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  • Should Central Land Council should be broken up into a set of smaller bodies? http://bit.ly/QfXVx
  • Aboriginal elder Richard Downs “The NT Emergency Response (NTER) measures have disempowered Aboriginal people” http://bit.ly/3w7N8K
  • Opposition minister for Indigenous Affairs is living in the Dark Ages states Central Land Council http://bit.ly/kaor4
  • If Indigenous Conservation Title Bill passed by WA government it would provide economic benefits to traditional owners http://bit.ly/mkelU
  • Aboriginals deserve and need their own elected representative body http://bit.ly/2zft3z
  • federal government must rework or scrap racist elements of the intervention program says human rights lawyer http://bit.ly/4jtYfB

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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Indigenous News Update

by Robbo on October 3, 2009

in Indigenous News

News

  • DNA evidence links Indians to Australian Aboriginals indicating land route through India enroute to Australia http://bit.ly/KYw1W
  • Nearly 50 Aboriginal corporations have not complied with government reporting regulations. Will be deregistered http://bit.ly/4DCycg
  • Contractors in remote indigenous communities not employing locals as per contracts. Not being enforced by government http://bit.ly/VzoiI
  • Martidja Manyjima people want WA mining registrar to hear mining challenge due to damage to land in past by mining firms http://bit.ly/elaaw
  • Indigenous Australians have no representation in fed parliament. Lack of engagement leads to poorly planned initiatives http://bit.ly/2q7ly9
  • NT government to ban alcohol at tourist destinations. Except for tourists. All are managed by traditional owners http://bit.ly/tj1sN
  • Driver who supplies to remote aboriginal communities charged with sly grogging at Billaluna http://bit.ly/LFbmA
  • Rabbit Flat continues ban on selling full strength take away beer to reduce alcohol induced violence in Balgo http://bit.ly/2PXDBI

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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  • Lhere Artepe CEO Darryl Pearce says NT 2 party system is dead. Aboriginal Chief Minister within two years http://bit.ly/2ipZSr
  • Just recompense to Aboriginal people necessary: Anglican theologian. Recompense is based on our duty. Link to articles. http://bit.ly/4LEg9
  • Such an impossible task may help us focus on real ways to make amends. – comments on Anglican call for compensation http://bit.ly/VRTbL
  • Investigator from the United Nations will today begin a two-week examination of remote Aboriginal communities. http://bit.ly/485DPb
  • Fed Govt inject >$7mil into education projects in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. http://bit.ly/yHbv9 – what about other regions
  • 3,000 have signed a letter to James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on indigenous human rights to lift Intervention http://bit.ly/39HNM
  • UN special rapporteur on indigenous human rights says suspending the Racial Discrimination Act is discriminatory http://bit.ly/x8mqA

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Over at vexnews.com is an interesting, but slightly salacious article showing that in the Northern Territory politicians and journalists are almost joined at the hip.

I have links in my Indigenous News Updates to the news Alison Anderson had resigned from the Labour Party and vexnews.com throws some light on what may have occurred behind the scenes.

You wonder how anything in Indigenous Affairs will ever improve.

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