• Rural Indigenous women forcibly removed from birth families 3x likely to experience violence than other indigenous http://bit.ly/7XbIFa
• Indigenous youth are almost 30 times more likely to be detained than their non-indigenous peers. http://bit.ly/6z8fdF
• YOUNG indigenous Australians are 16 times more likely to be held under supervision than non-indigenous youth http://bit.ly/7Fmy8T
• More police, less alcohol planned for remote towns, greater co-operation between police and welfare agencies http://bit.ly/6YDg8N
• 91% of young Northern Territory inmates are Indigenous http://bit.ly/7diTxN
• Despite death of Mr Ward prison transport service retained by WA government http://bit.ly/6IK9dK

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.
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