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Child protection
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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After deriding Pesutto, Allan confirms her government is also examining Indigenous planning approvals
The state government launched a sharp attack on the opposition over its cultural heritage review, but has now admitted it also has an eye on the system.
- by Mathew Dunckley
Opinion
Australia Day
Bigger and better than Australia Day, let’s have the Australia Long Weekend
It is for the Australian people, individually and collectively, to make the decision when and how we want to celebrate our nation. It is up to us to create our own history and help unite the nation.
- by Elizabeth Elliott, Geoff Cousins and Phil Jenkyn
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Indigenous justice
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
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Victorian Parliament
Victorian opposition accused of ‘race-baiting’ over latest planning policy
Opposition Leader John Pesutto’s calling out of cultural heritage processes as a handbrake on development red tape has provoked a sharp response.
- by Mathew Dunckley
Opinion
Housing affordability
How to solve Australia’s housing crisis
Governments have neglected their fundamental obligation to realise everyone’s human right to housing and home.
- by Kevin Bell
Cyril Rioli and former teammates launch human rights case against Hawthorn
The club champion has lodged a human rights suit along with his wife and two former players in the federal court.
- by Mathew Dunckley
Mega-spiders, crocs and a wild bull. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea
We were too old to trek into the Kimberley, but we did anyway. And I’d do it again in a heartbeat.
- by Anson Cameron
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Anthony Albanese
Truth-telling set to fill Voice gap as Leeser urges PM to step up
As retiring Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney declared history would look kindly upon the Voice effort, Liberal MP Julian Leeser lamented the “national silence” that has existed since its defeat.
- by Paul Sakkal and James Massola
Netball’s missing ‘Riolis’: Why the sport is searching for its hidden Indigenous talent
Netball is searching for its own equivalent of the AFL’s Riolis, Longs and Wanganeens. But so far, opportunities for Indigenous players to break into the sport have been limited.
- by Marnie Vinall
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
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