PM&#39;s crackdown triggers debate on Aborigines
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An Aboriginal man reels drunk along an Alice Springs shopping mall, shouting incoherently as tourists eating dinner at an upmarket restaurant nearby shift uncomfortably in their seats.
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Thousands are expected to march in protest at the treatment of Australia's indigenous peoples.
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Australia apologized on Wednesday for the historic mistreatment of Aborigines in a move indigenous leaders said would help end generations of pain.
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Critics say the government is using dictatorship-era laws to crack down harshly on indigenous criminals.
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Police and soldiers began deploying to outback Australia Monday as part of a radical plan to end child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities which has been criticised as a return to the nation&#39;s paternalistic past.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard Monday denied a crackdown on child sexual abuse in remote Aboriginal communities was an election stunt, after a poll found voters saw it as a bid to grab votes.
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Australia will issue its first formal apology to the countryâs indigenous people.
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Australia's Aborigines are set to lose the legal right to stop people entering their outback lands, which cover an area almost the size of Mongolia, sparking protests their homes will become an "Aboriginal Disneyland".
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard  has called on migrants, particularly Muslims, to integrate into  Australian society by quickly learning English -- sparking  warnings his comments may lead to race riots.
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Energised by a resounding election victory, conservative Australian Prime Minister John Howard has embarked on a controversial plan to reinvent Aboriginal culture.
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With relations between black and white Australia at new lows, Australia's conservative government defended Thursday a plan to offer aid to a remote aboriginal community in return for a promise its children would wash daily.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to Aborigines Wednesday for past injustices, saying he wanted "to remove a great stain from the nation's soul."
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Australia will ban alcohol and pornography in Aboriginal communities across the country&#39;s vast Northern Territory to combat widespread child sexual abuse, Prime Minister John Howard said Thursday.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has found himself at the centre of a political storm after criticising US presidential hopeful Barack Obama over his plans to pull troops from Iraq.
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TONY EASTLEY: As mentioned the Prime Minister is also in northern Australia and his focus is also on national security, although he&#39;s under attack for his initial opposition to the Coalition&#39;s $600 family payment.
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Australia will issue its first formal apology its indigenous people next month, the government announced Wednesday, a milestone that could ease tensions with a minority whose mixed-blood children were once taken away on the premise that their race was doomed.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard   has called on migrants, particularly Muslims, to integrate into   Australian society by quickly learning English -- sparking   warnings his comments may lead to race riots.