“This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote of the Day
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Recommended Resources – Face The Facts 2012
27 02 2013Face The Facts 2012
FORWARD
Myths are often propagated about some groups of people who live in Australia. These groups include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse peoples, asylum seekers and refugees.
So, back in 1997, the Commission decided to address these myths with a concise publication which would set out basic facts and figures. That publication is Face the Facts and I am very pleased to say this is its fifth edition.
Face the Facts draws on primary research information from a variety of sources, including laws made by the Australian Parliament, government policies, academic research and statistics gathered by the Australian Bureau of Statistics including Census data.
Face the Facts is one of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s most successful publications and continues to be its most requested.
This edition will be available exclusively online. There a number of advantages to being online. Firstly, we have found that the vast majority of people access the Commission’s resources online, rather than in hard copy. Secondly, publishing online makes it very easy for us to be able to update the information and therefore keep it current.
While the structure and the format of this 2012 online edition is consistent with previous editions, in order to ensure that Face the Facts remains user friendly and accessible, its contents have been considerably updated.
We have also significantly enhanced the publication to make sure that more relevant topics and more recent issues have been covered. This includes information about the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Australia’s new multicultural policy and research into racism and racial attitudes in Australia.
If you want to look more closely at a particular issue, we have included a list of recommended publications and websites. You can also visit the Commission’s website to find out more information about groups and issues included in Face the Facts.
I hope that you find this edition of Face the Facts to be a useful resource that sheds light on the multifaceted realities of Australia today and one that will help encourage enlightened debate and thinking based on facts.
Dr Helen Szoke
Race Discrimination Commissioner
Australian Human Rights Commission
http://www.humanrights.gov.au/racial_discrimination/face_facts/index.html
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Quote of the Day
27 02 2013“May you live every day of your life.” ~ Jonathan Swift
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Don’t let Self-Determination fall off the AGENDA!
26 02 2013After all the huff and puff about Aboriginal and Islander (including the Torres Strait) peoples being on track with closing the gap and all those organisations providing honest services in accordance with Community Control I am SORRY but this is not the case, self-determination principles are being even more corrupted and turned on its head.
Come on people, we must not continue to stand aside and let non-Aboriginal people hold down the jobs and positions that are rightfully the responsibility of Aboriginal and Islander (including the Torres Strait) peoples.
We have all worked so hard to have programs set up for our people to be ABORIGINAL CONTROLLED, DIRECTED, MANAGED and TRANSPARENT for our Communities to be able to hold OWNERSHIP AND TRUE SELF-DETERMINATION.
We are being destabilised by the competitive non-Aboriginal so called ‘professionals’ who seem to be in competition with each other to see who can be the only one who knows what the Aboriginal Nation wants and needs for our future. They buy off some of the weaker communities and individuals who do not know a single thing about the history of all the struggles, blood, sweat and tears that flowed in order that we could attempt to get what we needed in OUR OWN COUNTRY!
We want organisations to stop being arrogant and start coming back to community and get it RIGHT!
I am not the only person around Australia who is irate at the state of misconduct within the ‘Aboriginal Industry’.
This view is my own, it is not necessarily endorsed by any other organisation although I invite them to comment. They may not comment unless everyone challenges them as to their position.
Remember it is your right to challenge, your right to question and your right to Self-Determination!
Brian Butler
Co-Founder & Director
Lateral Love Australia
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Quote of the Day
26 02 2013“He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Quote of the Day
25 02 2013“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew.” – Saint Francis de Sale
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Recommended Resources – The Stringer – Independent News, Investigative Journalism
24 02 2013
The Stringer
thestringer.com.au
Independent News, Investigative Journalism,
Multi Award winning writers
The Stringer went live on February 19 and with a formal launch February 25 at The Media at the Crossroads Conference at NSW Parliament’s Theatrette.
Independent news media contribute to the unfolding landscape of human rights and social justice. It is our aim to provide every opportunity to the rise of voices that far too often are denied. If we believe in a story we will sustain coverage– this is what we term through-care journalism.
We look forward to working as hard as we can to bring to you the stories that matter. The response and feedback thus far to The Stringer has been encouraging.
The main aim of The Stringer is to be considered a credible source of information that readers can turn to with trust. The Stringer’s journalists have become known for breaking stories that others initially were not prepared to investigate and report.
The Stringer also aims to be considered a Think Tank on unfolding the human rights language.
The Stringer’s journalists and contributing writers are experts in their fields.
We welcome everyone.
Kind Regards from The Stringer editors – Gerry Georgatos and Jennifer Kaeshagen.
contact@thestringer.com.au
0430 657 309
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A Call for Action from Brian Butler, Co-Founder & Director of Lateral Love Australia
24 02 2013Good luck to all those people who continue to receive awards and praises from governments at all levels, some year after year are put on national TV.
What I want know is why aren’t the HARD WORKING volunteers in the community given more respect by even getting a mention about their work? Foster parents and carers of our people who are in need, those people who continue to bring food to families and continue to offer their advocacy every time it is required.
Never do we hear them say I am here only because I have been working in the community looking out for the struggling families.
I feel so angry and disappointed about self gratifying attention seekers and I want to see government stop paying grants to those people who are pure exploiters of Aboriginal money that should go to the genuine workers in the communities.
If you agree with me then please get out your pen and paper and write to government and let them know what is going on, in your street, your community, your state, your country.
Together WE CAN stop the exploiters who are just rip off merchants.
This is what we have got to do if we are truthful about wanting SELF-DETERMINATION!
Unity through Lateral Love & Spirit of Care for all Humankind,
Brian Butler
Telephone: +61419801085
Website: http://www.lateralloveaustralia.com
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The Stringer: http://www.thestringer.com.au
“The time is always right to do what is right” ~ Martin Luther King Jnr
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Quote of the Day
24 02 2013“Everyone you meet knows something you don’t know. Be willing to learn from them.” ~ Anonymous
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Quote of the Day
23 02 2013“The most precious ‘things’ in life are not ‘things’ at all.” ~ Anonymous
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Quote of the Day
22 02 2013“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” ~ Rev. Dr. Ronald E. Osborne
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Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week
22 02 2013Friday 22nd February 2013 - Lateral Love Australia Song of the Week
When I See You Smile … by Bad English
Sometimes I wonder
How I’d ever make it through,
Through this world without having you
I just wouldn’t have a clue
‘Cause sometimes it seems
Like this world’s closing in on me,
And there’s no way of breaking free
And then I see you reach for me
Sometimes I wanna give up
I wanna give in, I wanna quit the fight
And then I see you, baby
And everything’s alright, everything’s alright
When I see you smile
I can face the world,
oh oh, you know I can do anything
When I see you smile
I see a ray of light,
oh oh, I see it shining right through the rain
When I see you smile
Oh yeah, baby when I see you smile at me
Baby there’s nothing
in this world that could ever do
What a touch of your hand can do
It’s like nothing that I ever knew
And when the rain is falling
I don’t feel it, ’cause you’re here with me now
And one look at you baby
Is all I’ll ever need, you’re all I’ll ever need
Sometimes I wonder
How I’d ever make it through,
Through this world without having you
I just wouldn’t have a clue
‘Cause sometimes it seems
Like this world’s closing in on me,
And there’s no way of breaking free
And then I see you reach for me
Sometimes I wanna give up
I wanna give in, I wanna quit the fight
And then I see you, baby
And everything’s alright, everything’s alright
When I see you smile
I can face the world,
oh oh, you know I can do anything
When I see you smile
I see a ray of light,
oh oh, I see it shining right through the rain
When I see you smile
Oh yeah, baby when I see you smile at me
Baby there’s nothing
in this world that could ever do
What a touch of your hand can do
It’s like nothing that I ever knew
And when the rain is falling
I don’t feel it, ’cause you’re here with me now
And one look at you baby
Is all I’ll ever need, you’re all I’ll ever need
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Quote of the Day
21 02 2013“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.” ~ Aristotle
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Quote of the Day
20 02 2013“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” ~ Buddha
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2013 Australia – Significant Aboriginal Dates in Aboriginal History
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2013 Australia – Significant Aboriginal Dates in Aboriginal History
19 02 2013Tuesday 19th February 2013
Wodlianni Day: 177th Anniversary of the 1836 Letters Patent of King William IV, the founding document that established South Australia under Aboriginal Land Rights in granting for always, to all descendants, legal right to occupy and enjoy their lands
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Quote of the Day
19 02 2013“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ~ T.S. Elliot
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Quote of the Day
18 02 2013“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote of the Day
17 02 2013“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar
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Cultural Safety
16 02 2013What is Cultural Safety?
“Cultural safety by definition concerns the experience one feels in their physical surroundings born out of interactive behaviours and perceptions based on individual values, morals, standards and ethics.
We must have an understanding of our own personal culture, and of how our own personal cultural values impact upon others, particularly in regard to our interaction, interpretation, beliefs and subconscious reckoning as we make our way about in the world, regardless of age, race, creed, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion or disability.
A culturally safe and secure environment is one where people feel safe and draw strength in their identity, culture and community.
Cultural safety cannot exist without Lateral Love”
~ Brian Butler & Nicola Butler
© Lateral Love Australia 2012
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