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NT coup the lowest act: Snowdon

By Tracker, March 15, 2013
Minister for Indigenous Health and member for Lingiari Warren Snowdon at a recent press conference with Minister for Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin. Snowdon's seat takes in every one of the 73 Aboriginal communities affected by the NT intervention, and the new Stronger Futures legislation. The policies have caused Aboriginal voters to abandon Labor in unprecedented numbers.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Federal Labor MP Warren Snowdon says the rolling of Northern Territory chief minister Terry Mills while he was overseas is the lowest political act he can think of.

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Shell to help combat petrol sniffing

By Tracker, December 4, 2012
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NATIONAL: Shell will join the fight against petrol sniffing in remote Aboriginal communities after agreeing to produce non-sniffable Opal fuel for the first time.

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Blooper health posters recalled

By Tracker, October 4, 2012
The Department of Health and Ageing poster was riddled with errors.

NATIONAL: Aboriginal health posters riddled with errors are destined for the paper shredder, leaving the taxpayer thousands of dollars out of pocket.

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Who put the con back in consultation?

By Tracker, August 15, 2012
Who put the con in consultation?

NATIONAL: Aboriginal people in the NT have already made their views known on the intervention at two federal elections, and in terms that were unmistakeable. CHRIS GRAHAM analyses the farce that was the Australian democratic process on the passage of the Stronger Futures laws.

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Warlpiri celebrate signing of largest IPA in Australian history

By Tracker, July 25, 2012
Aboriginal dancers celebrate ahead of the signing of the Southern Tanami Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Central Australia earlier this month. More than 100,000 sq kms of land, including Tanami and the Great Sandy Desert have become part of Australia’s largest every conservation zone. (AAP IMAGE/XAVIER LA CANNA)

NORTHERN TERRITORY: An area the size of Portugal has been signed off in the southern Tanami desert in the Northern Territory, making it the largest Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in the country.

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NT traditional owners get their land back

By Tracker, July 19, 2012
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin and Member for Lingiari and Minister for Indigenous Health, Warren Snowdon launching the Stronger Futures report earlier this year.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: Thousands of square kilometres in the Northern Territory in four parcels of land, including a national park, have been handed back to traditional owners.

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Portugal-size Indigenous protected area declared

By Tracker, July 11, 2012
The Tanami Desert in Central Australia.

SANGSTERS BORE, NT: Aboriginal people from the Tanami Desert in central Australia are celebrating after the government signed off on a conservation area the size of Portugal to be cared for by indigenous rangers.

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Gunditjmara veteran’s son continues his father’s fight

By Amy McQuire, June 29, 2012
John Lovett with Aunty Dot Peters at a commemoration for Indigenous veterans in Melbourne in 2007. John is fighting for what is owed to his father - Herbert Lovett - who fought in both world wars. (AAP IMAGE/ Andrew Brownbill)

NATIONAL: The Gunditjmara are, and have always been fighters.

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Alice Springs health group facing funding investigation

By Tracker, June 27, 2012
Stephanie-Bell

NATIONAL: The biggest Aboriginal health organisation in the Northern Territory is facing questions about the alleged misuse of more than $2 million in funding.

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Intervention’s five-year anniversary marked by failure: group

By Tracker, June 21, 2012
Prime Minister Julia Gillard releasing the discussion paper Stronger Futures. (AAP IMAGE/ALAN PORRITT)

NATIONAL: An anti-intervention group has slammed the Gillard government’s claims that it is making progress in Northern Territory, on the fifth anniversary of the intervention.

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