Rudi Maxwell
Writer and Senior Journalist at Australian Associated Press (AAP)
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3 weeks ago |
sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell
Warning: this article discusses youth suicide. 'Tough on crime' policies are setting up vulnerable Indigenous children for a life of suffering, legal and human rights experts say. First Nations advocates are so concerned about the youth justice landscape they have lodged a complaint with the United Nations - saying that lives of Aboriginal children are at risk.
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3 weeks ago |
sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell
Traditional Owners in the Northern Territory have vented their frustration at the government's plan to fast-track changes to the Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act, with one land council saying the government is treating them like children. On Thursday afternoon, the CLP government introduced changes to the Sacred Sites Act which it says will provide "simpler and streamlined" approval processes for development.
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3 weeks ago |
sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell
A Federal Court judge has dismissed an application from an Aboriginal man to halt the reburial of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady, the oldest human remains found in Australia. In 1968 geologist Jim Bowler uncovered the bones of a woman in Lake Mungo, southwest NSW, estimated to be 40,000 to 42,000 years old. READ MOREA few years later, in 1974, the remains of a man were found in the same area.
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4 weeks ago |
sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell
With Prime Minister Anthony Albanese having called a federal election for ###, there are a number of First Nations candidates in both the Upper and Lower Houses - and several senators who are halfway through their term. The Territories elect two senators every election, whereas the states elect six senators for two terms each poll for a total of 12. That means in the NT both Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy and Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price are up for re-election.
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4 weeks ago |
sbs.com.au | Rudi Maxwell
Mayala Traditional Owner Janella Isaac sees the Indigenous Protected Area networks as a modern way of protecting Country and a way of understanding how everything is interconnected. "Everything has its role, not just the people," she told NITV.
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