Twelve years after the ‘Bringing Them Home‘ report, 16 years after Paul Keating’s Redfern speech, 18 years after the High Court rescinded the doctrine of terra nullius, and 41 years after their removal from the flora and fauna list, there will be an apology to Indigenous Australians for past injustices. It’s probably no surprise to [...]
Via Long Road, here’s a link to an interesting report on IRB discussions at the recent AAA conference. Comment to come.
A few years ago I was told a story by some Aboriginal friends about how they’d been in Darwin and some police officers came up to them. The police said that my friends were African American sailors off one of the US Navy ships there at the time, and asked to see their shore papers. [...]
Prompted by this post from Jane at Elac, I did a bit of an investigation about typical illustration of web stories involving paedophiles. All involved either African or White paedophiles. About half the stories were unillustrated; the remainder had photographs of: the alleged perpetrator; generic photographs of hands typing at a computer or law courts, [...]
Two things have recently come to my attention. First is posted on Matjjin-nehen: it concerns the non-spending of funds earmarked for Indigenous projects and the counting in “Indigenous” spending of items like fighting Native Title claims (hey, if the government stopped opposing all clams, that’s save a *heap*!)
Second is this letter regarding unauthorised searches (via [...]
David just sent me this link to a new documentary initiative. I shudder. But I guess it means that we won’t have to get Human Subjects approval, because what we do is humanitarian aid, right? Interestingly, though, there’s nothing about this wonderful project (which will produce an 8-episode documentary on the “900 separate groups of [...]
An article on informed consent, IRBs and the like in this week’s Harvard Crimson.
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