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Branding the blacks – a “community of thieves” and the tyranny of terminology

July 7, 2009 – 3:14 pm

Until we give back to the black man just a bit of land that was his and give it back without provisos, without strings to snatch it back, without anything but complete generosity of spirit in concession for the evil we have done him – until we do that, we shall remain what we have always been so far: a community of thieves – Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Australian politics, Northern Territory politics, The NT Intervention | Also tagged Aboriginal Australians: Black Responses to White Dominance 1788-2001, Bain Attwood, C. D. Rowley's The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, Chris Cuneen and Terry Libesman, Indigenous People and the Law in Australia, Marcia Langton, Michael Meadows, NAIDOC, NT Chief Minister Henderson, Peter Sutton, Poor Fellow My Country, Prime Minister Rudd, Representations and Indigenous Images, Richard Broome, Rosalind Kidd, Rosemary Neill, The Making of the Aborigines, The Politics of Suffering, The Way We Civilise: Aboriginal Affairs - The Untold Story, Voices in the Wilderness, White Out: How Politics is Killing Black Australia, Xavier Herbert | Comments (55)

Yuendumu: the pool, the press, protocols and permits…and the Code of Conduct for Ministerial Staff

October 30, 2008 – 3:40 pm

As Crikey and The Northern Myth have reported and discussed on Tuesday and Wednesday this week there are real concerns at Yuendumu and across central Australia about the way that some journalists went about their business reporting on what should have been, and largely was, a good news story.
The opening this past Monday of the [...]

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Code of Conduct for Ministerial Staff, PAW Media, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Yuendumu | Comments (10)

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