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• Shorter RCMP

  
  Stageleft: life on the left side — Authority: 470
    If at first it doesnt go away... stall, stall, again.
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• Indigenous News Update – Health

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 126
  Hermannsburg waiting for dialysis demountable. 6 promised by Feds , 3 delivered to communities http://bit.ly/7MKXVU intervention taskforce member slams Fed Govt for not taking responsibility for Aboriginal health services http://bit.ly/4Akh58 A community-based program Reduced skin infections in Northern ...
  11 hours ago

• Rape victim wins legal challenge

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 152
  Angus Hohenboken; 3/12/09,  The Australian, No Internet TextA member of the stolen generation who was allegedly raped an estimated 500 times while in foster care has succesfully challenged a ruling that she be compensated for only one of the assaults. The NSW Supreme Court yesterday quashed a Victims Compensation ...
  14 hours ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  15 hours ago

• Govt figures prove ‘things are getting worse’

  
  Solidarity Online — Authority: 118
  The federal government’s “Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory” monitoring report, released quietly in October, provides damning evidence of the failure of the NT Intervention. It compares statistics pre and post Intervention. As Jon Altman, Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy ...
  17 hours ago

• RDA still suspended, Macklin entrenches Intervention

  
  Solidarity Online — Authority: 118
  Breaking clear promises, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has introduced legislation that will continue to suspend the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) until December 31, 2010. Reading her new bills into parliament, Macklin argued that the suspension of the RDA by the Howard government had “denied ...
  17 hours ago

• Indigenous News Update – Intervention

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 126
  Indigenous people need to be included in the development and implementation of the plan to fix town camps http://bit.ly/4KAMJK New Intervention guidelines argue some of the measures are racist and must be changed. – anything new there?! http://bit.ly/6IXQdR How will welfare quarantining go with the Racial ...
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• World AIDS day reminds us of scientific advances in fight against HIV/AIDS but the battle is far from over

  
  Senses: A blog about the Thirdi Software perception — Authority: 132
  Today is World AIDS Day and although the disease remains currently incurable, the advancements in medical technology that prolong life and mitigate the effects of the sexually transmitted auto-immune virus  are impressive. We’ve come from a point where 25 years ago patients would be dying within months to a year of ...
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• William Buckley

  
  The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian — Authority: 424
  William Buckley.Who is that?The names sounds sort of familiar, but I may be thinking of a similar sounding name. Isnt there an American named William F. Buckley, or William S. Buckley. I dont know who he is.....Okay yeah. Theres a William F. Buckley. Lord Wiki says he was an conservative author and ...
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• After free Olympic tickets, what next?

  
  Slaw — Authority: 610
  The treatment of First Nation Chiefs as “heads of state” at the Olympics will have real significance if this status is accorded First Nations beyond the Olympics. Apparently, it results from an agreement signed prior to the Vancouver bid for the Games to which all political actors who would be involved in the ...
  2 days ago

• Indigenous News Update – Education

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 126
  Latest survey by the ABS on Indigenous education, employment and health shows we wont close the gap by 2020 http://bit.ly/77BfI1 Appointment of the third Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council to provide advice to government http://bit.ly/6V0plG Govt target to halve the gap in literacy & numeracy for ...
  2 days ago

• SUMMER COMES AND SO DOES MY 10,000th HIT.

  
  LYNNE SANDERS-BRAITHWAITE — Authority: 112
  How good is the  Internet ? A few years and a few tears back, I could no more have accessed a public forum for journals, images, music, videos, genealogy than I could have knitted new clothes for my coming grandchild. My father, Bruce Sanders , wanted his 2/3 Pioneer Battalion Story published but we simply didn’t ...
  2 days ago

• Indigenous News Update – Justice

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 126
  Free kick leads to brawl with knives and axes during football match at Angurugu, 600 kilometres east of Darwin http://bit.ly/4Xqog1 Magistrate: “so many of the women have faces more or less like a squashed tomato” as a consequence of domestic violence http://bit.ly/7FlrLP 12yo Aboriginal boy charged with ...
  3 days ago

• Education program ‘can help reduce skin infections in remote places’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Melbourne, November 30 (ANI): Education programs involving local people can have a significant impact on reducing skin infections in remote communities, a new study suggests.The study showed that a community-based treatment program in Northern Australia successfully reduced the number of Aboriginal children with skin ...
  3 days ago

• Northern Territory guilty of ‘criminal neglect’ after diverting aid from Aboriginal families

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 152
  Lex Hall; 30/11/09; (2 Items)One of Australia’s most powerful Aboriginal land councils says the Northern Territory Labor government’s underspending on services to indigenous people amounts to criminal neglect.  ONE of Australia’s most powerful Aboriginal land councils says the Northern Territory Labor ...
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• Aboriginal council confirms town camps in Alice Springs will sign 40-year lease

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 152
  Natasha Robinson; 30/11/09The Aboriginal council in charge of Alice Springs’ town camps has confirmed the camps’ governing bodies will honour an agreement with the federal government to sign long-term leases. The Aboriginal council in charge of Alice Springs’ town camps has confirmed the camps’ governing ...
  3 days ago

• Aboriginal Culture is Centre Stage as Students Visit Festival at Copps

  
  Tomorrows Trust - A Review of Catholic Education — Authority: 135
  Editor’s Note: The following is a report from the website of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board as a follow-up to the previous post “ ETFO & OECTA Teachers Will Participate in World’s Largest Classroom at Aboriginal Festival ”.November 30, 2009 (Catholic education, Catholic schools) By ROB ...
  3 days ago

• Dubai crisis, holiday sales will dominate trading | Developing …

  
  Dubai for Visitors — Authority: 155
  News that Dubai’s investment arm, Dubai World, could default on $60 billion in debt sent world markets skidding on Thanksgiving, and U.S. stock markets initially followed when trading resumed Friday after the holiday. Excerpt from: Dubai crisis, holiday sales will dominate trading | Developing …
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• Opera’s opportunity costs? (or sing fat lady! Sing!)

  
  marcus westbury — Authority: 413
  LYNDON Terracini has been outspoken and surprisingly frank about the limitations of Australia’s major performing arts companies in recent weeks. The incoming Opera Australia artistic director has slammed Australia’s orchestras and opera companies as “conservative and predictable,” admitted that Melbourne has ...
  3 days ago

• Brendan Nelson

  
  The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian — Authority: 424
  I know who Brendan Nelson is. He was the Leader of the Opposition before Malcolm Turnbull got the job. I dont know what happened there--why Turnbull took Nelsons place. I also dont know whether or not Nelson is still a Member of Parliament. The first time I heard of Nelson was on Sorry Day. When he spoke, some ...
  3 days ago

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