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Rights push by Indigenous South Australians – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Rights push by Indigenous South Australians

Calls for an an Indigenous bill of rights have been supported by the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (ALRM).

Kaurna elders used Sunday’s Proclamation Day anniversary in South Australia to call on government to honour a promise made in 1836 to establish a treaty……………………….CEO of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement, Neil Gillespie, says the Government is failing to provide Indigenous people with access to the basic human rights outlined in international conventions.

“Australia, except for the declaration of rights for Indigenous people is, as I understand it, a signatory to these international conventions and yet we are continuing to fail in meeting our obligations to the extent that ALRM has lodged a formal complaint against both the federal and state governments for their continued breaching of basic human rights for Aboriginal people,” he said.

Rights push by Indigenous South Australians – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

December 29, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized