- Child Protection Australia 2008-09 report author says no data to measure effect of Intervention http://bit.ly/6JDZQD
- Indigenous children are eight times more likely to be placed on a protection order than non-Indigenous counterparts http://bit.ly/6pERMZ
- Indigenous Australians are over-represented in the homeless. 9%per cent of the homeless but only 2% of the population http://bit.ly/8Y9Ftd
- Inaugural Ethics Council up and running for new representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples http://bit.ly/542lP7
- Not just black and white in caring for kids at risk http://bit.ly/6xtXEa – great article on helping out
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- In WA in many cases police did not use their legal discretion to divert Aboriginal juveniles away from the courts. http://bit.ly/5DTMB4
- Western Australia you’re 20 times more likely to be in jail if you are indigenous. Tough law&order policy does not work http://bit.ly/7uoWbJ
- Police officer bashed when intervened in fight between 70 members of 2 aboriginal families. Feuding for thirty years http://bit.ly/842K98
- The black heart of Australia. A summary of the trial of five men charged with murdering an Aboriginal man in Alice http://bit.ly/8Cvkbr
- Call to redirect funds to build jails towards disadvantaged indigenous communities to cut spiralling crime rates http://bit.ly/5H2gWX
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- Free kick leads to brawl with knives and axes during football match at Angurugu, 600 kilometres east of Darwin http://bit.ly/4Xqog1
- Magistrate: “so many of the women have faces more or less like a squashed tomato” as a consequence of domestic violence http://bit.ly/7FlrLP
- 12yo Aboriginal boy charged with receiving a 70 cent Freddo Frog – would it have occurred if he was white? http://bit.ly/3giG5S
- Police drop Freddo theft charges against 12yo Aboriginal boy. (sanity prevails?!) http://bit.ly/1wlw0U
- 12yo Aboriginal boy has been awarded costs after charges involving the theft of a chocolate Freddo frog were withdrawn http://bit.ly/8Utayg
- In Western Australia 40 per cent of the state’s jail population is Aboriginal http://bit.ly/6M8Nsi
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- 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
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