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National Indigenous Times is Australia’s leading news media organisation for Indigenous affairs.
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Joined December 2022
AAP FactCheck - A major capital city hospital is not prioritising Indigenous patients over all other patients regardless of their immediate medical need, despite misleading claims on social media. https://t.co/3KoPSeigY8
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WHAT WAS CLAIMEDSt Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne prioritises Indigenous people over all other patients.OUR VERDICTMisleading. The policy does not apply to severe or life-threatening cases, only...
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A Native Title claim over an area that includes Melbourne has been lodged by Traditional Owners and could progress quickly through the courts. https://t.co/m4YVbmbz7O
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A Native Title claim over an area that includes Melbourne has been lodged by Traditional Owners and could progress quickly through the courts.Covering thousands of square kilometres, the claim area...
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As COP30 opens for the more than 190 countries participating, it is unclear what exactly they will discuss during the two-week UN summit in Brazil's Amazon city of Belem. https://t.co/unQxAexk41
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As COP30 opens for the more than 190 countries participating, it is unclear what exactly they will discuss during the two-week UN summit in Brazil's Amazon city of Belem.Also unclear is how they'll...
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Nauru has agreed to an arrangement with the Australian government to accept three non-citizen residents on long-term stay visas, free of detention centres, to remain on the tiny Pacific island. https://t.co/A4U7IkRvCH
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Nauru has agreed to an arrangement with the Australian government to accept three non-citizen residents on long-term stay visas, free of detention centres, to remain on the tiny Pacific island.The...
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Two Indigenous women have been named among this year's State Library of Queensland fellowship recipients, recognised for projects exploring truth-telling and shared histories. https://t.co/onzFrv3nEH
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Two Indigenous women have been named among this year's State Library of Queensland fellowship recipients, recognised for projects exploring truth-telling and shared histories.Butchulla woman from the...
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The Child Rights Taskforce has written to the UN, supporting a complaint from the Human Rights Law Centre and international law experts Professor Megan Davis and Dr Hannah McGlade on the disproportionate impact of youth justice laws on Indigenous children. https://t.co/QUgG4jUfyr
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The Australian Child Rights Taskforce has written to the United Nations to support a complaint lodged by the Human Rights Law Centre and Indigenous international law experts Professor Megan Davis and...
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In three months, more than 100 groups have responded to calls to honour women lost to domestic violence in the Northern Territory, and make a commitment for change. https://t.co/8wksIRt1mF
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In three months, more than 100 groups have responded to calls to honour women lost to domestic violence in the Northern Territory, and make a commitment for change.Aboriginal-led initiative NO MORE...
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The WA Government has opened the WA Stolen Generations Redress Scheme for applications, acknowledging the enduring effects of past child removal policies on Aboriginal people in Western Australia. https://t.co/9iZaExSznE
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The WA Government has opened the WA Stolen Generations Redress Scheme for applications, acknowledging the enduring effects of past child removal policies on Aboriginal people in Western Australia.The...
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A new report has exposed continuing injustices for Kanaky people living under French administrators in New Caledonia, which is undermining the Indigenous population's right to self-determination and movement towards independence. https://t.co/gqNJ8LOh8I
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A new report has exposed continuing injustices for Kanaky people living under French administrators in New Caledonia, which is undermining the Indigenous population's right to self-determination and...
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One of Australia's largest Indigenous legal organisations has welcomed the Northern Territory Police's first-ever Anti-Racism Strategy, describing it as a crucial first step toward rebuilding trust between police and Aboriginal communities. https://t.co/ChkZIxCsCF
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One of Australia's largest Indigenous legal organisations has welcomed the Northern Territory Police's first-ever Anti-Racism Strategy, describing it as a crucial first step toward rebuilding trust...
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A man has been arrested by police after the death of a 30-year-old woman and 10-year-old girl following a serious traffic accident in the remote Queensland Indigenous community of Doomadgee. https://t.co/CTTwCm0bYo
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A man has been arrested by police after the death of a 30-year-old woman and 10-year-old girl following a serious traffic accident in the remote Queensland Indigenous community of Doomadgee.The...
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Craig Robert Dale has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding almost $3 million from the remote Kimberley community of Warmun. https://t.co/j2vCa3uje3
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Craig Robert Dale has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding almost $3 million from the remote Kimberley community of Warmun.Dale was contracted to build homes, a clinic and a school...
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Kieran Foran has declared Dylan Brown can be the world's best five-eighth, adamant his former Kiwi halves partner will brush off any pressure surrounding his big-money Newcastle move. https://t.co/4cv8xMMKj6
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Kieran Foran has declared Dylan Brown can be the world's best five-eighth, adamant his former Kiwi halves partner will brush off any pressure surrounding his big-money Newcastle move.An emotional...
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Two Aboriginal brothers, aged 11 and 13, were subjected to more than 150 police home checks over 20 months - often in the middle of the night - in behaviour they allege was racially discriminatory. https://t.co/asVupr55uU
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Two Aboriginal brothers, aged 11 and 13, were subjected to more than 150 police home checks over 20 months - often in the middle of the night - in behaviour they allege was racially discriminatory....
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Long-rumbling tensions in New Zealand's opposition Māori Party have dramatically escalated with the expulsion of a pair of MPs in a move likely to shake up next year's election. https://t.co/FQYpa7UOXl
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Long-rumbling tensions in New Zealand's opposition Māori Party have dramatically escalated with the expulsion of a pair of MPs in a move likely to shake up next year's election.An ugly saga which...
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Cook Islands have booked the last spot at next year's Rugby League World Cup, after Warriors star Marata Niukore led them to a 58-6 thumping of South Africa. https://t.co/osAIMply2c
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Cook Islands have booked the last spot at next year's Rugby League World Cup, after Warriors star Marata Niukore led them to a 58-6 thumping of South Africa.Niukore scored a double in Sunday's big...
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Victorian Traditional Owners have lodged a Native Title claim covering much of Naarm/Melbourne and its surrounding areas. https://t.co/oXUrO021ym
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Victorian Traditional Owners have lodged a Native Title claim covering much of Naarm/Melbourne and its surrounding areas.Brought forward by the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people, the claim - which will...
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He wasn't the player of the match. That was Harry Grant. Not even the player of the series. That would be Cameron Munster. https://t.co/tFAdNPJGYA
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He wasn't the player of the match. That was Harry Grant. Not even the player of the series. That would be Cameron Munster.Yet it couldn't have felt more fitting than for this first England-Australia...
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A groundbreaking intercultural music collaboration featuring Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Samoan, Papua New Guinean and non-Indigenous artists premiered in Magandjin/Brisbane last week. https://t.co/0NidpnBTxh
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A groundbreaking intercultural music collaboration featuring Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Samoan, Papua New Guinean and non-Indigenous artists premiered in Magandjin/Brisbane last week.'The...
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Star allrounder Ashleigh Gardner has produced the ultimate captain's performance to lead the Sydney Sixers to a crushing 10-wicket WBBL win over the Perth Scorchers at the WACA Ground. https://t.co/dAxFDx0HSK
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Star allrounder Ashleigh Gardner has produced the ultimate captain's performance to lead the Sydney Sixers to a crushing 10-wicket WBBL win over the Perth Scorchers at the WACA Ground.Gardner's first...
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