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NEWS.com.au
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlight
NEWS.com.au
More than half of children in detention in Australia are indigenous. That's despite indigenous Australians making up less than three per cent of the country's national population. The 2011 Standing Committee inquiry found that high levels of contact ...
Shorten to consult on indigenous issuesSky News Australia
From the Darling Downs to Don Dale: a litany of monstrous acts against Indigenous childrenThe Guardian
Cruel numbersThe Saturday Paper (subscription)

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International Business Times UK
Australia's 'Abu Ghraib' detention centre pictures force a new focus on Aboriginal rights
International Business Times UK
When shocking images emerged this week of teenage prisoners stripped and hooded at the Darwin Don Dale youth detention centre in Australia's Northern Territories, comparisons were made to the pictures of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at ...

Sky News Australia
Shorten to consult on indigenous issues
Sky News Australia
Attorney-General George Brandis and Mr Turnbull consulted two of the most prominent indigenous spokespeople in Australia - Mick Gooda and Warren Mundine - in drafting the terms of reference for the inquiry. However, acting Labor leader Tanya Plibersek ...
From the Darling Downs to Don Dale: a litany of monstrous acts against Indigenous childrenThe Guardian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
How the Northern Territory became Australia's shame
The Sydney Morning Herald
Locking up Aboriginal people has become a form of tyranny in the territory. The per capita imprisonment rate of 843 per 100,000 is the highest in the world. (Australia's national rate, based on 2014 figures, is 187). The territory easily eclipses the ...
Australia prison abuse could violate UN torture treatyAljazeera.com
Australia's Abu GhraibThe Economist
Australia Launches Probe Into Treatment of Aboriginal JuvenilesVoice of America
CBS News -Thomson Reuters Foundation -The West Australian -ABC Message Stick
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The Australian
Divergent paths branch off from road to Indigenous recognition
The Australian
Wind whipped across the plateau, rattling the stringybark, as Galarrwuy Yunupingu sat deep in Arnhem Land staring into the fire. It was mid-2007 and the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant delivers fiery speech on Indigenous rights in wake of abuse scandal
The Sydney Morning Herald
"This week we know what Australia looks like. This week Australia is a boy in a hood in a cell. This week Australia is Aboriginal boys tear gassed, locked down and beaten. These are the images on our television screens. The boys who look like my boys.".

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant delivers fiery speech on Indigenous rights in wake of abuse scandal
The Sydney Morning Herald
"This week we know what Australia looks like. This week Australia is a boy in a hood in a cell. This week Australia is Aboriginal boys tear gassed, locked down and beaten. These are the images on our television screens. The boys who look like my boys.".

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders 'disgusted' they were not consulted on detention inquiry
The Guardian
Indigenous leaders in the Northern Territory say they are “completely and utterly disgusted” that they were not consulted before the details of the royal commission into youth detention were announced, saying the commission has already lost all ...

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ABC Message Stick
Aussies overwhelmed with pride to represent Indigenous brothers and sisters
ABC Message Stick
Players and coaches of the Australian Indigenous All stars basketball team say playing for your country is one thing but representing your Indigenous brothers and sisters is another. Now in its third year, the Trans-Tasman Basketball Clash features the ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous stories heard through public art
ArtsHub (subscription)
The field was still largely dominated by men​ and the voices of Indigenous and multicultural Australia were often absent. But the rise of abstraction gave birth to the idea of public art as a vehicle to connect with a broader public and an expectation ...

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SBS
Four Corners: Northern Territory Indigenous groups not consulted on royal commission into juvenile detention
ABC Online
Three Northern Territory organisations say Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has failed Indigenous Australians by ignoring their requests to be consulted when defining the terms of reference for the royal commission into abuse in the juvenile justice system.
Royal commissioner refutes conflict claimsSky News Australia
Why Malcolm Turnbull's Northern Territory youth abuse royal commission is doomed to failThe Sydney Morning Herald
Ex-NT chief judge Brian Ross Martin to lead youth detention inquiryThe Australian
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ABC Online
Indigenous organisations push for royal commission into suicide rates
ABC Online
Figures released last month in the Medical Journal of Australia estimate that 5.2 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will take their own life. Dameyon Bonson, an Aboriginal mental health advocate among those calling for the ...
Don Dale: Let Indigenous Australians decideIndependent Australia
[ July 26, 2016 ] Don Dale, NT v Abu Ghraib, Iraq – Spot the difference NEWSNational Indigenous Times
FACTBOX - Jailed too young? 10 facts about Australia's Aboriginal teenage prisonersThomson Reuters Foundation
Huffington Post Australia
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Police use of hoods, restraints, and teargas on Australian aboriginal ...
BreakingNews.com
Editor's note: The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will be suspended if the plane is not found on completion of the current search. The news ...

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Star Weekly
Ilim College students, police and Indigenous Australian join forces to create mosaic
Star Weekly
Campus principal Zeynep Sertel said the project followed a visit to the Islamic Museum by students earlier in the year, where they learnt about the interactions between Indigenous communities and Afghani cameleers who arrived in Australia in the 1860s.

Huffington Post Australia
Policies Must Be Made With Aboriginal People, Not For Them
Huffington Post Australia
Under article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child the Federal Government is legally required to engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in the development of laws and policies likely to affect them. Australia ...
FACTBOX - Jailed too young? 10 facts about Australia's Aboriginal teenage prisonersThomson Reuters Foundation
Don Dale child abuse: Be part of the solutionIndependent Australia
Indigenous organisations push for royal commission into suicide ratesABC Online
The Australian Financial Review -Eureka Street (registration)
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Excuse me officer, can you help me please, I'm trying to find justice for Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
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Eureka Street (registration)
Religion and violence in Australian-Indigenous history
Eureka Street (registration)
I have been asked to offer reflections on violence and religion in Australia-Indigenous history, particularly by reflecting on the experience of the Catholic Church in Australia. I am told that the aim of this session is to give participants a sense of ...

Independent Australia
Don Dale: Let Indigenous Australians decide
Independent Australia
The Don Dale abuse, while horrific, is just another atrocity to add to a long list of systemic oppression endured by Indigenous Australians, writes John Passant. THE HORRIFIC scenes on Monday night's Four Corners of abuse of kids (including Aboriginal ...
Indigenous organisations push for royal commission into suicide ratesABC Online
[ July 26, 2016 ] Don Dale, NT v Abu Ghraib, Iraq – Spot the difference NEWSNational Indigenous Times
FACTBOX - Jailed too young? 10 facts about Australia's Aboriginal teenage prisonersThomson Reuters Foundation
Huffington Post Australia
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The Australian
NT corrections minister John Elferink dumped in youth detention torture fallout
The Australian
Asked whether the Royal Commission should be broadened to look at all juvenile detention centres around Australia, Senator Scullion said he had contacted his Indigenous Affairs counterparts in states and territories asking them to “satisfy themselves ...
Scullion and Giles says they did not knowSky News Australia
Adam Giles praises John Elferink despite Northern Territory detention scandalThe Guardian

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The devastating facts about Indigenous youth detention in Australia
SBS
The rates of Indigenous incarceration are the highest in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. For every 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in WA, 3,745 are imprisoned, while in the Northern Territory the statistic is only ...