help streamline mine permits (The Province)

Canada's Supreme Court -- in a ruling that could help clarify the complex process needed to gain a mining permit -- said on Friday a proposed vanadium mine on land owned by an aboriginal group must have a full environmental assessment before development proceeds. The...

16 May, 2010