This is a map of Aboriginal Australia, created by Dr David Horton and produced by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.  You can access it at the AIATSIS website here.

The map indicates only the general location of larger groupings of people. The larger groups may include smaller groups such as clans, dialects or individual languages in a group.

During the last week of August (2007) a number of articles appeared on Crikey , claiming that as part of the Federal Takeover of Indigenous Communities in the Northern Territory, the Commonwealth Government plans to seize assets of Aboriginal organisations and rent those same assets back to them.  Crikey also reports that roughly 8,000 Indigenous workers employed under CDEP programs will be effectively fired, moved onto social security payments instead and new jobs founds for only 2000 of them.

Saving children's lives is a matter of long-term will

You can't protect children without supporting and involving their community, argues FIONA STANLEY, director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.

Read Fiona Stanley's full argument at http://www.apo.org.au/webboard/comment_results.chtml?filename_num=170255.