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Dreams can happen : Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show 60 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were renting their home, with 11 per cent owning their home outright and 25 per cent owning their home with a mortgage. Indigenous ... Australia-Malaysia | 中国 | 日本 | 한국 | ราชอาณาจักรไทย | Tiếng Việt | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Indigenous recognition bill introduced Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin on Wednesday introduced to parliament legislation for an act of recognition, initiating a bipartisan step towards recognising indigenous Australians in the constitution. "We do not underestimate the challenge ...

West Papua flag to fly at Parliament : The West Papuan independence flag will be flown on the grounds of Parliament this afternoon by the Green Party. The flag is raised every year on December the 1st in West Papua , despite the risk of arrest by Indonesian authorities for doing so. Green MP ... Newstalk ZB

Charles Waldegrave and Bob Stephens: Counting the true costs of poverty trap : The second is that we have a very good example of a policy that succeeded in reducing child poverty from around a third of New Zealand children to a little over a fifth. That policy was Working for Families and it offers an important direction for ...

Security personnel, armed group involved in shootout in Papua : Police and military personnel engaged in a gunfight on Wednesday with an unidentified armed group in Indawa village, Lany Jaya, Papua , while en route to Pirime to investigate a recent attack against a police post. No casualties were reported following ... Jakarta Post

Papua issues raised in the New Zealand parliament : A New Zealand Green Party MP has questioned the government over the impact of the New Zealand police training programme in Indonesia's Papua region. The questions came shortly after a rally was held outside parliament to mark December 1st, West ... Radio New Zealand International

Indonesian police hunt for cop killers West Papua and Papua provinces have been a part of the Indonesian archipelago federation since the Dutch gave up their colonial rule and a slim majority in a controversial referendum in 1969 voted in favor of joining. Since then various separatist ...

Aboriginal group Chairman admits FMG ties and frustration : LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: A long-running Native Title dispute involving one of Australia's richest miners took a dramatic turn today. After years of silence, the highest ranking officer of an Indigenous group has conceded the group was created and funded ...