The Aboriginal Tent embassy has existed intermittently on the lawns of Old Parliament house since Australia Day 1972, and permanently since Australia Day 1992. It began as response to the then Coalition Governments refusal to recognise land rights and holds historical significance as part of the long history of Aboriginal protest over this issue.
The Tent [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2003
Aboriginal Tent Embassy
National Museum faces further destabilisation
The Howard Government’s cultural war and its sabotage of the National Museum, has today taken a new twist.
A Freedom of Information request by the Sydney Morning Herald has revealed that deep divisions exist within the Museum’s council and that supporters of the current Director, Dawn Casey, are being ignored by the Howard Government.
It is deeply [...]
ANU National Day of Action – Education Speak-Out
27 August 2003
Union Court
Australian National University
This National Union of Students National Day of Action is an opportunity to express yourself and your opposition to the proposed changes to higher education that the Coalition Government is seeking to impose.
Interestingly, the Government is here at ANU today, supposedly consulting with higher education stakeholders about their proposals. However, [...]
Labor will do more for ACT University Students
Canberra university students would be better off under a Federal Labor Government to the tune of $18 million, ACT Senator Kate Lundy said today.
Speaking today at the Australian National University’s National Day of Action Rally, Senator Lundy announced that a Crean Labor Government would provide an extra $312 million in additional funding across Australia’s tertiary [...]
Industry body joins Labor’s call for ICT industry action
In its response to the Coalition’s failed “Framework for the Future” Report, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has supported some of Labor’s criticisms of the Howard Government’s information and communications technology policies.
In particular, the AIIA calls for an extension to the Building on IT Strengths (BITS), business incubator program, and the reform of Government [...]
You may be Minister for the Arts, Senator Kemp, but you can’t embroider the truth
Obviously missing the point, Senator Kemp is embroidering the truth when it comes to talking up funding levels of the National Museum of Australia.
For the Minister’s benefit, here are the facts:
The Prime Minister himself commissioned a report which warned that if the National Museum was funded insufficiently it would lead to “rapidly declining” visitor numbers [...]
Howard’s spiteful sabotage of the National Museum of Australia
A secret report obtained under FOI has exposed that the National Museum of Australia is the latest target in the Howard Government’s spiteful and dishonest undercover cultural war.
The secret report exposes the Howard Government’s plan to let the Museum slowly bleed to death by knowingly providing funding at unsustainably low levels.
This is an act of [...]
ABC Sports Coverage Slashed
Women’s sport and local sporting events are likely to be hardest hit by the $530,000 funding cut to live sports coverage on the ABC.
The ABC has said that cuts will only affect one-off events coverage, but with ongoing pressure from the Howard Government for the ABC to cut its Budget, sports coverage – especially of [...]
Grave Concerns For Arts Production
In what will be a huge blow to ABC productions, the Howard Government is cutting $500,000 from documentary production and a further $1.5 million to go from productions already underway.
ABC cuts imposed by the Coalition means job losses in television and documentary production serve as a disincentive to young artists and to the already disillusioned [...]
Release of the McLeod Inquiry Report (ACT Bushfires)
In response to the release of the McLeod Report, I again offer my most sincere congratulations and support of Emergency Services personnel, the ACT Police, ACT and NSW Fire Brigades and individual volunteers who rallied together in the face of an extraordinary and unprecedented crisis to help fight the January Bushfires.
In the face of adversity, [...]
