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Michael Long, at the Essendon Football Club earlier this year. Picture: David ...
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We went part of the way towards doing this in 1967 when we voted to change the Constitution so that indigenous Australians would be counted as citizens. But that referendum didn't recognise our long history and our ongoing role in keeping Australia's ...

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Family tree of achievers inspires student
The Australian
Jayde has now been selected as one of five young indigenous engineering students who have been offered scholarships following a joint partnership between the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and BHP Billiton. Now 17, Jayde this year began ...

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Doubling of indigenous in prisons alarms leaders
Sydney Morning Herald
A report released on Friday by the federal government has confirmed the number of indigenous Australians in prisons and police custody over the past two decades has more than doubled to almost 8000. The Australian Institute of Criminology report ...
Selling the future shortABC Online
Hollow promises: an enduring tragedyThe Age
Aboriginal incarceration rates hitting crisis levelsBundaberg News Mail

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Growing number of Indigenous deaths in custody alarms Aboriginal leaders
ABC Online
Indigenous leaders have expressed alarm about the ever-growing number of Indigenous Australians in jail. Two-and-a-half per cent of the Australian population are Indigenous, but they make up 26 per cent of the adult prison population. Those figures are ...
No lessons learned on Aboriginal deathsThe Australian
Aboriginal deaths in custody numbers rise sharply over past five yearsRadio Australia
Indigenous Australians 'facing psychological distress'SBS
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No lessons learned on Aboriginal deaths
Sky News Australia
An Aboriginal justice agency says authorities have failed to learn past lessons, after new figures showed rising numbers of indigenous deaths in custody. A report from the Australian Institute of Criminology on Aboriginal deaths in custody shows that ...
Doubling of indigenous in prisons alarms leadersSydney Morning Herald
Selling the future shortABC Online
NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nationYahoo!7 News
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No lessons learned on Aboriginal deaths
The Australian
A report from the Australian Institute of Criminology on Aboriginal deaths in custody shows that in 2010/11, the most recent period looked at, there were 21 indigenous people who died in custody, about one quarter of all such deaths. The number was one ...
Aboriginal deaths in custody numbers rise sharply over past five yearsRadio Australia
NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nationABC Online
Indigenous Australians 'facing psychological distress'SBS

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Indigenous Australians 'facing psychological distress'
SBS
Psychologist and lecturer in Indigenous studies at the University of Western Australia, Professor Pat Dudgeon says the considerably higher rate of distress among Indigenous Australians is not surprising. "Aboriginal people live in a social context ...
Aboriginal deaths in custody numbers rise sharply over past five yearsRadio Australia
Selling the future shortABC Online
No lessons learned on Aboriginal deathsPerth Now
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Aboriginal deaths in custody numbers rise sharply over past five years
Radio Australia
A major review of deaths in custody has found a substantial increase in the number of Aboriginal people dying in custody over the past five years. The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) study found the overall rate of deaths in state and ...
Selling the future shortABC Online
Growing tragedy of deaths in custodyThe Australian

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'Rise' in deaths in custody
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A report by the Australian Institute of Criminology says the number of Indigenous deaths in custody has increased over the past five years. Read more · WA parents of Saudi detainee meet DFAT · Extra police in London after brutal killing · Photo exhibit ...

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Aboriginal deaths in custody numbers rise sharply over past five years
Yahoo!7 News
But there has been a spike in the number Indigenous deaths in custody, in line with an almost doubling of the number of Aboriginal Australians being locked up. The findings come two decades after the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in ...
NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nationABC Online
Indigenous deaths in custody on the riseHerald Sun
Growing tragedy of deaths in custodyThe Australian

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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal deaths in custody numbers rise sharply over past five years
ABC Online
A major review of deaths in custody has found a substantial increase in the number of Aboriginal people dying in custody over the past five years. The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) study found the overall rate of deaths in state and ...
Doubling of indigenous in prisons alarms leadersSydney Morning Herald
Hollow promises: an enduring tragedyThe Age
National strategy to cut Indigenous suicideSBS
Bundaberg News Mail
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NT Indigenous deaths in custody worst in nation
ABC Online
A report issued by the Australian Institute of Criminology says the Northern Territory has the highest rates of Indigenous deaths in custody in the nation. The report documents overall deaths in custody across Australia to June 30, 2011. Nationally ...
Growing tragedy of deaths in custodyThe Australian

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New Indigenous conservation areas for Kimberley
ABC Online
Four new Indigenous Protected Areas have been officially announced in the Kimberley, comprising one of the largest Indigenous conservation areas in Australia. The Bardi Jawi, Wilinggin, Balanggarra and Dambimangari Protected Areas combine with ...

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Selling the future short
ABC Online
The juxtaposition between this prosperity and the still disproportionate levels of social and economic disadvantage among Australia's Indigenous population is one of the key national issues that we as a nation will need to reconcile in order to find a ...

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A critical mass of Indigenous leaders will make all the difference
Women's Agenda
Firstly, Australia has reached an unprecedented place in its history. All governments, both major parties, and by all accounts, the vast majority of Australians want Indigenous people to get a better deal – enjoying the health, life expectancy, career ...

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Scholarship program graduates double
The Australian
According to the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation annual report released yesterday, the number of scholarships issued under the foundation's program grew by. 41 per cent last year compared to the previous year. The AIEF was established with ...

Recognition 'will help to close the gap'
The Australian
Changing the Constitution to acknowledge indigenous Australians has bipartisan support. Julia Gillard has expressed passionate support for the change while Tony Abbott said recently that until Australia acknowledged its Aboriginal heritage the nation ...

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Using the language of savagery against indigenous Australians
ABC Online
A leading indigenous legal scholar from the US says Australia is still using the language of savagery to justify their treatment of the Aboriginal population. Robert Williams is also enrolled member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina. His ...

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National Strategy on Indigenous Suicide
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“The Strategy had been developed in close consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including 14 community meetings across Australia, a national expert workshop, and a website that received 48 contributions directly from the ...
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Indigenous family centre program delays
The Australian
In 2008, federal, state and territory governments agreed to set up the centres in urban, regional and remote locations with high indigenous populations to improve early childhood education access. The program is worth a total of $292.6 million. An ...

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