Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

The Guardian
Indigenous advocate: 'jail is part of our life and part of being institutionalised'
The Guardian
“It's hard to think of a population group on the planet that is as incarcerated as Aboriginal men in Western Australia,” the chief justice of the WA supreme court, Wayne Martin, told Guardian Australia. WA Police is conducting an internal investigation ...

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The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull battles Liberal dissent over Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull is facing a fresh outbreak of internal dissent over the proposal to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution before talks about the referendum on Thursday with the Labor leader, Bill Shorten. The South Australian Liberal ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Scullion says treaty could be considered
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says Parliament should consider a treaty with Indigenous Australians if it is recommended by the recognition referendum council, breaking ranks with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the controversial issue.
Protesters confront Nigel Scullion over Don Dale response as Tom Calma calls for his resignationABC Online

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The Australian
Liberal Party split widens as Ken Wyatt calls WA youth division prejudiced
The Australian
He has hit out at the group, saying they were engaging in “Aboriginal-sogyny”: prejudice against indigenous Australians. However, he said he did not want to stop debate on the conference floor and respected the right of those with an opposing view to ...

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The Guardian
Noel Pearson: Indigenous people need to take responsibility over youth incarceration
The Guardian
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has criticised “selective outrage” over the Northern Territory juvenile detention abuse saga, saying Indigenous people need to take some responsibility. Pearson says more focus is needed on preventing children from ...

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ABC Online
Noel Pearson: Royal commission won't fix problems facing ... - ABC
ABC Online
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has made an impassioned plea for Australians to channel their outrage into more than just another royal commission into ...
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ABC Online
Noel Pearson: Royal commission won't fix problems facing Indigenous Australia
ABC Online
Mr Pearson also said Australia should not let the Indigenous constitutional recognition debate be derailed. He said while recognition was purely symbolic, it should be seen as an "enabler" for further reform. "I call it putting a little plaque into the ...
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusionThe Conversation AU
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlightNEWS.com.au
Gassing of Indigenous youth in Australian detention system reeks of colonialismIntercontinental Cry
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The Guardian
Indigenous injustice: it beggars belief that so much evidence was ignored
The Guardian
Incontrovertible CCTV evidence of Aboriginal children subject to demeaning, debilitating and dehumanising behavior has galvanised the Australian community and prompted the creation of a royal commission with an unprecedented breadth of investigation.
Revelations of Australia's Abu Ghraib Force Gov't to ActIDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters

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The Guardian
Bill Shorten: Abbott cared more than Turnbull about Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
Bill Shorten has said the Liberal party is not giving the same level of attention to the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians as it did when Tony Abbott led the party. The Labor leader also dismissed criticism he was pushing for too ...
Shorten's push for Indigenous treaty a 'bridge too far' say Coalition MPsABC Online
Treaties and settlements next on recognition agenda, says ShortenSBS
Bill Shorten says Malcolm Turnbull showing less interest in indigenous issues than Tony AbbottThe Australian
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Indigenous child torture is Australia's shame
Echonetdaily
Australia along with other countries has signed international treaties upholding the Rights of the Child and treaties against torture. The recent 4 Corners program 'Australia's Shame', outlining the abuse and torture of indigenous children in detention ...

The Guardian
Brandis had considered adding Indigenous commissioner for NT inquiry
The Guardian
Dodson, who was also Australia's first social justice commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, gave a scathing assessment of governments over the past 40 years, stating Indigenous policy was plagued by politicians who repeated the ...
Indigenous commissioner to hear NT victimsSBS
Thousands In Australia Protest After Videos Showing Prison Abuse Of Aboriginal Teens SurfaceThinkProgress
Australia Aboriginal leader to probe teen prison abuseDaily Mail
Anadolu Agency -NEWS.com.au
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New Matilda
Servant Or Slave: Stunning New Documentary Exposes Australia's Stolen Wages History
New Matilda
The Indigenous filmmakers introduce us to five Aboriginal women, now grandmothers, who describe their own childhoods without knowing family. Stolen as small children by Australian governments, they were raised by institutions, deprived of the love of ...

The Conversation AU
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
The Conversation AU
Unfortunately, however, these reforms largely failed to make substantive change in Indigenous water rights or to engage Indigenous people effectively. Today, Indigenous Australians have land rights and/or native title rights and interests over some 30 ...
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlightNEWS.com.au
Four Corners: Coalition rules out Indigenous co-commissioners for NT inquiry into juvenile justiceABC Online
Don Dale: Shorten calls for two indigenous commissionersThe Australian
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Intercontinental Cry
Gassing of Indigenous youth in Australian detention system reeks of colonialism
Intercontinental Cry
Last week, shocking footage depicting security personnel in a Northern Territory (NT) juvenile detention center teargasing and torturing indigenous detainees made headline news in Australia. In contrast to the uproar it has now engendered, this ...
Indigenous commissioner to hear NT victimsSBS
Thousands In Australia Protest After Videos Showing Prison Abuse Of Aboriginal Teens SurfaceThinkProgress
Australia Aboriginal leader to probe teen prison abuseDaily Mail
Anadolu Agency -NEWS.com.au
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ABC Online
Mark McGowan calls for Prime Minister to intervene on Liberals' Indigenous recognition motion
ABC Online
West Australian Opposition Leader Mark McGowan has called on the Prime Minister to intervene and force the WA Liberals to withdraw a motion on Indigenous recognition, which he says has the potential to become "an ugly blot on our society and an ...

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Financial Times
Australia abuse probe judge steps down
Financial Times
The judge appointed to head a public inquiry into alleged abuse perpetrated against indigenous children in Australian juvenile detention centres has resigned four days after taking the job. Brian Martin said on Monday he was stepping down from the role ...
Mick Gooda 'obvious' pick for royal commission into youth detentionSBS
NT probe a waste without indigenous inputYahoo7 News
NT juvenile detention: Brian Martin stands down as royal commissionerThe Guardian

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Yahoo7 News
Australia Aboriginal leader to probe teen prison abuse
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - An Australian Aboriginal leader was Monday appointed to investigate the abuse of teenagers at a detention centre after the judge named to lead the inquiry resigned, saying he lacked the confidence of the indigenous community.
Thousands In Australia Protest After Videos Showing Prison Abuse Of Aboriginal Teens SurfaceThinkProgress
New heads appointed to Australian child prisoner abuse inquiryDeutsche Welle
Australia abuse probe judge steps downFinancial Times
The Guardian (Australia) -ABC Online
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RT
Indigenous commissioner to hear NT victims
SBS
The government on Monday caved to public pressure and appointed an indigenous Australia as co-commissioner of the inquiry into NT youth prison in place of former NT chief justice Brian Martin. Hours after Justice Martin announced his resignation, the ...
Australians protest over government's lax reaction to abuse of Aboriginal teen detaineesRT
'Australia can't run as a one-man band'NEWS.com.au
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissionersThe Australian
Yahoo7 News -Pro Bono Australia
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The Australian
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissioners
The Australian
Mr Martin said the “disingenuous and ill-informed” commentary had made it difficult for Aboriginal Australians to have “full confidence” in the inquiry. Mr Gooda, a descendant of the Gangulu people of Central Queensland, has been an advocate for ...
A royal commission addresses the symptoms of dysfunction – not the causesThe Australian Financial Review
Mick Gooda 'obvious' pick for commissionerSBS

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The Guardian
Brian Martin resigns as head of Royal Commission into NT youth detention
NEWS.com.au
On Mr Gooda, he said he is “Gungulu man from central Queensland” and “is well known as one of Australia's most highly regarded Indigenous leaders”. Mr Brandis said “the royal commission is too important to become a political play thing”. Justic White ...
Brandis had considered adding Indigenous commissioner for NT inquiryThe Guardian
Gassing of Indigenous youth in Australian detention system reeks of colonialismIntercontinental Cry
Indigenous commissioner to hear NT victimsSBS
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