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SBS
PM unaware vital Aboriginal legal service is about to lose Commonwealth funding
SBS
Under New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory law, police agencies are legally obliged to call the Custody Notification Service if it has an Aboriginal person in custody. The CNS also allows Aboriginal people to receive culturally appropriate ...
Funding threat to 24-hour phone line connecting Aboriginal people in custody ...ABC Online
Hotline credited with reducing Aboriginal deaths in custody loses Government ...ABC Message Stick

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An Aboriginal activist says the only way Australia will be able to stop racism is to lose its 'privilege of whiteness'. Nakkiah Lui spoke at a forum ...

The Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) Acting Chief Legal Officer Jeremy ... two Aboriginal people have died in police custody: one in Western Australia ...

A cognitively impaired South Australian man has been forced to spend almost a ... The national Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign said anecdotal ...

The Guardian
Fighting proud: the remarkable story of Indigenous AFL icon Michael Long
The Guardian
Flanagan's latest book is an unconventional biography of the champion Australian Rules footballer and indigenous community leader Michael Long. He calls it a “funny, serious book” to match its subject - and it is. It'll make you laugh at the absurdity ...

ABC Online
After 70 years, Aboriginal sacred site Kurlpurlunu found in Central Australia
ABC Online
An Aboriginal elder in Central Australia has shed tears of joy upon rediscovering a sacred site lost for the past 70 years. Previous attempts to find the Tanami Desert site, known as Kurlpurlunu, had proved fruitless until 82-year-old Jerry Jangala ...

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An Aboriginal elder in Central Australia has shed tears of joy upon rediscovering a sacred site lost for the past 70 years. Previous attempts to find the ...

... Australia had been interpreted in art and carvings by aboriginal people for thousands of years, however, not by non-aboriginal and Australian artists.

Indigenous public holiday to recognise reconciliation not ruled out
The Australian
As National Reconciliation Week came to a close yesterday, the Prime Minister was asked if it was time to consider a nationwide indigenous holiday like Mabo Day. Many Australians mark June 3 as Mabo Day — commemorating the landmark High Court land ...

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As a suicide prevention researcher, I have disaggregated Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicides. According to the Australian Bureau of ...

This statement by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice ... Australia is currently immersed in the 'outrage' of a 'war dance' and an ...

Meanwhile, an Australian Aboriginal leader in Alberta this week warned First Nations celebrating the release of the Truth and Reconciliation not to get ...

Edmonton Journal
Aboriginal group fighting massive Australian coal mine consults with Alberta ...
Edmonton Journal
On Adrian Burragubba's ancestral lands in Australia — arid pasture land, beautiful mountains, rivers and clear springs — the world's second-largest coal mine would devastate the wildlife and the land, he says. “We're the messengers here to tell the ...
Keep pushing on Truth and Reconciliation report:Australian AboriginalsCityNews

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On Adrian Burragubba's ancestral lands in Australia — arid pasture land, beautiful mountains, rivers and clear springs — the world's second-largest ...

“My journey into Aboriginal Australia has also been my journey into an understanding of Australia and my place within Australia,” he tells Guardian ...

Aboriginal people experience the worst health of any population group within Australia, with lower life expectancy than non-Aboriginal people, high ...

Globalnews.ca
Canadian First Nations need to push for change: Australian aboriginal leaders
Globalnews.ca
Murrawah Johnson, who's part of the Australian delegation, says Canadian aboriginals have to be willing to make mainstream society a little uncomfortable if they want action on their report. Burragubba and Johnson are in Alberta as part of an ...
Aboriginal group fighting massive Australian coal mine consults with Alberta ...Edmonton Journal
Keep pushing on Truth and Reconciliation report:Australian AboriginalsCityNews

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Adrian Burragubba, leader of two Australian aboriginal groups, says Australia held its own inquiry back in the 1990s into the removal of aboriginal ...

This year, under a national Australia Research Council grant, John is leading a project, Serving Our Country, that explores the role of Aboriginal ...

Let's be realistic: The odds of Prime Minister Stephen Harper conceding that the abuse and neglect of Aboriginal children at residential schools was ...