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Paige TaylorIndigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief

Paige Taylor is from the West Australian goldmining town of Kalgoorlie and went to school all over the place including Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory and Sydney’s north shore. She has been a reporter since 1996. She started as a cadet at the Albany Advertiser on WA’s south coast then worked at Post Newspapers in Perth before joining The Australian in 2004. She is a three time Walkley finalist and has won more than 20 WA Media Awards including the Daily News Centenary Prize for WA Journalist of the Year three times.

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CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - October 7, 2024: Former Prime Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott, along with thousands of attendees gather at Parliament House in Canberra taking an historic stand against antisemitism and to stand in support of Israel. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Ceasefire alone ‘not enough in Ukraine’: Abbott

Former prime minister Tony Abbott says without ‘meaningful security guarantees’ a ceasefire would only signal a pause in Russia’s ambition to overthrow Ukraine’s democracy.

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From the River to the Sea sign at Pro-Palastine camp, UQ Campus St. Lucia. Picture: Liam Kidston

UWA knocks back ‘from the river to the sea’ banner-painting event

Pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Western Australia have complained they were denied permission to paint a banner on campus with the slogan ‘from the river to the sea’.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - February 10, 2025: Lead Convenor of the Coalition of Peaks,ÃÂ Pat Turner, CEO of the Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council, Scott Wilson and Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy hold a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Indigenous bid for community economic plan

An economic plan being drawn up by Labor would see Indigenous organisations in remote communities become builders and aged-care providers.

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WoodsideÃ¢â¬â¢s North Rankin Complex is one of the largest offshore gas processing facilities in Australia. North-west of Karratha, the fossil fuel rig is located roughly 135 kilometres off the coast of Western Australia. According to Woodside, the complex has a daily production capacity of up to 66,000 tonnes of dry gas and 6000 tonnes of condensate. The massive offshore rig is located north of the Montebello Marine Park and the Dampier Archipelago, areas teeming with marine life and including the endangered hawksbill and green turtle.

Follow Dutton’s lead on North West Shelf: industry to Labor

Business leaders want a bipartisan commitment to fast-track the expansion of the North West Shelf gas project and end six years of deliberations.

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Daily Telegraph. 11, February, 2025. Macquarie University, at Macquarie Park, Sydney, today.(Story - Macquarie University has a safe room or panic room for jewish students when they feel unsafe). Picture: Justin Lloyd.

Country rites tokenistic, says Indigenous academic

A prominent Indigenous law academic says he would not follow Macquarie University’s example of assessing law students on how they deliver a welcome to country speech, unless there was a specific reason to do so.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. APRIL 17, 2024: High Court of Australia in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

States grapple with native title fallout

A landmark High Court ruling that native title is property has left state governments and miners grappling with the consequences.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - MARCH 12 2025: Senior Gumatj man Jawa Yunupingu, Yothu Yindi Foundation chairman,Lawyer Sean Bowden and Balupalu Yunupingu leave the High Court of Australia in Canberra after winning the landmark court case of his late brother Galarrwuy Yunupingu. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Call for settlement framework in wake of Yunupingu ruling

The commonwealth’s exposure to billions in compensation warrants a serious exploration of how Australia can formally settle with its past, Indigenous leader Peter Yu says.

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‘Honour Closing the Gap promises’

Co-author Pat Turner said all governments must begin to do what they told Scott Morrison they would do in 2020 when they agreed to be part of the rewritten Closing the Gap agreement.

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Indigenous jail rates threat to Closing the Gap targets

Steep increases in the numbers of Indigenous adults jailed across the NT, Queensland and Western Australia threaten to derail the refreshed Closing the Gap agreement signed in 2020.

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Long-standing initiatives such as the Closing the Gap report show there is already an entrenched divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, Ms Appo-Ritchie said.

17 years later: a crisis that has gone from bad to worse

Closing the Gap still offers the best hope we have for a turnaround in Indigenous incarceration rates and other improvements.

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