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Aboriginal children who break the law in Western Australia are less likely to get off with just a caution than non-Aboriginal children, less likely to ...

INDIGENOUS youth detention around the nation has reached a crisis point, with the worst rates in Western Australia, Amnesty International says.

Western Australia's Chief Justice Wayne Martin says the justice system must accept some of the blame for what he describes as "appalling" Aboriginal ...

KIM LANDERS: Western Australia's top judge says the rate of Aboriginal incarceration in his state is "appalling", and that the justice system must ...

ABC Online
Indigenous stockmen and women honoured in outback Queensland
ABC Online
A new display in an outback Queensland museum has opened to tell the stories of Indigenous stockmen and women across Australia. The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach, in the state's central-west, received federal funding for the project, ...
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
WA worst for Aboriginal youth behind barsWA today

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The Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame at Longreach, in the state's ... their perspective - the Aboriginal perspective - of life on stations, to be at the Hall ...

“Unless the extremely high rate of Aboriginal youth detention is urgently ... “WA needs to reinvest that money in supporting Aboriginal families, and ... Indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Western Australia', was ...

The Australian
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youth
The Australian
The report 'There is always a brighter future: Keeping Indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Western Australia', was three years in the making, and includes research in Albany, Bunbury, Perth, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Broome, Mowanjum, ...
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
WA Aboriginal children 53 times more likely to be jailed than peers, Amnesty ...ABC Online
Indigenous youth 53 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
ABC Message Stick -9news.com.au
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The Australian
Detention: WA worst state for jailing indigenous youth
The Australian
The report 'There is always a brighter future: Keeping Indigenous kids in the community and out of detention in Western Australia', was three years in the making, and includes research in Albany, Bunbury, Perth, Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Broome, Mowanjum, ...
Indigenous stockmen and women honoured in outback QueenslandABC Online
Indigenous youth 53 times more likely to end up in jail, report findsSBS
Aboriginal children in WA face harsher treatment in justice system – AmnestyThe Guardian
ABC Message Stick -9news.com.au
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“Unless the extremely high rate of Aboriginal youth detention is urgently ... “WA spent over $36 million on locking up Aboriginal children last financial year ... said Claire Mallinson, National Director of Amnesty International Australia.

... with the worst rates seen in Western Australia, Amnesty International says. ... "Unless the extremely high rate of Aboriginal youth detention is urgently ... an increasing number of Aboriginal young people will move into the adult ...

The Guardian
Indigenous dancers help open Arnhem Land's Injalak art centre – video
The Guardian
Indigenous dance groups and the Northern Territory chief minister, Adam Giles, took part in the opening of the Injalak art centre in West Arnhem Land's Gunbalanya community on Wednesday. The centre has been given about $1m in federal and territory ...

The Guardian
Indigenous recognition to 'complete' constitution, says Tony Abbott – video
The Guardian
Prime minister Tony Abbott says Australians must 'go forward together' to find a form of constitutional recognition which is a 'completion' rather than a 'substantial change' to the constitution. He refused to be drawn into a disagreement between ...

The Aboriginal Learning on Country (ALOC) program is coordinated by the SA ... and provides hands-on training and mentoring for Aboriginal people, ... and adopted in other areas of South Australia, including the Monarto Zoo.

SBS
More Indigenous women dying from pregnancy complications
SBS
Indigenous Australian women are at greater risk of dying due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, despite Australia's otherwise low rates of maternal death. A new report shows Indigenous women are dying at more than twice the rate of ...
Indigenous death rate in childbirth comparable to developing countriesThe Guardian
'Maternal deaths' are rare in Australia9news.com.au

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The ancient sites associated with a rich Aboriginal history and culture are ... Northern Australia's indigenous communities are streets ahead of their ...

With the honourable exception of The Australian, his historic comments have ... Mundine's comments will not make him popular with some Aboriginal ...

This has finally contributed to a broader mainstream recognition that Aboriginal people have been in Australia for thousands of years and that their ...

She calls Australia the 'child-stealing capital of the world'. ... But the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander minority, overly represented at the bottom of ...

SBS
More indigenous women dying from pregnancy complications
SBS
Indigenous Australian women are at greater risk of dying due to complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, despite Australia's otherwise low rates of maternal death. A new report shows Indigenous women are dying at more than twice the rate of ...
Indigenous death rate in childbirth comparable to developing countriesThe Guardian
'Maternal deaths' are rare in AustraliaThe Australian (blog)

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