News updates

• • Wed 22 May

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson, Lorena Walker

    Top End Yolngu Elder Djiniyini Gondarram says Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory are being taken away at numbers not seen since the stolen generations and there is an urgent need for more family support programs in communities.

    The launch of a major exhibition in Canberra will serve as a strong reminder to both Government and the wider non indigenous community of the trauma and struggles that Aboriginal and islander peoples have endured in the last 100 years.

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• • Tue 21 May

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Pam Reilly

    Aboriginal sovereignty campaigners say that their struggle to decolonize and achieve independence of their own tribal areas within Australia has gone to another level, and that the Government could be confronted by UN peacekeepers if it tries to destabilize their attempts at self determination.

    Organiser of the nations largest annual survey of young people say the results highlight a need for more culturally relevant services to help Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth.

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• • Mon 20 May

    (Images courtesy of The National Association of Community Legal Centres)

• • Mon 20 May

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles

    Explosive claims from a former Northern Territory Administrator who says he believes that the diminishment and demoralisation of Aboriginal people is part of an ongoing campaign to dispossess the First Australians.

    The union representing NTchild protection officers says a crisis in the Department of Children and Families is more widespread than initially reported and that staff losses also means a loss of skills from the Northern Territory.

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• • Sat 18 May

• • Fri 17 May

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson, Lorena Walker

    One of the Northern Territory’s most experienced Aboriginal politicians has defended Chief Minister Adam Giles claim that he is prepared to remove neglected Aboriginal children and place them in adopted homes.

    The Northern Territory’s peak representative body for those affected by poverty and disadvantage says it was disappointed that the Northern Territory’s Budget Failed to prioritise those who need help the most.

    Better news in the the Federal Budget with new funding to help Aboriginal and Islander peoples with disability to improve their  access to national disability support services.

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• • Wed 15 May

    CEO of Central Australian Stolen Generation and Families Aboriginal Corporation, Jackie Baxter speaks to Pam Reilly about Mr Giles recent comments.

• • Wed 15 May

    CAAMA News Team: Paul Wiles, Pam Reilly

    Shock and anger across the Northern Territory at claims by Chief Minister Adam Giles that he will remove neglected Aboriginal children from their parents and place them in adopted homes if necessary.

    Better news in the Territory budget with the Giles Government saying it is committed to addressing Indigenous disadvantage by improving services and facilities in regional centres and the bush homelands.

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• • Tue 14 May

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Marrisa Wollogorang, Lorena Walker

    A group working towards reducing the impacts of alcohol-related harm says the Northern Territory Governments new Alcohol Protection Orders will set up grog addicted Territorians for failure and increase the Territorys already over populated prison system.

    The territory’s peak Aboriginal Justice Agency has criticised the APO’s and says the government has learnt nothing from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

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• • Mon 13 May

• • Mon 13 May

    CAAMA News Team: Paul Wiles, Pam Reilly

    A 28-year-old mother of two from a small Aboriginal community 130 kms west of Alice Springs has travelled to Canberra for her first major race, and to undertake training as one of the six female members of the 2013 Indigenous Marathon Project.

    Help is available to Coober Pedy pensioners and those receiving the maximum rate of the disability payment in the lead up to the switch over to digital television in June 2013.

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• • Fri 10 May

• • Fri 10 May

     CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles.

    Funding cuts to a 24-hour phone line service in NSW, which gives Aboriginal people taken into police custody access to legal advice, could lead to an increase in the already over representation of its people in the jail system. According to the states Aboriginal Legal Service.

    A Director of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, Rod Little says a huge attitudinal change is needed across Australian society to recognise the United Nations rights of Indigenous Peoples.

    The award winnning Australian artist responsible for a portrait which depicts an Aborignal Prime Minister of the future says he would jump at the chance because artists love to visualise things into existence.

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• • Thu 9 May

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson, Lorena Walker

    A former  finance lawyer and investment banker who witnessed  first-hand the disadvantage and alienation which Aboriginal  people suffered while he was growing up in  Sydney housing commission estates  says he wants all Australians to embrace their culture and change attitudes to create a brighter future for all.

    A veteran campaigner for Aboriginal and Torres Straight  broadcasting says that the new digital platform will create more training and job opportunities for his people.

    And the power of young people to create change is becoming reality for a young Top End man selected as Australia’s youth representative to the United Nations.

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• • Wed 8 May

     CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson

    The country’s peak disability organisation representing Aboriginal and Islander people with disabilities and their families has accused governments of failing to listen to or hear its messages.

    An Aboriginal health researcher says the non-recognition of Aboriginal and Islander Australians in the Australian constitution continues to impact negatively on their mental health and wellbeing.

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• • Tue 7 May

    A forum in Canberra on Monday has heard that the national disability care scheme may not be fully effective in including Aboriginal and Islander Australians.

    Amnesty International says the ongoing detention of the children in a West Australian prison remains inappropriate.despite the decision by Western Australia’s Chief Justice to dismiss a case against the Department of Corrective Services.

    The Australian Government will invest $24.5 million over two years to build on the significant gains that have been made in improving Aboriginal people’s lives in the four communities participating in the Cape York Welfare Reform trial.

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• • Fri 3 May

• • Fri 3 May

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Pam Reilly

    Racism is alive and well in Melbourne again with several prominent aboriginal actors refused taxi service and racially abused on a St. Kilda tram while making their way back to work at a local theatre. 

    The Gillard labor government has announced 1.5 billion dollar remote jobs and communities program that will transition community workers away from CDEP across 59 regions.

    A program already operating in Territory prisons will soon be playing an active role to help inmates avoid potential health problems.

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• • Thu 2 May

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson, Lorena Walker

    Representatives from the Territory’s peak Aboriginal justice representative body have told a Senate committee that nearly 85% of the Northern Territory’s prison population is Aboriginal people. they must be front and centre when it comes to developing and implementing solutions. To address the causes of Aboriginal over-imprisonment.

    With time ticking away before the next sittings of  Territory Parliament The Northern Territory Opposition had accused the Giles CLP Government of not being truthful about its plans for alcohol management.

    The launch of a new 30 million dollar faculty at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory signals a new era in the delivery of teaching and learning for Aboriginal and Islander Australians.

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• • Wed 1 May

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson, Lorena Walker

    The Deputy Opposition leader has challenged the Giles CLP Government over its move to impose mandatory rehabilitation of long term drunks through a court process.

    The woman who was instrumental in getting local councils to fly the Aboriginal flag in many central  NSW towns  has been laid to rest in Taree.

    A new strategy by the Alice Springs town council will allow ratepayers to meet with councillors on a more casual basis.

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• • Tue 30 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson, Pam Reilly

    The Northern Territory Opposition has slammed Territory chief Minister Adam Giles for claiming that Labors Banned Drinker Register failed to provide a pathway to recover from alcohol addiction.

    Australia’s oldest not-for-profit organization is calling on Governments to financially invest in early action programs to help prevent costly social problems in the future.

    A young East Coast couple say that they will use artwork as they travel across the country to help other Australian connect with and better understand Aboriginal people and their culture.

    New Zealand is mourning the loss of Maori leader Parekura Horomia who has died at the age of 62.

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• • Mon 29 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Nerida Currey

    An alarming rise in the Western Australia’s Aboriginal youth Suicide rate in the past 4 months has sparked a call for a crisis summit.

    A new short film produced in both English and Arrernte shows how community members can help someone who is feeling depressed was launched at Ltyentye Apurte at the weekend.

    Opposition Indigenous Affairs spokesman Nigel Scullion has rejected accusations made by the Prime Minister Julia Gillard that they will make widespread cuts to programs for indigenous Australians if ithey takes power.

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• • Fri 26 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Marrisa Wollogorang

    A New South Wales Federal Politician who witnessed the removal of eight Aboriginal men from a Qantas flight for alleged bad behaviour three years ago says he believes the airlines response was extremely heavy handed and over the top.

    The new chairman of one of the countries most powerful Aboriginal Land Councils has warned both the mining sector and governments that he’s people will renegotiate for greater royalties for mining on their land.

    High profile Aboriginal spokesman for GenerationOne Warren Mundine is stepping down from the organisation claiming that he’s achieved what he set out to do.

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• • Wed 24 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Pam Reilly,

    The boss of a peak Northern Territory Aboriginal land Council says that mining companies and others do not have the right to come and help themselves and take whatever they like but that they need to pay for the right to access land which will benefit them.

    The Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy was recently in the Top End talking up the Gillard Governments National Broadband Scheme. which is now available in some Territory centres.

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• • Tue 23 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Lorena Walker, Pam Reilly

    Tributes are flowing  for South Australian   Ngarrindjeri Elder Uncle Tom Trevorrow  who passed away at his  beloved Camp Coorong late last week.

    One of the countrys most powerful Aboriginal Land Councils says social media played a major role in informing people of overtly racist material contained in a prominent Western Australian University newsletter.

    The Northern Territory Minister for Housing says that while he doesn’t want to see anyone kicked out of public housing, he is not afraid to sign an eviction notice if tenants cannot live within the public guidelines of behaviour.

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• • Mon 22 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles

    Institiutionalised racism appears to be alive and well in Western Australia with  an  Aboriginal member of the state Opposition calling on a controversial university student newspaper to tone down the racist content in its publication.

    The Shadow Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has accused the Gillard Government of turning top Indigenous Government jobs into jobs for mates with a former advisor to Minister Jenny Macklin recommended for the vacant CEO role at the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC).

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• • Fri 19 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Marissa Wollogorang, Pam Reilly

    A South African-born Liberal MP who boycotted Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generation has defended his actions for telling an Aboriginal woman on Twitter to “get over colonialism.”

    The launch of a full time television service on Indigenous community Television signals the ongoing growth development within the sector.

    The largest annual national Aboriginal and Islander arts and cultural festival will take place later this year and already the New South Wales state Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Victor Dominello says he belives it will raise awareness of Australian indigenous culture to the global community.

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• • Thu 18 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Pam Reilly, Lorena Walker

    Indigenous Marathon Project director Robert De Castella says despite the tragedy of bomb attack which killed three people and left many more seriously injured at the Boston Marathon, his team remains both physically and emotionally at 100 percent and the attack will just make them stronger and more determined for future events.

    Aboriginal artwork from across the Northern Territory and Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia will showcase the ongoing role that visual art plays in both the cultural and contemporary lifestyles of its people.

    Northern Territory government Ministers are out and about enthusiastically promoting the benefits of residential rehabilitation despite widespread criticimn of their proposed mandatory rehabilitation program

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• • Wed 17 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Marrisa wollogorang

    Australian marathon legend Robert De Castella has praised a Top End Aboriginal athlete on how she coped after bomb blasts which claimed the lives of three people at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

    The Northern Territory Opposition says the Giles CLP Governments mandatory alcohol rehabiliation plan is doomed to fail.

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• • Tue 16 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Lorena Walker, Mikaela Simpson

    Indigenous Marathon Project boss Robert De Castella has confirmed that young Darwin Aboriginal athlete Emma Cameron and other team members are safe after two bombs exploded near the finish line, at the Boston Marathon leaving at least two people dead.

    The Northern Territory’s peak Aboriginal justice representative body says it wants the Giles CLP Government to focus on evidence based programs that work as part of its proposed mandatory rehabilitation legislation.

    Territory Opposition leader Delia Lawrie, says the CLP’s poorly constructed alcohol plan will fail and waste hundreds of millions of dollars.and .raises more questions than it provides answers.

    A Tennant Creek mother of three has been named as the 2013 recipient of the Northern Territory’s Bernardo’s Australia’s mother of year award.

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• • Mon 15 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles

    Mixed reactions to last weeks decision by Woodside Petroleum to shelve a $45 billion gas plant in the Kimberley with West Australian Premier Colin Barnett saying he is disappointed for the traditional owners who had negotiated a native title deal in excess of a $1 billion.

    A new legislation to be introduced by the Northern Territory Government. will see repeat problem drinkers will be required to undertake mandatory alcohol treatment.

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• • Thu 11 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Pam Reilly, Lorena Walker

    Aboriginal and Torres Strait artist have been invited to submit proposals for the major public art work which will honour the aboriginal peoples who served their country and the many who made the ultimate sacrifice.

    To Western Australia where the  Australian Human Rights Commission is set to challenge the decision which saw the transfer of 73 children from a local Detention Centre to an adult Prison which was declared a detention centre for the purposes of the young offenders.

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• • Wed 10 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Marissa Wollergarang

    The New South Wales state government has sent a powerful message to the rest of the country about embracing and utilising Aboriginal language and culture as it goes forward into the future.

    A Wiradjuri elder says learning language will have a positive impact on young Aboriginal people and help keep them away from negative behaviour.

    To New South Wales where the first state war memorial for Aboriginal soldiers will be built in time for the Anzac day centenary in 2015.

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• • Tue 9 Apr

    CAAMA News Team: Paul Wiles, Nerida Currey

    The head of the Territory’s peak Aboriginal justice representative body says too many of her people are just getting locked up and prison should be a last resort.

    A Canberra-based academic says Australian history remains almost a site of segregation – where only the white explorers and pioneers are remembered.

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• • Tue 9 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Nerida Currey

    A head of the Territories peak Aboriginal justice representiatives body says that too many of her people are just getting locked up, and jail should been seen as a last resort.

    A Canberra based academic says Australian history remains almost a site of segregation where only the white explorers and pioneers are remembered and this leaves people not knowing anything about the country’s much much deeper Aborignal history.

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• • Mon 8 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles

    The Northern Territory’s peak Aboriginal justice representative body has welcomed the decision by Commonwealth Attorney to fund an Indigenous Youth Justice Program in the Top End.

    The New South Wales Minister for Aboriginal Affairs says Government has recognised that Aboriginal people must be at the heart of decision making if real improvements are to be achieved.

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• • Fri 5 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Marrisa Wollogorang

    The Northern Territory Chief Minister has shared his vision which he believes will allow Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory escape welfare dependency.

    The Gillard Labor government is set to introduce income management into the Western Australian goldfields town of Laverton and the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, including Kiwirrkurra, to ensure welfare payments are spent in the best interests of children.

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• • Thu 4 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson

    A veteran Queensland Aboriginal rights campaigner says that nothing will change for her people unless they are empowered through culturally safe, bilingual ,community controlled programs.

    The first Aboriginal Australian to be appointed as an ambassador and represent his country overseas says it is a good sign for the future of his people.

    To Western Australia where a new report about the rapid pace and impact of climate change has given political leaders a wake up call.

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• • Wed 3 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Pam Reilly, Lorena Walker

    Western Australia’s first Aboriginal MP and the first Aborignal or Islander cabinet minister in any Australian government has died in Perth at the age of 76.

    AFL Football legend Michael Long has urged the Central Australian community to get behind local youth who he says are the future and the ones who will make a difference.

     A major upset in the AFL Lightening carnival played in Alice Springs during the easter weekend.

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• • Tue 2 Apr

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles

    Tributes flow for  ”Mr. Kimberly”  former West Australian MP and country singer Ernie Bridge has died.

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• • Thu 28 Mar

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson, Lorena Walker

    A prominent  South Australian Aboriginal rights campaigner says that the states formal recognition of his people was nothing more than a good  backslapping exercise for the two  major political parties and that it will have little meaning in real terms.

    To Queensland where Premier Campbell Newman is refusing federal demands to extend state funding to the Cape York welfare reform trial beyond the end of the year.

    A new resource to increase awareness about a chronic hormone disorder that affects fertility is now available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

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• • Wed 27 Mar

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Lorena Walker, Pam Reilly

    A South Australian MP says despite the passing of a Bill which formally recognises Aboriginal people in the state’s constitution, well meaning words are inadequate unless they’re backed by positive action.

    New research suggests that Maori who are working alongside Aboriginal people in Australia are highly valued because of their cultural understanding of what it is like to be a colonized nation.

    High profile Aboriginal photographer Wayne Quilliam and two Maori women have taken the message a step further when they recently showcased the the two cultures in a glitzy fashion extravaganza.

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• • Tue 26 Mar

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles

    A large group of supporters have joined Aboriginal traditional healers on the western desert language group as they shared selective skills and training handed down over countless generations in a new book.

    The Alice Springs based  people’s alcohol action coilition says “that alcohol supply restrictions for the Alice Springs Easter weekend lightning football carnival must be announced at once”.

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• • Mon 25 Mar

    CAAMA News team : Paul Wiles, Alana Cryaford

    Mirrar traditional owners at Jabiru in the Northern Territory may soon see an end to their long running native title claim following new legislation introduced in federal Parliament.

    The NSW Government offers funding for this years NAIDOC events.

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• • Fri 22 Mar

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson

    Aboriginal Rangers from across the Outback have gathered at Gem Tree north east of Alice Springs for a three day camp to develop skills to help them to manage country.

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard has confidently survived a leadership challenge and been elected unopposed declaring the party disruptions  completely at a end.

    Former AFL player Liam Jurrah has been found not guilty of attacking his cousin during a violent night in an Alice Springs town camp last March.

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• • Thu 21 Mar

    CAAMA News team : Pam Reilly, Loreena Walker, Paul Wiles.

    Australia’s largest employment campaign for Aboriginal and TSI peoples has called on the Government to fulfill its promise of placing qualified trainees  into existing jobs.

    The Chair of the National Mental Health Commission, Professor Allan Fels, says mental illness is a key reason for the current gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal  and Islander peoples  and other Australian.

    Aboriginal and Islander Australians may soon be  using  a  world first  program which allows   patients with  heart monitoring equipment  to be treated in their own homes.

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• • Wed 20 Mar

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Pam Reilly, Mikaela Simpson

    A major breakthrough in education with an Australian University acknowledging and recognising Aboriginal traditional law as part of a masters degree.

    The federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott has outlined his plans for a Indigenous affairs ministry that will come under the prime minister’s department.

    To Tasmania where the local Aboriginal community has described a local developers use of their traditional name for Mt. Wellington as a pathetic attempt to get attention for his proposed cable car venture at one of Hobart’s biggest tourist destinations.

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• • Tue 19 Mar

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Lorena Walker

    A respected Central Australian Aboriginal elder has called on governments to supply resources to cultural men and women which will allow them to re engage with and help turn around their disgruntled young people.

    Organisers of a public meeting which is being held to discuss hospital and health services say they want locals to come and voice their concerns.

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• • Mon 18 Mar

    The   appointment of ADAM GILES  as the  first Aboriginal  to lead a  State or Territory Government within Australia has  been   widely reported  across the  global indigenous  community.

    The National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples (Congress) has asked for sweeping changes to the way the Federal Government  delivers programs and services on the ground.  in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

    Adam Giles   elevation to the position of  leadership  within Northern Territory politics has been  recognised by  significant Aboriginal organisations  who see the new direction in leadership as  a positive for their people.

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• • Fri 15 Mar

    CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Mikaela Simpson

    Northern Territory’s  new Chief Minister Adam Giles has announced his new Cabinet the fourth reshuffle since the Country Liberals Government came to power seven months ago.

    Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition leader Tony Abbot have both acknowledged and welcomed the appointment of Adam Giles as the first Aboriginal person to be appointed as the leader of a state or Territory government.

    The launch ofa new Kidney Action Network group in the Northern Territory has heard that Aboriginal people across the country continue to suffer a range of chronic health diseases.

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