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We invite you to join us for the FATSILC AGM and National Indigenous Languages Forum 2009
“From Little Things, Big Things Grow” is the theme for the 2009 FATSILC National Indigenous Languages Forum, to be held in Devonport, TAS, from the 28th to the 29th of November 2009.
The American owner of a website that has been targeted by Australia's Human Rights Commission for racism says he will not remove the offensive content.
A plan to create hundreds of jobs on the Tiwi Islands and resurrect the collapsed Great Southern plantations project has been scuttled by a funding knock-back.
The Western Australian Opposition has criticised the State Government for not acting quickly to compensate the family of an Aboriginal elder who died from heat stroke after travelling in the back of a prison van.
The Country Liberal Senator, Nigel Scullion, says the Northern Territory and Federal Governments have reneged on a promise to properly refurbish remote Indigenous housing.
Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Minister Desley Boyle says a decline in assaults in Cape York Indigenous communities is evidence that alcohol management plans are working.
Medical education advocates say many graduates may not get the internships they need to complete their qualifications despite the Federal Government's $632 million training package announced this week.
The use of cannabis in remote far north Indigenous communities is increasing, even among children as young as 10, a report from the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) says.
The State Government has confirmed an interim ex-gratia payment of $200,000 is proposed for the family of an Aboriginal elder who died of heatstroke after being transported in a prison van.
