Sovereign Union

Warren Mundine on the role of the military in Aboriginal communities: “Actually the military does have a place … In the tsunami of Indonesia, you know at Sumatra and the Indian Ocean. And I said the military has got to train for emergency services and war situations.”

Mayors from Aboriginal and mainstream council in far-north Queensland say they don't recognise Aboriginal academic Noel Pearson as a leader and want his Cape York Institute to get out of their communities. Mr Pearson has been hailed as a prophet by federal opposition leader Tony Abbott and been tipped as a key indigenous adviser, if the Liberal-National Coalition wins Saturday's election. Eight Ca...

Penny Phillips, who says she is a Traditional Owner from the Wirntulki group, says the community is excited that a minister has finally accepted their invitation.

Kevin Gilbert was a 20th century Indigenous Australian activist, artist, poet, playwright and printmaker. He is also a past winner of the National Book Council prize for writers.- 3CR Solidarity Breakfast 17 August 2013 live discussion - with Bill Deller, Melbourne, Humphrey McQueen, Canberra, Lalitha Chelliah and Annie McLoughlin, Melbourne.

An application to the High Court has a chance to reopen some serious questions about Aboriginal life and imprisonment in Australia. An application to the High Court has a chance to reopen some serious questions about Aboriginal life and imprisonment in Australia. It involves the case of a New South Wales man named William David Bugmy. But it could end up affecting many more cases -- or, more speci...

Palm Island Community Justice Group's Deniece Geia discusses the over representation of Indigenous Australians in the prison system and the support by the elders Margie Parker and Bonnie Noble. Source: ABC Radio - North Queensland - 1 August, 2013

They have no formal legal education but Palm Island elders Bonnie Noble and Margie Parker are determined to do something about the over representation of Indigenous Australians in the prison system. Source: ABC Radio - North Queensland - 1 August, 2013

Tasmanian Aboriginal community prepares for battle over heritage laws This audio file was taken from an ABC TV News report - video available - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfVrgdhXp3I

When it comes to indigenous languages in Australia, the situation is grim, according to a leading linguistics professor. Concerns over future for indigenous languages in Australia (Credit: ABC) It's one of the topics being discussed at an international conference in Adelaide starting today, focussing on loss and the revival of language. But all is not lost. Endangered languages are being reclaimed...

Right Now Radio - In June 2013, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child handed down a critical report following its review of Australia. Australia is a wonderful place for most of its children, however not necessarily all of its children, especially Indigenous children. Ben Schokman and Evelyn Tadros (Right Now Radio) spoke with Frank Hytten, who recently returned from briefing the UN Committe...

Cairns-based historian Timothy Bottoms has drawn a new map of Queensland, that places many more sites of massacres of Aboriginal people into the story than have ever been acknowledged before. And while he argues that this is a story of deep silences, what he demonstrates is how public and discussed these killings were in the nineteenth century. Read by Timothy Bottoms - Recorded by ABC Radio Natio...

Toni Comber, CEO of the Red Chief Land Council says there are concerns with the methodology associated with the collection process, and storage of the artifacts. Toni explains the concerns of the protesters who gathered outside the office of Whitehaven in Boggabri on 10th July, 2013, calling for a halt to salvage works at the Maules Creek mine site because of threats to local indigenous culture an...

ABC Radio National with Matthew Crawford: According to the tradition of the Adnyamathanha people, the indigenous inhabitants of this part of South Australia, Wilpena Pound was formed when two Dreamtime serpents travelled south and carved the landscape in their wake. Vince Coulthard, the chair of the Adnyamathanha Land Association, says it is a source of great pride for the local indigenous people...

23 years ago, Mr Mandela had a rough encounter with some of the country's best known Aboriginal activists. Ron Sutton looks at what they have come came to feel about him, all these years later. "What about Aborigines, Mr Mandela? Why doesn't someone say something about the Aboriginal people in this country?" It was October 1990, eight months after Nelson Mandela's release from prison in South Afri...

Transcript of Michael Mansell and CAAMA's Paul Wiles in CAAMA Radio News. PAUL WILES:: First Nations rights campaigner Michael Mansell says outgoing Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be remembered in the context of Aboriginal Affairs as a woman who did nothing for his people. Mr Mansell said, under Gillards leadership the government extended the Northern Territory Intervention by 10 years and refu...

Chris Graham is the former managing editor and founder of Tracker magazine and also the former and founding editor of the National Indigenous Times (NIT). Chris got his start in the media at age 15 as a copyboy at the Sydney Morning Herald in 1988. In 1990 he started a cadetship at Magazine House, and from 1996 he headed bush to work in regional papers. In late 2001, Chris was part of a small team...

An expert in Aboriginal and Islander child welfare and wellbeing, Professor Muriel Bamblett, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, says that it is too simplistic to expect people who have been disempowered and are not self determining, to be able to come up and respond to issues of child abuse in the Northern Territory. CAAMA News Team - Paul Wiles

3CR 'Radioactive show' recorded Kado Muir on the Walkajurra Walkabout - walking for Country - The full interview - http://www.3cr.org.au/radioactive/podcast/radioactive-show-08062013 Walkajurra Walkabout was led by the Walkatjurra Rangers, in partnership with Footprints for Peace, Western Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (WANFA), the Anti Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia (ANAWA) and the Conse...

Somali refugees claim immigration discrimination Somali refugees waiting in Indonesia, say they're being forced to take dangerous boat voyages because Australia is refusing to resettle Africans. The refugees say they have been told by the United Nations refugee agency, in Jakarta, that there's no point applying to be resettled in Australia. They wonder whether they're being rejected automatically...

CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles 17 June 2013 A former member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child says Australia has to do more to understand the cultural sensitivity associated with removing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and culture.

Brisbane 2013 Source: First Nations Telegraph Quality - Variable

A Queensland based historian has branded the pioneering myth of the early white settlers as a lie. In his book Conspiracy of Silence, Doctor Timothy Bottoms claims that Australia has been let down by historians. Dr Timothy Bottoms Interview: Paul Wyles, CAAMA Radio

An aboriginal elder from far western New South Wales is threatening to take a case to the high court to prove her ownership of Lake Victoria. 0 The lake supplies parts of South Australia with drinking water. Dorothy Lawson's family has been in the area for thousands of years, but will argue a legal technicality, under a law known as Nullum Tempus. That means they had rights as squatters on the lan...