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• Aboriginal consultation and renewable energy approvals

  
  Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority: 122
  In order to implement the Green Energy Act, Ontario has recently adopted O. Reg. 359/09, to set up a new regime for accelerated approvals of renewable energy projects  (wind, solar, anaerobic digestion and biomass combustion). One key element of the new  regime is a six month “service guarantee”. This means ...
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• Victim of huge injustice Robbie Kina dies at 50

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Tony Koch; 11/11/09Robbie Kina, 50, an Aboriginal woman whose 1988 conviction for murder is widely regarded as one of the greatest miscarriage s of justice in Australia’s legal history, died at her Brisbane home last Thursday. Kina served six years in Boggo Road prison in Brisbane for the stabbing death of Tony ...
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• johnny cash, indians, and nixon

  
  Shmohawk's Weblog — Authority: 106
  I never heard this one, although I knew that Johnny Cash often stood up for what he believed. a great story on Salon about how Cash brought Indigenous issues to a White House much different than the one with today’s resident. The story was probably sparked by Obama’s invitation to Native Americans to spend a [...]
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• Traditional indigenous owners to reclaim Maralinga bomb site

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  David Nason; 10/11/09More than 50 years after their ancestral lands were devastated by nuclear testing, the Tjarutja people of western South Australia will next month be handed back the infamous expanse of remote desert the British named Maralinga. After years of legal jousting, plans are being finalised for a formal ...
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• The Plank in Australia’s Eye

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 635
  “F%*# OFF! WE’RE FULL!” read the bumper sticker I saw this morning, written within the outline of the Australian continent. The offense of the bumper stickers I felt twice as hard after hearing that another boat of people fleeing horrific…
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• A strange Sunday

  
  . . . Damien G. Walter . . . — Authority: 116
  Sunday was one of those days when all I could seem to do was lounge on the sofa and read, in that semi-dream state where words mingle with reality. In the morning I took a sojourn among The Sea Kings of Mars thanks to Leigh Brackett. I have had the Fantasy Masterworks volume of her stories for some years, and was two ...
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• Spirit of the land captured in bark

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  John McDonald; 9/11/09Gunybi Ganambarr;As colonial values spread across the continent in the 19th century, it was widely believed that the first Australians were doomed to disappear. This was a fixed idea even for pioneering anthropologists such as Baldwin Spencer, who spent 1901-02 touring the outback, visiting the ...
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• Stolen payout challenged

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Gavin Lower; 9/11/09The South Australian government today begins its legal challenge against the first successful compensation claim by a member of the Stolen Generations.  It is seeking to overturn a judgment that awarded $775,000 in damages and legal costs to a man taken from his family as a toddler. The case is ...
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• Cannabis takes toll on Aborigines

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Lex Hall; 9/11/09The serious consequences of long-term cannabis use in indigenous communities are beginning to show, with an alarming surge in the rate of chronic mental health conditions among those who started smoking the drug at an early age. James Cook University researcher Alan Clough, who has been looking at the ...
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• Iacobucci: Recognizing History of Residential Schools a “Necessary Step”

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 523
  Notes from a keynote speech by Justice Iacobucci at the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (FACL) Fall Conference . Grew up in the East End of Vancouver, where there was lots of diversity of people from many backgrounds.  Justice Iacobucci noted that he entered the law exactly 50 years ago, in 1959, ...
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• Honourable Frank Iacobucci on Residential Schools

  
  Slaw — Authority: 594
  Notes from a keynote speech by Justice Iacobucci at the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (FACL) Fall Conference . Grew up in the East End of Vancouver, where there was lots of diversity of people from many backgrounds.  Justice Iacobucci noted that he entered the law exactly 50 years ago, in 1959, when he ...
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• The New Header Image

  
  Curator & Collector — Authority: 103
  I created the current header image for this blog from my own photograph of Roy Henry Vickers’ Eagle Aerie Gallery in Tofino, BC. This gallery was built by Arthur Vickers , himself an accomplished artist, and Roy Vickers’ younger brother. I am not adept at “photoshopping” images, but I added ...
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• Deborah Mailman

  
  The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian — Authority: 127
  Im pretty sure I know who Deborah Mailman is. With my luck, Ill probably be wrong though.I THINK shes an actress....and I think shes indigenous. She might have been on some popular Australian TV Show. Maybe a soap opera? I dont remember which show it might be.Lets go see if Im wrong or right.Ah!Im totally ...
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• PM in difficult territory

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Stephanie Peatling;   8/11/09It is now nearly 2 1/2 years since the Federal Government sent the army into Northern Territory indigenous communities to deal with what it called a “national emergency”. Then prime minister John Howard and his indigenous affairs minister, Mal Brough, launched what is now referred to ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Locals Recognized at Aboriginal Music Awards

  
  ChrisD.ca — Authority: 513
  Posted by David Klassen The 4th annual Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Awards were handed out Friday night at MTS Centre. A number of Winnipeggers took home hardware, including homegrown gal Sierra Noble ( right ) for Best Country CD “Possibilities.” Other local winners included: – Eagle & Hawk ...
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• Saving the Yolngu people

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Lindsay Murdoch; 7/11/09The deaths were inexplicable in the ancient Yolngu culture, where there is no word to describe suicide. Families in small Arnhem Land communities were being destroyed at a rate never seen before. Police started counting how many times they had to investigate the deaths of mostly young ...
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• Ampilatwatja Walkoff - Richard Downs & Harry Nelson

  
  Indigenist Intelligence Review — Authority: 113
  "On July 14 2009 we, Elders from the Ampilatwatja community, walked out of our houses and set up camp in the bush. We are fed up with the federal governments Northern Territory Intervention, controls and measures, visions and goals forced onto us from outside. We felt we were outcasts and isolated from all decision ...
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• BARBADIAN INDIANA JONES MAKES DISCOVERY OF LIFETIME IN GUYANA REMOTE INTERIOR

  
  The Bajan Reporter — Authority: 437
  Word has leaked out to a select few local, regional and International media sources that Barbados born Damon Gerard Corrie ( of paternal Trinidadian and maternal Guyanese Amerindian descent ) - well known to Barbadians as " the Snake Man , may soon be well known throughout the Caribbean as Barbadiana Jones ...
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• Australia: Scared Womens Business

  
  Women of History — Authority: 140
  From the Coffs Coast Advocate : WOMEN elders are gathering to defend a Coffs Coast Aboriginal women’s sacred site, Mama Gaungan (Mother Earth) against the threat posed by a planned 2010 car rally. Traditional custodian of the Coffs Coast site, Aunty Margaret Lardner, said plans to run the 2010 Coffs Coast ...
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