Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

• Leaked document reveals 192 communities deemed unsustainable in 2010

  By Andrew O'Connor

  Posted March 24, 2015 23:03:48 | Updated March 25, 2015 06:13:29

  Extensive research was conducted as early as 2010 to identify West Australian remote Aboriginal communities considered unsustainable, a leaked document held by the State Government shows.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, state-parliament, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, broome-6725, karratha-6714, geraldton-6530, kalgoorlie-6430, perth-6000, bunbury-6230, albany-6330

• Mother to take legal action over daughter's wrongful arrest (video)

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  By Hayden Cooper

  Posted March 24, 2015 20:37:33 | Updated March 24, 2015 22:15:44

  A mother is planning civil action against NSW Police for the wrongful arrest of her daughter, who was tackled to the ground and dragged in a headlock to a police van before hitting her head on a gutter and being knocked unconscious.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, sydney-2000, nsw, australia

• Aboriginal legal services brace for funding cuts (video)

  Lateline

  By social affairs correspondent Norman Hermant and Sam Clark

  Posted March 23, 2015 19:43:37 | Updated March 23, 2015 23:31:16

  Indigenous legal services across the country say that lawyers will lose their jobs and more Aboriginal clients will face court unrepresented if the Government follows through with plans to cut their funding.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, community-and-society, nsw, coonabarabran-2357, act, alice-springs-0870, nt

• A March sunset at Kintore, Northern Territory image

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  ABC Rural

  Posted March 23, 2015 07:26:49

  Topics: community-development, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, kintore-0872

• David Lans from the remote community of Kintore, Northern Territory. image

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  ABC Rural

  Posted March 23, 2015 07:26:49

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, kintore-0872

• Making Indigenous communities self-sufficient

  ABC Rural

  Nathan Coates

  Posted March 23, 2015 07:26:49 | Updated March 23, 2015 09:14:54

  A member of a remote Indigenous community says, given the right support, his community can become self-sufficient.

  Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-development, kintore-0872

• Nearly 200 children locked in WA police station cells

  By the National Reporting Team's Caitlyn Gribbin

  Posted March 22, 2015 17:00:22 | Updated March 23, 2015 10:50:52

  Nearly 200 children have been locked in police station cells in Western Australia's Kimberley in the past three years, according to freedom of information documents.

  Topics: prisons-and-punishment, police, crime, law-crime-and-justice, children, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, kununurra-6743, wa

• Fears housing 'won't stand a chance' as NT readies for Nathan

  By James Purtill

  Posted March 21, 2015 18:48:40 | Updated March 22, 2015 09:06:26

  There are concerns Indigenous community housing in parts of Arnhem Land will be washed into the sea when Cyclone Nathan makes landfall this morning as a category two storm with wind gusts of more than 150kph.

  Topics: cyclones, cyclone, rainfall, floods, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, disasters-and-accidents, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nhulunbuy-0880, nt

• Scullion denies remote communities will be 'shut down'

  By Nicolas Perpitch

  Posted March 20, 2015 19:34:44 | Updated March 20, 2015 19:58:11

  Indigenous communities in WA will not be shut down and the State Government should tell Aboriginal people that, Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, wa

• Hawthorn's Cyril Rioli discusses the AFL club's support for remote Indigenous communities Video

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  ABC News

  36sec

  Posted March 20, 2015 18:27:00 | Updated March 20, 2015 20:07:17

  Shaun Burgoyne, who captained the Indigenous All Stars, and fellow Hawthorn Football Club players Bradley Hill, Cyril Rioli and Jed Anderson have called for the right of Indigenous people to stay in remote communities.

  Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, state-parliament, broome-6725, karratha-6714, geraldton-6530, kalgoorlie-6430, perthville-2795, bunbury-6230, albany-creek-4035

• Commemorating Australia's first Aboriginal resistance leader Pemulwuy

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  By Louise Maher

  Posted March 20, 2015 15:51:36

  The National Museum commemorates Australia's first Aboriginal resistance leader as the search continues for his remains.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, library-museum-and-gallery, 18th-century, unrest-conflict-and-war, 19th-century, canberra-2600

• Pimbloy [Pemulwuy]: Native of New Holland in a Canoe of that Country 1804 by SJ Neele STATE LIBRARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Q80/18 image

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  ABC News

  Posted March 20, 2015 15:50:28

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, library-museum-and-gallery, 19th-century, canberra-2600

• Singer Marlene Cummins, Mick Mundine, CEO Aboriginal Housing Company, Bidjigal elder Vic Simms and Allan Murray, Chairperson Metropolitan Land Council at the unveiling of the Pemulwuy plaque at the National Museum of Australia. image

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  ABC News

  Posted March 20, 2015 15:47:05

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, library-museum-and-gallery, canberra-2600

• Hugh Jackman, AFL stars support remote communities remaining open

  By Gail Liston

  Posted March 20, 2015 11:25:16 | Updated March 20, 2015 13:55:57

  Hugh Jackman joins AFL stars in calling for Indigenous people to be allowed to stay in their remote communities as the Western Australian Government moves to shut some down.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, state-parliament, broome-6725, karratha-6714, geraldton-6530, kalgoorlie-6430, perth-6000, bunbury-6230, albany-6330

• Scullion defends Government plan to 'buy' Indigenous jobs

  By political reporter Anna Henderson

  Posted March 20, 2015 00:06:50 | Updated March 20, 2015 09:01:49

  Businesses that employ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff will be provided with financial sweeteners of up to $10,000 by the Federal Government.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia

• Researcher Sam Nowland and Fisheries Minister Willem Westra van Holthe agree NT commercial oyster production is looking promising. Audio

  Audio
  ABC Rural

  7min 18sec

  Posted March 19, 2015 17:40:43

  Darwin Aquaculture Centre research officer Samantha Nowland and Primary Industry and Fisheries Minister Willem Westra van Holthe discuss Northern Territory oyster research.

  Topics: fishing-aquaculture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800

• NT oyster production trials

  NT Country Hour

  By Lisa Herbert

  Posted March 19, 2015 17:40:43 | Updated March 20, 2015 09:05:47

  One hundred and fifty juvenile oysters will be flown to the Tiwi Islands today as part of ongoing work to try and create a viable oyster business for the region's Indigenous communities.

  Topics: fishing-aquaculture, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, darwin-0800

• Calls for 4WD track policing to protect Aboriginal middens

  ABC Rural

  By Alex Blucher

  Posted March 19, 2015 16:03:06

  A land rehabilitation expert is calling for greater policing of controversial four-wheel drive tracks to protect Aboriginal heritage sites on Tasmania's west coast.

  Topics: rural, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environment-education, environmental-management, arthur-river-7330, marrawah-7330, tas

• Land rehabilitation expert says more policing of 4WD tracks in Arthur Pieman Conservation Area on Tasmania's West Coast is needed to protect Aboriginal middens. Audio

  Audio
  ABC Rural

  5min 14sec

  Posted March 19, 2015 16:03:06

  Topics: rural, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, environment-education, environmental-management, arthur-river-7330, marrawah-7330, tas

• Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission makes formal start in SA

  Posted March 19, 2015 16:01:54 | Updated March 19, 2015 18:56:22

  Public hearings in remote Aboriginal communities are expected to be part of a royal commission in SA into nuclear energy.

  Topics: government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, states-and-territories, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, uranium-mining, sa, adelaide-5000, marla-5724

• Barnett pushed in angry scenes at remote community closure protest (video)

  By Nicolas Perpitch, Bonnie Christian and Andrew O'Connor

  Posted March 19, 2015 14:20:49 | Updated March 19, 2015 20:12:59

  WA Premier Colin Barnett faces hostile scenes inside and outside Parliament over moves to close remote Indigenous communities.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, perth-6000

• Brisbane's Murri School raises student retention, involvement rates

  The World Today

  By Nance Haxton

  Posted March 19, 2015 14:03:04 | Updated March 19, 2015 14:13:56

  A healing program in an Aboriginal school in Brisbane has been so successful at raising retention rates it is now being rolled out in New South Wales.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, schools, education, access-to-education, family-and-children, acacia-ridge-4110, brisbane-4000

• Aboriginal groups want cultural fishing rights made law in NSW

  The World Today

  By Jennifer Macey

  Posted March 19, 2015 13:04:47 | Updated March 19, 2015 19:53:15

  Aboriginal groups call on both sides of New South Wales state politics to formally recognise cultural fishing rights before the state election, saying without these legal protections Indigenous Australians are going to jail unnecessarily.

  Topics: illegal-fishing, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-culture, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, elections, australia, nsw

• South-west Victorian Indigenous community holds Close the Gap Day event

  Posted March 19, 2015 10:54:30

  South-west Victoria's Indigenous community will be holding a Close the Gap Day event today in Warrnambool in south-west Victoria.

  Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, warrnambool-3280

• Close the gap, not the communities Opinion

  The Drum

  By Mick Gooda and Kirstie Parker

  Posted March 19, 2015 09:12:32

  The decisions made about remote communities are damaging and a breach of inherent rights. On Close the Gap Day we urge the Government to re-engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

  Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society

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