Little improvement in Indigenous housing: ABS - Instablogs
Little improvement in Indigenous housing: ABS
G , Canberra: Jul 24 2008
Made Popular Jul 26 2008
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The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released a social trends report that shows there was little improvement in housing conditions in remote Indigenous communities between 2001 and 2006.
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Grace Calderon
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Grace Calderon Jul 24 2008
Quezon City, Philippines
This ’indigenous’ label is just crazy. It’s a modifier for segregation. Can’t classification come in terms of economic brackets, instead?

In the Philippines, there’s a law called ’Indigenous Act’ or something to that effect. It’s supposed to protect the indigenous peoples here, their rights, etc.

Still, the raging controversy is about these peoples’ ancestral domains. That law is inutile!

We all know that indigenous people are a marginalized minority.
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G emeraldsandash.blogs.. Jul 25 2008
Canberra, Australia
Yes.

Nice brushstrokes, Grace ;)

It is interesting that Mugabe (can’t escape the topic. sorry) in Zimbabwe calls his project (the one which kicked the farmers off their lands and turned the farms into squats for the alleged war-veterans) ”Indigenisation”...

The original inhabitants of Australia have never had it good under white/euro power. Things are better but there is a lot of pain from the past. I wouldn’t even dare to gamble a guess at a solution... it is an intractable problem.
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