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Source

Date

Summary

Aboriginal massacre memorial vandalised

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

31 January 2005

Vandals have attacked a site commemorating the murder of dozens of Aborigines in northern New South Wales.

Infant death plagues Indigenous communities

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

31 January 2005

A national organisation targeting Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) says Aboriginal babies are six times more likely to die from the condition than non-Aboriginal children.

Questions asked over presence of Palm Is security video

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

31 January 2005

A gulf Aboriginal leader is questioning why the Queensland Police and the Criminal Misconduct Commission (CMC) have not told the public that there is a security video taken on the night Cameron Doomadgee died in custody on Palm Island.

Call for boost to 'atrocious' Indigenous health funding

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

30 January 2005

A doctor who provides an Aboriginal medical service to thousands of people in northern New South Wales, says some Aboriginal communities remain in third-world conditions in Australia.

Crocodile clears Darwin swimming pool

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

30 January 2005

A one-metre salt water crocodile has been found swimming in a public pool in Palmerston, south of Darwin.

Aboriginal bones found on wind farm site

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

28 January 2005

Aborigines on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula are calling for human bones discovered on the site of a new wind farm development to be dated.

NT backs Indigenous health funding call

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

28 January 2005

The Northern Territory Government has thrown its support behind the Australian Medical Association's (AMA) call for an extra $400 million in federal funding for Indigenous health.

Vanstone moves to protect ATSIC assets

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

28 January 2005

Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Senator Amanda Vanstone says she has moved to stop any improper sale of assets held by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC).

Abbott rejects Indigenous health funding appeal

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

28 January 2005

Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott has rejected a call by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) for a doubling in funding for Indigenous health.

AMA seeks more funds for Indigenous health

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

27 January 2005

Lobby groups have already begun their pitch for more funding from the Federal Government ahead of the May Budget.

Early settlers' fires 'made Australian deserts'

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

26 January 2005

US and Australian researchers say settlers who came to Australia 50,000 years ago and set fires that burned off natural flora and fauna may have triggered a cataclysmic weather change that turned the country's interior into the dry desert it is today.

Govt to block ATSIC assets sale

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

26 January 2005

The Federal Government says it will do everything in its power to prevent the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) selling its historic art collection to fund a legal battle aimed at keeping the organisation operating.

ATSIC chairman silent on asset sale

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

24 January 2005

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) chairman Geoff Clark has refused to confirm whether the stripped-back commission is considering selling some of its assets to fund a legal challenge.

Elders step in to defuse NT pub brawl

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

21 January 2005

Northern Territory police say community elders helped break up a massive brawl overnight at the Borroloola Hotel in a community 700 kilometres south-east of Darwin.

Govt accused of isolating Indigenous public servants

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

21 January 2005

A national reconciliation group says the federal Government's main-streaming of Indigenous services into government departments will continue to isolate Aboriginal public servants.

Indigenous leaders criticise Palm Island alcohol plan

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

20 January 2005

Aboriginal leaders claim the Queensland Government could face more trouble on Palm Island in the north of the state if it tries to introduce a radical alcohol management plan into the community without providing back-up services.

Alleged Palm Is rioters consider legal action against police

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

19 January 2005

Those arrested over last year's riot on Palm Island in north Queensland may take legal action against the Queensland police service.

Audit office finds taxpayers' money misspent

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

19 January 2005

The Australian National Audit Office has found 11 federal bodies have broken the law by investing more than $500 million of public money without proper authorisation.

Goondiwindi community divided after 'noose' attack

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

19 January 2005

An Aboriginal elder says an attack on an Indigenous teenager has divided the Goondiwindi community in Queensland's southern border region.

Protesters in scuffle outside noose attack hearing

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

18 January 2005

Police quelled scuffles outside a court hearing today for two men accused of an attack on a 16-year-old Aboriginal boy in the southern Queensland town of Goondiwindi.

UK museum returns Indigenous remains

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

14 January 2005

A museum in south-western England has formally handed over four Australian Indigenous skulls for repatriation.

Spirituality vital to Indigenous health

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

13 January 2005

Health professionals need to improve their understanding of the role spirituality plays in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, a new study argues.

Councils flag rate rise to fund land handback

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

11 January 2005

Council rates could rise to help fund a plan by four Adelaide councils to hand back unused Crown land to Aboriginal people.

Aborigines seek licence to export native animals

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

10 January 2005

The North Queensland Land Council wants a licence to export native flora and fauna.

Govt to double services for Indigenous family violence victims

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

8 January 2005

The Federal Government is advertising nationally for organisations to provide legal and support services to Indigenous victims of family violence.

Accused Palm Island rioter jailed for breaching bail

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

5 January 2005

A court has heard an alleged Palm Island rioter breached his bail conditions because he feared homophobia in Townsville.

Parks laws to offer native title certainty

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

5 January 2005

The Northern Territory Government plans to introduce legislation next month covering 27 parks and reserves to offset any future native title claims and to create certainty over their future use.

ALP backs claims Kakadu services suffering

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

4 January 2005

The federal Labor Party says services are suffering at Kakadu National Park because of the Howard Government's decision to abolish entry fees.

Govt rejects claims services suffering at Kakadu

Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online

4 January 2005

The Federal Government has rejected claims that services at Kakadu National Park have been changed because of the abolition of entrance fees.

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