- Strategic Indigenous Housing & Infrastructure Program being changed to prevent another cost blow-out. http://bit.ly/chqg8F
- Darwin indigenous leader David Timber, says intervention makes no difference http://bit.ly/dwKwlc
- Local shire abandons Mutijulu as should be looked after by Commonwealth due to leases. Locals feel forgotten http://bit.ly/bVXKgl
- Northern Territory Government is to blame for the limbo being experienced by residents of Mutitjulu http://bit.ly/c04yB6
- UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) slammed the policies of the NT intervention http://bit.ly/cfOIh5
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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- $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.
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