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  • Australian Racial Discrimination Act could be reinstated during the spring session of Parliament http://bit.ly/DIBoB
  • ‘Creating a sustainable National Representative Body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ report http://bit.ly/1w2K6E
  • Senate committee travels to NW Australia to hear from Aboriginals on effects of fed govt policies http://bit.ly/yCP3E
  • Alyawarra people (4000 strong) ask United nations for refugee status. Intervention made them outcasts on own country http://bit.ly/FeNXP
  • INDIGENOUS representative body will be independent of government, include women and have advisory powers only. http://bit.ly/rp6vk
  • Many recognised Aboriginal leaders had no input into national indigenous body. http://bit.ly/pRMxu – is that a bad thing?

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  • 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.

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