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Indigenous leaders in the NT have hit back at comments made by Adam Giles that children that are neglected should be adopted out, regardless of Stolen Generation fears.

Oxfam Australia has added its weight to the controversy that domestically and internationally embarrasses Australia over the cheating of Aboriginal land owners out of due benefits.

Noel Pearson is referred to by many Aboriginals as the 'Cape York Cane Cane Toad', he is a popular among the disparate collection of his white acolytes in Melbourne.

A 'horror story' case has drawn attention to the way the federal government is funding support and prevention services to deal with family violence in Indigenous communities.

Since 1992, the rate of Aboriginal incarceration in Australia has grown 14 times faster than that of non-Aboriginal incarceration. - Gerry Georgatos writes

In 1874 the APB^* undermined the successful Coranderrk market gardens by moving the people away from the land that was considered too valuable for Aboriginal people.

Many First Nations women living in remote areas are denied access to a midwife and instead treated by medical staff without specialised knowledge of maternity care.

In Australia juvenile detention rates are nowhere near as high as the United States but they have increased to such an extent that alarm bells are going off.

Almost one year on from proven illegal arrests the police arrested an elder for maintaining the sacred fire on the land specifically allocated to cultural activities.

Barely a fraction of mining, oil and gas revenue has benefited Aboriginal communities, whose poverty is an enduring shock. Here is a snippet of the First Peoples' story.

Ralph Regenvanu, the government minister behind major land reform in Vanuatu says the country's indigenous peoples must retain title over their customary lands.

It is 33 years since the Australian War Memorial was first asked to consider recognising the "frontier wars" between Australia's first Peoples and the Invaders.

Aboriginal soldiers treated with contempt when returning home from fighting in world wars - Also 50 Aboriginal trackers left behind during the Boer War

Australia's First Nations diggers didn't just have to fight bullets in conflicts overseas - when they returned home they also had to fight racism.

Most Australians do not appear to realise how poorly as a nation we behave towards the original Australians such as Rolf Harris's ill-informed claims in the media.

The discovery of a memoir by Steele Rudd's father sheds light on the murderous collision between the invaders and the First Nations people on the Darling Downs

Five years after the apology to the Stolen Generations, PM apologes for the decades of forced adoptions separating hundreds of thousands of parents and children.

The UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay condemned the deplorable conditions of Utopia and Amnesty International’s Shalil Shetty described Utopia as third-world.

Tony Abbott says a coalition government would have a "new engagement" with indigenous affairs, including constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people as the first Australians.

The conservative views of Marcia Langton and Noel Pearson dominate the media. Tragically, they blindly ignore that their strategies have overwhelmingly failed internationally.

Dr Alessandro Pelizzon from Southern Cross University provides a basic understand of sovereignty, includes an Australian Aboriginal perspective.

Tony Abbott says a coalition government would have a "new engagement" with indigenous affairs, including constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people as the first Australians.

The National Congress of First Nations people wants to be made a member of the Council of Australian Governments, giving it the same official status as the states and territories.