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• Indigenous youth over-represented in juvenile justice systems across Australia

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 129
  The following article appeared in newspapers across Australia highlighting the over-representation of Indigenous youth in juvenile justice systems, not just in the State of Western Australia where this case took place, but right across Australia.   A 12 year old Aboriginal boy has been charged with receiving stolen ...
  18 hours ago

• James Wallis – Historical Account of New South Wales 1821 online

  
  UoN Cultural Collections — Authority: 99
    James Wallis - An historical account of the colony of New South Wales (1821) Day Shift – 17/11/2009 – 02:10 PM Presenter: Carol Duncan Interviewee: Gionni Di Gravio, Archivist, Newcastle University   Newcastle University Archivist Gionni Di Gravio discusses a recent addition to the ...
  18 hours ago

• It’s The Principle!

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 152
  Im worth it! A 12 year old Aboriginal boy from Northam, Western Australia has been charged with receiving a stolen Freddo Frog chocolate from his friend. Yes, that’s right folks, that’s receiving stolen  goods right there. Hmm, the chocolate in question was nicked from a local supermarket. Oh and it gets a tad ...
  23 hours ago

• Canadians tour U.K. to raise oilsands awareness

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 508
  Three aboriginal women from Canada are visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland as part of a 10-day tour to raise awareness around human rights issues occurring in the Alberta tarsands.
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• DAMON CORRIE TALKS ABOUT HIS AMAZING ARCHAEO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL DISCOVERY IN GUYANAS WILDERNESS

  
  The Bajan Reporter — Authority: 438
  On October 16th 2009 Damon Corrie was on his way back down a mountain in the Pakaraima range in Guyana with adopted Lokono-Arawak son Marlon ( 20 ), and three other tribal friends ( Sado 24, Carlson 17, and Mariscad 13 ) - when the group stumbled out of the jungle covered hills and walked right into a very ...
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• Correctional Investigator Report on Federal Aboriginal Prisoners

  
  Library Boy — Authority: 425
  The Office of the Correctional Investigator yesterday released a report on the situation of Aboriginal offenders under federal jurisdiction. The Correctional Investigator is mandated by Part III of the federal Corrections and Conditional Release Act as an Ombudsman for federal offenders. The ...
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  2 days ago

• Reviewing Aboriginal Art Shows

  
  Tribal Artery — Authority: 107
  In a recent blog at Aboriginal Art & Culture: an American Eye , Will Owen reviews two Aboriginal art shows in Washington, DC. The Washington, DC shows were Australian Indigenous Art Triennial: Culture Warriors and Lands of Enchantment: Australian Aboriginal Paintings. Owens review dwells heavily ...
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• Watchdog sounds alarm over state of native prisoners

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 508
  OTTAWA — Canadas prison watchdog is sounding the alarm over the plight of aboriginal prisoners, warning that without urgent action the situation will soon become a crisis.
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• UNPROPORTIONAL PRISON REPRESENTATION

  
  The non conformer's Canadian Weblog — Authority: 423
  Prison watchdog sounds alarm over state of native prisoners  OTTAWA – Canada’s prison watchdog is sounding the alarm over the plight of aboriginal prisoners, warning that without urgent action the situation will soon become a crisis. Howard Sapers, the correctional investigator of Canada, released a progress ...
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• Lawlessness

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 434
  Caledonia family lived ‘terrified existence’ Barbara Brown writes for the Hamilton Spectator: A Caledonia family lived inside “a war zone,” says a Hamilton lawyer whose clients will testify about being trapped inside the barricades during the 2006 native occupation of the Douglas Creek Estates.
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• Aboriginal Women & Domestic Violence

  
  Women of History — Authority: 142
  From NT News : A DARWIN magistrate has said Aboriginal victims of domestic violence have faces like "squashed tomatoes". Alasdair McGregor was sentencing a man who kicked his girlfriend in the face while they were both in the back of a police paddy wagon. He said many Aboriginal women bore the scars of ...
  3 days ago

• Vancouver Olympics 2010

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  Vancouver Olympics official site ; CTV Olympics 2010 ; CBC Road to The Games : No 2010 Olympics on Stolen Native Land : With the winding-down of the Beijing Olympics , it seems inevitable that Vancouver’s organization should become a political target - at least in Canada. Thus, it is hardly surprising that the ...
  4 days ago

• Aboriginal consultation and renewable energy approvals

  
  Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority: 123
  In order to implement the Green Energy Act, Ontario has recently adopted O. Reg. 359/09, to set up a new regime for accelerated approvals of renewable energy projects  (wind, solar, anaerobic digestion and biomass combustion). One key element of the new  regime is a six month “service guarantee”. This means ...
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• Victim of huge injustice Robbie Kina dies at 50

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  Tony Koch; 11/11/09Robbie Kina, 50, an Aboriginal woman whose 1988 conviction for murder is widely regarded as one of the greatest miscarriage s of justice in Australia’s legal history, died at her Brisbane home last Thursday. Kina served six years in Boggo Road prison in Brisbane for the stabbing death of Tony ...
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• johnny cash, indians, and nixon

  
  Shmohawk's Weblog — Authority: 107
  I never heard this one, although I knew that Johnny Cash often stood up for what he believed. a great story on Salon about how Cash brought Indigenous issues to a White House much different than the one with today’s resident. The story was probably sparked by Obama’s invitation to Native Americans to spend a [...]
  6 days ago

• Traditional indigenous owners to reclaim Maralinga bomb site

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  David Nason; 10/11/09More than 50 years after their ancestral lands were devastated by nuclear testing, the Tjarutja people of western South Australia will next month be handed back the infamous expanse of remote desert the British named Maralinga. After years of legal jousting, plans are being finalised for a formal ...
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• BARBADIAN INDIANA JONES MAKES DISCOVERY OF LIFETIME IN GUYANA REMOTE INTERIOR

  
  The Voice of the Taino People Online — Authority: 103
  PAKARAIMA MOUNTAINS, GUYANA - Word has leaked out to a select few local, regional and International media sources that Barbados born Damon Gerard Corrie ( of paternal Trinidadian and maternal Guyanese Amerindian descent ) - well known to Barbadians as " the Snake Man , may soon be well ...
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• The Plank in Australia’s Eye

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 640
  “F%*# OFF! WE’RE FULL!” read the bumper sticker I saw this morning, written within the outline of the Australian continent. The offense of the bumper stickers I felt twice as hard after hearing that another boat of people fleeing horrific…
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• A strange Sunday

  
  . . . Damien G. Walter . . . — Authority: 118
  Sunday was one of those days when all I could seem to do was lounge on the sofa and read, in that semi-dream state where words mingle with reality. In the morning I took a sojourn among The Sea Kings of Mars thanks to Leigh Brackett. I have had the Fantasy Masterworks volume of her stories for some years, and was two ...
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