Sovereign Union

Muckaty traditional owners are happy that they have finally been able to tell their version of events that led to the nomination of their land as a proposed site for a nuclear waste dump.

ABC Radio National 'Ockham’s Razor' An outbreak of smallpox in Sydney in 1789 killed thousands of Aborigines and weakened resistance to white settlement. Chris Warren argues that the pandemic was no accident, but rather a deliberate act of biological warfare against Australia’s first inhabitants. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/was-sydneys-smallpox-outbreak-an-act-of-biol...

They've been called the faceless men of the right; the Institute of Public Affairs, or IPA, a Melbourne based think tank which enjoys what some feel is a large amount of political influence. Before the recent election, the IPA issued a wish list of policies it would like to see implemented and many of the items match the Abbott government's own. So who is the IPA and how much political clout does...

Paul Wiles from CAAMA News interviewing Paddy Gibson. IMAGE: Warlmanpa ladies dance at Manuwangku court hearings - no Muckaty nuke dump! photo Paddy Gibson - via @IndigenousX pic.twitter.com/eRZMfSwLXs

It has long been thought that prior to white settlement, Indigenous Australians lived a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Now some scholars argue that the first Australians practised forms of agriculture and aquaculture ... More http://www.sovereignunion.mobi

The death of 21 year old Eddie Murray was one of the cases that led to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Today his family are holding a national day of action and calling for another inquiry. More: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/murder-eddie-murray

Peter Coleman, White Supremacist and non believer in global warming uttered out loud what many Neo-Liberals in Australia believe but are rarely game to say. The majority of Australians are extremely racist and the fundamental issue behind the suppression of First Nations Peoples.

Covered by Paul Wiles, CAAMA News A Central Australian Aboriginal Elder challenged the moral conscience of the nation when she told a pro assimilationist championing the integration of her people that she is not “the problem” that white Australians have been trying to solve since colonization.

The granddaughter of Northern Territory Arrernte rights campaigner Rosalie Kunoth-Monks says she was inspired to see her grandmother take a stand against assimilationist policies. The Utopia elder appeared on the ABC's Q&A program this week, saying her culture had survived despite colonisation. She also praised the documentary film 'Utopia' for bringing Indigenous issues to light. Amelia Kunot...

Chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, says ceremonies should not be an excuse to avoid other responsibilities.

The Abbott government is in damage control following reports the Liberals tricked their coaltion partners the Nationals into accepting the reintroduction of indexation of petrol excise. Ellen Fanning ABC RN

Joe Hockey has launched defamation proceedings against Fairfax over its 'Treasurer For Sale' story from 5 May. The front-page article went on to claim that Mr Hockey offered privileged access to businessmen and lobbyists in return for donations to the Liberal Party. The proceedings again the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Canberra Times and their online services were filed in the Federal C...

The Chair of Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council is trying to claw his way out of yet another hole he has dug himself. He is now gobbling off at full speed to try justify comments he made regarding First Nations culture and ceremonies. Last month, it was reported Warren Mundine suggested in a speech to an employment conference in Darwin that ceremonies, such as Sorry Business, went for too long a...

ABC Radio National's 'The World Today' produced this shallow report in January 2012

Some of the original founding members of the Aboriginal Housing Company have this morning launched a Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy. 26 May 2014 Jenny and Lyall Munro have pitched the first tent, claiming The Block is for Aboriginal people and saying they feel betrayed by the Housing Company. The Embassy is opposed to a draft for a prime real estate and retail precinct at The Block, released in r...

Abbotts $7 Fee: Big medical chains could charge fees rather than bulk bill Pat McGrath reported this story on ABC RADIO 'PM' Tuesday, May 20, 2014

In 2012 the WA State Government announced the stolen wages reparation scheme which invited people born before 1958 to apply for payments of up to $2,000 if they had directly experienced government control over their income. Kimberley Community Legal Service solicitor Judy Harrison, says that Aboriginal people her organisation has spoken to are not happy with the 2012 reparation scheme. "The govern...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's latest report on youth justice has revealed a significant drop in the number of young people within the system. The Institute says the decrease of over 1000 youths is a promising trend. But concern remains over the fact that almost half of the total numbers of youths under supervision are Indigenous. Marc Tong reports on SBS World News Radio

Featuring Lorna Hudson from Derby, West Kimberley WA

Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheneer Interview with Dr Clare Land ABC Radio National 'Hindsight' - Presented by Lorena Allam Sunday 16 March 2014 The colony of Port Phillip was just eight years old when it held its first execution. The first people hanged in 1842 were two Aboriginal men from Tasmania. How did they come to be on the mainland? The story of Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheneer is shockin...

ABC Radio National 'Hindsight' Sunday 16 March 2014

What factors come into play when people are deciding whether to self-identify as Indigenous? By Peggy Giakoumelos Source World News Radio UPDATED 28 MINS AGO (Transcript from World News Radio) Do you identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander? It's a question that appears on many government forms across the country but for some indigenous Australians, it's a question loaded with confusion, f...

ABC Radio 774 A fresh perspective of Indigenous history showing evidence of village populations, crop harvesting, and irrigation, is all explored Bruce Pascoe's new book Dark Emu. The common perception of Indigenous Australians leading a 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle before European settlement is ignoring strong evidence of sophisticated farming and agriculture practices, argues Mr Pascoe.

Don Weatherburn's the man who translates the statistics on robberies, assaults and drug trafficking. Over many years as director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, he has tracked the disturbing ascension of the numbers of Aboriginal people in Australian gaols. Interview: 666 ABC Canberra - 7 March, 2014 By Clare Blumer (with Genevieve Jacobs)