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The Northern Territory's Police Commissioner has revealed plans to send a unit of camouflaged, specialised police with military-grade weapons to patrol Darwin and Alice Springs at night.

The Territory Response Group is known as the TRG, and is part of the Australian Government's National Counter Terrorism Task Force.

The announcement comes a week to the day since a Royal Commission delivered its report on youth detention and child protection systems in the Northern Territory.

Herald Sun
Edward Tudor recognised for helping Aboriginal students from across nation
Herald Sun
Mr Tudor said it was the decision by Richmond Football Club chiefs to provide a space for the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School that helped seal the deal. But other supporters say it's the tireless commitment from the executive director that ...

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Herald Sun
Edward Tudor recognised for helping Aboriginal students from across nation
Herald Sun
Mr Tudor said it was the decision by Richmond Football Club chiefs to provide a space for the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School that helped seal the deal. But other supporters say it's the tireless commitment from the executive director that ...

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The Guardian
Australia could face UN criticism over dismissal of Indigenous voice to parliament
The Guardian
The National Congress co-chair, Rod Little, travelled to Geneva along with representatives from the Human Rights Law Centre and other organisations this week to brief members of the committee. “The Australian government's relationship with Aboriginal ...

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SBS
Indigenous Australians most harassed in the workplace: study
SBS
Thirty-eight per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian workers experienced discrimination or harassment over the past year, a survey by non-profit organisation Diversity Council Australia has found. Indigenous people only comprise 2 ...

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SBS
Indigenous Australians most harassed in the workplace: study
SBS
Indigenous Australians have experienced disadvantage since European settlement in 1788 including the 'White Australia' policies in the 20th century, where the government forcibly removed Indigenous children with one non-Indigenous or mixed heritage ...

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Indigenous Australians most harassed in the workplace: study
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Thirty-eight per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian workers experienced discrimination or harassment over the past year, a survey by non-profit organisation Diversity Council Australia has found. Indigenous people only comprise 2 ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Push to rename electorate after trailblazer for Indigenous Australian rights
The Sydney Morning Herald
"As a proud Indigenous woman who lives in this electorate I think changing its name to Cooper in honour of the great William Cooper is a wonderful idea," she said. "Everyone should know about this remarkable civil rights campaigner who was amongst the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Push to rename electorate after trailblazer for Indigenous Australian rights
The Sydney Morning Herald
In 1934 he launched a petition rallying King George V for a representative for indigenous people in Federal Parliament, to help address injustices. Then prime minister Joseph Lyons failed to pass it on and the petition never reached the king. Mr Cooper ...

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ABC Online
Mungo Man welcomed back to country in dance and song
ABC Online
Five Indigenous dance groups from different parts of the country came to perform, each representing a star in the southern cross, or the points of the compass. From the north, the Yolngu nation from Galiwinku, Elcho Island and Nhulunbuy in the Norther ...

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ABC Online
Mungo Man welcomed back to country in dance and song
ABC Online
Five Indigenous dance groups from different parts of the country came to perform, each representing a star in the southern cross, or the points of the compass. From the north, the Yolngu nation from Galiwinku, Elcho Island and Nhulunbuy in the Norther ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
After Don Dale, a new path for Indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
Royal commissions are usually only appointed by governments as a last resort for they are slow, costly and can merely make recommendations, not laws. The greatest risk associated with them is that while they can be cathartic, they are not guaranteed to ...

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Business Insider Australia
An Aboriginal painting just set a new Australian record for a female artist
Business Insider Australia
A work the late Aboriginal artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye has set a new record for a work by an Australian female painter. Earth's Creation 1, a large work from the Utopia artist, painted in 1994, sold for nearly double the price paid for it 10 years ago ...
Record sale of artwork by Indigenous woman Emily Kngwarreye highlights gender gapABC Online

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ABC Online
Rottnest Island's Aboriginal prisoners are Australia's forgotten patriots, elder says
ABC Online
It is time for Australia to face the truth about hundreds of Aboriginal prisoners who died on Rottnest Island in the 19th century and are buried in unmarked graves, a leading Aboriginal academic says. WARNING: This story contains images of Aboriginal ...

Business Insider Australia
Aboriginal art $2.1m auction breaks record
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"The brokering of this stunning painting with my colleagues at Cooee has been one of the highlights of my forty year career in the auction industry. This sale will go a long way to breathing life back into the Aboriginal art market. Aboriginal art is ...
An Aboriginal painting just set a new Australian record for a female artistBusiness Insider Australia
Record sale of artwork by Indigenous woman Emily Kngwarreye highlights gender gapABC Online

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SBS
Study shows Aboriginal Australians were aiding the spread of plants thousands of years ago
SBS
A new study has revealed Australian Aboriginal groups helped the spread of edible plants by hand long before Europeans arrived. The research on rainforest tree Castanospermum australe or black bean, reveals through DNA testing that isolated populations ...

ABC Online
Peter Carey steers new novel A Long Way from Home into Australia's Aboriginal past
ABC Online
Acclaimed writer Peter Carey says he previously avoided writing about Australia's Aboriginal past, fearing that it was not his place to speak about race. The cover of Peter Carey's A Long Way From Home. Photo: Peter Carey's A Long Way From Home ...

ABC Online
Indigenous military veterans from regional Australia honoured in national photography exhibition
ABC Online
The two photographers began capturing the stories of Indigenous veterans at Redfern in 2014. They have since photographed about 200 veterans from all over Australia. The pair was in Newcastle speaking to Hunter Valley veterans ahead of their exhibition ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians travelling 1000 kilometres for kidney dialysis: report
The Sydney Morning Herald
Gumatj clan ceremonial leaders and Mutitjulu elders at the First Nations National Convention at the Mutitjulu community near Uluru in May. A new report into Aboriginal health has found that some elders miss important community ceremonies because they ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australians travelling 1000 kilometres for kidney dialysis: report
The Sydney Morning Herald
Gumatj clan ceremonial leaders and Mutitjulu elders at the First Nations National Convention at the Mutitjulu community near Uluru in May. A new report into Aboriginal health has found that some elders miss important community ceremonies because they ...
Kidney specialists call for system overhaul to stop Indigenous patients making fatal choicesABC Online

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