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| UpdatedAn historical documentary featuring the Indigenous community on Palm Island in far north Queensland will shed light on a relatively unknown aspect of Australia's colonisation where Aboriginal people were stolen, stripped and exhibited as attractions in a human zoo.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, colonialism, history, film-movies, documentary, arts-and-entertainment, palm-island-4815, australia
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Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, zoos, colonialism, history, film-movies, australia, palm-island-4815
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Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, zoos, colonialism, history, film-movies, australia, palm-island-4815
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| UpdatedQueensland Police appeal against the Federal Court's ruling in a discrimination case over a death in custody on Palm Island that awarded $200,000 to Lex Wotton and his family.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, discrimination, race-relations, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810, qld, australia
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Indigenous Australians angered by police handling of Elijah Doughty's death plan legal action following a landmark federal court compensation decision for Palm Islanders.
Topics: indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, discrimination, kalgoorlie-6430, wa, palm-island-4815, qld, australia
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Premier says she stands by the police service, despite not yet reading a Federal Court judgment that police were unlawfully discriminatory in responding to a 2004 death in custody on Palm Island.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, state-parliament, courts-and-trials, discrimination, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, palm-island-4815
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| UpdatedAn Indigenous activist wins part of his racial discrimination suit against the Queensland Government and Police Commissioner over their handling of the 2004 riots on Palm Island, with a court finding police acted with "impunity".
Topics: indigenous-policy, state-parliament, courts-and-trials, discrimination, townsville-4810, palm-island-4815
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Questions are being raised about the scientific basis for the Queensland Government's decision to axe a controversial goat eradication program.
Topics: environment, endangered-and-protected-species, rain-forests-and-forest, townsville-4810, qld, australia, palm-island-4815
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| UpdatedA north Queensland magistrate hopes her book, Saltwater, will initiate discussion about how to curb youth crime.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, youth, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, books-literature, author, townsville-4810, innisfail-4860, palm-island-4815, magnetic-island-4819
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Topics: law-crime-and-justice, youth, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, books-literature, author, townsville-4810, innisfail-4860, palm-island-4815, magnetic-island-4819
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| UpdatedSome communities in Victoria and Queensland have had "appalling "rates of preventable hospital admissions for at least a decade, a Grattan Institute report finds.
Topics: health-policy, health, palm-island-4815, mount-isa-4825, frankston-3199, broadmeadows-3047, colac-3250, melbourne-3000, vic, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA Queensland council is releasing dingoes — implanted with a time-activated poison to avoid them becoming pests — onto the Great Barrier Reef's Pelorus Island, to kill feral goats that are destroying its endangered ecosystem.
Topics: environment, endangered-and-protected-species, rain-forests-and-forest, palm-island-4815
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Police are investigating an attempted armed robbery in Townsville early this morning.
Topics: armed-robbery, assault, road, townsville-4810, palm-island-4815, kirwan-4817
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The man convicted of inciting riots on Palm Island in north Queensland in 2004 hopes his class action against the State Government will improve the treatment of Indigenous people in custody.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810, qld
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government is being petitioned to appoint a second police commissioner in Queensland, one of Indigenous heritage, to help tackle the high incarceration rates.
Topics: race-relations, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture, black-deaths-in-custody, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, palm-island-4815
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| UpdatedThe State Government says developing large-scale business and tourism ventures in remote Indigenous communities will be the focus of an investment forum today.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, states-and-territories, programs-and-initiatives, regional-development, cairns-4870, palm-island-4815, weipa-4874, townsville-4810, mount-isa-4825
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| UpdatedPalm Island locals are invited to help close the health gap for Indigenous Australians through a paramedic cadet program.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, health, careers, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810, qld
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Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, health, careers, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810, qld
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Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, health, careers, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810, qld
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Palm Island's Mayor says a desalination plant could become a permanent part of the north Queensland town's water infrastructure.
Topics: water-supply, programs-and-initiatives, water, water-management, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810
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A 13-year-old girl has been charged with the stabbing of a teenager on Palm Island in north Queensland.
Topics: crime, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810
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A Palm Island man has been sentenced to eight years' jail after maintaining a sexual relationship with his partner's 12-year-old daughter.
Topics: courts-and-trials, crime, sexual-offences, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedA Palm Island mother who fears her children became ill after bathing in "murky" tap water says she is considering moving her family from the island, which risks running out of water within months.
Topics: water-pollution, water, water-management, water-supply, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedA couple whose home was raided during the Palm Island riots in north Queensland are awarded more than $200,000 in damages by the Court of Appeal.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, palm-island-4815, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000
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After a coroner ruled Cameron Doomadgee's death in custody in 2004 was an accident, Palm Islanders demanded answers and then headed for the local police station, a court hears.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, crime, courts-and-trials, palm-island-4815, qld, townsville-4810