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Tas police charge Aboriginal activists (The Sydney Morning Herald)

About 50 Aboriginal activists have been arrested and charged with trespass after trying to stop construction at a road bypass near Hobart.  Protest spokesman Michael Mansell says a four kilometre-long stretch at Brighton, in a valley near where two rivers converge, was an ancient crossroads...

Chile Indian land spat clouds investment, election (Reuters)

An ancestral lands dispute in Chile pitting Mapuche Indian farmers against the forestry industry and landowners is choking investment and will be a headache for the country's next president.  In the Mapuche hamlet of Temucuicui, 375 miles (600 km) south of the capital Santiago, residents...