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Indigenous incarceration rate a 'cancer'
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The Law Council of Australia, the Australian Bar Association, and the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency met in Darwin on Friday to discuss ways to address the over-representation of Indigenous Australians in jails. It comes more than 20 years ...

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Sydney Festival embraces reconciliation with new Indigenous plan to close the ...
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The Sydney Festival has launched an ambitious plan to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians through the arts. The festival has become one of the first cultural groups to instigate a Reconciliation Action Plan, which will ...

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Indigenous prison rate 'cannot be ignored' - Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Lawyers have called on the federal government to intervene to stem the rising rate of indigenous incarceration. Indigenous Australians comprise about 2.5 per cent of the national population but account for 26 per cent of the prison population. Law ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous prison rate 'cannot be ignored'
Sydney Morning Herald
Lawyers have called on the federal government to intervene to stem the rising rate of indigenous incarceration. Indigenous Australians comprise about 2.5 per cent of the national population but account for 26 per cent of the prison population. Law ...
Call for new focus on indigenous jailingNinemsn
Lawyers call for action on Indigenous prison ratesABC Local
Indigenous incarceration rate a 'cancer'Sky News Australia
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The Age
Indigenous prison rate 'cannot be ignored'
The Age
Lawyers have called on the federal government to intervene to stem the rising rate of indigenous incarceration. Indigenous Australians comprise about 2.5 per cent of the national population but account for 26 per cent of the prison population. Law ...
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Lawyers call for action on Indigenous prison ratesABC Local
Indigenous incarceration rate a 'cancer'Sky News Australia
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The Canberra Times
Sydney Festival embraces reconciliation with new Indigenous plan to close the ...
ABC Local
The Sydney Festival has launched an ambitious plan to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians through the arts. The festival has become one of the first cultural groups to instigate a Reconciliation Action Plan, which will ...
Indigenous prison rate 'cannot be ignored'The Canberra Times
Indigenous incarceration rate a 'cancer'BigPond News

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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 ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Call for new focus on indigenous jailing
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Council president Michael Colbran QC says outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders interacting with the criminal justice system are extremely poor. He says indigenous Australians make up about 2.5 per cent of Australia's population but ...
Indigenous prison rate 'cannot be ignored'Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous incarceration rate a 'cancer'Sky News Australia
Sydney Festival embraces reconciliation with new Indigenous plan to close the ...Yahoo!7 News

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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
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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'
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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 ...