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The largest class action in the Northern Territory's history is settled in favour of 71 former residents of the Retta Dixon Home, who alleged years of abuse by staff, in what is the first compensation win as a result of evidence heard by the royal commission into child abuse.
Topics: child-abuse, child-care, indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, youth, royal-commissions, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedAmongst the litany of miserable statistics in this year's Closing the Gap report, there is a standout exception: 30,000 Indigenous university graduates who have erased their employment gap. These are the success stories of the quiet revolution, writes Stan Grant.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, federal-government, government-and-politics, community-and-society, australia
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Labor's Linda Burney responds to this year's Closing the Gap report, which shows slow progress to improve the health and wealth of Indigenous Australians, February 14, 2017.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, federal-government, australia
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said despite having successive state and Commonwealth governments committed to closing the gaps faced by First Australians, there was much more work to do.
Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, turnbull-malcolm, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tables the Close the Gap report which again shows slow progress to improve the health and wealth of Indigenous Australians.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, turnbull-malcolm, australia
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Topics: bill-shorten, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, canberra-2600, australia
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Topics: turnbull-malcolm, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia has promised to close the gap between Indigenous and other Australians on health, education and employment. But we are failing to meet six of seven key goals.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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Indigenous Australians will today deliver their blueprint for change to the nation's political leaders. It's called the Redfern Statement, and this is what it's calling for.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, community-and-society, indigenous-protocols, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is applauding progress in health and education ahead of the release of the latest report card into Indigenous disadvantage.
Topics: indigenous-policy, health-policy, education, australia
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| UpdatedFormer prime minister Tony Abbott says it is disappointing Malcolm Turnbull has not spent a week each year in a remote Aboriginal or Torres Strait community.
Topics: abbott-tony, turnbull-malcolm, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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Building places of healing and setting up new community programs could be the next wave of support for the Stolen Generations in South Australia, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher says.
Topics: stolen-generations, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe Greens urge the Federal Government to establish targets for driving down the number of Indigenous Australians in jail.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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An abalone bust on the NSW far south coast brings to the surface tensions between cultural and commercial abalone divers.
Topics: fishing-aquaculture, illegal-fishing, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture
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Topics: illegal-fishing, indigenous-policy, indigenous-culture
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| UpdatedState and Federal ministers are asked to consider changing legislations after Federal Court ruling on Indigenous Land Agreements questions mining, gas, ports, infrastructure and national park legality.
Topics: mining-rural, oil-and-gas, coal, rural, rail-transport, sea-transport, national-parks, native-title, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, mining-industry, perth-6000
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| UpdatedIndigenous leader June Oscar replaces Mick Gooda as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
Topics: indigenous-policy, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia, fitzroy-crossing-6765
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An increasing number of people think Australia is a racist country and there has been a rise in Indigenous people reporting prejudice, according to the latest Reconciliation Barometer.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, race-relations, australia
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull shakes up his Indigenous Advisory Council, appointing Australian of the Year finalist Andrea Mason and Indigenous education leader Chris Sarra and ending speculation about the future of the controversial council.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, indigenous-policy, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, australia
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A ruling by the full bench of the Federal Court over Indigenous Land Use Agreements in WA could have implications for pastoral, mining, oil, gas, and governments.
Topics: mining-rural, mining-industry, laws, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, perth-6000
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| UpdatedThe National Audit Office's blistering assessment of the Abbott government's Indigenous Advancement Strategy is basically a lesson on how not to roll out policy.
Topics: government-and-politics, indigenous-policy, abbott-tony, australia, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government denies it made any blunders when rolling out its flagship Indigenous Affairs funding scheme, despite a scathing report into the program.
Topics: indigenous-policy, abbott-tony, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedIndigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion defends the Abbott government's overhaul of billions of dollars worth of Indigenous funding, after a major report finds the program was bungled.
Topics: indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, darwin-0800, nt, australia
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The Lands Minister has accepted the state government has a key role to play in cleaning an illegal camp on Crown land in the Pilbara
Topics: homelessness, governors-general-and-state-governors, indigenous-policy, local-government, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, south-hedland-6722