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Protesters want Western Australia to dump a plan to strip back support for remote Aboriginal communities, and the Federal Government to do more to ...

Thousands of people marched through the Melbourne's CBD in Australia on Friday protesting against the closure of aboriginal communities in West ...

Radio Australia
Indigenous communities closure: West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says 'no ...
Radio Australia
The West Australian Government has softened its language about its plan to close scores of remote Aboriginal communities. Last November, Premier Colin Barnett caused dismay when he said that between 100 and 150 communities would be forced to close.
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Radio Australia
Indigenous communities closure: West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says 'no ...
Radio Australia
The West Australian Government has softened its language about its plan to close scores of remote Aboriginal communities. Last November, Premier Colin Barnett caused dismay when he said that between 100 and 150 communities would be forced to close.
WA Premier Colin Barnett moves to reassure Indigenous people they won't be ...ABC Message Stick

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''In a community in central Australia I visited, the health worker was baffled by .... ''The average Aboriginal child, more so in the bush than the city, has ...

The West Australian Government softens its language about its plan to shut down scores of remote Aboriginal communities, saying none will be forced ...

The West Australian Government has softened its language about its plan to close scores of remote Aboriginal communities. Last November, Premier ...

From Darwin to Hobart, Sydney to Perth and all points in between, thousands of people marched in rallies across Australia on May 1 to stop the ...

... action against Aboriginal deaths in custody in October last year that he would review both deaths in custody and Western Australia's high Aboriginal ...

The Western Australia state government announced last November that it planned to shutter up to 150 remote Aboriginal outback communities, saying ...

The Guardian
Thousands join protests against WA Indigenous community closures
The Guardian
Tens of thousands of Australians have taken part in protests throughout the country in a fight against the forced closure of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, with some continuing into Friday night. Last November the Western Australian ...
Indigenous protest in Melbourne's CBDSky News Australia
Major headaches for commuters and footy fans as protesters vow to shut ...The Age
Thousands gather in Melbourne's CBD to protest against proposed WA remote ...ABC Online

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The Guardian
Thousands join protests against WA Indigenous community closures
The Guardian
Tens of thousands of Australians have taken part in protests throughout the country in a fight against the forced closure of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, with some continuing into Friday night. Last November the Western Australian ...
Indigenous protest in Melbourne's CBDSky News Australia

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Gary Murray, chairman of the Northwest Region Aboriginal Cultural ... a fight against the forced closure of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, ...

West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says his comments about remote ... said the outcome would be a far better condition for Aboriginal people.

MELBOURNE, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people marched through the Melbourne's CBD in Australia on Friday protesting against the closure of ...

... a #sosblakaustralia rally against the proposed closures of remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. Photograph: Lauren Pike/Kimberley ...

... to protest against the proposed closure of up to 150 remote communities in Western Australia. ... The march was organised by the Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance "in solidarity with Aboriginal communities facing closure" in WA.

The Guardian
Melbourne's Flinders Street station shut down by protests over closure of ...
The Guardian
It has been six months since the federal government signed over funding responsibility for providing municipal and essential services to Western Australia's 274 remote Indigenous communities to the state government and four since the WA premier, Colin ...
Major headaches for commuters and footy fans as protesters vow to shut ...The Age
Indigenous protest in Melbourne's CBD9news.com.au

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The Guardian
Melbourne city centre blocked by protests over closure of Indigenous ...
The Guardian
Photograph: Lauren Pike/Kimberley Land Council Protesters gather in Broome for a #sosblakaustralia rally on 1 May 2015 against proposed closures of remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. Photograph: Lauren Pike/Kimberley Land Council.
Protesters will 'shut down' MelbourneNEWS.com.au
Major headaches for commuters and footy fans as protesters vow to shut ...The Age
Neil Mitchell takes on Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance protester3AW
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WA today
American activist arrested by police at WA Aboriginal rights demonstration
WA today
The demonstrators have been camped at the island since early March, opposed to West Australian Premier Colin Barnett's plans to close 150 of the state's 174 Aboriginal communities. Now their cause is being heard across the country and has gained ...

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