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Sydney Morning Herald
The price Aboriginal children paid at Retta Dixon
Sydney Morning Herald
The royal commission into child sexual abuse has asked searing questions about the behaviour of people in power across Australian society, writes Greg Pemberton. In Darwin this week, it turns its attention to the homes for Aboriginal children run by ...

Spike in numbers of NT children in care
9news.com.au
The NT has the lowest placement rate of Aboriginal children with Aboriginal carers in Australia. Ms Jackson said carers receive training every 12 months, but not specifically to do with protective behaviours and grooming for sexual assault. She said ...

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Mental illness campaign reaches out to indigenous Australians
Radio Australia
But Australian mental health foundation Headspace hopes to improve the situation with Yarn Safe, a campaign which aims to reduce stigma and meet specific challenges found within indigenous communities. Headspace has been working with a team of ...

The Australian
Aborigines still have little say
The Australian
The first wave of the reform current a decade ago had its special features: precise detail, high fantasy. Few now remember the Council of Australian Governments' June 2004 “national framework of principles for delivering services to indigenous ...

champion of indigenous poor
The Australian
He was 66 and retired when he learned that the Aboriginal Legal Service could not find a court officer for remote Laverton, 955km northeast of Perth. Although he was once the boss of the ALS in Western Australia, Mr Wyatt moved to the town and did the ...

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champion of indigenous poor
The Australian
He was 66 and retired when he learned that the Aboriginal Legal Service could not find a court officer for remote Laverton, 955km northeast of Perth. Although he was once the boss of the ALS in Western Australia, Mr Wyatt moved to the town and did the ...
WA Labor MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to dadABC Message Stick

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The Australian
Astronomy project unites indigenous artists from WA and South Africa
The Australian
The fact the SKA will straddle two continents means it will impact on the lands of two indigenous peoples — the Yamaji of Western Australia, and the San people of South Africa's Karoo region in Eastern Cape Province. It has led to the Shared Sky ...

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MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to father, Cedric Wyatt, who died Thursday
ABC Online
West Australian Labor MP Ben Wyatt has paid tribute to his father, Aboriginal rights activist Cedric Wyatt, who died on Thursday night after suffering an illness. Cedric Wyatt, 74, was remembered by his son as a much-respected leader who fought for the ...
Wyatt's tribute to Aboriginal leader dadCourier Mail
'A leader who forged the path for many'Perth Now

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Wyatt's tribute to Aboriginal leader dad
NEWS.com.au
WEST Australian Labor member Ben Wyatt has paid tribute to his late father, describing him as a man who fought for the advancement of the Aboriginal community. CEDRIC Wyatt, 74, died on Thursday night following an illness. Mr Wyatt, who is the Member ...
MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to father, Cedric Wyatt, who died ThursdayABC Online
WA Labor MP Ben Wyatt pays tribute to his late father CedricHerald Sun

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Wyatt's tribute to Aboriginal leader dad
The Australian
WEST Australian Labor member Ben Wyatt has paid tribute to his late father, describing him as a man who fought for the advancement of the Aboriginal community. CEDRIC Wyatt, 74, died on Thursday night following an illness. Mr Wyatt, who is the Member ...

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The Australian (blog)
Ancient Aboriginal sites at risk in the Pilbara
The Australian (blog)
The sites now needed protection, Willesee noted, as “important records of the history of early settlement of Australia” and the only physical evidence of the region's Aboriginal past. Today the landscapes of the Pilbara and Kimberley regions are being ...

Welfare flaws clear in Arnhem Land
The Australian (blog)
Our commitment to indigenous Australians is we will engage, just as eight ministers and departmental secretaries did in East Arnhem Land. We will work with you to change the culture of hand-outs. We will work with you to get kids in school, adults into ...

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Child abuse commission broadens scope to focus on indigenous kids
The Australian
Across Australia, research shows “many indigenous children who had been removed from their families were cruelly treated — many suffered physical and sexual abuse,” commission chair Peter McClellan said this week. More than 800 Aboriginal people had ...
Abuse hearings for Tiwi IslandersThe West Australian

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The Guardian
Child abuse commission broadens scope to focus on indigenous kids
The Australian
Across Australia, research shows “many indigenous children who had been removed from their families were cruelly treated — many suffered physical and sexual abuse,” commission chair Peter McClellan said this week. More than 800 Aboriginal people had ...
Indigenous recognition: the concerns of those opposed must be taken seriouslyThe Guardian

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CANBERRA OBSERVED Forrest's bold plan for indigenous Australians
News Weekly
Last October, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, commissioned a report from Andrew Forrest, one of Australia's leading business leaders with an unrivalled record of working for the advancement of indigenous Australians, to prepare a report on how ...

CANBERRA OBSERVED Forrest's bold plan for indigenous Australians
News Weekly
Last October, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, commissioned a report from Andrew Forrest, one of Australia's leading business leaders with an unrivalled record of working for the advancement of indigenous Australians, to prepare a report on how ...

CANBERRA OBSERVED Forrest's bold plan for indigenous Australians
News Weekly
Last October, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, commissioned a report from Andrew Forrest, one of Australia's leading business leaders with an unrivalled record of working for the advancement of indigenous Australians, to prepare a report on how ...

The West Australian
Canberra cuts funds for Aboriginal communities
The West Australian
Mr Scullion said: "Providing essential and municipal services in towns and cities across Australia has always been the responsibility of State and local governments and it should be no different in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.".

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The West Australian
Canberra cuts funds for Aboriginal communities
The West Australian
Mr Scullion said: "Providing essential and municipal services in towns and cities across Australia has always been the responsibility of State and local governments and it should be no different in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.".

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Federal Government reaches $100 million deal with states to provide services ...
ABC Online
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said there had been an ad-hoc approach to the issue in the past and the new deal would make it clearer who was responsible. "In every other town and city across Australia, essential municipal services are the ...

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