Indigenous Issues In Australia

Legislation and Legal Judgements

• The Mabo Decision 1992
• Native Title Act 1993

• The High Court's Wik Judgement 1996: The Wik Peoples v. The State of Queensland & Ors

• Racial Discrimination Act 1975

• Bringing Them Home - The Stolen Generations

• 8 May 1997: John Howard's Amended Wik 10-Point Plan
  • Wik Newspaper Archive

Organisations and Authorities

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)

• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

• Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation - an organisation responsible to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

• National Native Title Tribunal

• 20 Nov 1998: Statehood, Reconciliation and Good Health - a speech by Bob Collins

• Extracts about Aborigines from Pauline Hanson's "The Truth"

• Pauline Hanson's Speech at the launch of One Nation (11 April 1997)

• Response to Wik by the National Indigenous Working Group on Native Title - "Coexistence, Negotiation and Certainty" (April 1997)

• Wik - No Cause for Extinguishment (Pam O'Connor, Lecturer in Law, Monash University) - good article

• In the Wake of Wik - ABC Law Report (25 February 1997)

• Wik: The Way Forward - Rick Farley, AIATSIS, (February 1997)

• Western Australian Native Title Claims - Statement by Premier Richard Court - 15 June 1998

• The Light On The Hill - Chifley Memorial Lecture by Noel Pearson (12 August 2000)

• The Age Coverage of Aboriginal Issues

• Matt Walsh's Wik Page

• Australians For Native Title and Reconciliation

• Native Title Cases Archive (incomplete)

• Austlii Aboriginal Lists and Links

• Action for Aboriginal Rights

• Farmwide Online - search for articles on Wik

• Identifiable Commonwealth Expenditure on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs - Commonwealth Parliamentary Library

The Stolen Generations

• Bringing Them Home: National Enquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families - from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
  • The Full Report - AustLII

• Federal Government Submission on the Stolen Generations - 2000
  • Summary of Submission

• National Sorry Day Committee Website
  
• Apology Australia