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[Link] Zachary Rolfe trial: no ‘reasonable’ grounds for shooting Kumanjayi Walker second and third time, court hears
Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Police officer Zachary Rolfe did not have “reasonable” grounds to shoot Kumanjayi Walker a second and third time, and the second and third shots provided no tactical advantage in the attempted arrest of the Aboriginal man, a former Northern Territory police defensive tactics trainer told Rolfe
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[Link] Company that retains exclusive rights to make Aboriginal flags says government has ‘misled’ community
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
The federal government’s announcement that it has “freed” the Aboriginal flag is misleading and has been seriously misinterpreted, according to the company which still holds the exclusive licence to make Aboriginal flags for sale.
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[Link] Park lands hub helps Aboriginal rough sleepers return to Country
Read: 9/12/2021 indaily.com.au
Puti on Kaurna Yerta in the southern park lands. Photo: Tony Lewis/InDailySince opening in October, the Puti on Kaurna Yerta hub has helped 75 Aboriginal people – approximately half of whom came from the Northern Territory – to travel from Adelaide back to Country.
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[Link] Amnesty UK accused of ‘spreading false information’ about Northern Territory Covid outbreak
Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Amnesty UK has been accused of “spreading false information” about the Northern Territory’s Covid outbreak in an extraordinary joint statement from the territory’s peak Aboriginal health organisation and Amnesty’s own Australian operation.
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[Link] Thick blue line: Victoria builds the country’s biggest police force
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theage.com.au
Victoria has become one of the most heavily policed states in Australia after a two decade-long law and order rivalry between the ALP and Coalition helped build the country’s largest law enforcement organisation.
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[Link] 7 News apologises for wrongly identifying Aboriginal man as suspect in Cleo Smith case
Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au
Seven News has apologised for identifying an Aboriginal man as the 36-year-old suspect that was arrested by WA police over the Cleo Smith abduction. The network published a number of photographs of the man on Wednesday along with his name.
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[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] Federation 'ill-equipped' to deal with 21st-century challenges as Australia grows 'vulnerable'
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
More than 250 stakeholders are behind a report, as part of the National Resilience Project (NRP), that makes recommendations on topics including energy security, climate change responses, global and regional security risks, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] Australia seeks to overturn landmark ruling preventing deportation of Aboriginal people
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The federal government is seeking to overturn a landmark high court decision that deemed Aboriginal Australians cannot be aliens and cannot be deported.
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[Link] Queensland police refuse to remove traditional owners occupying Adani’s coalmine site
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Queensland police have told a group of First Nations people occupying the site of Adani’s Carmichael coalmine for the past five weeks that they have no intention of removing them from the area “at this time”.
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[Link] 'It was theirs': Landholder gives property to traditional owners
Read: 26/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
As a result, Ms Carter has been welcomed into the Nukunu nation's family and was called Aunty by the elders. About 30 people attended a hand-back ceremony recently where Aunty Zarna officially signed the property over to the NWT.
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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] Discrimination against Indigenous Australians has risen dramatically, survey finds
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Major discrimination against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – like being unfairly denied a job or unfairly discouraged from continuing education – remains at elevated levels and is far higher than for the rest of the population, according to new data.
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[Link] Australia may miss treaty deadline to establish torture protections for prisons, advocates warn
Read: 6/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia could miss an international deadline to introduce new safeguards against torture and abuse in jails, human rights advocates have warned.
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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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[Link] Farmer sorry for damaging Aboriginal site says he did not know it was heritage-listed
Read: 9/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Kuyung stone arrangement, a 176-metre-long formation in the shape of a juvenile eel, sits on land that has been owned by the McMaster family, one of the early settlers of Lake Bolac in south-western Victoria, for about 150 years.
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