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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
UN asked to investigate use of restraints on intellectually disabled Aboriginal man
The Guardian
The United Nations has been asked to investigate the use of restraints on an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man 17 times in the past four years. Malcolm Morton, 25, was found unfit to plead to a murder charge in 2012 over the stabbing death of his ...

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A First Nation’s lawyer has raised questions about the ethics of the appointment of social justice commissioner Mick Gooda to the role of royal co-commissioner. Palawa man Michael Mansell said past appointments of Mr Gooda to sit on government appointed committees such as the expert panel on constitutional recognition and the Referendum Council indicates a relationship between the government and Mr Gooda. From: National Indigenous Radio

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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Queensland law professor Kerry Carrington says she applauds the Prime Minister for appointing an Aboriginal commissioner but that the national statistics on juvenile justice suggest a broader inquiry is needed. Professor Carrington has been looking at youth justice for many years. She told Eleanor Hall she is particularly concerned about the massive numbers of young people who are in detention and have not even been convicted of a crime and she says the number of Indigenous children in detention should set off alarm bells nationwide. Eleanor Hall ABC 'The World Today'

ABC Online
Noel Pearson: Royal commission won't fix problems facing Indigenous Australia
ABC Online
A royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody was held 25 years ago and Mr Pearson says like that one, this one will not address the forces driving Aboriginal people into incarceration in the first place. "We can't allow our outrage to be selective.
Interview: Noel Pearson, Indigenous Leader and lawyerABC Message Stick
Noel Pearson: Indigenous people need to take responsibility over youth incarcerationThe Guardian

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Noel Pearson: Royal commission won't fix problems facing ... - ABC
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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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The Conversation AU
The Aboriginal football ethic: where the rules get flexible
The Conversation AU
In making this claim, Blainey suggested the sport was the outcome of Anglo-Australian cultural innovations. In raising the prospect of an Aboriginal football ethic, we question this assertion and ask who is really taking this indigenous sport forward ...

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Northern Territory prison's treatment of intellectually disabled - ABC
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The United Nations Human Rights Council is being asked to investigate the case of an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man who has been repeatedly strapped ...
UN asked to investigate use of restraints on intellectually disabled ...The Guardian

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Interview: Noel Pearson, Indigenous Leader and lawyer
ABC Message Stick
At the Garma Festival on the weekend, he slammed Australia's "selective outrage": while we're filled with grief over the images from the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, he says, we remain unmoved by the structural disadvantage that still sees ...
Teargassing of Indigenous Youth in Australian Detention System Reeks of ColonialismTruth-Out

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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
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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
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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 ...

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 ...

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The Conversation AU
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal people have an essential stake in the future of northern Australia … Aboriginal people must be front and centre in planning processes for the north. This is a fundamental gap in the national discourse about northern development … I'm not ...
Calls for two Aboriginal co-commissionersSky News Australia
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlightNEWS.com.au
Australians protest over government's lax reaction to abuse of Aboriginal teen detaineesRT
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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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