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SBS
How much does it cost to keep people in Australian jails?
SBS
Across Australia, Indigenous people are over-represented in Australian prisons. The rate of Indigenous Australians in prison is 16 times higher than non-Indigenous people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda ...

SBS
How much does it cost to keep people in Australian jails?
SBS
Rates of education and training are highest in the ACT and South Australia, and rates of prisoners in work are highest in NSW and Victoria. Across Australia, the incarceration rate for Indigenous Australians was significantly higher than non-Indigenous ...

The Guardian
WA premier withdraws royalties help for struggling Aboriginal communities
The Guardian
Mining royalties will not be used to keep open “unviable” remote Aboriginal communities, the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, has said. The move scuttles a lifeline thrown by WA National party leader and regional development minister, Terry ...

Lighting the way for Indigenous students
Lawyers Weekly
Other signatories to the CareerTrackers initiative include: Commonwealth Bank of Australia; GHD; Insurance Australia Group; Indigenous Business Australia; Lend Lease; Leighton Contractors; Qantas; SJB Architecture & Cox Architecture; and Westpac.
Indigenous Children in Care Up 65 Per Cent Since National ApologyPro Bono Australia

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Lighting the way for Indigenous students
Lawyers Weekly
Other signatories to the CareerTrackers initiative include: Commonwealth Bank of Australia; GHD; Insurance Australia Group; Indigenous Business Australia; Lend Lease; Leighton Contractors; Qantas; SJB Architecture & Cox Architecture; and Westpac.

yourMortgage.com.au (blog)
NT homes not within 'acceptable standard' for Indigenous Australians
yourMortgage.com.au (blog)
A report this week has found poor housing conditions for Indigenous Australians, where 34% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families fail to receive “dwellings of acceptable standard” in public housing areas. Some of the houses lack electricity ...
Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'The Australian

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The Guardian
Leeanne Enoch's election in Queensland a huge milestone for Indigenous people
The Guardian
Enoch, who won Algester in Brisbane, and Gordon, who took the far northern seat of Cook 2,000km away, were part of a Labor surge on Saturday that has the party poised to take government just three years after suffering the worst defeat in Australian ...
The QLD election result is a win for Australian womenDaily Life

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The Guardian
Leeanne Enoch's election in Queensland a huge milestone for Indigenous people
The Guardian
Enoch, who won Algester in Brisbane, and Gordon, who took the far northern seat of Cook 2,000km away, were part of a Labor surge on Saturday that has the party poised to take government just three years after suffering the worst defeat in Australian ...
The QLD election result is a win for Australian womenDaily Life

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Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'
The Australian
CRUCIAL bipartisanship on a move to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution risks being “squandered” and the momentum exhausted if a form of words and a voting date are not released this year, the Business Council of Australia says.

Chance for indigenous constitutional recognition 'may be squandered'
The Australian
CRUCIAL bipartisanship on a move to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution risks being “squandered” and the momentum exhausted if a form of words and a voting date are not released this year, the Business Council of Australia says.

The Australian
Pathways to indigenous empowerment
The Australian
DESPITE a decade of ever more concerted interventions across remote Aboriginal Australia, there has been little change in the landscape of the bush communities. Indigenous men and women know the truth; outsiders with clear eyes can see it as well.
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...The Guardian

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The Australian
Pathways to indigenous empowerment
The Australian
DESPITE a decade of ever more concerted interventions across remote Aboriginal Australia, there has been little change in the landscape of the bush communities. Indigenous men and women know the truth; outsiders with clear eyes can see it as well.
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...The Guardian

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The Australian
Arthur Boyd's Bride series explores issues beyond indigenous affairs
The Australian
After all, the series is the one with which Boyd established himself as one of the handful of defining Australian painters of the postwar years, and it is one whose originality and evocative power was never surpassed and perhaps not equalled in his ...

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The Australian
Arthur Boyd's Bride series explores issues beyond indigenous affairs
The Australian
After all, the series is the one with which Boyd established himself as one of the handful of defining Australian painters of the postwar years, and it is one whose originality and evocative power was never surpassed and perhaps not equalled in his ...
Arthur Boyd's Brides paintings reunited at Melbourne's Heide MuseumBrisbane Times

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The Guardian
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...
The Guardian
High profile Australians supportive of positive change have put their hand up to support the concept. Organisations such as Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (Antar), Reconciliation Australia and the National Congress of Australia's First ...

NEWS.com.au
Why we're among worst of the worst
NEWS.com.au
The government's decision to establish an indigenous advisory council while defending the Congress of Australia's First Peoples was also criticised as was the high numbers of indigenous people in jail. “While some health and socio-economic indicators ...
The reasons Australia is sharing a Human Rights Watch list with Syria, China ...9news.com.au

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The Stringer
In Australia, there is the Aboriginal rights struggle
The Stringer
In Australia there is no greater rights struggle than the Aboriginal rights struggle. It is a human rights struggle where not only the First Peoples of this continent were violently and murderously dispossessed of their lands but since the advent of ...

Australia Slammed for Human Rights Failings
Pro Bono Australia
“While Indigenous Australians account for only three per cent of Australia's population, they account for 27 per cent of Australia's prison population. In part because they are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, Indigenous ...
Our human rights rating undermined by refugee treatmentRockhampton Morning Bulletin

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9news.com.au
The reasons Australia is sharing a Human Rights Watch list with Syria, China ...
9news.com.au
Along with the country's treatment of asylum seekers, Indigenous Australians and same-sex citizens, the strict new anti-terror laws were enough to land Australia on the list from Human Rights Watch alongside nations such as Syria, China and Cuba. The ...
Australia Slammed for Human Rights FailingsPro Bono Australia
Our shame: Why we're among worst of the worstNEWS.com.au

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Haaretz
Aboriginal leader identifies with Jewish suffering on Holocaust Day
Haaretz
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Jews from the Auschwitz death camp, the chairman of Australia's first and largest community-controlled Aboriginal health service expressed his people's identification with "the injustice ...

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