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Sydney Morning Herald
Call for mandatory sentencing laws to be scrapped to reduce indigenous incarceration rates
Sydney Morning Herald
The gross over-representation of Aboriginal people in prison is a "national disgrace" and should be tackled by abolishing controversial mandatory sentences for a range of minor offences, the nation's peak body for barristers has urged. In a plan ...
Calls to review mandatory prison sentencesSky News Australia
ABA targets sentencing lawsThe Australian
Fix or ditch mandatory sentencing: ABALawyers Weekly

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Sydney Morning Herald
Call for mandatory sentencing laws to be scrapped to reduce indigenous incarceration rates
Sydney Morning Herald
The gross over-representation of Aboriginal people in prison is a "national disgrace" and should be tackled by abolishing controversial mandatory sentences for a range of minor offences, the nation's peak body for barristers has urged. In a plan ...
Call to scrap minor mandatory sentencesSBS
ABA targets sentencing lawsThe Australian

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The Atlantic
Is There a Place for Indigenous Healers in Australia's Health System?
The Atlantic
Statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show that the life expectancy of indigenous people is about 10 years less than that of nonindigenous people (69.1 years compared with 79.7 for men; 73.7 compared with 83.1 for women), and ...

The Atlantic
Is There a Place for Indigenous Healers in Australia's Health System?
The Atlantic
Statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show that the life expectancy of indigenous people is about 10 years less than that of nonindigenous people (69.1 years compared with 79.7 for men; 73.7 compared with 83.1 for women), and ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Artists shed light on Governor Macquarie's massacres of Indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
The instructions were clear. Governor Lachlan Macquarie wrote in his diary in April 1816 that he felt compelled to "inflict terrible and exemplary punishments" upon Indigenous people living on the outskirts of Sydney. Macquarie's diary, held at the ...

Brisbane Times
Artists shed light on Governor Macquarie's massacres of Indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
Governor Lachlan Macquarie wrote in his diary in April 1816 that he felt compelled to "inflict terrible and exemplary punishments" upon Indigenous people living on the outskirts of Sydney. Genevieve Grieves' Remember is "like a remembrance wall that ...

Artists shed light on Governor Macquarie's massacres of Indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
Governor Lachlan Macquarie wrote in his diary in April 1816 that he felt compelled to "inflict terrible and exemplary punishments" upon Indigenous people living on the outskirts of Sydney. Genevieve Grieves' Remember is "like a remembrance wall that ...

Australia settles longest-running NT Aboriginal land claim
Radio New Zealand
Australia's longest running claim under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act of the Northern Territory has finally been declared Aboriginal land. The Kenbi Land Claim - on nearly 60,000 hectares on a peninsula west of Darwin - was made 37 years ago.

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ABC Online
Aboriginal health body calls for taskforce to tackle child sex abuse in NT
ABC Online
The risk of Aboriginal children and adolescents falling victim to sexual abuse in northern Australia is cause for "growing alarm", leaving children unsafe, the peak Indigenous community-controlled health body has said.

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The Canberra Times
'Gross breach of trust': Indigenous Business Australia manager facing more jail
The Canberra Times
Ms Musgrove said the stolen money had accounted for 3 per cent of the total funds allocated to Indigenous Business Australia. "I submit that that's a large amount of money in a small organisation that's set up to actually assist Indigenous Australians ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous youth with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder need Indigenous-run alternatives to prison
The Conversation AU
Rosie's case highlights how the system is failing Indigenous people with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Parliamentary committees have found Australia's response to foetal alcohol spectrum disorder “lags behind other countries” and that there is “a ...

Herald Sun
Under fire Darebin deputy mayor Oliver Walsh continues to deny Aboriginal genocide, despite apologising for ...
Herald Sun
Thornbury's Damien Kingsbury delivered a public question at this week's council meeting asking if councillors recognised Cr Oliver Walsh's comments as a “failure to represent the central concern of Australia's indigenous people, and the rest of the ...

The Conversation AU
How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
The Conversation AU
The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before Europeans came to Australia. And like today, they ...

BBC News
The pride and fury of Australia's Indigenous rappers
BBC News
Born in the United States, hip hop has developed a distinct Indigenous flavour in Australia that reflects both dispossession and hope. There is an unerringly provocative streak coursing through the music of Corey Webster, aka Nooky, a young firebrand ...

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The pride and fury of Australia's Indigenous rappers
BBC News
Born in the United States, hip hop has developed a distinct Indigenous flavour in Australia that reflects both dispossession and hope. There is an unerringly provocative streak coursing through the music of Corey Webster, aka Nooky, a young firebrand ...

ABC Online
Kenbi land claim finalised after 37 years, handback to NT Indigenous owners to follow
ABC Online
The claim's long history has divided more than 2,000 Aboriginal people from several family groups who wanted access to the land. Many Larrakia people were unable to legally prove their connection to the land, and left without any major rights to the land.
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NATIVE TITLENational Indigenous Times
Indigenous affairs: Kenbi land claim settled after 37-year battleThe Guardian
Darwin land rights deal 'a win for just four'The Australian
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ABC Online
Kenbi land claim finalised after 37 years, handback to NT Indigenous owners to follow
ABC Online
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said the result had been "innovative" and one that should be closely looked at by other groups around Australia. "Ten years ago I never thought part of the settlement would be a voluntary extinguishment of ...
Indigenous affairs: Kenbi land claim settled after 37-year battleThe Guardian
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NATIVE TITLENational Indigenous Times
NT land claim settled after 37 yearsSBS

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National Indigenous Times
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NATIVE TITLE
National Indigenous Times
Australia's longest running land claim – the Kenbi land claim across the Cox Peninsula on the western side of Darwin Harbour – has finally been settled, 37 years after it was lodged. As exclusively revealed by the NIT this morning, Northern Territory ...
Kenbi land claim finalised after 37 years, hand back to NT Indigenous owners to followABC Online

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National Indigenous Times
[ April 6, 2016 ] EXCLUSIVE: Australia's longest running land claim finally settled NEWS
National Indigenous Times
The Kenbi Ranger group, funded by the Indigenous Land Council, is expected to be front and centre in any job opportunities that will arise from the agreement. The Northern Land Council, which helps Aboriginal people manage traditional lands, has been ...

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New Republic
Australia's Other “Flying Doctors”: The Spirits of Aboriginal Bush Healers
New Republic
It's Friday night and still over 35°C in the town of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory. It is market night, and the pubs and streets are full of people. I hear glass shattering and a man and woman yelling at each other in the front yard ...

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