Aboriginals

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The Australia you don’t hear about

 

HT Caleb Gee

 

Reblogged from CHAPTER 21.:

 

To my non-Australian followers I recommend this heart wrenching documentaryabout what is perceived to be “the lucky country”. It is a sobering look at the treatment towards our nations First People, and the ongoing mistreatment that occurs today. Despite having an awareness of these issues having grown up in the Northern Territory, a place where Aboriginal people are segregated in gated communities in Darwin, I still felt a great sense of shame and sadness being confronted with these images and stories of those within our community being controlled by racist policies of successive and present Governments.

 

Source: beidealistic.wordpress.com

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

 

RCMP report on Aboriginal women puts numbers to our national shame: Tim Harper

We are quick to work to protect women’s rights abroad, but when it comes to murdered Aboriginals at home, we are quick to look the other way.


Tim Harper – TheStar.com – May 18

Last week, while Aboriginal demonstrators were marching outside the Centre Block, New Democratic MP Niki Ashton rose in the Commons and asked the government — again — to convene a national inquiry to provide answers and justice for the families of missing and murdered aboriginal women.
– See more at: http://www.ammsa.com/content/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls#sthash.tWPSkhjc.dpuf

 

Source: www.ammsa.com