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Poche Indigenous health centre opens in Queensland
UQ News
Mr Poche, the founder and former owner of logistics company Star Track Express, said the 11-year health and life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was unacceptable. “Improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous ...

Poche Indigenous health centre opens in Queensland
UQ News
Mr Poche, the founder and former owner of logistics company Star Track Express, said the 11-year health and life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was unacceptable. “Improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous ...

Yahoo7 News
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency flags refusing new clients amid ...
Yahoo7 News
The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), based in Darwin, is one of the frontline organisations that will be affected by millions of dollars in funding cuts to legal aid and community legal centres around Australia. Chief executive ...

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ABC Online
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency flags refusing new clients amid ...
ABC Online
One of the major Aboriginal legal services in the Northern Territory says it will soon have to stop taking new clients amid uncertainty over its funding next financial year. The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), based in Darwin, is ...

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Lawyers Weekly
Top legal bodies want cuts to Aboriginal legal aid reversed
Lawyers Weekly
“The likely consequences of these cuts will be chaos in the courts and an increase in indigenous imprisonment, [which is] already at unprecedented levels,” said Australian Bar Association (ABA) president Fiona McLeod SC (pictured). Ms McLeod said the ...

Lawyers Weekly
ABA and LCA want cuts to Aboriginal legal aid reversed
Lawyers Weekly
Ms McLeod said the statistics concerning indigenous incarceration in Australia are “damning” and constitute a “national crisis”. Aboriginal people represent 2.3 per cent of Australia's population, but 27.4 per cent of Australia's jail population ...

National Indigenous Radio 98.9fm - Warren Barnsley - The Noongar Tent Embassy in Perth say they want to bring International attention to the Western Australian Government's plans to defund remote communities. - The Embassy on Matagarup, or Heirisson Island, has set up a 'refugee camp' to take in displaced Indigenous peoples if communities are closed and people forced off their land. - Noongar advocate Marianne Mackay told 98.9fm shutting down First Nations homelands is a policy which harks back to early colonial days.

Sydney Morning Herald
State Attorneys-General unite to warn George Brandis of crisis in legal funding
Sydney Morning Herald
In a blistering letter sent to Senator Brandis on Thursday and signed by the first law officers of all states and territories, the Attorneys-General state that women and children who are victims of domestic violence and Indigenous Australians are among ...
States and territories unite in fight against legal assistance funding cutsYahoo7 News
ACT joins chorus of government protest against Legal Aid cutsThe Canberra Times
State and territory attorney generals ask George Brandis to better fund legal aidThe Guardian

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Give Aborigines jobs and responsibility rather than more welfare
The Australian (blog)
Since 2008 Fortescue has trained and assisted more than 1500 Aboriginal people through our VTEC program. VTEC is not corporate welfare: it's an opportunity for indigenous Australians to choose a life of work and contribution — and it works. We ...

Give Aborigines jobs and responsibility rather than more welfare
The Australian (blog)
Since 2008 Fortescue has trained and assisted more than 1500 Aboriginal people through our VTEC program. VTEC is not corporate welfare: it's an opportunity for indigenous Australians to choose a life of work and contribution — and it works. We ...

The Guardian
Indigenous services get only short-term reprieve in federal funding round
The Guardian
Kwils' chief executive, Sandra Nelson, told Guardian Australia there was no way to apply for the SLA under the scheme's parameters because the service was not specifically targeted at Indigenous women, and so she did not understand how the funding ...
ACT joins chorus of government protest against Legal Aid cutsThe Canberra Times
State Attorneys-General unite to warn George Brandis of crisis in legal fundingSydney Morning Herald

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SBS
Indigenous Australian women still fighting discrimination
SBS
For International Women's Day National Indigenous Television (NITV) looks at the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia who have done tremendous things to advance basic human rights of Australia's First Peoples and contributed in ...
Say 'No' to 'Recognise'On Line opinion

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SBS
Indigenous Australian women still fighting discrimination
SBS
For International Women's Day National Indigenous Television (NITV) looks at the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in Australia who have done tremendous things to advance basic human rights of Australia's First Peoples and contributed in ...
Say 'No' to 'Recognise'On Line opinion

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The Guardian
WA premier flags communities review but fails to meet Indigenous leaders
The Guardian
Aboriginal land councils used the meeting to insist that Aboriginal people be given a say in issues like the remote community closures, declaring in a joint statement that “governments cannot decide where Aboriginal people live in Western Australia”.
Barnett warns evidence of remote child abuse will shockThe Australian

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The Guardian
WA premier flags communities review but fails to meet Indigenous leaders
The Guardian
Aboriginal land councils used the meeting to insist that Aboriginal people be given a say in issues like the remote community closures, declaring in a joint statement that “governments cannot decide where Aboriginal people live in Western Australia”.
Barnett warns evidence of remote child abuse will shockThe Australian
Review will expose 'mistreatment of kids'Perth Now

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Sydney Morning Herald
Recognising Aboriginal Australians in constitution 'perverse racism': Senator ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Senator David Leyonhjelm has become the first Australian politician to break with the bipartisan push for constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians, saying their identification in the nation's foundation document would represent a "perverse ...
Behind the Gap Part 4: Indigenous justiceABC Online
Indigenous legal service to shut down after losing federal fundingThe Guardian
Indigenous recognition 'a perverse sort of racism', says David LeyonhjelmThe Guardian
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ABC Online
Behind the Gap: Indigenous justice
ABC Online
In the fourth and final instalment of the 'Behind The Gap' series, RN Drive examines the overrepresentation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system, hears the stories of those who have passed through it and asks what needs to change.
Nigel Scullion proclaims 'new relationship' with Indigenous AustraliansSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous legal service to shut down after losing federal fundingThe Guardian
Senator Leyonhjelm calls constitutional recognition of Indigenous people 'racist'SBS
Yahoo7 News
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Sydney Morning Herald
Recognising Aboriginal Australians in constitution 'perverse racism': Senator ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Senator David Leyonhjelm has become the first Australian politician to break with the bipartisan push for constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians, saying their identification in the nation's foundation document would represent a "perverse ...
Behind the Gap: Indigenous justiceABC Online
Recognition a healthy startThe Australian
Constitutional recognition of Indigenous people 'racist': Senator David LeyonhjelmYahoo7 News
SBS
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The Guardian
Vital Indigenous health services have funding renewed for three years
The Guardian
“This funding reaffirms the Abbott government's commitment to closing the gap and to meeting the government's priorities of getting Indigenous Australians into work, ensuring children go to school and making communities safer,” the health minister ...

The Guardian
Vital Indigenous health services have funding renewed for three years
The Guardian
“This funding reaffirms the Abbott government's commitment to closing the gap and to meeting the government's priorities of getting Indigenous Australians into work, ensuring children go to school and making communities safer,” the health minister ...