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Australia backs UN on indigenous rights (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The Rudd government has been both praised and condemned as hypocritical for officially endorsing a United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous people. . . go to article...

03 April, 2009

Late Support for UN Indigenous Charter (The Australian)

The Rudd Government will deliver a statement of support next week for the UN's charter on indigenous rights, its second major symbolic act after the historic apology to the Stolen Generations. . . go to article...

27 March, 2009

An Avoidable Collision: Government, Natives and Business. The Three-way War over Land Claims (Globe and Mail)

VICTORIA — In a private room at Vancouver's Terminal City Club last Friday afternoon, the province's top three native leaders sat down with mining industry executives to discuss how a pending law to recognize aboriginal title would change the way business is done in B.C....

23 March, 2009