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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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