By Nigel D'Souza
MELBOURNE — The election of the Howard government has had an inauspicious start for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. The recent attacks against Aboriginal organisations under the rubric of
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By Nigel D'Souza "Lock them up and throw away the key" is the logic of the new legislation on young offenders in Western Australia. It is likely to increase greatly the number of young Aborigines in prison. There is a process of
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By Nigel D'Souza When blacks rose against their oppression in Britain in the '80s, the images on newsreel and documentaries confirmed or constructed images in the popular imagination of blacks and their place in British society. Out of the
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By Nigel D'Souza MELBOURNE — David Roff killed his Aboriginal de facto wife, Wendy Ann Noble, by hitting her over the head several times and then strangling her. The incident took place in their home on July 15, 1990, in front of their two young
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By Nigel D'Souza Melanie Sjoberg's review of Jungle Fever in Green Left Issue No. 32 has missed the point. It was limited by a narrow, anti-sexist perspective and consequently could not have picked up the rich messages about racism, sexism and
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By Nigel D'Souza The recent storm in a teacup caused by the remarks of minister for the environment Ros Kelly were the first publicly fired shots in the internal debate within the parliamentary ALP about "new federalism". Although this process,
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By Nigel D'Souza While the government publicly condemns the racist attacks against Arabs and Muslims in the wash of the Gulf War, in private it is conducting a campaign of harassment against these communities which makes a mockery of the formal