for Aboriginal people in remote communities. Nikos would spend weeks, months at a time in these communities while ... singsong voice, you’re not going to be one of those people who wants to talk the whole way till we get ... of the Northern Territory, and he got to know the people who lived there, too. Nikos started noticing things ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

and not much at that – set aside to acknowledge and encourage a few stand-up Aboriginal wordsmiths. Given ... not be the corrupt, ignorant redneck people fear. At the close of his third week as Premier, in distinctly un-Joh-like ...

The Monthly - John Birmingham - 2012-05-03 11:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(April 2012, The Monthly Essays, Aboriginal People, Billy Blue, Biography, France, History of Australia, ... and fearless and not have cared what people thought of him: a calculating, hard man. This was a far cry from ...

The Monthly - Cassandra Pybus - 2012-05-01 09:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Many people think it was a matter of accident that when Turnbull finally came to Canberra ... are the servants of the people?” He also quotes from Menzies’ famous 1942 “forgotten people” radio broadcast. “Are ... very senior Labor Party people thought of asking Turnbull to defect with the prospect of becoming Labor ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(December 2011 - January 2012, Noted, Aboriginal People, Australian History, Bill Gammage, The Biggest ... The Aborigines were indeed managing an estate that, despite a focus on local action, covered the continent. ... century pastoralists have often tried to mimic Aboriginal management techniques lest their sheep go ...

The Monthly - James Boyce - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In the first case, a study of twentieth century Aboriginal child removal policies and practices, the grant ... and go-to journalists at the Australian. For most people this is intimidating. This kind of intimidation ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-07 15:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Rinehart, the coal and iron ore billionaire, now one of the wealthiest people on the globe and the devoted ... suggested enticing unemployed Aborigines, and in particular “no good half-castes”, to a central location ... the disadvantage over against the more libertarian, right-thinking people in the United States who have got Fox ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-02-08 19:23 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

and family, not public campaigning or elections. Aboriginal people do not necessarily enjoy the same assumed ... after the event. The Aboriginal people of Elliott, Tennant Creek and Ali Curung are closely ... an Aboriginal majority. In both towns there is a strong visible presence of listless welfare people whose main ...

The Monthly - Paul Toohey - 2011-03-16 10:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

people hitch from Moree to Sydney in search of family – a young Aboriginal who has broken out ... as the crime’s victims will come from Moree’s Aboriginal people. He talks a bit of industry talk about genre ... was in Moree, where Aboriginal people had been banned from the local swimming pool for 40 years. A crowd ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-15 15:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Anna Krien’s excellent article contains a major factual error: contrary to popular belief, kidney failure in Aboriginal people is not directly caused by alcohol use (‘Booze Territory’, September). It is caused by conditions such as diabetes and high blood ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2011-10-06 11:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Bromberg called “light skinned Aborigines”. Bolt had not breached the Act because he had written critically ... given to mixed descent Aboriginal children removed by government from their mothers, families ... from their Aboriginal surroundings. Lowitja and her brothers and sisters had been removed ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-10-24 09:45 - 28 comments - 0 attachments

Australian  in April this year, that some people were unwilling to appear on  Insiders  with him, “because ... syndicated in Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin and Adelaide. Almost 12 million people around Australia pick up ... Black’. “Meet the white face of a new black race – the political Aborigine,” the column began sneeringly. ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-10-11 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

generous contributors were all people Glenn had made houses for. How do you console a father who has ... the flora outside them and the people inside. But, at the most unlikely moments, Sam bursts in from the past ... was once badly beaten by an Aboriginal man and when he recovered took up professional boxing. Sam ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-10-06 12:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the Aboriginal people who fought for their lands and way of life as common criminals and as agents of their own ... people such as Mitchell or Kelly. I have never expressed the slightest desire to do so. If Paul Kelly ... Windschuttle”, the historian who, in the first volume of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History , characterised ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-09-19 17:37 - 24 comments - 0 attachments

Happening. Melting poles, warming oceans. People, do something! But if I’d started by discussing tillage ... In Griffith, journos all but handed the demonstrators the match. The protest left most of the people who ... betrayal. This is not a storm in a teacup: two million people live in the basin, which produces 40% of our ...

The Monthly - Kate Jennings - 2011-10-07 13:05 - 14 comments - 0 attachments

of people and society. Staged almost a decade ago, this powerful work still resonates politically and speaks ... of an Aboriginal fugitive. The Fanatic is a brutal racist, but most intriguing is the Tracker himself, ... struggling to project a unique identity. In every story Hamilton tells, people are being mistaken for someone ...

The Monthly - The Monthly - 2011-11-14 08:13 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

because they’re visible. “Aboriginal people are open people – if there’s a drink and you don’t want ... But to other people, who are so far up themselves, who look at those drunken Aborigines out there, yet they go ... mostly Aboriginal and mostly women. Whilst Indigenous people represented 17% of the town’s population, ...

The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2011-10-10 13:54 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

neck in trouble, condemned as a terrorist, with people like Sarah Palin saying he should be treated ... “I appreciate people saying this but they don’t know if I have been approached for judgeship, ... Australia, of Aboriginal neglect, the need for engagement with Asia and the rights of women before many ...

The Monthly - Paola Totaro - 2011-09-07 10:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

agreement with the Aborigines was paramount”. Boyce contends that Batman and the Kulin people had ... (beneath boulevards, beneath boulevards) (July 2011, Arts & Letters, Aboriginal People ... of the Tasmanian Aborigines. Those left alive were shipped off to a camp on Flinders Island, where they all in due ...

The Monthly - Malcolm Turnbull - 2011-06-30 15:46 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

people, and is often co-existent with chlamydia and other STDs, but it is treatable. (Although resistance ... although even today Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women still die at more than five times the rate ... are no longer the same people we were in 1961. We’ve got new bodies, new brains, new behaviours.” ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-09-16 15:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(broken communities, broken communities) (May 2011, Film, Aboriginal People, Australian Film, John ... delicately hangs? Aren’t there things people are not supposed to see? Even Quentin Tarantino had the courtesy ... different movie about a broken community. TJ (Dean Daley-Jones) is a young Aboriginal man with a bulked-up ...

The Monthly - Helen Garner - 2011-05-05 12:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

sheet of paper, architect Paul Pholeros draws a diagram for the group of Indigenous people huddled ... people, housing professionals and the press what the Commission is doing,” he wrote. “It has become ... in the houses, it’s the people who are the problem.’ Then we inspected some of the apartments, and surprise, ...

The Monthly - Victoria Laurie - 2011-06-02 13:43 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

what is her relationship (if any) with Aboriginal people? Nobody was interviewed for this story ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2011-04-28 10:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

If Nicolas Rothwell is to be believed (‘The Blast Zone’, September 2010), the Aboriginal people of the Western Desert may as well pack their bags and move ... much life into its people despite the hardships they must sometimes endure. Pamela McGrath ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2010-11-04 12:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

on what she called Greer’s “cleverly disguised contempt for Aboriginal people, her desperate need to stereotype Aboriginal victimhood”. It went viral and Langton convinced people, she insists, that Greer ... Two very unlike people have been opening up new ways of thinking about Indigenous affairs in Australia ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-18 10:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments