Aborigines threaten Ayers Rock ban
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An Aboriginal town threatened to ban tourists from scaling giant Ayers Rock in central Australia to protest a heavy-handed government crackdown on child abuse in Aboriginal areas, a local leader said Tuesday.
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Australians have been warned: angry arachnids are heading indoors.
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Aborigines fear police and troops will seize their children as part of a controversial clampdown aimed at preventing widespread sexual abuse, the Australian government acknowledged Tuesday.
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The Australian Government says it will try to encourage some of its northern neighbours to sign up to the Ottawa convention banning landmines.
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Anti-war activists said on Tuesday they were prepared to risk their lives to disrupt a military exercise involving almost 30,000 U.S. and Australian troops off Australia's north coast.
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Environmental campaigners say plans for a dam in Montenegro will threaten a Unesco world heritage site.
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Australia will issue its first formal apology to the countryâs indigenous people.
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Australian Aborigines have rejected calls for military peacekeepers to protect indigenous women and children from violence, as a new report Saturday revealed high levels of sexual abuse of young indigenous males.
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Australian officials have been trying to locate Australians in Iraq following claims by Iraqi insurgents that two Australian security guards were kidnapped on Monday and threatened with execution.
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The Australian government's controversial plans to tackle child abuse in Aboriginal areas get under way.
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A Native American tribe is alarmed at the upcoming sale of a piece of the Willamette Meteorite.
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RIOTING mobs, protesting over the death of an Aboriginal man in custody, yesterday burnt down a courthouse and a police station and barracks and threatened to kill officers on Queensland&#39;s Palm Island.
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England's Barmy Army has threatened to boycott the rest of the Ashes series,  accusing Australia's &quot;fun police&quot; of ruining the atmosphere at the first Test in Brisbane.
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Prime Minister John Howard was heckled Sunday as he admitted some of Australia&#39;s Aborigines were still living on the fringes of society 40 years after a landmark vote recognising them as full citizens.
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The Australian government on Monday rejected Aboriginal demands for hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for the "stolen generation" of indigenous children taken from their parents.
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Aborigines have long lived on the fringe of Australian society, but they will take center stage when Parliament holds a historic ceremony to acknowledge the nation's capital is built on their land.
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Quake-hit Andaman island groups are demanding a ban on migration from mainland India, writes BBC's Subir Bhaumik.