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  • 40yr leases a human rights issue: Yanner - A Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria leader says the State Government’s 40 year leases to build Indigenous houses are a human rights issue. The Federal Government has allocated $1.1 billion to provide new dwellings and upgrades in remote Indigenous communities with the State Government administering the land leases. The Carpentaria Land Council’s Murrandoo Yanner says the leases will [...]
  • Hurley offers ’sympathy’ to Doomadgee family - The policeman acquitted of a 2004 death-in-custody on Palm Island in north Queensland has, for the first time, offered his sympathy to the victim’s family. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley has been giving evidence at the latest inquest into the death of Cameron Doomadgee. The 36-year-old Palm Island man died from internal injuries suffered during his arrest for [...]
  • I fell next to Doomadgee: Hurley - THE policeman who arrested Aboriginal cell death victim Mulrunji Doomadgee yesterday told a coronial inquiry he could not explain how the Palm Islander suffered his fatal injuries. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley told Coroner Brian Hine that he had a “tussle” with Doomadgee at the north Queensland island’s lockup on November 19, 2004. Sergeant Hurley insisted that [...]
  • Income management harms health: Doctors - The Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association has called for a halt to compulsory welfare quarantining for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory. The Association has released a health impact assessment report of the Northern Territory Emergency Response. The report says the short-term physical health benefits of restricting half of a welfare recipient’s income to food and other essentials [...]
  • The Central Land Council (CLC) says the Northern Territory shires system has disenfranchised Aboriginal people living in communities. - The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner says he will look at whether the Queensland Government’s Wild Rivers legislation has violated Indigenous people’s human rights. Mick Gooda has been meeting Indigenous groups this week in Cairns, Yarrabah and the Torres Strait, in the far north, as part of a national tour. He says another issue [...]
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    • Federal Education Minister Julia Gillard expected to defend a new national education currilculum today with widespread criticism that it contains too much focus on Aboriginal identity and history.
    • Liberals want to scrap the key welfare unit which supports the disadvantaged, mentally-ill, homeless and Aboriginal young offenders.
    • The Aboriginal flag was raised in Shoalhaven City Council’s chambers for the first time at a ceremony.
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    • Australia reportedly having a bad repuation as a racist country.
    • U.N. says the Australian Government needs to consult with Aboriginal communities.
    • A Federal Government is helping to reinstate CDEP in an Aboriginal community.
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    • Alcohol rehab in Alice Springs seen as a positive move by the Rudd Gov.
    • N.T. Government to look at benefits of low security prison.
    • Prince William visiting Aboriginal community in Redfern.
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    • A member of Parliament for Far North Queensland says the Wild Rivers legislation will not be rolled back, despite a challenge from the Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott.
    • Western Australian Aboriginal rights campaigner and elder Ken Colbung has died aged at the age of 78 in Perth.
    • Aboriginal protesters appear in Hobart court.
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    • There’s calls for unity with a South Australian Aboriginal clan group.
    • Adelaide souvenir company has breached the Trade practices act after it sold artworks created by non-indigenous artist, under a made up Aboriginal name.
    • In Queensland where an Aboriginal edler night patrol is now operating on a voluntary basis, because its funding ran out.
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    • Maralinga finally handed back to the traditional owners.
    • More disputes over income management.
    • Tropical Lawrence off the Kimberly coast is getting stronger.
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    • A 50 year struggle for justice will end today when a former nuclear test site in South Australia is handed back to the Maralinga Tjarutja people.
    • A new central Australian-based research organisation says that it should work with Aboriginal people rather then telling them what they should do.
    • Father Christmas has dropped in a week early to a remote community and put smiles on hundreds of childrens faces week by delivering 400 presents.
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    • Aboriginal women are condemning the Rudd Government for appointing another male as Australia’s top Indigenous rights advocate.
    •  Evidence by the Rudd Government for money quarantining is being questioned by the Greens.
    • A member of the Stolen Generations is speaking out againgst damaging claims from a Non-Indigenous right wing author.
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    • A right wing author has damned Rabbit Proof Fence movie and the Stolen Generations.
    • Aboriginal and Samoan elders working together to stop fights against each  Brisbane.
    • A report for more legal services in rural and remote Australia.
    • Climate change is a reality for Indigenous people around the world. 
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    • A Western Australian Aboriginal anthropologist says historian Keith Windshuttle is either being naive or selective following his assertion that the Aboriginal Act in Australia was not racist and was motivated by genuine desire for child protection.
    • A resale royalty scheme for Aboriginal artist’s.
    • One of Australia’s leading counter-terrorism experts is to be the NT’s next police commissioner.
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