Indigenous peoples
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Climate talks in Lima can save the Amazon rainforest by recognising rights of its best protectors, writes Dan Collyns
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PM reveals priorities as social justice commissioner calls for justice targets to help end overrepresentation of Indigenous people in prison
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Dorian Lynskey: Native American artists rocked as hard as their 60s and 70s musical heroes but we’re only getting to hear them now thanks to a new compilation of buried treasures. The stars explain how music gave them a voice
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Mithaka people of south-west Queensland say the government has violated international law by failing to consult them over fracking
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Indigenous advocates accuse Coalition of hiding behind technicalities in its dismissal of HRC report that says jailing the not-guilty men indefinitely breaches human rights
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The White House pledges to improve living and education opportunities after report acknowledges failures in federal policy
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Hornbill indigenous people’s festival held in Nagaland state of India
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Government dismisses Human Rights Commission findings that it breached human rights by allowing the men to be incarcerated in the Northern Territory
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Side effects of illegal mining in the Amazon caused a resurgence of malaria. Creating job opportunities could be a solution, writes Camila Nobrega
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Delegates at ‘freedom summit’ establish 20-person representative committee similar to the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander commission
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The prime minister fulfilled an election promise to spend a week in Indigenous communities every year to focus attention on them but Denise Fincham says the trips are worthless without meaningful follow-up
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David Hill: Indigenous peoples say oil operations by Canadian firm in Peru pose danger to Brazil
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Women's rights and gender equality in focus Women on climate change frontline make big impact on small grants
Teresa OdendahlTeresa Odendahl: From Guatemala to Indonesia, bold action by women in communities threatened by extreme weather shows there is an alternative to costly international schemes -
The film-maker on why reality TV was the perfect vehicle for exposing the gulf between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia
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IndigenousX The untold story of Indigenous Australians and disability: five questions to Scott Avery
First Peoples disability network policy director Scott Avery takes charge of the @IndigenousX Twitter account this week
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Frank Waln: The holiday represents hundreds of years of genocide and oppression of Native American populations. But we’re still here
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Amnesty International’s research into the homelands showed that Aboriginal people living on ancestral lands live better lives. But the WA government plans to close 150 communities
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Postcolonial blog Abbott's homogeneous approach to Indigenous affairs will not erase the stain on Australia's soul
Abbott’s pronouncements on Aboriginal Australia coincide with his waning political will to amend the constitution so it meaningfully recognises Indigenous Australians -
City lawyers researching how to change name and who owns island after campaigners say name is antiquated and offensive
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Figures released by Labor show the number of Indigenous women in jail has soared as a result of fine default policy
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Watching the events in Ferguson, Indigenous Australians will immediately draw a parallel with Australia’s response to black deaths in custody
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Tweeted pledge by Jakaya Kikwete follows global outcry over plans to turn vast plains into hunting ground for Arab monarchy
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This collection of rare tracks by indigenous musicians from Canada and the northern US is a timely reminder of marginalised voices and plain great music, writes Kitty Empire
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IndigenousX: Medical researcher James ward takes over the @IndigenousX account this week. Get yourself and your mob informed about HIV
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Aboriginal communities in Western Australia are being closed because they're "unviable". No, it's not all about you, white people
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Today's Thanksgiving meal looks a lot different than the feast Wampanoag Indians and Pilgrims ate in 1621. Find out what was on the original menu.
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Proposed amendments could see owners stripped of say over listing of sacred sites, which will have lower standards than buildings
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Vi Waln: My Lakota people are still prepared to protect our clean water. This remains a death project
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Nigel Scullion says government policies are focused in right areas, as report shows self-harm, suicide and prison rates soaring
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Celeste Liddle: Will the next report on Indigenous disadvantage chart further decline? How about the one after that? Top-down approaches won’t fix suicide rates, infant mortality, chronic disease
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First Contact on SBS gives six ‘outspoken’ Australians their first experience with Indigenous Australia – but are they representative of the country?
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Larissa Behrendt: The federal government has been looking to quit the field on Indigenous welfare for some time. Now they can do so – but only by ignoring past policies that worked
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Report card finds patchy progress at best on narrowing the gap with non-Indigenous Australians
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The case for language learning What can we learn from efforts to save an ancient South American language?
Quechua dates back to the Incas and is spoken from Columbia to Chile. We speak to a specialist in Quechua about the fight to preserve the 2,000 year old language
COP20 is a forum for regional green policies not just global climate targets