Mainstream Media (Keywords: Aboriginal, Australia)

Anadolu Agency
Australia bows to aboriginal pleas in youth crime probe
Anadolu Agency
Less than a week after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced an investigation to probe a television expose that showed graphic mistreatment of incarcerated youth -- mostly aboriginal -- Australia's government has been forced to cave in to pressure ...
New heads appointed to Australian child prisoner abuse inquiryDeutsche Welle
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissionersThe Australian

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Press TV
Head of Australian probe into abuse of Aboriginal inmates quits
Press TV
The head of an Australian inquiry into the abuse of aboriginal teens in a detention center in the Northern Territory has resigned before being replaced by an aboriginal leader. Brian Martin, who was a former judge in the Northern Territory, announced ...

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Deutsche Welle
New heads appointed to Australian child prisoner abuse inquiry
Deutsche Welle
A Royal Commission into the abuse of children held in prison in the Northern Territory will now be headed by Aboriginal and Torres Stait Islander Social Jusice Commissioner Mick Gooda and retired Supreme Court judge Margaret White, Australian ...
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissionersThe Australian

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Yahoo7 News
Australia Aboriginal leader to probe teen prison abuse
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - An Australian Aboriginal leader was Monday appointed to investigate the abuse of teenagers at a detention centre after the judge named to lead the inquiry resigned, saying he lacked the confidence of the indigenous community.
Head of Australian prison abuse inquiry quits, replaced by aboriginal leaderReuters
Australia bows to aboriginal pleas in youth crime probeAnadolu Agency
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissionersThe Australian
Deutsche Welle -Pro Bono Australia
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Pro Bono Australia
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to be NT royal commissioners
The Australian
Mr Martin said the “disingenuous and ill-informed” commentary had made it difficult for Aboriginal Australians to have “full confidence” in the inquiry. Mr Gooda, a descendent of the Gangulu people of Central Queensland, has been an advocate for ...
Mick Gooda, Margaret White Named NT Royal CommissionersHuffington Post Australia
Mick Gooda and Margaret White to Head Royal CommissionPro Bono Australia
Here's who will now lead the Northern Territory royal commission into juvenile detentionBusiness Insider Australia
Sky News Australia -NEWS.com.au -Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
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The West Australian
Criticism of NT abuse inquiry continues
Sky News Australia
'This Royal Commission should be done with Aboriginal people, not to Aboriginal people,' he said on Saturday. 'I believe it would be appropriate for the Royal Commission to have two co-commissioners who are Aboriginal Australians.' 'Strong people, men ...
Aboriginal people 'take abuse for granted'The West Australian
Don Dale scandal may impact on referendum to recognise indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
Four Corners: Coalition rules out Indigenous co-commissioners for NT inquiry into juvenile justiceABC Online
The Australian -SBS
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SBS - The World Game
Images of the HANDS OFF ABORIGINAL KIDS rallies across Australia
SBS - The World Game
Thousands of people gathered in major capital cities and smaller towns to protest against the Government's inadequate role in protecting Aboriginal children from such harm and highlighted the continued disservice to the Indigenous community. Political ...

The West Australian
Aboriginal people 'take abuse for granted'
The West Australian
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner made the comments at the Garma festival in northeast Arnhem Land on Sunday. "Australia is shocked at the level of violence that us Aboriginal people almost take for granted," Mr ...
Criticism of NT abuse inquiry continuesSky News Australia
Garma: Noel Pearson says debate about indigenous affairs at 'rock ...The Australian
Don Dale scandal may impact on referendum to recognise indigenous AustraliansThe Sydney Morning Herald
The New Daily -SBS
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RT
Australians protest over government's lax reaction to abuse of ...
RT
Cities across Australia joined in protest over the government's sub-par response to shocking videos of institutionalized child abuse at a detention facility – the ...

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Aljazeera.com
Australians rally against youth detention abuses
Aljazeera.com
"I believe it would be appropriate for the royal commission to have two co-commissioners who are Aboriginal Australians, strong people, men and women, who can make sure the voices and the experiences of Aboriginal Australians are given full justice in ...

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The Guardian
'A national disgrace': protests held across Australia over NT juvenile ...
The Guardian
Hundreds gather in cities across the nation calling for institutional change after revelations of cruel treatment of children in detention facilities.
'Shocked' United Nations slams Australia on child abuse, calls for ...The Sydney Morning Herald
'Leave our kids alone': Thousands rally across Australia to bring justice to Don Dale victims9news.com.au
UN human rights body warns Australia on youth detention abuseSBS
Business Insider -Huffington Post Australia
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Sky News Australia
Shorten calls for two Aboriginal co-commissioners
Sky News Australia
'I believe it would be appropriate for the Royal Commission to have two co-commissioners who are Aboriginal Australians. 'Strong people, men and women, who can make sure the voices and the experience of Aboriginal Australians are given full justice.'.
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlightNEWS.com.au
Don Dale: Shorten calls for two indigenous commissionersThe Australian
Appoint Indigenous commissioners to NT juvenile detention inquiry, says ShortenThe Guardian
9news.com.au -ABC Online -The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Australian
Garma: Yunupingu calls for constitutional guarantee on Aboriginal land rights
The Australian
Speaking at the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land this morning, Mr Yunupingu attacked the “lie” spoken by Captain Cook when he first arrived in Australia, raised a flag, and claimed the continent for himself. “He raised a flag with no shame, and said the ...

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NEWS.com.au
Australia's youth detention facilities under the spotlight
NEWS.com.au
The 2011 Standing Committee inquiry found that high levels of contact with the criminal justice system by indigenous young people was “a symptom of the broader social and economic disadvantage faced by many indigenous people in Australia”. Aboriginal ...
Shorten to consult on indigenous issuesSky News Australia
Cruel numbersThe Saturday Paper (subscription)
From the Darling Downs to Don Dale: a litany of monstrous acts against Indigenous childrenThe Guardian
Toowoomba Chronicle
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International Business Times UK
Australia's 'Abu Ghraib' detention centre pictures force a new focus on Aboriginal rights
International Business Times UK
When shocking images emerged this week of teenage prisoners stripped and hooded at the Darwin Don Dale youth detention centre in Australia's Northern Territories, comparisons were made to the pictures of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
How the Northern Territory became Australia's shame
The Sydney Morning Herald
Locking up Aboriginal people has become a form of tyranny in the territory. The per capita imprisonment rate of 843 per 100,000 is the highest in the world. (Australia's national rate, based on 2014 figures, is 187). The territory easily eclipses the ...
Australia prison abuse could violate UN torture treatyAljazeera.com
Australia's Abu GhraibThe Economist
Australia Launches Probe Into Treatment of Aboriginal JuvenilesVoice of America
CBS News -Thomson Reuters Foundation -The West Australian -ABC Message Stick
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant delivers fiery speech on Indigenous rights in wake of abuse scandal
The Sydney Morning Herald
"This week we know what Australia looks like. This week Australia is a boy in a hood in a cell. This week Australia is Aboriginal boys tear gassed, locked down and beaten. These are the images on our television screens. The boys who look like my boys.".

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Police use of hoods, restraints, and teargas on Australian aboriginal ...
BreakingNews.com
Editor's note: The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will be suspended if the plane is not found on completion of the current search. The news ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Policies Must Be Made With Aboriginal People, Not For Them
Huffington Post Australia
Under article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child the Federal Government is legally required to engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in the development of laws and policies likely to affect them. Australia ...
FACTBOX - Jailed too young? 10 facts about Australia's Aboriginal teenage prisonersThomson Reuters Foundation
Don Dale child abuse: Be part of the solutionIndependent Australia
Indigenous organisations push for royal commission into suicide ratesABC Online
The Australian Financial Review -Eureka Street (registration)
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SBS
The facts about Indigenous youth detention in Australia
SBS
The rates of Indigenous incarceration are the highest in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. For every 100,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in WA, 3,745 are imprisoned, while in the Northern Territory the statistic is only ...
Australia's Abu GhraibThe Economist
Australia prison abuse could violate UN torture treatyAljazeera.com
Australia Launches Probe Into Treatment of Aboriginal JuvenilesVoice of America
CBS News -Thomson Reuters Foundation -Telegraph.co.uk -ABC Message Stick
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