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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.
A Tasmanian Indigenous group has criticised the Federal Opposition Leader's comments in which he said that acknowledging the traditional owners of the land amounts to "tokenism".
The South Australian Government has been accused of taking a step backwards on its pledge to secure dialysis treatment in Alice Springs for renal patients from the state's far north-west Aboriginal lands.
The Murri Task Force is calling for a new trustee to be appointed for Moree's Taylor Oval, after Moree council approved commercial development on the site of Indigenous burials and historical sporting moments.
Aboriginal groups have rejected claims by the federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott that acknowledging the traditional owners of land at official functions is tokenism.
The Member for the Pilbara says there is an urgent need for additional housing across regional Western Australia to address overcrowding in Aboriginal communities.
Outspoken Liberal backbencher Wilson Tuckey backs Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's criticism of politicians acknowledging traditional landowners at official events.
A lawyer with the North Australia Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) has called for a new intervention to tackle alcohol abuse and crime in Indigenous communities.
New data shows Indigenous people in the Northern Territory are far more likely to be the victims of assault and murder than any other section of the population.
The policeman acquitted of a 2004 death-in-custody on Palm Island in north Queensland has, for the first time, offered his sympathy to the victim's family.
