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Anadolu Agency
Australia slammed for indigenous incarceration rates
Anadolu Agency
On the 25th anniversary of what was heralded as a game-changing report on Aboriginal deaths in Australian prisons, an indigenous rights campaigner says the government's success claims are based on skewed facts. Amnesty International's Julian Cleary ...
'Vicious cycle' as Australia indigenous prison rates soarYahoo7 News
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remainsThe Guardian
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Sky News Australia -Gizmodo Australia (blog) -World Policy Institute (blog)
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The Guardian
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
Grant said he was determined that constitutional recognition should not be simply about “rewriting history or inserting some poetic words about Aboriginal people”. “Recognition needs to be something that improves the governance and good policy-making ...
Stan Grant lands important new jobNEWS.com.au
Stan Grant appointed special adviser to PM on Indigenous recognitionSBS
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum CouncilThe Australian

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The Guardian
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
There is not only no Indigenous recognition in the constitution, but clauses that have been used to work against the better interests of Indigenous people.” Grant said he was determined that constitutional recognition should not be simply about ...
Stan Grant to advise Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant lands important new jobNEWS.com.au
Stan Grant appointed special adviser to PM on Indigenous recognitionSBS
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Bombala Times
Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Bombala Times
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant to advise Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous recognition
Sydney Morning Herald
Popular broadcaster Stan Grant will help lead the nation towards the constitutional recognition of Indigenous people. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten have appointed Mr Grant, a Wiradjuri man and award-winning reporter ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
When volcanoes clash: Transcendence tells Australia's history through Indigenous eyes
Sydney Morning Herald
According to Dja Dja Wurrung man Justice Nelson, telling this history in Nyernila: Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria, all the rocks thrown by Lalgambook at Tarrengower can still be seen today. They form the Guildford Plateau, where the Jaara ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
When volcanoes clash: Transcendence tells Australia's history through Indigenous eyes
Sydney Morning Herald
According to Dja Dja Wurrung man Justice Nelson, telling this history in Nyernila: Aboriginal Creation Stories of Victoria, all the rocks thrown by Lalgambook at Tarrengower can still be seen today. They form the Guildford Plateau, where the Jaara ...

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Indigenous Australian student shares screenshots of racist Grindr abuse
attitude.co.uk (satire) (registration) (blog)
A university student has opened up about the frequent racist messages that he receives through online dating apps, SBS reports. Dustin Mangatjay McGregor has Yolngu heritage, which means he comes from a group of Indigenous people from the ...
Gay indigenous man screenshots racist messages he gets on GrindrDaily Mail

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attitude.co.uk (satire) (registration) (blog)
Indigenous Australian student shares screenshots of racist Grindr abuse
attitude.co.uk (satire) (registration) (blog)
A university student has opened up about the frequent racist messages that he receives through online dating apps, SBS reports. Dustin Mangatjay McGregor has Yolngu heritage, which means he comes from a group of Indigenous people from the ...
Gay indigenous man screenshots racist messages he gets on GrindrDaily Mail

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Yahoo7 News
'Vicious cycle' as Australia indigenous prison rates soar
Yahoo7 News
The calls came on the 25th anniversary Friday of the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, which recommended sweeping reforms to improve the plight of the nation's first peoples, who are the country's most impoverished.
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remainsThe Guardian
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Australia's Treatment of Aboriginal People is Its Dirty SecretWorld Policy Institute (blog)
Gizmodo Australia (blog) -Daily Mail -ABC Message Stick
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The Guardian
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remains
The Guardian
The commission investigated the deaths of 99 Aboriginal people between 1980 and 1989, but the 1983 death of 16-year-old John Pat, in a police cell in Roebourne, 190km down the road from where Dhu died 21 years later, was the catalyst. Its overarching ...
Why we should honour the humanity of every person who dies in custodyThe Conversation AU

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The Guardian
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remains
The Guardian
She is one of about 340 Indigenous people to have died in custody since the royal commission into such deaths handed down its final report on 15 April 1991. The bulk of the commission's 339 recommendations remain unimplemented or only partially ...
Why we should honour the humanity of every person who dies in custodyThe Conversation AU

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ABC Online
Aboriginal deaths in custody: It's getting worse not better, says brother of man who died at Darwin watch house
ABC Online
"The fundamental lesson from the royal commission was that Aboriginal people die in custody too often simply because they're in custody too often," Mr Hunyor said. The Darwin-based lawyer said there appears to be little will to change. "In the Northern ...
Scales of justice still tipped towards police who harm people in their custodyThe Conversation AU

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ABC Online
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody: Amnesty accuses Scullion of false 'progress' claims
ABC Online
"It has been 25 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Aboriginal people are still disproportionately dying whilst in incarceration," she said. "The Government continues to ignore the majority of recommendations by the ...
Black Women, And A Tale Of Two CommissionsNew Matilda
Scales of justice still tipped towards police who harm people in their custodyThe Conversation AU

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Indigenous incarceration in Australia at a glance
The Conversation AU
The Conversation is funded by Michigan, Boston U, Ohio State, Case Western Reserve, Florida, UMass Amherst, Georgia State, Michigan State, Rutgers Newark, Penn State, South Florida, Texas A&M, SUNY ESF, Albany, Binghamton, UT Austin, Tufts, U of ...

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The Guardian
Gurrumul hospital row highlights Indigenous health obstacles
The Guardian
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is a multi-award winning singer who has toured the world. He's also a 46-year-old Yolngu man from Australia's far north, a member of one the country's most disadvantaged communities, and when he ended up in hospital ...

World Policy Institute (blog)
Australia's Treatment of Aboriginal People is Its Dirty Secret
World Policy Institute (blog)
I had a call from Rosalie Kunnoth-Monks the other day. Rosalie is an elder of the Arrernte-Alyawarra people who lives in Utopia—a vast and remote region in the “red heart” of Australia. The nearest town is Alice Springs, more than 200 miles across an ...
Aboriginal young people make up half of the youths across Australia who are in prisonDaily Mail
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal SuperheroGizmodo Australia (blog)
ABC Local -Australia Network News -ABC Message Stick
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Australia's Treatment of Aboriginal People is Its Dirty Secret
World Policy Institute (blog)
They said that elderly indigenous people in the homelands had received no food from an aged care program funded by the Australian government and administered by the regional council. “One elderly man with end-stage Parkinson's received two small ...

Daily Mail
Aboriginal young people make up more than half of the youths across Australia who are locked up.
Daily Mail
Indigenous young people account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but make up more than half of the youths across Australia who are locked up. Prisoners aged 24 years or under made up 24 per cent of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal SuperheroGizmodo Australia (blog)
New ABC show 'Cleverman' is about an Aboriginal superhero and we're already hooked off the trailerDaily Life
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