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Indigenous child torture is Australia's shame
Echonetdaily
Australia along with other countries has signed international treaties upholding the Rights of the Child and treaties against torture. The recent 4 Corners program 'Australia's Shame', outlining the abuse and torture of indigenous children in detention ...

The Guardian
Brandis had considered adding Indigenous commissioner for NT inquiry
The Guardian
Dodson, who was also Australia's first social justice commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, gave a scathing assessment of governments over the past 40 years, stating Indigenous policy was plagued by politicians who repeated the ...
Indigenous commissioner to hear NT victimsSBS
Thousands In Australia Protest After Videos Showing Prison Abuse Of Aboriginal Teens SurfaceThinkProgress
Australia Aboriginal leader to probe teen prison abuseDaily Mail
Anadolu Agency -NEWS.com.au
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New Matilda
Servant Or Slave: Stunning New Documentary Exposes Australia's Stolen Wages History
New Matilda
The Indigenous filmmakers introduce us to five Aboriginal women, now grandmothers, who describe their own childhoods without knowing family. Stolen as small children by Australian governments, they were raised by institutions, deprived of the love of ...

New Matilda
Servant Or Slave: Stunning New Documentary Exposes Australia's Stolen Wages History
New Matilda
The Indigenous filmmakers introduce us to five Aboriginal women, now grandmothers, who describe their own childhoods without knowing family. Stolen as small children by Australian governments, they were raised by institutions, deprived of the love of ...

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The Conversation AU
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal people have an essential stake in the future of northern Australia … Aboriginal people must be front and centre in planning processes for the north. This is a fundamental gap in the national discourse about northern development … I'm not ...
Calls for two Aboriginal co-commissionersSky News Australia
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlightNEWS.com.au
Australians protest over government's lax reaction to abuse of Aboriginal teen detaineesRT
International Business Times UK
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The Conversation AU
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
The Conversation AU
Unfortunately, however, these reforms largely failed to make substantive change in Indigenous water rights or to engage Indigenous people effectively. Today, Indigenous Australians have land rights and/or native title rights and interests over some 30 ...
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlightNEWS.com.au
Four Corners: Coalition rules out Indigenous co-commissioners for NT inquiry into juvenile justiceABC Online
Don Dale: Shorten calls for two indigenous commissionersThe Australian
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ThinkProgress
Thousands In Australia Protest After Videos Showing Prison Abuse Of Aboriginal Teens Surface
ThinkProgress
Thousands of people protested for the rights of indigenous people in major cities across Australia, after video surfaced showing the abuse of Aboriginal teens at the juvenile detention center Don Dale in the country's Northern Territory. The video ...
Australia bows to aboriginal pleas in youth crime probeAnadolu Agency
New heads appointed to Australian child prisoner abuse inquiryDeutsche Welle
Minister says royal commission will deliver 'real results'The Sydney Morning Herald
ABC Online -The Guardian (Australia)
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Intercontinental Cry
Gassing of Indigenous youth in Australian detention system reeks of colonialism
Intercontinental Cry
Last week, shocking footage depicting security personnel in a Northern Territory (NT) juvenile detention center teargasing and torturing indigenous detainees made headline news in Australia. In contrast to the uproar it has now engendered, this ...
Indigenous commissioner to hear NT victimsSBS
Thousands In Australia Protest After Videos Showing Prison Abuse Of Aboriginal Teens SurfaceThinkProgress
Australia Aboriginal leader to probe teen prison abuseDaily Mail
Anadolu Agency -NEWS.com.au
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The principle of unity is at stake
The Australian
The attacks which destroyed Brian Martin's ability to conduct the NT Royal Commission, and the Pearson and Shorten demands for a treaty linked to the constitutional referendum represent a declaration of Aboriginal war on the tradition of a unitary ...

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Anadolu Agency
Australia bows to aboriginal pleas in youth crime probe
Anadolu Agency
Less than a week after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced an investigation to probe a television expose that showed graphic mistreatment of incarcerated youth -- mostly aboriginal -- Australia's government has been forced to cave in to pressure ...
New heads appointed to Australian child prisoner abuse inquiryDeutsche Welle
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissionersThe Australian

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Press TV
Head of Australian probe into abuse of Aboriginal inmates quits
Press TV
The head of an Australian inquiry into the abuse of aboriginal teens in a detention center in the Northern Territory has resigned before being replaced by an aboriginal leader. Brian Martin, who was a former judge in the Northern Territory, announced ...

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ABC Online
Mark McGowan calls for Prime Minister to intervene on Liberals' Indigenous recognition motion
ABC Online
West Australian Opposition Leader Mark McGowan has called on the Prime Minister to intervene and force the WA Liberals to withdraw a motion on Indigenous recognition, which he says has the potential to become "an ugly blot on our society and an ...

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Deutsche Welle
New heads appointed to Australian child prisoner abuse inquiry
Deutsche Welle
A Royal Commission into the abuse of children held in prison in the Northern Territory will now be headed by Aboriginal and Torres Stait Islander Social Jusice Commissioner Mick Gooda and retired Supreme Court judge Margaret White, Australian ...
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissionersThe Australian

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Financial Times
Australia abuse probe judge steps down
Financial Times
The judge appointed to head a public inquiry into alleged abuse perpetrated against indigenous children in Australian juvenile detention centres has resigned four days after taking the job. Brian Martin said on Monday he was stepping down from the role ...
Mick Gooda 'obvious' pick for royal commission into youth detentionSBS
NT probe a waste without indigenous inputYahoo7 News
NT juvenile detention: Brian Martin stands down as royal commissionerThe Guardian

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Yahoo7 News
Australia Aboriginal leader to probe teen prison abuse
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - An Australian Aboriginal leader was Monday appointed to investigate the abuse of teenagers at a detention centre after the judge named to lead the inquiry resigned, saying he lacked the confidence of the indigenous community.
Thousands In Australia Protest After Videos Showing Prison Abuse Of Aboriginal Teens SurfaceThinkProgress
New heads appointed to Australian child prisoner abuse inquiryDeutsche Welle
Australia abuse probe judge steps downFinancial Times
The Guardian (Australia) -ABC Online
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Yahoo7 News
Australia Aboriginal leader to probe teen prison abuse
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - An Australian Aboriginal leader was Monday appointed to investigate the abuse of teenagers at a detention centre after the judge named to lead the inquiry resigned, saying he lacked the confidence of the indigenous community.
Head of Australian prison abuse inquiry quits, replaced by aboriginal leaderReuters
Australia bows to aboriginal pleas in youth crime probeAnadolu Agency
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissionersThe Australian
Deutsche Welle -Pro Bono Australia
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RT
Indigenous commissioner to hear NT victims
SBS
The government on Monday caved to public pressure and appointed an indigenous Australia as co-commissioner of the inquiry into NT youth prison in place of former NT chief justice Brian Martin. Hours after Justice Martin announced his resignation, the ...
Australians protest over government's lax reaction to abuse of Aboriginal teen detaineesRT
'Australia can't run as a one-man band'NEWS.com.au
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissionersThe Australian
Yahoo7 News -Pro Bono Australia
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The Australian
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissioners
The Australian
Mr Martin said the “disingenuous and ill-informed” commentary had made it difficult for Aboriginal Australians to have “full confidence” in the inquiry. Mr Gooda, a descendant of the Gangulu people of Central Queensland, has been an advocate for ...
A royal commission addresses the symptoms of dysfunction – not the causesThe Australian Financial Review
Mick Gooda 'obvious' pick for commissionerSBS

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The Guardian
Brian Martin resigns as head of Royal Commission into NT youth detention
NEWS.com.au
On Mr Gooda, he said he is “Gungulu man from central Queensland” and “is well known as one of Australia's most highly regarded Indigenous leaders”. Mr Brandis said “the royal commission is too important to become a political play thing”. Justic White ...
Brandis had considered adding Indigenous commissioner for NT inquiryThe Guardian
Gassing of Indigenous youth in Australian detention system reeks of colonialismIntercontinental Cry
Indigenous commissioner to hear NT victimsSBS
Reuters -Herald Sun
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Pro Bono Australia
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissioners
The Australian
Mr Martin said the “disingenuous and ill-informed” commentary had made it difficult for Aboriginal Australians to have “full confidence” in the inquiry. Mr Gooda, a descendent of the Gangulu people of Central Queensland, has been an advocate for ...
Mick Gooda, Margaret White Named NT Royal CommissionersHuffington Post Australia
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to Head Royal CommissionPro Bono Australia
Here's who will now lead the Northern Territory royal commission into juvenile detentionBusiness Insider Australia
Sky News Australia -NEWS.com.au -Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
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