The Queensland police are responsible for the death of another young Aboriginal man.

The $680 million government "intervention" has built two houses for indigenous communities in two-and-a-half years. Unions acting in solidarity with the Ampilatwatja walk-off have built one in just two weeks.

When Kevin Rudd stood up in parliament and apologised to the Stolen Generations, many hoped that a corner had been turned.  But the two years since have brought nothing but disappointment and despair to Aboriginal Australia.

Protesters in Brisbane refuse to accept "Australia Day" should be celebrated.

On Saturday 13 February a National Day of Action will take place across Australia to demand an end to the racist Northern Territory Intervention. The day is significant as it will also mark the second anniversary of Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations.

I remember the boys dressed in army surplus, the girls in hessian, their silhouettes framed in beach shanties, staring across an abyss. You were not meant to talk about them.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread”, wrote Anatole France in 1894. It is a great quote, highlighting how the law’s formal equality can obscure society’s economic inequality.

On Friday 16 October, Richard Downs and Harry Nelson addressed a packed public meeting of 240 people at the MAYSAR Aboriginal gym in Fitzroy, Melbourne. After the meeting Richard Downs spoke to Christine Brown from the Nunga Wangga show on Radio Adelaide, and Ford D from Socialist Alternative magazine.

"The most racist state in the most racist country in the world." No-one in the 1000-plus crowd in Forrest Place, Perth on June 20 was inclined to disagree with this description of Western Australia, where the death in custody of Aboriginal elder Mr Ward has provoked widespread outrage. The protest rally, in pouring rain, was many times larger than most demonstrations in Perth.

The Rudd government's apology to the Stolen Generations stands exposed as piece of rank hypocrisy. In late May, the Federal and NT Labor governments signalled their intention to not only continue the paternalist, assimilationist policies of the Howard government, but to erode even further the rights of Indigenous people.

Jacob Carswell-Doherty reports from the Northern Territory town of Utopia.

In November 2004, a violent crime was supposedly committed in the largely Aboriginal community of Palm Island. In response, the Queensland government sent the anti-terrorist squad, attack dogs, plainclothes detectives and extra police officers to arrest the alleged perpetrators. The main suspect was arrested and tasered in a dawn raid by over 50 cops. What crime is bad enough to warrant this kind of mobilisation? Not murder. Not genocide. Not the death in police custody of a young man.