Australia cracks down on Aborigines
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Federal troops arrived Wednesday to enforce tighter regulations on welfare payments and a ban on pornography and alcohol in Aboriginal communities.
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CANBERRA, Australia  - Aborigines won limited rights to land that includes an Australian state capital for the first time, potentially setting a precedent that could apply to other capitals.
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Sweden handed over to a group of Australian aborigines on Thursday the remains of about 20 of their ancestors smuggled out of Australia almost 90 years ago by a Swedish zoologist who pretended they were ...
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Thousands are expected to march in protest at the treatment of Australia's indigenous peoples.
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BRISBANE, Australia : A top Australian politician and Aboriginal leaders flew to an offshore island hit by unrest with a plan to prevent violence breaking out again.
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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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ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Aborigine Daryl Allen, 60, sits cross-legged in the dirt dreaming of the good times when his outback people lived hunting kangaroo and working as cattlemen, instead of drinking themselves to death.
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Police backed by military support will arrive in Australian Aboriginal communities within days as part of a controversial plan to end child sex abuse, Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday.
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SYDNEY, Australia  - Child sex abuse is rampant among Aborigines in remote northern Australia, a government report released Friday said, blaming widespread drunkenness and the breakdown of traditional societies as among the root causes.
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Australia will issue its first formal apology to the countryâs indigenous people.
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CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 13 -- In a historic vote that supporters said would open a new chapter in Australian race relations, lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously adopted Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's motion to apologize to Aborigines on behalf of all citizens.
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TROUBLED Aboriginal communities have been encouraged to introduce curfews and alcohol bans after John Howard supported the more radical initiatives as part of a new accord between the Prime Minister and senior indigenous leaders.
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Six aboriginal men will appear in court  on Tuesday charged with sexual assault, including rape, of  underage aboriginal girls -- the first charged since Australia  announced a crack down on indigenous child sexual abuse.
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Anger over the gang rape of a 10-year-old aboriginal girl has prompted Australia's new Labor government to make indigenous welfare the focus of a summit of national and state leaders this week.
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Australia's prime minister announced plans Thursday to ban pornography and alcohol for Aborigines in northern areas and tighten control over their welfare benefits to fight child sex abuse among them.
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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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Energised by a resounding election victory, conservative Australian Prime Minister John Howard has embarked on a controversial plan to reinvent Aboriginal culture.