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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Aborigines

Aborigines stories: 9 news summaries

(Newser) - Australia’s interventions in remote Aboriginal communities “overtly discriminate” against them, and prove that entrenched racism remains in Australia, a UN official said today. In 2007, Australia sent police and troops to aboriginal lands, and instituted special bans on alcohol and pornography. These measures "infringe their right of... More »

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United Nations • Australia • alcohol • Aborigines • indigenous • Aboriginal

(Newser) - An Australian man has been hospitalized with burns over 20% of his body after he burst into flames when Tasered by police, reports the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Police say they had no choice but to use the stun gun on the man—a known gas-sniffer and violent offender—when... More »

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Australia • law enforcement • police • Aborigines • Taser • Western Australia

 Drowning in Alcohol, 
 Aborigines Split 
 Over Booze Ban 

Some see restrictions as infringement on hard-won rights

Jul 5, 09 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the Australian government cracks down on alcohol in Aboriginal areas, some communities are taking matters into their own hands, instituting local restrictions on booze, the New York Times reports. Some indigenous leaders see alcohol as a blight on their communities, fueling child abuse and domestic violence. But others see... More »

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Australia • alcohol • alcoholism • Aborigines • alcohol abuse • domestic violence • restrictions

Aussie 'Tough Love' Upends Aboriginal Society

Government push to stop alcoholism, violence erodes power of tribal elders

Jan 17, 09 12:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Australia's controversial "tough love" program is toppling the Aborigines' traditional social structure, the Wall Street Journal reports. The government's effort to tackle rampant violence, child abuse, and alcoholism among Aborigines by banning alcohol sales and supplying welfare payments in credit for food and other essentials instead of cash has... More »

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Australia • Aborigines • Northern Territory • Australian Labor Party • indigenous peoples

Children Can Count Without Numbers

Study suggests
that kids have innate
math abilities

Aug 19, 08 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A study sure to fan a fiery disagreement among developmental psychologists has found that children can count objects even if their language lacks words for the numbers involved. Researchers found that Australian Aboriginal children, who know words for only a few small numbers, did just as well as English-speaking children... More »

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Australia • Aborigines • brain • psychology • language • mathematics • psychological research

 In Aussie Outback,
 It's All in 'Skin' Name 

Secondary tag tells others where you fit in a complicated kinship system

Jul 7, 08 7:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - When she moved to the central Australian outback, Penny Bergen was ready for a drastically different life, but she didn’t know it would take a new name to stake her place in a tiny Aboriginal community. Reporting for Radio Free Netherlands, the journalist writes about her experience getting a... More »

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Australia • Aborigines • name • name change

Aussie PM Apologizes for Aborigine Child Abductions

Country watches and cheers as 'Sorry Day' apology to Aborigines is made

Feb 13, 08 2:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Australia's new prime minister made a formal apology to the Aborigines today for "stolen generations" of children the government had taken from their homes. Tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were placed in orphanages or foster homes in a century-long program of forced assimilation. Throngs watched on big screens... More »

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Australia • Aborigines • Kevin Rudd • stolen generations

Australia to Apologize to Aborigines for Stolen Kids

Children were abducted to 'assimilate' them

Jan 31, 08 3:47 AM CST
(Newser) - More than 100,000 Aborigine children were abducted from their parents and placed in  Australian orphanages and foster homes in a century-long campaign to assimilate them into European culture. Now new Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd will apologize for the abductions, carried out between 1869 and 1969, reports the Times... More »

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Australia • Aborigines • Queensland • Kevin Rudd • New South Wales • stolen generations • Gamilaroi • Rabbit Proof Fence

Australia Bans Alcohol, Porn in Aboriginal Areas

Beefed-up measures target rampant sex abuse of children

Jun 21, 07 9:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Australia will ban alcohol and pornography in some Aboriginal areas in an attempt to tackle widespread child sex abuse. A report last week blamed booze and poverty for the high levels of abuse in Aboriginal communities throughout the Northern Territory. "Exceptional measures are required to deal with an exceptionally... More »

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Australia • alcohol • pornography • child abuse • Aborigines • alcohol abuse • abuse • poverty • Northern Territory • John Howard

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