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Call to address custody disparity
The West Australian
Mr Barnett said a team within his department comprising representatives from the Department of Corrective Services, WA Police and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs was reviewing deaths in custody and the high representation of Aboriginal people in ...

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Indigenous art at Australian embassy showcases fluidity of form
Washington Post
The idea of water haunts the exhibition gallery at the Embassy of Australia. It ebbs and flows around Judy Watson's installation “dead littoral,” made up of cast-bronze versions of objects washed up on the Australian coast. It eddies along the floor ...

ABC Online
Cricket's Indigenous team The Invincibles remembered for their crushing victories
ABC Online
Not many Australians know about The Invincibles - an Indigenous cricket team in the late 19th century which won most of the matches they played. Initially captained by a future West Australian premier, the New Norcians team won their matches in WA by ...

Indigenous art at Australian embassy showcases fluidity of form
Washington Post
The idea of water haunts the exhibition gallery at the Embassy of Australia. It ebbs and flows around Judy Watson's installation “dead littoral,” made up of cast-bronze versions of objects washed up on the Australian coast. It eddies along the floor ...

The Australian
Doctor's Dream an insight into indigenous disadvantage
The Australian
THE genre is well established, if unique to Australia: the memoir of discovery and self-discovery written by outside helpers after a spell of bush life in the remote Aboriginal communities of the centre or the north. It is a literary form that provides ...

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Remembering Aboriginal service in the Great War, one century on
The Australian
Among the thousands of those first Anzacs were a number of First Australians, Aboriginal men who were prohibited from joining but did so anyway — Aboriginal men who answered a call that wasn't to them, to fight for a nation that didn't recognise them.

The Australian
Doctor's Dream an insight into indigenous disadvantage
The Australian
THE genre is well established, if unique to Australia: the memoir of discovery and self-discovery written by outside helpers after a spell of bush life in the remote Aboriginal communities of the centre or the north. It is a literary form that provides ...

The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration: Tony Abbott focuses on school attendance and jobs
The Guardian
It made particular mention of the “catastrophic” overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Australian prisons, and three of the five recommendations related to justice targets and investment, including a specific call to set justice targets as part of ...
Indigenous imprisonment urgent issue: GoodaEchonetdaily
Australian co-operative helps Aboriginal people fight discriminationCo-Operative News
Australian Human Rights Commission Deplores Aboriginal Conviction RateSputnik International

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Indigenous medicine – a fusion of ritual and remedy
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australian practices, honed over thousands of years, weave science with storytelling. In this Indigenous science series, we look at different aspects of First Australians' traditional life and uncover the knowledge behind them. In this ...

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Indigenous imprisonment urgent issue: Gooda
Echonetdaily
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda gives the Nulungu Reconciliation Lecture in August this year. Photo from www.humanrights.gov.au. The over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice ...
Australian co-operative helps Aboriginal people fight discriminationCo-Operative News
Australian Human Rights Commission Deplores Aboriginal Conviction RateSputnik International

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ABC Online
Over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison a catastrophe, says ...
ABC Online
The over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison is one of the most urgent human rights issues facing the country today, according to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda. In his 2014 Social Justice ...
Indigenous incarceration: Tony Abbott focuses on school attendance and jobsThe Guardian
Australian Human Rights Commission Deplores Aboriginal Conviction RateSputnik International
Australian co-operative helps Aboriginal people fight discriminationCo-Operative News
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ABC Online
Over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison a catastrophe, says ...
ABC Online
The over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison is one of the most urgent human rights issues facing the country today, according to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda. In his 2014 Social Justice ...
Indigenous incarceration: Tony Abbott focuses on school attendance and jobsThe Guardian
Indigenous imprisonment urgent issue: GoodaEchonetdaily
Easier to keep Indigenous kids in prison than school: Mick GoodaSBS
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Australian Human Rights Commission Deplores Aboriginal Conviction Rate
Sputnik International
MOSCOW, December 4 (Sputnik) — The excessive number of indigenous people in Australian detention centers is a human rights issue the country needs to tackle immediately, Mick Gooda, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner, ...
Australian co-operative helps Aboriginal people fight discriminationCo-Operative News
Indigenous incarceration: Tony Abbott focuses on school attendance and jobsThe Guardian
Indigenous imprisonment urgent issue: GoodaEchonetdaily

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APY power granted to South Australia Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ian Hunter
The Australian
SOUTH Australian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ian Hunter has been granted a historic new power to put the APY executive into administration, just hours after a no-confidence motion was passed against him for his handling of the indigenous lands crisis.

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Australia Is Locking Up Mentally Impaired Aboriginal Men in Jail Indefinitely
VICE News
The Australian Human Rights Commission investigated the cases of four aboriginal men — identified only as KA, KB, KC, and KD in the report — but these potentially represent just the tip of the iceberg. The cases expose a struggle to govern ...

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VICE News
Australia Is Locking Up Mentally Impaired Aboriginal Men in Jail Indefinitely
VICE News
The Australian Human Rights Commission investigated the cases of four aboriginal men — identified only as KA, KB, KC, and KD in the report — but these potentially represent just the tip of the iceberg. The cases expose a struggle to govern ...

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Co-Operative News
Australian co-operative helps Aboriginal people fight discrimination
Co-Operative News
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represent one of the most profoundly disadvantaged groups in Australian society. Now a co-operative is trying to address this by improving the access of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to high quality ...
Australian Human Rights Commission Deplores Aboriginal Conviction RateSputnik International

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The Guardian
Indigenous legal aid cuts have harmed frontline services, says Productivity ...
The Guardian
The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency is closing its Nhulunbuy office despite increasing caseloads, while the New South Wales prisoner ThroughCare program, launched at the recommendation of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in ...

The Guardian
Indigenous legal aid cuts have harmed frontline services, says Productivity ...
The Guardian
The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency is closing its Nhulunbuy office despite increasing caseloads, while the New South Wales prisoner ThroughCare program, launched at the recommendation of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in ...

The Guardian
WA premier Colin Barnett orders review into Indigenous deaths in custody
The Guardian
Western Australia will review the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in the state's prisons, Colin Barnett has announced, more than a month after the premier committed to action on Aboriginal deaths in custody. But the family of a woman who died ...