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Aboriginal Australians consider class action suit over stolen wages
Journal of Turkish Weekly
Generations of Aboriginal workers in Western Australia had their wages withheld by the state under a trust accounts program until the 1970s. Aboriginal people were rented out by the government to pastoral stations as free workers, for whom food costs ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal woman Lala Mardigan died because 'people who had the power didn't ...
ABC Online
A 20-year-old Aboriginal woman would still be alive if "the people who had the power" cared enough, says a medical professional who tried in vain to convince the Northern Territory Health Department to help her. Lala Mardigan died in a Darwin hospital ...

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Courier Mail
How history is playing its part in ice epidemic
Courier Mail
Associate Professor Edward Wilkes said the arrival of Europeans 200 years ago was still having deep impacts on indigenous Australia reflected in substance abuse, including the drug ice. “Today we are a disadvantaged and oppressed people,” Professor ...

Courier Mail
How history is playing its part in ice epidemic
Courier Mail
Associate Professor Edward Wilkes said the arrival of Europeans 200 years ago was still having deep impacts on indigenous Australia reflected in substance abuse, including the drug ice. “Today we are a disadvantaged and oppressed people,” Professor ...

Sputnik International
Aboriginal Australians Consider Class Action Suit Over Stolen Wages
Sputnik International
Generations of Aboriginal workers in Western Australia had their wages withheld by the state under a trust accounts program until the 1970s. Aboriginal people were rented out by the government to pastoral stations as free workers, for whom food costs ...

Human Capital Magazine Online
Indigenous Business Australia employee charged for $1m embezzlement
Human Capital Magazine Online
A court has heard that a man has been charged after allegedly stealing $1.3 million of federal funds reserved for Indigenous businesses. According to Fairfax Media, Nicholas Schofield – a senior employee at Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) – stands ...
Police charge man alleged to have stolen $1.3m destined for Indigenous businessThe Canberra Times
Helping agencies reach indigenous spending targetsThe Mandarin (registration)

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Australian Aboriginals Fear Gas Fracker Aubrey McClendon's Down Under Drilling ...
DeSmog (blog)
At one point, only ExxonMobil was producing more gas than Chesapeake. But already McClendon's hopes of recreating a US-style gas “fracking” boom in Australia are coming up against resistance from Aboriginal Australians — one of the oldest continuous ...

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DeSmog (blog)
Australian Aboriginals Fear Gas Fracker Aubrey McClendon's Down Under Drilling ...
DeSmog (blog)
Energy companies the world over would love to think they could be first in the queue at the next big global frontier for fossil fuel energy. Aubrey McClendon was a key figure in creating the last big energy boom in his own backyard, using the ...

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ABC Online
Calls for a class action to compensate Aboriginal soldiers
ABC Online
Robert Syron is an Aboriginal man, with family connections to the Worimi and Biripi people. He fought for the Australian Army in Rwanda during the 1990s, and after researching his family history, uncovered that almost 40 of his relatives have fought ...

The Australian
Aboriginal offenders 'twice as likely' to do time, study finds
The Australian
The disagreement comes as Aboriginal prison rates reach record levels, with indigenous people about 12 times as likely to be locked up as other Australians. Dr Weatherburn said Professor Bagaric's analysis failed to account for factors such as prior ...

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SBS
Indigenous youth incarceration jails 'regular kids': Briggs
SBS
2013-2014 data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows that Indigenous young people are 26 times more likely to be in detention than their non-Indigenous counterparts. Indigenous youth make up just 5 percent of total Australians aged ...

The Australian
Telstra and NT government seal $30m Territory connection
The Australian
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about one-third of households that identify as having Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents have no internet access, compared to 17 per cent for non-indigenous households. Around half of all ...
$30m for remote telecommunicationsNEWS.com.au
Telstra's RAP star Penn inks $30m NT Govt co-investment dealiTWire

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The Australian
Telstra and NT government seal $30m Territory connection
The Australian
The efforts to improve communication services in rural and remote regions plays a key role in bridging the digital divide experienced by indigenous Australians. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about one-third of households that ...
Telstra's RAP star Penn inks $30m NT Govt co-investment dealiTWire

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The Ecologist (blog)
Australia: Indigenous communities must take centre stage in 'development'
The Ecologist (blog)
Indigenous Australians are systematically deprived of the benefits of mining and other developments, writes Seán Kerins, and being left to suffer their environmental impacts. As Abbott's government prepares a bonfire of 'red tape', it's time to put ...

SBS
Indigenous incarcerated youths are 'regular kids': Briggs
SBS
Aboriginal children in Western Australia are 53 times more likely to be imprisoned. Chief Justice Wayne Martin told ABC News in June that those living in the state were the most disadvantaged in the country. "[The statistics are] absolutely appalling ...

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SBS
Indigenous incarcerated youths are 'regular kids': Briggs
SBS
Up to 70 percent of the centre's population is Indigenous, the centre said. Briggs meets First Australian teenage men and learns about who they are. "Who do you call…When do you use the phone," he asks a teenager there. "My mum," the young man replies.
'There's potential behind this razor wire': Rapper Adam Briggs explores ...ABC Online

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The Guardian
Aussie rules and Aboriginal art: meet the Hermannsburg potters at work
The Guardian
Australian rules football is a big deal in remote Indigenous communities, particularly for young people who usually only see their favourite sporting stars on TV. The recent Adam Goodes controversy, in which the nation was gripped by debate over racial ...

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ABC Online
'There's potential behind this razor wire': Rapper Adam Briggs explores ...
ABC Online
On average, Indigenous youth in Australia are 24 times more likely to be jailed than their non-Indigenous peers, according to a report published earlier this year by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). In New South Wales that number ...

Australasian Lawyer
Law Council announces indigenous legal professional award winner
Australasian Lawyer
Eddie Cubillo was awarded the National Indigenous Legal Professional of the Year over the weekend, along with Alison Whittaker, who took out the award for the National Indigenous Law Student of the year, at the 2015 National Indigenous Legal ...

Sydney Morning Herald
New Aboriginal monument to rival Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge
Sydney Morning Herald
Overseas visitors to Sydney could be forgiven for thinking Indigenous people are not a part of Australia's biggest city, according to Aboriginal elder Norma Ingram. "There are thousands and thousands of people from overseas who come here and there's ...

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