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WA gov’t seizes Aboriginal land (Green Left)

On September 2, Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett began the takeover of land at James Price Point in the Kimberley so the company Woodside can build a gas-processing hub. Barnett claims this is necessary, after two years of negotiating with the local Aboriginal community and...

04 September, 2010

2010 Remote indigenous communities thriving in new ‘dry’ (The Australian)

MERVINA Henry is the shy face of change in Queensland's remote indigenous communities, where alcohol consumption has been curtailed and children are staying in school. Five years after alcohol restrictions were imposed on the state's 19 communities, and two years after Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson...

03 September, 2010

FIRST NATIONS UNITED IN DEMANDING PROSPERITY MINE PROPOSAL BE REJECTED (Canada Newswire)

OTTAWA, Sept. 2 /CNW/ - National, regional and local BC First Nations Chiefs today delivered a clear and unequivocal message to the federal government at the Ottawa National Press: The proposed Prosperity mine in BC cannot be allowed to proceed. If the federal government - whose...

02 September, 2010