Lindsay Fitzclarence on the need for alternative perspectives about water policies and the Murray-Darling Basin
Tag Archives: colonisation
Water in a Geo-political Context
November 14, 2010 – 11:08 am
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Also tagged Anthropology, Australian farming, cotton, desalinisation, electricity, England, environment, environmentalism, global trade, Indigenous Australians, irrigation, Lindsay Fitzclarence, media, Murray-Darling Basin, nation building, public ownership, rainfall, sustainability, sustainable development, Water, water policy, water quality
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Ways to Claim a Country
November 14, 2010 – 10:11 am
Gillian Cowlishaw reflecting on the settler consciousness of place and origin
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Also tagged Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal history, Anglo-Australians, Arab, archaeology, Captain Cook, cultural hegemony, egalitarianism, equal rights, genocide, Gillian Cowlishaw, human rights, identity, immigrants, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous dispossession, Indigenous writers & artists, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish history, Jewish state, Judaisation, legitimacy, nation building, nationalism, Native Title, oppression, Palestine, resistance, sovereignty claims, West Bank, white supremacy, Zionism
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Habeas Corpus
October 2, 2001 – 7:51 pm
Angela Mitropoulos: Citizens are commodities, dialogue is dead and civilisation is barbaric in the new global order. Against capital and state, open borders represent hope.
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Also tagged activism, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, Bhuta, border policing, citizenship, civil society, civilisation, commodification, corporatism, Costello, G8, global protest movement, globalisation, hierarchy, J18, lobbyists, Maksimovic, mediation, migration policy, Patrick Buchanan, protesters, public relations (PR), Ralph Nader, rule of law, S11, second world, sovereignty, state, state violence, sweatshops, Third World, Third World debt, wage labour, World Economic Forum (WEF)
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A Treaty Between Our Nations
December 2, 2000 – 7:08 am
Marcia Langton on the status of Aboriginal Australians
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Also tagged Aboriginal customary laws, Aboriginal dispossession, Aboriginal self-government, Bark Petition, British sovereignty, Canada, Chief Justice Marshall, colonialism, Constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal rights, Donald Thomson, Dr Coombs, First Nations people, full equality, Henry Reynolds, Indigenous Australian laws, Indigenous Australians, international human rights, international law, John Howard, Judith Wright, Kevin Gilbert, Mabo, Maori, Maori Land Council Case, Marcia Langton, Native Title, Native Title Act, negotiated settlements, New Zealand, Patrick Dodson, reconciliation, Richard Bartlett, rights, Ronald Berndt, stolen generations, taonga, Tasmania, the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, the Council of Aboriginal Reconciliation, the Native Title Act of 1994, US Supreme Court, USA
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Mapping the Political Terrain
April 2, 2000 – 4:27 pm
George Aditjondro Post-Referendum Timor Loro Sa’e
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Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, alienation, Ana Pessoa Pinto, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), authoritarianism, autocratic rule, border dispute, Brazil, capitalism, Catholicism, civil disobedience, civilian military, co-operatives, coffee, coffee growers, coffee plantations, colonialism, customary laws, democracy, democratic state, East Timor, East Timor independence, farms, feminist, food distribution, foreign aid agencies, foreign nationals, fund-raising, George Aditjondro, Ghana, guerilla warfare, Guinea-Konakry, human rights, human rights organisations, human rights violations, independence, Indonesia, Indonesian People’s Democratic Party (PRD), InterFET (International Forces for East Timor), international aid, international aid organisations, International Student Peace Prize, James Dunn, Java, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, Jose Ramos-Horta, Klaus Rohland, Left, liberal democracy, liberation movements, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Maria Olandina F.C. Alves-Cairo, Mario Carrascalao, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, Marxist-Leninist, massacre, Maubere, media, military, militia terror, minimum wage, Mozambique, Namibia, Nino Vieira, Norway, paramilitary, parliamentary elections, Philippines, political independence, Portugal, Protestants, reconstruction, referendum, refugees, relief, Richard Holbrooke, Sam Nujoma, sanitation, Sao Tome and Principe, security, Sergio Vieira de Mello, single-party states, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, socialism, Socialist International, South Africa, student resistance, Suharto, Sukarno, sustainability, Sydney, Taur Matan Ruak, terror, Timor, UN Temporary Authority of East Timor (UNTAET), United Nations, United States, women's shelter, World Bank, World Vision, Xanana Gusmao
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