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Aboriginal groups distressed at high rate of Indigenous children removed from ...
Daily Life
Aboriginal groups are distressed at figures that show indigenous children are more than 12 times as likely to be placed in state care – a rate that places Victoria higher than the national average. Victoria has also registered the largest increase ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australians call on Standard Chartered not to fund coal mine project
The Guardian
A group of Indigenous Australians has urged Standard Chartered to rule out funding a massive coal mine on their ancestral lands in a meeting with executives in London. Representatives of the Wangan and Jagalingou people travelled to the bank's ...

The Age
Aboriginal groups distressed at high rate of Indigenous children removed from ...
The Age
Victoria has also registered the largest increase across Australia in the number of Aboriginal children removed from their families, a staggering 42 per cent rise last year, according to the most recent figures. "It's disheartening. We struggle every ...

The Age
Aboriginal groups distressed at high rate of Indigenous children removed from ...
The Age
Aboriginal groups are distressed at figures that show indigenous children are more than 12 times as likely to be placed in state care – a rate that places Victoria higher than the national average. Victoria has also registered the largest increase ...

The Conversation UK
What residents of an English mining town learned from visiting Aboriginal ...
The Conversation UK
The groups, from Ashington, Northumberland, and various Aboriginal communities around Brisbane, Australia, have very different histories, traditions and environments, separated as they are by thousands of miles and years of human history. Members of ...

The Guardian
Indigenous recognition: parties told compromise key on referendum question
The Guardian
The group spearheading the campaign to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution wants a referendum question to be finalised by the end of the year, but has warned that all parties will need to compromise on it. Tanya Hosch, a joint ...

SBS
Damning findings on Indigenous incarceration in WA
SBS
Well sadly because Western Australia locks up Indigenous children at the highest rate in the country. The overrepresentation of children in detention is shameful. It's shameful right across Australia, but it's staggeringly shameful here in WA where it ...

ABC Online
Indigenous bark shield to return
The Australian
“This is something not currently represented in our collection … this is a chance to bring it back and work with indigenous communities and try to learn more about its history,” she said. It is not known when the wooden piece was taken from Australia ...
Aboriginal art collection sells for more than $2 million in historic Sotheby's ...ABC Online
Aboriginal art sold for $2 million at Sotheby's auctionABC Message Stick

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ABC Online
Aboriginal art collection sells for more than $2 million in historic Sotheby's ...
ABC Online
Sotheby's senior consultant from Australia, Tim Klingender, the specialist in charge of the sale, said he was thrilled with the results. "It was a bit of a risk to put a sale of Aboriginal art outside Australia and I always wondered whether Australian ...

ABC Online
WA Aboriginal children 53 times more likely to be jailed than peers, Amnesty ...
ABC Online
Western Australia's Chief Justice Wayne Martin says the justice system must accept some of the blame for what he describes as "appalling" Aboriginal incarceration rates. A report released today by Amnesty International shows Aboriginal children in WA ...
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youthThe Australian
WA justice system must accept blame for state's 'appalling' Aboriginal ...ABC Message Stick
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The Guardian
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – Amnesty
The Guardian
Aboriginal children who break the law in Western Australia are less likely to get off with just a caution than non-Aboriginal children, less likely to receive bail, and proportionally less likely to be referred to diversionary programs, according to a ...
Indigenous youth 52 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
Indigenous stockmen and women honoured in outback QueenslandABC Online
WA worst for Aboriginal youth behind barsNEWS.com.au

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The Guardian
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – Amnesty
The Guardian
Aboriginal children who break the law in Western Australia are less likely to get off with just a caution than non-Aboriginal children, less likely to receive bail, and proportionally less likely to be referred to diversionary programs, according to a ...
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youthThe Australian
Indigenous youth 53 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
WA justice system must accept blame for state's 'appalling' Aboriginal ...ABC Message Stick
NEWS.com.au
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ABC Online
Indigenous stockmen and women honoured in outback Queensland
ABC Online
A new display in an outback Queensland museum has opened to tell the stories of Indigenous stockmen and women across Australia. The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach, in the state's central-west, received federal funding for the project, ...
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
WA worst for Aboriginal youth behind barsWA today

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The Australian
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youth
The Australian
The report 'There is always a brighter future: Keeping Indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Western Australia', was three years in the making, and includes research in Albany, Bunbury, Perth, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Broome, Mowanjum, ...
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
WA Aboriginal children 53 times more likely to be jailed than peers, Amnesty ...ABC Online
Indigenous youth 53 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
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The Australian
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youth
The Australian
The report 'There is always a brighter future: Keeping Indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Western Australia', was three years in the making, and includes research in Albany, Bunbury, Perth, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Broome, Mowanjum, ...
Indigenous stockmen and women honoured in outback QueenslandABC Online
Indigenous youth 53 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
ABC Message Stick -9news.com.au
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The Guardian
Indigenous dancers help open Arnhem Land's Injalak art centre – video
The Guardian
Indigenous dance groups and the Northern Territory chief minister, Adam Giles, took part in the opening of the Injalak art centre in West Arnhem Land's Gunbalanya community on Wednesday. The centre has been given about $1m in federal and territory ...

The Guardian
Indigenous recognition to 'complete' constitution, says Tony Abbott – video
The Guardian
Prime minister Tony Abbott says Australians must 'go forward together' to find a form of constitutional recognition which is a 'completion' rather than a 'substantial change' to the constitution. He refused to be drawn into a disagreement between ...

SBS
More Indigenous women dying from pregnancy complications
SBS
Indigenous Australian women are at greater risk of dying due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, despite Australia's otherwise low rates of maternal death. A new report shows Indigenous women are dying at more than twice the rate of ...
Indigenous death rate in childbirth comparable to developing countriesThe Guardian
'Maternal deaths' are rare in Australia9news.com.au

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SBS
More indigenous women dying from pregnancy complications
SBS
Indigenous Australian women are at greater risk of dying due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, despite Australia's otherwise low rates of maternal death. A new report shows Indigenous women are dying at more than twice the rate of ...
Indigenous death rate in childbirth comparable to developing countriesThe Guardian
'Maternal deaths' are rare in AustraliaThe Australian (blog)

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The Guardian
Indigenous death rate in childbirth comparable to developing countries
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians are receiving substandard medical care that sees them dying during childbirth at a rate comparable to women in developing countries, the regional manager of maternal and child health at the Institute of Urban Indigenous Health ...
More indigenous women dying from pregnancy complicationsSBS
'Maternal deaths' are rare in AustraliaThe Australian (blog)

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