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		<title>A settlement for Native Americans: But is it enough?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has finally been a settlement in the long-running class action case against the US government on behalf of 300,000 Native Americans who had their land and money withheld from them.

- Leading claimant Elouise Cobell
The Obama administration has placed the amount at $US1.4 billion, which Indian Country Today reports will provide all of the members [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nit.com.au/blog/?p=314</link>
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		<title>Time is running out to reinstate RDA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a doorstop on Tuesday, Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin was quizzed on when her government would introduce laws to reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) in the NT. 
Her answer was “shortly”. 
“The legislation to lift the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act will be introduced into Parliament shortly. We of course then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nit.com.au/blog/?p=312</link>
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		<title>How many times must they ignore the same criticisms?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Less than a month after Australian journalist John Pilger used his Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech to belt Australia over its treatment of Indigenous people, another winner of the same prize yesterday did the same. 
Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan, who won the Sydney Peace Prize in 2006, yesterday addressed the National Press Club [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nit.com.au/blog/?p=308</link>
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		<title>Australia is hopping mad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The saddest part about the Freddo Frog saga in Western Australia is not that a 12-year-old boy was charged over receiving a 70-cent piece of chocolate. What’s sad is the fact yet another Aboriginal boy has begun his relationship with the law at such a young age, and for something so minor. It is even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nit.com.au/blog/?p=307</link>
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		<title>RINGY&#8217;S RAMBLINGS:  Punting on politics with horses for courses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s springtime in the south, and this time of year many a young man&#8217;s fancy turns to thoughts of horses. GRAHAM RING looks over a Melbourne Cup field of political contenders.

1. Befuddled  (J Macklin, Vic) 
Has made a real mess of things in the bush recently, where she has found the going very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nit.com.au/blog/?p=305</link>
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		<title>AT LARGE: Australia&#8217;s not racist&#8230; but</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our reaction to the debate over the Hey Hey skit speaks volumes about our nation, writes CHRIS GRAHAM*.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it probably is a duck. And if it sounds like racism and looks like racism, but a whole pile of people mistook it for light entertainment, then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nit.com.au/blog/?p=302</link>
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		<title>Apologies and a fresh start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ll be the first to admit it. The NIT Blog has become a bit stale. It’s struggling to breath after being buried under a mountain of other work that NIT staff must wade through! 
Don’t despair though, NIT has been expanding our web presence quite a bit of late, even branching out into Facebook*. Our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nit.com.au/blog/?p=301</link>
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		<title>BLACKCURRENT: Black bums on seats is no rights guarantee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ISSUE 178, May 28, 2009: A black man in a white house is a wonderful thing, writes AMY McQUIRE. But it doesn&#8217;t guarantee black rights and nor does having black faces in Australian parliaments.

New US President Barack Obama&#8217;s honeymoon period isn&#8217;t up yet. Despite already serving more than 100 days in office, he still has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nit.com.au/blog/?p=299</link>
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		<title>Celebrating Aboriginal talent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warwick Thornton&#8217;s Samson and Delilah has won the prestigious Camera d&#8217;Or for best first feature at the Cannes film festival. 

- Warwick Thornton with his prize. From the Sydney Morning Herald website. 
I still haven&#8217;t seen the movie but I literally can&#8217;t wait. I&#8217;m jumping out of my seat to drive to the only cinema [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nit.com.au/blog/?p=296</link>
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		<title>BLACKCURRENT: Changing the world, one Bill at a time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AMY McQUIRE* looks at the legacy of an Aboriginal activist who looked beyond his own borders to help another people. 
In 1938, William Cooper wasn’t even considered a citizen of his own country. He lived in a time when the treatment of Aboriginal people was akin to slavery, when they were losing their children to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nit.com.au/blog/?p=293</link>
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