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Here is a selection of my publications. Click on the title to view the whole text, or chose a category on the left.
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Look like you care, academic tells Howard
01.10.2007
LEADING indigenous academic has challenged John Howard to show genuine concern for Aboriginal children instead of appearing scared he would ``catch a disease'' every time he holds a black baby. Chris Sarra, a former Queenslander of the Year who... read more -
Macklin vows to end black poverty
14.12.2006
IDEOLOGY is dead in Aboriginal affairs and Labor will design policy that ``makes poverty history'' for all families, black and white, said Opposition indigenous affairs spokeswoman Jenny Macklin yesterday. However Ms Macklin's first outing in her new... read more -
Once spoken, never forgotten
06.12.2003
Language is such a powerful tool that when somebody uses it well, it is something you remember SOME years ago, several members of the Queensland press gallery accompanied Premier Peter Beattie on the government jet to a function in north... read more -
Young hoping for a better tomorrow
15.09.2001
`IT MAKES me so sad to hear of people talking about how America is going to bomb Baghdad or Afghanistan into submission as if that is a good thing. They don't see the terrified people, the children who cower from the bombs and bullets. ``They make it... read more -
WOMAN on a MISSION
16.12.2000
She was a little white girl who loved fishing, swimming and running with the Aboriginal children on the mission. She moved away, grew up and married the man who's now Queensland's premier. Thirty-eight years after leaving, Heather Beattie goes back to... read more -
NEEDY SHOULD NOT BE SCAPEGOATS
17.08.1996
THE unconscionable action of the Howard Federal Government in cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from the allocation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is as heartless as it is shortsighted. How will this assist in redressing the... read more
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