- Nurses ask Australian government to reinstate Racial Discrimination Act that was suspended to improve indigenous health! http://bit.ly/WN0m
- NT govt won’t build town camps for long grassers but focus on health and employment. http://bit.ly/bbSBm – how does that assist now?
- Aboriginal artifacts auctioned on Ebay. NSW asked to tighten legislation. Dept says all is well. http://bit.ly/oXyZS
- Government-funded community centres in APY lands to close? govt services offered through these sites also training http://bit.ly/3fXYzY
- Australia finally adopts UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples http://bit.ly/shfO
- Finally: Coalition admits it made a mistake by refusing to apologise to Australia’s Indigenous population. http://bit.ly/DbZgn
- Queensland Premier Anna Bligh of “urinating on the rights” of Aboriginal people declares Noel Pearson http://bit.ly/B7bzg
- UN Human Rights Committee calls on Fed govt to alter its ‘discriminatory’ intervention into Indigenous communities http://bit.ly/9UR4
The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter.
An updated page with news links related to the death of Mr Ward who died being transported 400km in a prison transfer vehicle with no failed air-conditioning during summer can be found here
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