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The West Australian Government says it will only fund long-term, ... "With $115 million going into Aboriginal youth services a lot of these kids were still ...

Derby is a small town sitting at the gateway to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. About a two hour drive from Broome, the town greets you with ...

But in some parts of Aboriginal communities around Australia, the headlines triggered an enormous amount of interest. The thinkers among a younger ...

... occupy Brisbane's City Hall to object to the closure of remote Aboriginal ... Some of the actions have been supported by the Australian Council of ...

Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protesters stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protesters stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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Fusion
Why Aboriginal Australians Are Sending Out An SOS
Fusion
Last week, riot police and local law enforcement shut down a Perth-area camp site where a group of Aboriginal Australians had recently set up tents to protest government policy. An estimated 100 people were evicted from the site with three arrested—a ...

Last week, riot police and local law enforcement shut down a Perth-area camp site where a group of Aboriginal Australians had recently set up tents to ...

"AUSTRALIA should be leading the way in showing how to deliver eye care, rather ... and his coauthors said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a sixfold greater chance of blindness than non-Indigenous Australians.

The surgical blitzes started in the 1970s, when an Australian Army field ... at each site, carrying out sight-restoring eye surgery on about 100 Aborigines. ... Surgical blitzes may be justified in developing countries, but Australia has ...

The Australian
Artefacts help us plot future course by learning from past
The Australian
In the Indigenous Australia — Enduring Civilisation exhibition, opened by Prince Charles at London's British Museum on Thursday, there is a shield that once belonged to a Gweagal traditional owner, who held it at the time of the first encounter ...
Aboriginal art unfit for Western eyesTelegraph.co.uk

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a sixfold greater rate of ... The doctors say Australia should be leading the way in showing how to ...

In the Indigenous Australia — Enduring Civilisation exhibition, opened by ... But to move forward and advance the interests of Aboriginal and Torres ...

The charge rate for Aborigines in Menindee is significantly less than in ... born in Australia is an Aboriginal of this country - the original inhabitants and ...

We had the chairman of Western Australia's Aboriginal Health Council applaud Senator Jacqui Lambie's call for reserved seats for Aborigines, ...

Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protestors stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protestors stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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... City Hall to object to the closure of remote Aboriginal communities. ... Some of the actions have been supported by the Australian Council of Trade ...

The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration at record levels as Queensland's prison population soars
The Guardian
Figures obtained by Guardian Australia from Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) show Indigenous people, who make up less than 4% of the state's population, remain grossly overrepresented in prisons, where they account for almost a third of inmates.

Figures obtained by Guardian Australia from Queensland Corrective Services ... The numbers of prisoners from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ...