| Tue 7 Feb 2012 |
Roach's musical road to recovery
Sydney Morning Herald | At 57, Archie Roach is still in love with his profession, and still in demand. | ARCHIE Roach has had a tough two years. He suffered a stroke, had half a lung removed after cancer and lost his soulmate, Ruby Hunter. | Now living near Warrnambool, t... |
Flaws in arguments over Muslim terrorism
Sydney Morning Herald | LETTERS | Illustration: John Shakespeare | Gerard Henderson's use of my paper on Australia-Lebanon terrorism connections has some errors. | First, Henderson cites me as referring to 33 terrorism convictions. My paper actually referred to 33 prosecu... |
Resignation now could help O'Shane preserve a proud legacy
Sydney Morning Herald | The Supreme Court found magistrate Pat O'Shane got the law wrong in 14 of 16 criminal cases it reviewed since 1999, write Michael Eburn and Ruth Townsend. | Magistrate Patricia O'Shane has often been the subject of controversy over her decisions in... |
Indigenous jailing rate to worsen: lawyers
Sydney Morning Herald | AAP | High indigenous incarceration rates will get worse if the federal government proceeds with its controversial plan for a second phase of the Northern Territory intervention, a lawyers' alliance warns. | It is expected that members of the House... |
White wombats - not your average marsupials
Sydney Morning Herald | They are white and very rare. | And for 40 years, wombat rescuer Val Salmon saw only one white southern hairy-nosed wombat - until last October. | "It's mind-boggling - just so unusual," said Ms Salmon, 54, who runs the Wombat and Fauna Rescue cent... |
Thiess lands A$1bn Prominent Hill contract
Mining Weekly | PERTH (miningweekly.com) - ASX-listed Oz Minerals has awarded project house Thiess a A$1-billion contract to extend the mining operations at the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine, in South Australia. | Under the contract, Thiess would undertake the m... |
Federal parliament to resume on Tuesday
Sydney Morning Herald | AAP | Federal parliament resumes in Canberra on Tuesday with the nation's politicians meeting the day after Governor-General Quentin Bryce admonished them to be nice to each other. | It may not happen. | The opposition is tipped to launch an attack... |
| Mon 6 Feb 2012 |
Aboriginals ask China to raise human rights issues with Harper on PM's visit
Stockhouse | Aboriginals from British Columbia have asked China's president to quiz Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Canada's human rights record during his visit to the Asian country. | The Yinka Dene Alliance, a group of five First Nations that represent seve... |
Australia's painful journey towards indigenous rights
The Guardian | The fracas that engulfed the country's prime minister during Aboriginal protests on Australia Day speaks volumes about a society still coming to terms with its past Aboriginal and other protesters interrupt an Australia Day awards ceremony in Canbe... |
Strong support for 'first people'
Sydney Morning Herald | AUSTRALIANS are overwhelmingly in favour of moves to recognise Aborigines as the land's first occupants, but there appears little chance a referendum will be held at or before the election. | An Age/Nielsen poll has found 62 per cent support rewrit... |
Canadians honoured on Queen's diamond jubilee
Toronto Sun OTTAWA - | A group of distinguished Canadians was saluted in Ottawa on Monday to mark Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee. | Canadians from all walks of life -- including Olympic gold medal winner Alexandre Bilodeau -- received the recogn... |
Scholar reached out to marginalised
Sydney Morning Herald | John Eddy, 1933-2011 | Gregarious … John Eddy was always pleasing company and an ever-welcoming host at Xavier House. | At 15, John Eddy, later a Jesuit priest and a historian, topped the leaving examination in Western Australia. Too young to... |
Gillard aims to time it right as voters back race equality
Sydney Morning Herald | ALMOST two-thirds of voters support changing the constitution to recognise indigenous people as the first inhabitants of the land but the Prime Minister has warned the proposed referendum on the issue should be delayed until there was ''overwhelmin... |
An Aboriginal who took his stepdaughter, 8, into the desert where she died from dehydration ...
The Daily Mail | Augustine Winter Miller, 38, says he will return to his tribe to face a traditional punishment to atone for his stepdaughter's death | An Aboriginal man who took a young girl into the desert where she died of dehydration will return to his outback ... |
Community rally a full-court press against proposed pipeline
Canada Dot Com | Nearly 1,000 people marched in Prince Rupert on the weekend to protest against Enbridge's proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway oil pipeline. | The protest was hosted by the Gitga'at First Nation, which is based at the end of Douglas Channel and w... |
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