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CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Lorena Walker.

A Queensland Aboriginal community leader has slammed a high court ruling that alcohol management plans do not breach racial discrimination laws and says “special measures” are there to protect vulnerable people revisits history and is more of the same.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Minister Glen Elmes says that the alcohol management plans were introduced as a special measure to reduce violence against women and children, and to increase social cohesion within communities.

A morning of  dance, rapping and sport in Alice Springs has been used to promote the values of education and a healthy lifestyle.

Researchers say a new language that combines elements of English with traditional Aboriginal speech, has been discovered in the Northern Territory.

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CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles

A young Aboriginal woman from the Northern Territory who has been on income management for the past three years is travelling to Sydney to tell people how it has impacted on her life.

 A highly successful three day gathering of Aboriginal youth in Central Australia has challenged mainstream perceptions of their capacity to engage and signalled a new way forward for Government policy makers.

The Country’s peak mental health body the Australian Psychological Society (APS) has welcomed the Government announcement of the establishment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Advisory Group (ATSIMHSPAG).

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Disturbing claims from South Australia of “horrifying” discrimination against Aboriginal women and claims that some dentists are refusing to see Aboriginal patients.

A South Australian Aboriginal Elder has spoken of his peoples forced loss of language and their difficulty in dealing with the state Government over many years.

An Aboriginal Tent Embassy in NSW, will be established at Nimbin Rocks next month in solidarity with the West Papua Freedom Flotilla.

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CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles.

A former member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child says Australia has to do more to understand the cultural sensitivity associated with removing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and culture.

Meanwhile a veteran Stolen Generations advocate has called for better education of non Aboriginal workers in the child welfare system, claiming many have little knowledge or understanding of the flow on effects of the forced removals within many families

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CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Lorena Walker

The Northern Territory Government says 2 major changes to its proposed alcohol Mandatory Treatment Act address concerns that the new law will criminalise drunkeness.

Territory Opposition Leader Delia Lawrie said that the policy on the run by the CLP is a clear sign that their alcohol legislation is fundamentally flawed and doomed to fail.

The launch of a new culturally appropriate youth sexual health program aims to give local young people knowledge, skills and positive attitudes to grow as strong, aware and confident young people.

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CAAMA News Team Paul Wiles, Pam Reilly

A veteran Central Australian Aboriginal rights campaigner is urging his people to make sure that they are registered to vote at the upcoming federal election.

Northern Territory health researchers say they believe that “the veil of shame” associated with problem gambling needs to be lifted if health issues associated with the problem are to be addressed.

Australia’s peak Aboriginal and Islander representative body congratulates the five women and three men who have put their hands up for election as the next leaders of the organisation.

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A Queensland based historian has branded the pioneering myth of the early white settlers as a lie and says that the country has been dismally let down by Australians historians since the post World War 2 period.

An Alice Springs youth services co-ordinator and musician has been recognized in the Queen’s birthday honors list for his 30 year work with young aboriginal people.

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The Chair of the Central Land Council has invited Northern Territory Senator Nigel Scullion to sit down with both major land councils and discuss the issues which he says he is prepared to fight the land councils hard over if the coalition is elected to Government in September.

A new era for a peak Territory Aboriginal community controlled Health Service with its new board and President promising accountability to both those who fund the organisation and the people that it serves.

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A peak medical anti nuclear lobby group has criticised Northern Territory Senator Nigel Scullion over his recent comments about the safety of storing nuclear waste at a proposed site near Tennant Creek.

Alleged discrimination by Real Estate agents and landlords in Canberra  is contributing to one of the highest rates of  Aborignial and Islander  homelessness in the country……according to  local  welfare and tenants’ groups.

Repeated call  for the Giles  CLP Government to shelve its plans for mandatory rehabilitation and work with all relevant stakeholders to get alcohol policy right.

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The winner of Australia’s premier literary prize has told the   2013  National Native Title Conference  that it was not acceptable for others to decide what is best  for Aboriginal and Islander Australians.

Alexis Wright winner of the Miles Franklin Award  has paid tribute to the efforts of the  late Eddie Mabo.

Proposed change to the  negative impacts   of the   Northern Territory Shires    on Aboriginal people will begin to take  effect in Late July  according to the  Minister for Local Government Alison  Anderson.

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THE Northern Territory Chief Minister says proposed three month mandatory alcohol treatment will also apply to a large number of non indigenous Territorians ……and the legislation is not just for Aboriginal people .

The 2013 National Native Title Conference is underway in Mparntwe  Alice Springs …with large numbers of Aboriginal stakeholders  from across the country attending.

The three day conference was off to a busy start with visiting American lawyer and legal scholar Professor Robert A Williams  Jnr challenging the notion of sovereignty and what it might mean for Aboriginal people in this country.

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Yothu Yindi lead singer Mr Yunupingu has died at his home in Yirrkala in Eastern Arnhem Land after fighting kidney disease for several years.

Growing opposition to the Northern Territory Governments proposed mandatory alcohol rehabilitation program with the Australian Council of Social Services labelling the draft legislation”obscene” and “half-baked”.

The QLD state Governments new tough love approach to funding has raised concern among the states 19 Aboriginal councils.

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