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News

  • UN envoy slams “entrenched” racism in Australia, states Intervention is discriminatory http://bit.ly/3V3eQv
  • Church Leaders call on Government to act on UN report on Indigenous Intervention http://bit.ly/4B31in
  • Australian newspaper tells UN he misses point on discrimination. Paper seems to think aboriginals want to be victims? http://bit.ly/3U7PAD

The Indigenous News Updates are sourced from news and other articles from around the country that I have posted on Twitter. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

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News

  • Australian Racial Discrimination Act could be reinstated during the spring session of Parliament http://bit.ly/DIBoB
  • ‘Creating a sustainable National Representative Body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ report http://bit.ly/1w2K6E
  • Senate committee travels to NW Australia to hear from Aboriginals on effects of fed govt policies http://bit.ly/yCP3E
  • Alyawarra people (4000 strong) ask United nations for refugee status. Intervention made them outcasts on own country http://bit.ly/FeNXP
  • INDIGENOUS representative body will be independent of government, include women and have advisory powers only. http://bit.ly/rp6vk
  • Many recognised Aboriginal leaders had no input into national indigenous body. http://bit.ly/pRMxu – is that a bad thing?

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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  • Discriminatory components of NT Intervention must be fixed now that Australia has supported UN Indigenous Rights http://bit.ly/gtGIX
  • Last year Britain’s racial equality chief summed up Britain’s television as “hideously white” Is Australia the same? http://bit.ly/MISr
  • Is the high homicide rate in Northern Territory not given full attention because many victims are Aboriginal people,? http://bit.ly/XQ7p
  • Australian Constitution allows laws to be passed based on race http://bit.ly/XDWk
  • Aboriginal people in custody who have to be moved long distances should be transported by air http://bit.ly/QpOsF
  • RACISM in Adelaide’s schools and universities is stopping Aboriginal people getting a good education http://bit.ly/17xOP

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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  • 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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