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Seldom has a single word meant so much as when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to the Stolen Generations on February 13, saying “sorry” to families torn apart by governments that removed children from a 50,000-year-old culture and left them alone in a country rife with racism and without their Read More…
On Wednesday February 13, as the first order of business in the 42nd Parliament, an apology was offered to members and families of the Stolen Generations reports Mark Hughes in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008. Read More…
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations presents Australia with an opportunity to reflect on the state of human rights in this country. To understand where we stand on human rights it is imperative to examine the political context of the world today, and where we as Australians Read More…
Sarah Malik takes a bus into Canberra on a cold Tuesday morning to cover the protest rally against the Indigenous intervention in the Northern Territory and writes about it in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008. Read More…
A media frenzy ensued inside Mundine’s Gym last month in Redfern, when Ben Cousins appeared before a media scrum to talk about his rehabilitation from drug use reports Ben Falkenmire in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008. Read More…
South Sydney Football Club held a Rabbitohs Member and Fan Appreciation Day at Erskineville Oval on Sunday February 17. Fans young and young at heart cheered as the Souths NRL squad for the club’s Centenary Season in 2008 was introduced reports Zimmy Watt in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008. Read More…
Friends of Erskineville have stepped up their Internet-based campaign in opposition to the proposal of a two-storey supermarket. The momentum has continued to gather pace with more than 3,000 people signing petitions in local shops and online reports Ellice Mol in the South Sydney Herald of March 20 Read More…
Rosebery residents met face-to-face with Hillsong last month to decide the fate of the building of a 2,700-seat mega-church at an old RTA site in Rosebery reports Nicholas McCallum in the South Sydney Herald of March 2008. Read More…
REDFERN rugby league hopefuls will have a home ground for the first time in almost 80 years when they share Redfern Park and Oval with the South Sydney Rabbitohs writes Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 5th March 2008. Read More…
ABORIGINAL Housing Company chief executive Micheal Mundine says nothing will stop the company’s Pemulwuy Project for The Block, despite the volunteer organisation being unable to pay an assessment fee required by the Planning Department writes Lisa Capozzi in the Central of 5th March 2008. Read More…