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The Indigenous justice divide
ABC Online
New data released last week shows that the incarceration rates for Aboriginal women have increased. According to research by University of New South Wales's Professor Eileen Baldry, the number of prisoners in Australia has risen by 31 per cent in the ...

'Big positives' seen in Closing the Gap measures
ABC Online
A Port Augusta community worker says there is evidence that Council of Australian Governments (COAG) goals are helping to Close the Gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians' health. The Aboriginal project manager for the Centacare Port ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Sadly, the Redfern speech is still the high-water mark for inclusion
Sydney Morning Herald
The best example of this is the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association, which has helped the medical profession to be more aware and responsive to the needs of indigenous people, mentoring a new generation of indigenous doctors who have shaped ...
Keating and the speech we had to haveThe Australian
Redfern marks Keating speech, 20 years onABC Online
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A lock-up is not always the answer
The Age
With that in mind, it is deeply disturbing to learn that 27 per cent of prisoners in Australia's jails are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people - more than 10 times their representation in the broader community. And while Aboriginal and Torres ...
New laws 'cause rise in child abuse reports'SBS

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Langton strikes back with a 'nig nog' response to Bornstein
The Australian
"Did Flannery intend in this statement to be provocative and racist -- asserting wrongly that mining would occur in this area because of the transfer of title to Aboriginal people -- or has he succumbed to the environmental campaign ideology that ...

Redfern speech promised much, delivered little
The Australian
Bellear was a member of the council between 1997 and 2000. "They were the ones who should have handled this agenda that Keating had set forward on behalf of Aboriginal Australia for non Aboriginal Australia," he says. "They didn't do that. "I really ...

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Keating and the speech we had to have
The Australian
TWENTY years ago today, the prime minister of Australia went to Redfern to launch the International Year of the World's Indigenous Peoples. He gave a speech the like of which had never been heard from a prime minister since the birth of the nation.
Indigenous Australians mark 20th anniv. of Redfern SpeechPress TV
Redfern marks Keating speech, 20 years onABC Message Stick
Indigenous elders mark 20 years since Keating's Redfern speechCowra Community News
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Dawn rises on new TV venture
Sydney Morning Herald
Ebeid identifies three key elements in NITV's aims: ''To share indigenous culture and stories with broader Australia; for indigenous stories and culture to be shared with indigenous people, as it's incredibly important for indigenous people to see ...

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Paul Keating with Anon Link, 7, at Redfern Park in 1992. Picture: Steven ...
The Australian
The speech put reconciliation on Australia's political agenda and is credited as paving the way for 2007's formal apology to indigenous Australians. In a statement, co-chairs of Reconciliation Australia, Dr Tom Calma and Melinda Cilento, said Mr ...
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Reconciliation: What progress since Redfern 1992?SBS

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Redfern marks Keating speech, 20 years on
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The speech put reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians firmly on the political agenda, and some say it paved the way for the formal apology to Indigenous Australians. "It was we who did the dispossessing; we took the ...
Hope and frustration two decades after RedfernThe Australian (blog)
Reconciliation: What progress since Redfern 1992?SBS

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Redfern marks Keating speech, 20 years on
ABC Online
The speech put reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians firmly on the political agenda, and some say it paved the way for the formal apology to Indigenous Australians. "It was we who did the dispossessing; we took the ...
Reconciliation: What progress since Redfern 1992?SBS
Hope and frustration two decades after RedfernThe Australian (blog)

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Reconciliation: What progress since Redfern 1992?
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December the 10th is Human Rights Day, and 20 years since former Prime Minister Paul Keating delivered a landmark speech at the Sydney suburb of Redfern, acknowledging the wrongs done to Australia's Indigenous people. (Transcript from World News ...
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Abuse rates of Indigenous NT youth 'above average'
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The Northern Territory Children's Commissioner says rates of abuse among Aboriginal children have risen above the national average for the first time. The commissioner's annual report also shows that while sexual exploitation rates have fallen, neglect ...

The young Chris Sarra with his family's boxing goat, from his memoir, Good ...
The Australian
Sarra, 45, is the first to admit it's early in his life to write a memoir, but he was prompted by the direction of indigenous policy that resulted in the Northern Territory intervention and linked welfare payments to school attendance. "Passion Pop ...

The Aboriginal 'community' amounts to a dangerous myth for some and an alibi ...
The Australian (blog)
THE word "community" is the most vexing concept in Australian indigenous policy. It is ubiquitous, internalised as much by the black fellas who live in what are called Aboriginal communities, as well as the preferred nomenclature of the outside world.

Brisbane Times
Flannery defends against race claim
Brisbane Times
THE Aboriginal academic Marcia Langton has accused the former Australian of the Year Tim Flannery of holding a racist belief that indigenous Australians are ''enemies of nature''. In her fourth Boyer lecture, an extract of which is published in today's ...
Romantic ideas fail the green testSydney Morning Herald

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Hope and frustration two decades after Redfern
The Australian (blog)
IT is 20 years since Paul Keating challenged the nation "to extend opportunity and care, dignity and hope to the indigenous people of Australia" in an elegant landmark speech in the Sydney suburb of Redfern. Sadly the wellbeing of the first Australians ...

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Langton attacks Flannery for holding 'racist' belief
The Age
ABORIGINAL academic Marcia Langton has accused former Australian of the year Tim Flannery of holding a racist belief that indigenous Australians are ''enemies of nature''. In her fourth Boyer lecture, an extract of which is published in today's ...
Romantic ideas fail the green testSydney Morning Herald

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Reception problems a risk to remote indigenous communities
ABC Online
The man who oversees remote indigenous services says poor and sometimes non-existent mobile phone services are putting the safety of Aboriginal communities at risk. He says adequate reception should form part of the telco's social responsibilities, but ...

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LNG commitment to Indigenous jobs questioned
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"It means union expertise, influence and knowledge will be a key component in Aboriginal Australians' dealings with large and powerful commercial entities and government organisations," he said. Claims rejected Santos says it has put forward several ...

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