March 2010

18 Mar Nunavik housing shortage a ‘crisis’: Inuit (CBC)

Posted at 08:00h in News, Posts

Inuit leaders in Nunavik are pleading with the federal government to step up efforts to build social housing to fill skyrocketing demand for safe, healthy homes in the North. Nearly 49 per cent or one in two Inuit in the northern region live in an...

16 Mar Indigenous ceremony proper ‘welcome’ (The Australian)

Posted at 08:02h in News, Posts

Mr Madden, who performs two or three welcomes a week to Sydney's Gadigal land at $250 to $300 for each welcome, said the Opposition Leader's comments were "just political noise to get a headline". Mr Abbott told The Advertiser the ceremonies were an "empty gesture",...

15 Mar Tony Abbott reopens culture wars over nods to Aborigines (The Australian)

Posted at 13:44h in News, Posts

Tony Abbott has opened up a new front in the culture wars by declaring that Kevin Rudd and other Labor ministers demonstrate a misplaced sense of political correctness when acknowledging the traditional owners of land at official functions. Mr. Abbott's dismissal of the modern practice...