Land Council demands action on sex abuse report By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The Central Land Council (CLC) says the Northern Territory Government must stop "twiddling its thumbs" and get on with the job of protecting Indigenous children from sexual abuse.
Signs of improvement emerge from NT communities Men leave the Borroloola Inn Signs s
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts
KERRY O'BRIEN: Now to the Northern Territory, where an official inquiry has found a strong association between alcohol abuse and the shocking widespread sexual abuse of Aboriginal children. The board of inquiry reports cites startling ...
NT Govt responds to widespread abuse of Aboriginal children NT Govt responds to widespread abuse of Aboriginal children
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts
NT Chief Minister speaks to Lateline on Aboriginal child sex abuse report NT Chief Minister speaks to Lateline on Aboriginal child sex abuse report
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts
Tony Jones talks to Northern Territory Chief Minister Clare Martin on the impacts of the report into Indigenous child sex abuse.
Aborigines invite LNG players to table By The Australian
ABORIGINES have signalled the go-ahead for a liquefied natural gas industry to be established off the Kimberley coast by inviting industry players to work with them in building an onshore gas facility.
Child abuse focuses debate By Northern Territory News/Sunday Territorian
INDIGENOUS child sex abuse is expected to dominate Parliamentary sittings this week following the release of an inquiry report. Opposition Leader Jodeen Carney said these sittings are "traditionally" spent scrutinising the budget but the ...
A people failed by politics of hypocrisy By The Australian
Self-righteous advocates of an apology and separatism have undermined Aboriginal Australians, laments John Pasquarelli NEWS about the sickening degradation of all levels of Aboriginal society just keeps on coming with the latest findings ...
Brough told: You can keep dongas
By Centralian Advocate
WE don't want your dongas -- that's Alice Springs Town Council's message to Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough. Aldermen this week decided they want future short-term accommodation facilities to be "bricks and mortar" instead ...
Labor supports Pearson shakeup
By The Australian
INDIGENOUS policy faces a revolution no matter who winsthe federal election, with Labor backing Noel Pearson's push to link welfare and personal responsibility.
Hurley a `protector of community'
By The Australian
CHRIS Hurley was "the type of police officer everyone would like to have in their community", the Townsville Supreme Court was told yesterday at his manslaughter trial.
Report suggests teaching students how to vote
By The Age
ALL students should be taught in secondary school how to vote to tackle the problem of young people failing to cast a ballot and showing little interest in Australian political affairs, a bipartisan report has recommended.
Doubts over action on Indigenous abuse report Brough briefed on Indigenous abuse report
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts
ELEANOR HALL: The Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Mal Brough, has been briefed this morning on the report on abuse in Indigenous communities, and he has described the situation as shocking and appalling.
Aboriginal sex abuse rampant
By The Cairns Post
ABORIGINAL children as young as three are falling victim to widespread sex abuse fuelled by alcohol, pornography and ignorance, a new report says.
Money loss to hit tour plans
By The Cairns Post
AN Aboriginal employment program that receives $1 million a year has lost its Federal Government funding because of financial mismanagement.
Kimberley Land Council sees benefits in gas project Malcolm Douglas at Maret Islands protest
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Aborigines in the Kimberley, in northern Western Australia, have signalled they are willing to negotiate with a Japanese company over a controversial gas project.
Airline chief to front Coroner
By Townsville Bulletin
A CORONIAL inquest into the deaths of 15 people in the Lockhart River air disaster is expected to hear testimony from the director of the doomed Transair airline when it resumes in Brisbane this week.
Tiwi Indigenous child abuse 'happening for decades'
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Just days after the release of a Government-commissioned report into child sex abuse in Indigenous communities, a Northern Territory woman says abuse has been happening on the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin, for decades.
Time to tackle national shame
By Northern Territory News/Sunday Territorian
JUNE 18, 2007 THE report of the NT Board of Inquiry into the Protection of Aboriginal Children from Sexual Abuse is an impressive piece of work.
Deal hailed
By Northern Territory News/Sunday Territorian
CHIEF Minister Clare Martin said a new partership signed with the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education will encourage inproved Aboriginal education, health and lifestyle.
Govts warned
By Northern Territory News/Sunday Territorian
AN INDIGENOUS health organisation has warned the Territory and Federal governments to address the recommendations of the child sex report "or face the criticism and ridicule of mainstream Australians."
Teachers key to remote schools
By The Australian
A drill system could aid communities, argues Kirsten Storry IN Aurukun on Queensland's Cape York, the school leadership refuses to accept that the complexity of the issues facing the indigenous community is an excuse for its children not ...
Standstill on black abuse attacked
By The Australian
THE Northern Territory Opposition has accused the Martin Government of sitting on its hands while sexual abuse of children in Aboriginal communities continues without check.
`Tough love' for Aboriginal communities
By The Australian
ABORIGINAL families would be stripped of welfare payments if their children were abused or missed school under a plan by indigenous leader Noel Pearson to make benefits conditional on behaviour.
Child sex abuse 'not confined to remote communities' Help NT says children all over the Territory are being abused. Govt urged to act quickly on sex abuse report
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
A counselling service in the Northern Territory says child sex abuse is happening in Darwin as well as remote communities. A report released Friday suggests child sex abuse is rampant in Aboriginal communities.
WELCOME TO BOWENWOOD Plucking strings of the heart
By Townsville Bulletin
THE team at Bowen Retravision aren't really in the business of making dreams come true, but they have helped put an enormous smile on the face of one of Australia's youngest movie stars, completely by accident.
Nation's child abuse shame - Grog-fuelled sex attacks rife in black communities
By The Australian
SEXUAL abuse of Aboriginal children is widespread across the Northern Territory, fuelled by "rivers of grog" and catastrophic failures in the education system.
Aboriginal singer lost to cancer
By The Advertiser
AUSTRALIAN music lost one of its pioneers this week. George Burarrawanga, 50, the Warumpi Band's charismatic frontman, died at his island home on Galiwinku (Elcho Island), East Arnhem Land, on Sunday surrounded by family and friends after ...
`Racist' Australia clawing back native rights
By Townsville Bulletin
AUSTRALIA remains a racist society, allowing governments to erode many of the gains made since the landmark Mabo decision, a leading Aboriginal academic says.
Aboriginal tourism venture opens
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
A new interpretation trail has been opened in the state's north to provide an insight into Tasmanian Aboriginal cultural heritage. The Tulampanga trail near Mole Creek is an example of the attractions that will be developed and promoted ...
Aboriginal abuse could 'wipe out generations' An Aboriginal health activist says governments have to take action on sex abuse in Indigenous communities
NT Govt under fire for abuse report delays
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The head of an Indigenous health research group says people have a right to be cynical about whether governments will act on a report on child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities.
Aboriginal crime plan
By The Advertiser
AN Aboriginal Social Justice Commissioner was one way to curb the growing problem of youth crime in Adelaide, a community leader says. In a report for Catholic Vicar-General David Cappo, Aboriginal leader Tauto Sansbury lists 10 ...
Indigenous child abuse fuelled by drink, porn
By The Advertiser
ABORIGINAL children as young as three are falling victim to widespread sex abuse fuelled by alcohol and pornography, a new report has found.
Outdoors court at new centre
By The Advertiser
SOUTH Australia's newest courthouse, which includes the first outdoor courtroom, has opened in Port Augusta. Premier Mike Rann yesterday officially opened the $12.6 million complex, which includes offices for the Aboriginal Legal Rights ...
Report uncovers widespread Indigenous child abuse Report uncovers widespread Indigenous child abuse
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts
LEIGH SALES: Northern Territory Chief Minister Clare Martin has admitted her Government has not done enough to tackle child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities.
Co-author comments on report into Indigenous child abuse Leigh Sales speaks with Pat Anderson, a co-author of the report into Indigenous child abuse
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts
LEIGH SALES: Pat Anderson is one of the co-authors of the report and a senior figure in the Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. I spoke to her earlier from our Melbourne studio.
Child sex abuse disaster looms
By The Age
Plea for action in Northern Territory CHILD sex abuse is widespread and often goes unreported in Aboriginal communities where victims are as young as three, a Northern Territory inquiry has found.
Tainted town claims justice
By The Sydney Morning Herald
THE Federal Court yesterday quashed an attempt by the Federal Government to sack the local governing body of a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory and replace it with an administrator of its own choosing.
Culture of silence surrounds informal sex trade - police
By The Sydney Morning Herald
GIRLS aged between 12 and 15 were engaged in a "rampant informal sex trade" with non-Aboriginal workers of a mining company in one Northern Territory community, yesterday's report into child sex abuse says.
Generation at risk in sex abuse crisis
By The Sydney Morning Herald
ABORIGINAL DISASTER SEXUAL abuse of Aboriginal children as young as three is rampant in the Northern Territory, with an inquiry finding "rivers of grog", drugs and pornography fuel a crisis that threatens communities with disaster.
Mabo decision commemorated
By The Courier-Mail
A GOVERNMENT-fostered misconception that too much money was spent on indigenous people meant "ill-conceived and ineffective" government policies often went unchallenged, a leading Aboriginal academic said yesterday.
Troubled community wins bid for control
By The Australian
THE tiny Northern Territory indigenous community of Mutitjulu yesterday won a court battle against the federal Government's appointment of an administrator to run the local council.
A structure for empowerment
By The Australian
INDIGENOUS disadvantage stems from dispossession and the historical denial of rights. But poverty is also behavioural. Disengagement from the real economy, passivity and dysfunction are not only symptoms of oppression, they are also ...
Hurley changes story in witness box
By The Australian
THE Queensland policeman charged with the manslaughter of an Aboriginal prisoner on Palm Island in 2004 yesterday took the stand in court for the first time -- and immediately changed his story.
Nation's child abuse shame
By The Australian
Grog-fuelled sex attacks rife in black communities Nicolas Rothwell SEXUAL abuse of Aboriginal children is widespread across the Northern Territory, fuelled by "rivers of grog" and catastrophic failures in the education system.
Non-sniff Opal group in awards
By Northern Territory News/Sunday Territorian
THE Opal Alliance -- which successfully campaigned for the introduction of non-sniffable fuel in Central Australia -- is a finalist in the National Drug and Alcohol Awards.
Our shame
By Northern Territory News/Sunday Territorian
ABORIGINAL children as young as three are falling victim to widespread sex abuse fuelled by alcohol, petrol sniffing, pornography and ignorance in the Northern Territory, a new report says. TARA RAVENS and REBEKAH CAVANAGH report
CHILDREN ARE SCARED
By The Australian
Sexual abuse of indigenous children is culture-wide FINALLY, we can hear them screaming. A new report, this one not easily dismissed, proves beyond doubt that Aboriginal children are being abused in every indigenous community in the ...
Aboriginal abuse `should shock all'
By The Australian
THE findings of a report into child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory are shocking and appalling and should sicken all Australians.
Brough responds to child abuse report Brough responds to child abuse report
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts
MARK COLVIN: The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister, Mal Brough, joins me on the line now. Let me just clear one thing out of the way first, Mr Brough. You used the expression "paedophile rings" and started a controversy over that, which ...
Child abuse rife in Aboriginal communities: report Child abuse rife in Aboriginal communities: report
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts
MARK COLVIN: Back home, and it started 13 months ago, when Northern Territory Crown Prosecutor Nanette Rogers unfolded a catalogue of horrors about Aboriginal child abuse on ABC TV's .
Indigenous child abuse a national disgrace, says Brough Mal Brough says child protection is a state and territory responsibility. Abuse may take a generation to fix: Indigenous leader Child abuse rife in Aboriginal communities: report Brough responds to child abuse report Aboriginal communities abundant with child abuse: report Report uncovers widespread Indigenous child abuse
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister says the findings of a report into child sex abuse in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory are an absolute disgrace.
Mutitjulu wins fight against administrator's appointment Court win: Costs associated with the appeal have been awarded to Mutitjulu.
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The Northern Territory Indigenous community of Mutitjulu has succeeded in its second attempt to overturn the appointment of an administrator to the local council, known as the Mutitjulu Community Aboriginal Corporation.
'Coordination needed' to combat Indigenous child sex abuse The report details allegations of sex trades and juvenile prostitution. Aboriginal communities abundant with child abuse: report Abuse may take a generation to fix: Indigenous leader Child abuse rife in NT communities: report
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The Northern Territory's Chief Minister has admitted her Government has not done enough to tackle child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities.
Aboriginal communities abundant with child abuse: report Aboriginal communities abundant with child abuse: report
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts
ELEANOR HALL: To the Northern Territory, where the Government has this morning released a damning report on the sexual abuse of young children in Aboriginal communities.
Child sex abuse rife in Indigenous communities: report The report outlines allegations of sex trades and juvenile prostitution in some Aboriginal communities [File photo]. Aboriginal communities abundant with child abuse: report Abuse may take a generation to fix: Indigenous leader Child abuse rife in NT communities: report By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Child sex abuse is happening in many Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and a lack of education and an abundance of alcohol is to blame, an inquiry has found.
UQ targets Indigenous knowledge By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The University of Queensland says it has developed a policy to encourage more Indigenous Australians to enrol at the university and improve education outcomes.
Aborigines shut out of mainstream, say reports
By The Sydney Morning Herald
INDIGENOUS people are being used as scapegoats for the failures of government policies and many have no chance of taking part in new programs to encourage home ownership and private enterprise, two reports have found.
Abuse report to be handed down tomorrow: NT Government By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The Northern Territory Government has confirmed a report on the abuse of Aboriginal children will be handed down tomorrow morning. Findings and recommendations from the Child Abuse Inquiry were handed to the Territory's Chief Minister ...
Push to reduce homeless rates in remote communities
By Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The Northern Territory Housing Minister says it's critical that his government works closely with the Federal Government to reduce high homeless rates in remote Indigenous communities.
Aborigines bypass communities to sign deals direct
By The Australian
INDIGENOUS families are skirting the objections of community groups and signing shared responsibility agreements directly with the Howard Government.
Snowdon, Brough clash on leases
By Northern Territory News/Sunday Territorian
NT Labor MP Warren Snowdon and Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough clashed angrily in Federal Parliament yesterday. Mr Brough called Mr Snowdon a fraud and a dinosaur during a debate on the Government's plan for leases on Aboriginal ...
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