UPDATE: Impromptu march and BBQ a great success at Jagera Hall. Notice: Everyone welcome. Brisbane Murri organisers have organised a Rally and March marking Invasion Day 26th January 2012. The rally will convene at Parliament House at 10am with a speakers forum. At 11am people will march through the city and across to Musgrave Park for a community BBQ. Everyone welcome. There will also be a candle vigil and prayer at the Sussex Street Uniting Church on Wednesday 25th.

A coalition of organisations and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members have launched a campaign to pressure the Government to implement the 339 Recommendations of the now twenty year old Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

On 26th May 1997 the Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families was tabled in Federal Parliament. The 'Bringing them Home' Report, revealed the extent of forced removal policies, which went on for more that 150 years and into the 1980’s.  

On Friday the 15th at 11am there will be a community rally in Queens Park to mark the 20^th anniversary of the handing down of the findings from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. The rally will include political speakers, a petition and a march the Premiers office.*WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER AS ONE PEOPLE!!

ANTaR Qld is a relationship based campaigning and advocacy organisation – it always has been. Through the relationships we build, the conversations we have and the work we do, we continue change opinions, policies and outcomes.

It is said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones” Nelson Mandela

February the 12th is the 3rd anniversary of the momentous apology to the Stolen Generations. Here is a transcript of the original speech made by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. 

"Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. 

We reflect on their past mistreatment."

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