Indigenous Australians
Latest news and comment on Indigenous Australians
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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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Funding is unpredictable and ‘not necessarily sufficient’ to achieve the government’s priorities, says long-awaited report
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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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Move comes a month after promise to act, but family of Indigenous woman who died in South Hedland watchhouse say the premier has not responded to requests for a meeting
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Indigenous elder warns memorial gathering that disrespect for Mother Earth could rouse ancient spirit who may bring another storm soon
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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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Rates have declined, but those living in regional, remote and disadvantaged areas are most at risk, according to study by Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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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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Online forum organised in lead-up to citizens’ jury on progress of National Disability Insurance Scheme received complaints about cuts prior to launch
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Liberal premier says support for the referendum, now likely to take place in 2017, is about ‘inspiring the nation to right a wrong’
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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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National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples writes to prime minister saying the Western Australia and South Australia plan is racially discriminatory
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In a human rights report social justice commissioner Mick Gooda calls for justice targets and meaningful community engagement
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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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Summit aims to reclaim Indigenous rights agenda and representation from a few high-profile voices
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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 -
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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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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Jazz Twemlow’s week in Australian TV Live-tweeting is ruining television with its #IdioticCommentary
Inviting people to ‘join the conversation’ has given us nothing but Twitter trails of premature outrage, says Jazz Twemlow
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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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Review First Contact review: precious moments and epiphanies in reality TV that just might prove its worth
Six Australians have their first encounters with Indigenous Australia and push the red-hot buttons of race and fear and envy -
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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Accommodation left by Arnhem Land’s departing workers goes to development corporation despite 12-year wait for housing
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The hardest-working man in Australian music tells how he got out of a rut and took greater control of his career
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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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Minister for Indigenous affairs shirking his responsibilities by refusing to consider justice targets, legal aid representatives say
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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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Expert committee to identify remains held in French museums and guide possible repatriation to Australia
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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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