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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...

01 December, 2009

English policy will create more sniffers: charity (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The Northern Territory Government's decision to force schools to teach in English for the first four hours of each day will create the next generation of petrol sniffers, says the head of an Aboriginal organisation in Arnhem Land. Richard Trudgen, who has worked in the...

30 November, 2009

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...

27 November, 2009