Author: Michael Murphy

20 May UN launches new initiative to promote rights of world’s indigenous peoples (UN News Centre)

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Four United Nations entities today launched a new initiative to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples, aiming to strengthen their institutions and ability to fully participate in governance and policy processes at the local and national levels. The initiative, to be known as the...

19 May Agencies failing to deliver outcomes (The Australian)

Posted at 12:44h in News, Posts

Leo Shanahan AN audit into the NSW government's indigenous policy has found it inefficient and lacking accountability for the $2.65 billion spent on Aboriginal affairs each year. The audit of the Two Ways Together plan introduced by the former Labor government in 2003 -- a policy...

18 May 2 aboriginal MPs picked for cabinet for the first time (Vancouver Sun)

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Randy Boswell OTTAWA — There have been, throughout Canada's past, numerous aboriginal MPs — Louis Riel among them — as well as cabinet ministers of First Nations and (since 2008) Inuit heritage. But Wednesday's unveiling of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's new federal cabinet marked the first time...