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'Our Land, Our Languages' report is about finding solutions within communities and includes 30 recommendations.

New risky enterprises under the guidance of an ex AFP officer appears to have pushed a highly successful Indigenous organisation to the wall.

Many First Nations people still struggle to enjoy full citizenship because of problems they experience accessing a birth certificate

Yet another tragedy coming from police intervention in the Northern Territory but this time in Katherine - an Indigenous amputee with major health problems.

Australia has 40% of the world's uranium, all of it on Indigenous land. PM Julia Gillard has been to India to sell uranium to their government.

Chairman of Northern Murray Darling Basin says First Nations people were not consulted in lead-up to Murray-Darling Basin plan.

Another death of an Aboriginal man potentially involving police in the NT has sparked calls for an inquiry and urgent action to stop police harassment and brutality.

This is a brief outline about the remote Indigenous Homelands and how successive governments have tried to shut them down. by Bree Blakeman

Arthur Murray (recently deceased) was an Australian hero who spent his life pursuing the truth of his son's death in custody. But does anyone know his name?

 Yolngu Nations 2nd Assembly - Statement, Maningrida NT October 2012 pdf

Jason Wing's artwork does not treat the English explorer credited with being the first European to land on Australia's east coast with reverence.

Queensland Police are investigating a fire that has damaged parts of the Sovereign Aboriginal embassy in Musgrave Park.

Gomeroi Elder, Lyall Munro Senior, declares the Tent Embassy will be re-built "bigger and better" after it was destroyed by a fire.

Fact Sheets - Vote "NO" to Constitutional Reform to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in it - Facebook 'Vote NO to Constitutional Reform'

People from communities of Kalkaringi, Lajamanu and Daguragu demand Government officials leave their land which was given to them in 1975 for 'perpetuity'.

A second NT community has called for the government to leave town after it failed to negotiate long-term leases before previously imposed leases expired.

Residents of the NT Amoonguna community are refusing to sign a Federal Government lease on their land - they want to take back the control.

A Coroner slammed the actions of NT police regarding Kwementyaye Briscoe whilst in custody - '... (police) were immature and utterly derelict in their duties'.

First Nation leaders say a plan to save money by cutting the number of prisoners who are allowed to attend funerals would not work culturally.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been offered an Aboriginal Nations passport after he was "abandoned" by Australian authorities.