Tag: First Nations People

Australia's Shame

Australia’s First Nations still looking over the 1788 chasm – Pearls and Irritations

The Australian Aboriginal flag on a flagpole at Bondi Beach, Sydney.

More than four months after a crushing defeat in the Voice referendum, and soon after the Closing the Gap report confirmed that there was almost no progress in improving Aboriginal lives last year, Aboriginal players in the yes case are moving towards an inquest into how their case went so terribly wrong.

Source: Australia’s First Nations still looking over the 1788 chasm – Pearls and Irritations

Indigenous Australia

We have failed the First Nations people – » The Australian Independent Media Network

“The aspirations of Aboriginal Australians are expressed through a political system designed, first and foremost, for the white majority.”

Source: We have failed the First Nations people – » The Australian Independent Media Network