Arise! Various ways in which indigenous people are fighting back

New Internationalist, April, 2008

But there's much work to be done. Inequalities are profound and across the board--relating to health, housing, education, employment. Indigenous people die at twice the rate of other Australians. As children they are 7 times more likely to be under protective orders; as adults they are 17.5 times more likely to be in jail. After 'sorry day' Rudd pledged to halve the gap in infant mortality rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children within a decade and to close the 17-year life expectancy gap within a generation.

For the full text of the apology, see http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=379056 http://www.nit.com.au/

For Larissa Behrendt's blog, see www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2161257.htm