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News updates

• • Fri 27 Jan

     News Team: Paul Wiles, Nerida Currey

    • Aboriginal leaders in Adelaide are calling for a 24-hour crisis unit be made available in a new community centre…  following the preventable deaths of eight of their people so far this year.
    • The Western Australian Government has come under fire for housing residents of an Aboriginal community that  it closed… in dongas on the outskirts of Wyndham…. after claiming their former home was too small and dysfunctional to continue.
    • In QLD former boxer and Rockhampton man Alfiy Reid is throwing some leather at Government Aboriginal support departments.
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    am 23-01

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• • Fri 27 Jan

    News Team: Nerida Currey, Pam Reilly, Thecla Brogan,

    • An Australia Day ambassador in NSW …says Aboriginal history and culture needs to be included as part Australia’s national identity and story…
    • A new report has found the ACT has a retention rate of Aboriginal students which is well above the national average…
    • Financial pressures have forced a leading Aboriginal research institute to suspend its research grants program
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• • Fri 27 Jan

    CAAMA news team: Nerida Currey, Pam Reilly…

    • An original member of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy has voiced what the 26th of January means to him and and his people.
    • Under a new national curriculum it will be compulsory for school children across the country to learn more about what Australia Day means to Aboriginal people, and why some call it Invasion Day.
    • An art exhibition set to tour the country will show the strong role Aboriginal women have in their communities.
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    pm 26.01.12

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• • Fri 27 Jan

    News Team: Nerida Currey, Thecla Brogan, Pam Reilly,

    • A protest on parliament lawns on Thursday will mark the 40th year anniversary of the Aboriginal tent embassy.
    • A peak Aboriginal health body is urging Central Australians to make sure they stay hydrated and keep cool…with recent hot weather conditions.
    • The CEO of the Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council in Sydney has been stood down while under investigation for business dealings.
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    pm 24.1.12

     

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• • Fri 27 Jan

    News Team:  Nerida Currey, Thecla Brogan, Pam Reilly

    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda has rejected claims that a report calling for Constitutional reform had used emotional blackmail.
    • A former world champion marathon runner is calling on Aboriginal men and women to consider competing in one of the biggest running events in the world…the New York City Marathon.
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    pm 25.1.12

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