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An Indigenous elder who helped secure the first land rights deal in central Australia has been honoured with a state funeral in remote central Australia.

All non-Aboriginal Australians should be prepared to leave the country if the indigenous people want that, making restitution for the vile sin of genocide.

Did you buy a piece of land, or do you live on a piece of land in an area where there is not even a Treaty in place supposedly ceding land?

The latest decision by the High Court of Australia upholds the legitimacy of alcohol management plans, which are bitterly resented by many indigenous people.

Six years ago Barbara Shaw's family watched their TV in horror as the then PM announced he would be sending in the military and taking control of their community.

Since the NT Intervention began in 2007, the rate of child removals in the NT has increased by 80 percent - removals have also sky-rocketed across the country.

Aboriginal Land Council has flatly refused to allow a solidarity ceremony to take place on Morton Rd, Nimbin Rock, the chief executive officer Sedrick Hinton said.

Robert Corowa plans to establish an Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Nimbin Rocks next month in solidarity with the West Papua Freedom Flotilla.

Australia incarcerates its Aboriginal youth at the world’s highest rates, it imprisons one in 14 WA Aboriginal adult males and it removes one in 14 children from WA families.

The Queensland frontier was more violent than any other Australian colony. Dr Bottoms uses new original research in his book to expose the Queensland massacres.

Centrelink payments are the only income in NT's remote towns, but hundreds of young Aboriginal men are not pursuing the payments due to culture gaps.

PM committed her support and funding to the Wyndham Early Learning Centre, WA. But to the shock of dependent families the majority of the funding will cease on 30 June.

Paddy Gibson: In the Northern Territory, Police and child protection workers turn up in remote communities unannounced to take a young child from a local families.

Researchers: Elders in communities are a repository of knowledge and in the Northern Territory those between 40 an 60 years old are dying off at alarming rates.

Young Aboriginal ILC Trainees in Minyerri, are suffering family stress, hunger, a feel of desperation, and are further disillusioned by empty promises.

The great Australian shame is that not only are there votes to be had in hate, fear and prejudice, but this is the heartland of our political game

Murra Wurra Paakintji elder Dorothy Lawson says her grandparent's rights as "squatters" were over-looked when authorities built a water storage basin in 1922

The total Aboriginals killed during the attacks of 26th and 27th august 1841, is what became known as the "Rufus River Massacre".

World Territories that are subject to United Nations Trusteeship Agreements or were listed by the General Assembly as Non-Self-Governing - 2 pages

Aboriginal suicide rates are at record levels, with Aboriginal youth suicide the world's worst. In response the Government has launched a national "inadequate" strategy.

Andrew Bolt worked himself into a lather of racist self-righteousness which would have made Alan Jones and the rest of the Bolt cheer squad baying at the moon.

'The rights of peoples to permanent sovereignty over their natural wealth and resources must be exercised in the interest of their national development and well-being.'

Oz prison population has more than doubled in the last 20 yrs from 15,000 to 31,000. Between 2000 to 2008 prison deaths of 'natural causes' rose to 24.6% per year

Study on Treaties, Agreements and Other Constructive Arrangements Between States and Indigenous Populations - by Mr. Miguel Alfonso Martinez, Special Rapporteur July 1997