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The Conversation AU
Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
The Conversation AU
Across Australia, governments regard locking up vulnerable Indigenous children as a legitimate exercise of state power. This practice has quickly descended into the legalisation of physical restraints, spit-hoods and ongoing isolation of young people ...

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ABC Online
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people, Indigenous leader says
ABC Online
A political cartoon portraying an Aboriginal man with a beer can and not remembering his son's name is an "attack" on Indigenous Australians, a community leader says. The cartoon by Bill Leak was published by The Australian newspaper on Thursday, ...
The Australian defends Bill Leak's 'racist' cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Outcry, complaints over 'ugly', 'insulting' cartoon in The Australian.SBS
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognitionThe Australian
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Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people ...
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A cartoon published by The Australian newspaper portraying an Aboriginal man with a beer can and not remembering his son's name is an attack on Indigenous ...
The Australian defends Bill Leak's 'racist' cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognitionThe Australian
Indigenous advocate: 'Jail is part of our life and part of being institutionalised'The Guardian
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ABC Online
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people, Indigenous leader says
ABC Online
The cartoon by Bill Leak was published by The Australian newspaper on Thursday, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day. Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency chief executive Muriel Bamblett said it depicted Aboriginal people as "not ...
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' Bill Leak cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australia paper criticised for 'racist' Aboriginal cartoonTelegraph.co.uk
Outcry, complaints over 'ugly', 'insulting' cartoon in The Australian.SBS
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The Australian
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognition
The Australian
The expert panel of the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples recommended the insertion of a new section recognising “the continent and its islands now known as Australia” were “first ...

The Australian
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognition
The Australian
“The proposed referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in the constitution will divide the citizens of this nation into categories on the basis of race,” he said. “Every Australian who values our free and fair democracy, in which all people are ...

the AU review (blog)
Lynette Wallworth's VR experience Collisions to tell an Indigenous Australian story at ACMI
the AU review (blog)
Exploring the collision of science and spirit, this is Wallworth's first work using virtual reality technology. It is also the first to document an Indigenous Australian story. Collisions explores the homeland of Indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the ...

Independent Australia
Suicide of 15 year old Aboriginal boy in Don Dale a result of NT punitive culture
Independent Australia
AT DON Dale juvenile detention centre, a 15-year-old orphaned Aboriginal boy took his life only days after being locked up for committing $90 worth of “crimes”. How many Australians know about Johnny Warramarrba? Johnny's mother died when he was a ...
UN blasts Australia over NT detention abuseNEWS.com.au
NT Detention Center Update: UN Slams Australia Over Mistreating ChildrenAussie Network News

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The Guardian
Indigenous advocate: 'jail is part of our life and part of being institutionalised'
The Guardian
“It's hard to think of a population group on the planet that is as incarcerated as Aboriginal men in Western Australia,” the chief justice of the WA supreme court, Wayne Martin, told Guardian Australia. WA Police is conducting an internal investigation ...

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Teargassing of Indigenous Youth in Australian Detention System Reeks of Colonialism
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Activists display a sign decrying the murders of Aboriginal Australians in prison at an Invasion Day march and rally in Brisbane, Australia, on January 26, 2007. (Photo: David Jackmanson). Last week, shocking footage depicting security personnel in a ...

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The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull battles Liberal dissent over Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull is facing a fresh outbreak of internal dissent over the proposal to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution before talks about the referendum on Thursday with the Labor leader, Bill Shorten. The South Australian Liberal ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Scullion says treaty could be considered
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says Parliament should consider a treaty with Indigenous Australians if it is recommended by the recognition referendum council, breaking ranks with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the controversial issue.
Protesters confront Nigel Scullion over Don Dale response as Tom Calma calls for his resignationABC Online

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The Australian
Liberal Party split widens as Ken Wyatt calls WA youth division prejudiced
The Australian
He has hit out at the group, saying they were engaging in “Aboriginal-sogyny”: prejudice against indigenous Australians. However, he said he did not want to stop debate on the conference floor and respected the right of those with an opposing view to ...

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The Guardian
UN asked to investigate use of restraints on intellectually disabled Aboriginal man
The Guardian
The United Nations has been asked to investigate the use of restraints on an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man 17 times in the past four years. Malcolm Morton, 25, was found unfit to plead to a murder charge in 2012 over the stabbing death of his ...

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The Guardian
Noel Pearson: Indigenous people need to take responsibility over youth incarceration
The Guardian
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has criticised “selective outrage” over the Northern Territory juvenile detention abuse saga, saying Indigenous people need to take some responsibility. Pearson says more focus is needed on preventing children from ...

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ABC Online
Noel Pearson: Royal commission won't fix problems facing Indigenous Australia
ABC Online
A royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody was held 25 years ago and Mr Pearson says like that one, this one will not address the forces driving Aboriginal people into incarceration in the first place. "We can't allow our outrage to be selective.
Interview: Noel Pearson, Indigenous Leader and lawyerABC Message Stick
Noel Pearson: Indigenous people need to take responsibility over youth incarcerationThe Guardian

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Noel Pearson: Royal commission won't fix problems facing ... - ABC
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Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has made an impassioned plea for Australians to channel their outrage into more than just another royal commission into ...
Noel Pearson: Indigenous people need to take responsibility over ...The Guardian

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The Conversation AU
The Aboriginal football ethic: where the rules get flexible
The Conversation AU
In making this claim, Blainey suggested the sport was the outcome of Anglo-Australian cultural innovations. In raising the prospect of an Aboriginal football ethic, we question this assertion and ask who is really taking this indigenous sport forward ...

ABC Online
Northern Territory prison's treatment of intellectually disabled - ABC
ABC Online
The United Nations Human Rights Council is being asked to investigate the case of an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man who has been repeatedly strapped ...
UN asked to investigate use of restraints on intellectually disabled ...The Guardian

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Interview: Noel Pearson, Indigenous Leader and lawyer
ABC Message Stick
At the Garma Festival on the weekend, he slammed Australia's "selective outrage": while we're filled with grief over the images from the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, he says, we remain unmoved by the structural disadvantage that still sees ...
Teargassing of Indigenous Youth in Australian Detention System Reeks of ColonialismTruth-Out

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