- 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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Declaration of rights,
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Intervention,
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UN
- Senate Report: Grasping the opportunity of Opal: Assessing the impact of the Petrol Sniffing Strategy http://bit.ly/efJFz
- Is a treaty essential to improving the lives of indigenous Australians? http://bit.ly/1U5Och
- Can indigenous policy accommodate and value diversity and difference rather than just statistical equality http://bit.ly/vrXTJ
- Amnesty presents UN with details of Australia not complying with Covenant on Civil & Political rights http://bit.ly/LrJfA
- Restore Racial Discrimination Act former NT chief minister says Indigenous Australians are the victims of discrimination http://bit.ly/dIgLb
- Kevin Rudd’s dream of winning Security Council dashed by international concerns about Australia’s record human rights. http://bit.ly/CMZkb
- Aust will officially back the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples reversing previous govt http://bit.ly/rhU9O
- A UN declaration of rights will not help indigenous children http://bit.ly/WgtNr
I read a large amount of information each week on indigenous health and affairs. There is no way I can blog about it all. Many of the links I place on Twitter where I can be found as @BiteTheDust.
I will regularly compile these links and place on the blog under the category of Indigenous News Update.
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Amnesty,
Australian,
discrimination,
human rights,
indigenous treaty,
Intervention,
Opal fuel,
Rudd,
senate,
United Nations
- $10 million of grants for NT Indigenous communities from the Aboriginals Benefit Account (ABA) http://bit.ly/XZBuL
- Forestry tasmania wants to log at Wadeye NT brings beneifts http://bit.ly/17vsDt “Potential” to be sustainable.. a promise of air?
- RT @Indigeneity: Indigenous fire could save CO2 emissions: Traditional Aboriginal burning http://tinyurl.com/d8dg53
- RT @Indigeneity: Indigenous teacher training program launched: Australia. http://tinyurl.com/cm9oz5
- THE UN has written to the Rudd Government expressing “concern” over the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act, http://bit.ly/rM5LV
I read a large amount of information each week on indigenous health and affairs. There is no way I can blog about it all. Many of the links I place on Twitter where I can be found as @BiteTheDust.
I will regularly compile these links and place on the blog under the category of Indigenous News Update.
If you like this post and what else you see on the blog please subscribe by RSS feed (the orange button) or by email. The email subscription is just under my profile picture. Or you can visit my subscription page.
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aboriginal,
burning,
communities,
discrimination,
Forestry Tasmania,
Indigenous,
Northern Territory,
racial,
teacher,
traditional,
Wadeye
