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Child protection ‘ripped’ Aboriginal child from mother’s arms at Indigenous women’s meeting
More Aboriginal children are being removed from their mothers’ care in Victoria now than during the stolen generations, creating “trauma, distrust and fear”, leaders say.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Loss of faith in courts when truth takes back seat
Many Australians are concerned with alleged violent criminals being let out on bail and when they are found guilty, receiving relatively light or non-custodial sentences.
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Police
‘It’s not good enough’: Police crack down harder on young Indigenous offenders
NSW Police are much more likely to simply caution rather than prosecute non-Aboriginal youth who cross the line.
- by Don Weatherburn
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Indigenous
Police had a plan to help reduce Aboriginal incarceration. Then this happened ...
Prison numbers are going in the wrong direction for Aboriginal people. But NSW Police say they should not be held accountable for helping to bring them down.
- by Patrick Begley
New approach up north could combat WA’s youth crisis: former inspector
Indigenous teenager Cleveland Dodd fatally self-harmed in custody in Perth. Now the state’s former prisons inspector has told an inquiry something must change.
- by Aaron Bunch
Cape York areas make World Heritage tentative list
Another Australian site may be in the mix for World Heritage status after a campaign was launched for parts of Queensland’s Cape York Peninsula.
- by Laine Clark
Elation, sorrow over Sunshine Coast native title ruling
It’s a bittersweet victory for traditional owners whose native title rights over more than 300,000 hectares of land in south-east Queensland have been recognised in the Federal Court.
- by Keira Jenkins
Rapper at centre of ‘white devil’ school song controversy addresses furore
A song from Indigenous rapper Birdz was banned from a Sydney primary school this week. But he says it’s been taught inside classrooms for years.
- by Meg Watson
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Indigenous art
‘What is it, 1991?’: Prominent rapper slams move to ban controversial song
One of Australia’s biggest hip-hop artists has slammed comments from the NSW government, after a Birdz song was withdrawn from rotation at a Sydney school.
- by Meg Watson
Inquest uncovers NT Police racism, while an ‘exhausted’ community waits to heal
Kumanjayi Walker was shot dead by an NT police officer in 2019. The inquest into the teen’s death revealed racism within police ranks and the officer’s past use of force.
- by Jack Latimore
Ken Wyatt is not known for anger. But when he read his family’s government files ...
The former minister for Indigenous Australians thought he knew everything about the heartache of his people. Then he read about the treatment of his forebears.
- by Victoria Laurie