WA canât go back to âbusiness as usualâ on Aboriginal heritage: Dodson
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Changes to Western Australiaâs Aboriginal heritage laws need to proceed as soon as possible after next monthâs state election, politicians and activists say, after the disruption of another heritage site in the Pilbara raised concerns.
WAtoday revealed on Tuesday that a registered Aboriginal heritage site had been damaged at BHPâs Mining Area C project in the Pilbara in late January.
BHP said the cause of the rock fall is not known.
Why Australia lags rest of world in political diversity
January 27, 2021 â 12.00am
January 27, 2021 â 12.00am
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Since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the first 100 days of a US presidency carry a certain mystique. The period is meant to provide a window into a new presidentâs political soul.
In nearly every respect, as weâve seen already, Joe Bidenâs presidency will seek to be the opposite of Donald Trumpâs. Last weekâs inauguration tried to soothe and restore confidence in American democracy. His first executive orders reversed Trumpâs trademark policies, including the immigration ban on Muslim countries, the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organisation, and the building of a wall along the Mexican border.
Indigenous kids nine times more likely to be in custody than non-Indigenous children in Victoria
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Young people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds in Victoria are nine times more likely to be in custody than their non-Indigenous peers, a new federal government report shows.
They are also more than 10 times more likely to be in community-based supervision, and the rate of Aboriginal children being placed in out-of-home care is 19 times the rate for non-Aboriginal children.
Thousands marched the streets of Melbourne in June last year to protest Indigenous deaths in custody.
Credit:Christopher Hopkins
The statistics were contained in the Productivity Commission s Report on Government Services released on Wednesday, which outlined the extent to which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children continue to be over-represented in the Victorian youth justice and child protection systems.