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Ray Jackson (Aboriginal activist)

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Ray Jackson (27 March 1941 – 23 April 2015) was an Australian Aboriginal activist and Wiradjuri elder. [1]

21 relations: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal deaths in custody, Bangkok Post, Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme, Green Left Weekly, Indigenous Australians, John Howard, Kokoda Track, National Indigenous Radio Service, New Matilda, Pneumonia, Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Stolen Generations, Sydney, The Sydney Morning Herald, University of Sydney, Waterloo, New South Wales, Wiradjuri, World War II, 2004 Redfern riots.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) (1990–2005) was the Australian Government body through which Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders were formally involved in the processes of government affecting their lives.

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Aboriginal Australians

Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).

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Aboriginal deaths in custody

Aboriginal deaths in custody became an issue of community concern in Australia because of a widespread perception that a disproportionate number of Indigenous Australians had died in jail after being arrested by police or otherwise convicted of offences.

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Bangkok Post

The Bangkok Post is a broadsheet English-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme

The Commission nationale consultative des droits de l'homme (National Consultative Commission on Human Rights, CNCDH) is a French governmental organization created in 1947 by an arrêté from the Foreign Affairs Ministry to monitor the respect for human rights in the country.

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Green Left Weekly

Green Left Weekly is an Australian socialist newspaper, written by progressive activists to "present the views excluded by the big business media".

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Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia, descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to British colonisation.

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John Howard

John Winston Howard, (born 26 July 1939) is a former Australian politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1996 to 2007.

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Kokoda Track

The Kokoda Track or Trail is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs overland – in a straight line – through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea.

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National Indigenous Radio Service

The National Indigenous Radio Service is a satellite program feed available in Australia to community radio stations that are subscribers of the CBAA’s Community Radio Network.

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New Matilda

newmatilda.com, commonly known as New Matilda, is a left-wing independent Australian website of news, analysis and satire.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy

The Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy was a protest camp run by Aboriginal Australians in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern.

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Stolen Generations

The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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University of Sydney

The University of Sydney (informally, USyd or USYD) is an Australian public research university in Sydney, Australia.

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Waterloo, New South Wales

Waterloo is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Wiradjuri

The Wiradjuri people) are a group of indigenous Australian Aboriginal people that were united by a common language, strong ties of kinship and survived as skilled hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans scattered throughout central New South Wales. In the 21st century, major Wiradjuri groups live in Condobolin, Peak Hill, Narrandera and Griffith. There are significant populations at Wagga Wagga and Leeton and smaller groups at West Wyalong, Parkes, Dubbo, Forbes, Cootamundra, Cowra and Young.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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2004 Redfern riots

The 2004 Redfern riots took place on the evening of Saturday 14th February 2004, in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern, New South Wales, sparked by the death of a young man named Thomas Hickey.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Jackson_(Aboriginal_activist)

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