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Lawyers call for action on Indigenous prison rates
ABC Online
Law Council president-elect Duncan McDonnell says that since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991, Indigenous imprisonment rates across Australia have almost doubled. He says the situation is particularly serious in the ...

Lawyers call for action on Indigenous prison rates
ABC Online
Law Council president-elect Duncan McDonnell says that since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991, Indigenous imprisonment rates across Australia have almost doubled. He says the situation is particularly serious in the ...

Call for new focus on indigenous jailing
The Australian
Representatives from the Law Council of Australia and Australian Bar Association were in Darwin on Friday meeting with Aboriginal legal services. Association president Michael Colbran QC wants incarceration rates to be put on the national agenda.

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Concerns over future for indigenous languages in Australia
Radio Australia
To right that wrong, he's set his sights on reviving the endangered Barngarla language - native to indigenous people across South Australia's eastern Eyre Peninsula. In a case of strange bedfellows. This Israeli-Jewish migrant has teamed up with ...

Action call on Aboriginal jail crisis
The Australian
The Law Council of Australia and the Australian Bar Association are meeting today in Darwin with representatives from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services to nut out plans for an ongoing campaign to focus attention on ...
Indigenous affairs: where the parties standABC Message Stick

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Aboriginal artists protected by Australian resale rights
AMA
Resale rights have been active in Australia since June 2010. Now, three years after their implementation, it seems that revenues from the practice are contributing to the protection of works by Aboriginal artists. According to an articled published on ...

Indigenous child abuse reports 'tip of the iceberg'
ABC Online
Reports of sexual abuse of Australian Indigenous children have increased, but many cases are still going unreported, according to a leading advocate of Indigenous rights. Dr Kylie Cripps, acting director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the University ...
Most Indigenous child sex abuse cases 'unreported'ABC Message Stick

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Increase in Indigenous child abuse reports 'tip of the iceberg', advocate says
Yahoo!7 News
Reports of sexual abuse of Australian Indigenous children have increased, but many cases are still going unreported, according to a leading advocate of Indigenous rights. Dr Kylie Cripps, acting director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the University ...
Most Indigenous child sex abuse cases 'unreported'ABC Message Stick

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Most Indigenous child sex abuse cases 'unreported'
ABC Online
Since the 'Little Children are Sacred' report and the Northern Territory Intervention, the reports of sexual abuse of indigenous children have gone up, with 935 cases in the last year alone. Dr Kylie Cripps is the Acting Director of the Indigenous Law ...

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Most Indigenous child sex abuse cases 'unreported'
ABC Message Stick
KYLIE CRIPPS: In 2011/2012 there were 935 substantiated reports of sexual abuse involving Indigenous children. This means that Indigenous children represented 19.48 per cent of the child sexual abuse substantiated reports in Australia whilst only ...
Increase in Indigenous child abuse reports 'tip of the iceberg', advocate saysYahoo!7 News

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The West Australian
Forrest targets indigenous' jobs
The West Australian
... link indigenous job seekers with GenerationOne's employment opportunities. GenerationOne is a movement founded by Mr Forrest about three years ago to end indigenous disadvantage in Australia through employment. Follow thewest.com.au on Twitter ...

The Guardian
Indigenous incomes still not keeping up with Australian average
The Guardian
Adjusting for inflation, Indigenous Australians' average disposable income was $400 per week in 2006. In 2011, this jumped to $488, a 22% increase. Despite this rapid increase, the income for non-Indigenous Australians increased by 25.6% over the same ...

Forrest targets indigenous' jobs
The Australian
... link indigenous job seekers with GenerationOne's employment opportunities. GenerationOne is a movement founded by Mr Forrest about three years ago to end indigenous disadvantage in Australia through employment. Digital Pass $1 for first 28 Days.

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The West Australian
Forrest targets indigenous' jobs
The West Australian
... link indigenous job seekers with GenerationOne's employment opportunities. GenerationOne is a movement founded by Mr Forrest about three years ago to end indigenous disadvantage in Australia through employment. Follow thewest.com.au on Twitter ...

Endangered Indigenous language back from the brink
ABC Online
When it comes to Indigenous languages in Australia the situation is grim, according to a leading linguistics professor. It's one of the topics being discussed at an international conference in Adelaide starting today, focussing on loss and the revival ...

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New Health Plan to Help Close the Gap
Invest in Australia
The Australian Government has released the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan – an evidence-based policy framework to guide policies and programs to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health over the next decade.

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Indigenous jobs forum
ABC Online
Aboriginal engagement has been on the agenda in the Pilbara for the last couple of days, with Aboriginal groups, employers and training organisations meeting to discuss how they can work together. The forum was held on Peedamulla station, just near the ...

SBS
Excitement over 'new' Indigenous language
SBS
"It's so widely believed among many people in Australia that humans are fundamentally monolingual and that we have to choose and that Indigenous kids have to choose. Are they going to maintain their traditional language or are they going to speak ...

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SBS
'New' Indigenous language discovered
SBS
"It's so widely believed among many people in Australia that humans are fundamentally monolingual and that we have to choose and that Indigenous kids have to choose. Are they going to maintain their traditional language or are they going to speak ...

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Crikey (blog)
Linking you into the new National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health ...
Crikey (blog)
On Tuesday 23 July, whilst the Australian media gave saturation coverage to the birth of a royal baby, they virtually ignored the launch in Brisbane of NATSIHP (National Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Health Plan 2013-23) – a plan that includes the ...
NAIDOC celebration held at Bellingen HospitalBellingen Courier Sun
DisabilityCare is warned remote communities will be a challengeNational Indigenous Times

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