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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012WebpageIndigenous Internaional Rights: International scrutiny of Indigenous rights in Australia
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14 December 2012Webpage
Indigenous International Rights: UN mechanisms for the recognition of Indigenous rights
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Webpage
Indigenous International Rights: Progressing Indigenous Rights at the International Level
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Essentials for Social Justice: Land and Culture – Economic Development
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Essentials for Social Justice: Close the Gap
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
A human rights agenda for the Northern Territory (2008)
I begin by paying my respects to the Larrakia peoples, the traditional owners of the land where we gather today. I pay my respects to your elders, to the ancestors and to those who have come before us. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Essentials for Social Justice: Protecting Indigenous children
I begin by paying my respects to the Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation, the traditional owners of the land where we gather today. I pay my respects to your elders, to the ancestors and to those who have come before us. And thank you, Alan Madden, for your generous welcome to country for all of us. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Can the end ever justify the means?
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
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Yesterday in federal Parliament the Attorney-General tabled the Social Justice Report 2001, my annual review of the exercise of human rights by Indigenous Australians, and the Native Title Report 2001, my annual review of native title developments. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Let the healing begin
Prime Minister, the Hon Kevin Rudd; Opposition Leader, Brendan Nelson; the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, the Hon Jenny Macklin; former Prime Ministers, Professor Bruce Wilson representing the late Sir Ronald Wilson, Stolen Generations patrons Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue and Bobby Randall, NSDC Chair Helen Moran and SGA Chair Christine King, Ministers; Members of Parliament; Senators, members of the… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Video - Response to government to the national apology to the Stolen Generations
Video - Let the healing begin Response to government to the national apology to the Stolen Generations By Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Wednesday, 13 February 2008 Member’s Hall, Parliament House, Canberra Back to speech Download in Word (48 KB) -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Options for Australia’s new national Indigenous representative body
I begin by paying my respects to the Noongar peoples, the traditional owners of the land where we gather today. I pay my respects to your elders, to the ancestors and to those who have come before us. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Essentials for Social Justice: Reform
Between December 2007 and April 2008 the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, will deliver a series of key speeches setting out an agenda for change in Indigenous affairs. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
7th National Indigenous Legal Conference
I would like to begin by acknowledging the Whadjuk Noongar people and I want to thank them, the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, for allowing us to gather on their country. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
AAG Elder Abuse and Neglect Conference
It is with respect and gratitude that I acknowledge that we sit today on the lands of the Larrakia peoples (Darwin) / Arrente peoples (Alice Springs). Thank you to (Ms) Bilawara Lee – Elder on campus at CDU (Darwin); Dr Patricia Miller AO (Alice Springs) for your generous welcome to country on behalf of the Larrakia peoples (Darwin) / Arrente peoples (Alice Springs). My people are the… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Mental illness and cognitive disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners – a human rights approach (2012)
I would like to begin by acknowledging the Gimuy Walubara Yidinji people of the Cairns region on whose land we gather today. I pay my respects to their Elders past and present. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Justice reinvestment and its importance to Aboriginal communities
I would like to begin by paying my respects to the Dharawal people, the traditional owners of the land where we gather today. I am a Gangulu man from Central Queensland. Gangulu country takes in what is known as the Dawson Valley area and extends to just east of the Carnarvon Gorge. So, as is our practice, can I pass on from the Gangulu peoples to the Dharawal peoples our greetings and… -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
NSW Teachers Federation Annual Conference (2012)
I would like to begin by acknowledging that we sit on the lands of the Gadigal peoples of the Eora Nation, and I thank the Traditional Owners for allowing us to do so. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
The necessity of justice reinvestment (2012)
I am a Gangulu man from Central Queensland. Gangulu country takes in what is known as the Dawson Valley area and extends to just east of the Carnarvon Gorge. -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
14 December 2012Speech
Campaign for Justice Reinvestment for Aboriginal Young People (2012)
I am a Gangulu person from the Dawson Valley in Central Queensland and when I speak to my Elders, they ask me to pass on my salutations to the Traditional Owners of the land I visit for their continued fight for their country and their culture.