[Link] Tennant Creek Aboriginal leaders say $80m aid package prompted by toddler's rape is being misdirected

Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

John Fitz Jakamarra and the other members of Tennant Creek's Apurtu traditional owner group feel the Central Australian town is descending into chaos.

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[Link] Aunty Joyce has spent decades standing up for her regional community — her latest fight is more personal

Read: 13/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

At 94, Joyce Williams has defied the odds. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the images and names of Indigenous people who have died.

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[Link] After 'very, very long fight', NT Stolen Generations survivors to be compensated

Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

The head of the Northern Territory's Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation has welcomed the Commonwealth's new $378 million redress scheme for people forcibly removed from their families as children.

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