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Indigenous News Update

by Robbo on January 3, 2009

in Indigenous News

News

  • New National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples announced http://bit.ly/6kudDZ

  • $2 billion earmarked for indigenous disadvantage and other key services diverted by NT govt to marginal electorates http://bit.ly/8lgbLJ

  • Religious beliefs are preventing the culling of feral donkeys in remote Aboriginal communities. http://bit.ly/4HXxyN

  • 83% rise in numbers of sentenced Aboriginal prisoners in WA in 18mths . Double the rise for non-indigenous prisoners http://bit.ly/61kpHi

  • In Darwin there are up to 5000 long grassers, giving the city the highest rate of homelessness in Australia http://bit.ly/8jcKza

  • Traditional indigenous fire management techniques deployed against climate change http://bit.ly/7yswKI

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