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ON OUR WATCH: The death in custody of Mr Phillips

By Tracker, June 13, 2013

NATIONAL: Two years ago, Tracker reported on the death in custody of Mr Phillips, who passed away in a prison cell in Kalgoorlie. JAN MAYMAN reports on the troubling findings of his inquest, held only last year.

Posted in Features | Tagged Aboriginal deaths in custody, Move on orders, Mr Phillips, Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, WA Police | Leave a comment

Bring our boys home

By Amy McQuire, June 4, 2013

Shayden Thorne's mother holds up a picture of her son (AAP IMAGE). Shayden was recently sentenced to 4.5 years in a Saudi Arabian political prison.

NATIONAL: A month ago, news that an Aboriginal man had been locked up in a Saudi Arabian prison, and his brother forced into hiding, hit the headlines. Last month he was sentenced to four and a half years in jail. AMY MCQUIRE* reports on their family’s desperate struggle to get them back to the homelands [...]

Posted in Editor's Pick, Features | Tagged Bob Carr, DFAT, Graham Thorne, Muhammad Junaid Thorne, Nyoongar, Saudi Arabia, Shayden Thorne, Stephanie Riley | 1 Comment

Court hearings unwrap secrets of Naden’s mind

By Amy McQuire, May 18, 2013

NEW SOUTH WALES: It was two weeks before Christmas 2005 when a cleaner at Taronga Western Plains Zoo came across a male intruder in the laundry.

Posted in Features | Tagged Kristy Scholes, Lateesha Nolan, Malcolm John Naden | Leave a comment

An irresistible dash

By Chris Munro, May 15, 2013

19 members of the 33rd. William Allan is in the centre, second row from the back with the moustache.

NATIONAL: In September this year, a tough little Aboriginal woman living in a tiny country town called Werris Creek in New South Wales, turns 100 years of age. Not one to make a fuss, Aunty Mary Porter dismisses talk of a party to celebrate her latest and greatest birthday. “I’ve told the family I’m not [...]

Posted in Features, History | Tagged RUNNING SCAREDD | Leave a comment

AT LARGE: All roads lead to Byron… and blackfellas

By Tracker, May 8, 2013

The Aboriginal flag flying high at the Byron Bay Bluesfest

NATIONAL: Music, at least for me, is an intensely personal thing. I was fortunate to be raised by parents who have a great love of music, so they made sure that my three brothers and I got a good musical education, writes CHRIS GRAHAM.

Posted in Features | Tagged Byron Bay Bluesfest, Racism | 1 Comment

BOURKE: All quiet on the Western Front

By Tracker, May 7, 2013

The front cover of Tracker's May 2013 edition.

NATIONAL: Steven Ronayne knows a fair bit about danger. He was born and bred in Bourke, a small community of less than 3,000 in the far north west of New South Wales.

Posted in Editor's Pick, Features | Tagged Bourke, Fairfax, Indigenous employment, Indigenous unemployment, Media, Nulla Nulla Local Aboriginal Land Council, Sydney Morning Herald | Leave a comment

Wasted millions

By Tracker, April 5, 2013

Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin poses with Aboriginal dancers from Arnhem Land Benny (left) and David Wilford in Canberra on April 3, 2009 at the ceremony to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
(APA IMAGE/ALAN PORRITT).

NATIONAL: Northern Territory Senator Nigel Scullion last month accused Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin of wasting $150 million on Labor’s Alice Springs Transformation Plan, slamming her for letting down residents of the town camps. But CHIRS GRAHAM reports that both sides of politics have let town campers down.

Posted in Features | Tagged Alice Springs, Alice Springs Town Camps, Alice Springs Transformation Plan, Jenny Macklin, Nigel Scullion, Tangentyere Council | Leave a comment

The man who stands to be minister

By Tracker, April 3, 2013

Opposition Indigenous affairs spokesperson Nigel Scullion (FILE PHOTO)

NATIONAL: Meet the man who stands to become the next Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs.

Posted in Features | Tagged Indigenous Health, Indigenous housing, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Mal Brough, Nigel Scullion, NSW, NSW Aboriginal Land Council, NSW Land Rights Act 1983, Tony Abbott | 1 Comment

The rise of Adam Giles

By Tracker, April 2, 2013

Adam Giles, who is Australia's first Indigenous head of government, said parents must take responsibility for their children.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Last month, Adam Giles became the first Aboriginal person to lead an Australian government, after successfully challenging for the Chief Minister’s job in the Northern Territory. CHRIS GRAHAM reports from Darwin.

Posted in Features | Tagged Adam Giles, Alison Anderson, CLP, Tamara GIles | 1 Comment

Unmet need: The people land rights forgot

By Brian Johnstone, March 13, 2013

NATIONAL: There are about 26 children living in Bellwood mission in Nambucca Heads, a picturesque town on the mid north coast of New South Wales.

Posted in Features | Tagged Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983, CDEP, Former Reserves and Missions, Infrastucture, Land Rights | Leave a comment