places for Aboriginal young people
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Gooris on the Macleay: Interactive website for young people in the Kempsey area. Designed by the Inspire Foundation www.gotm.com.au
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Tranby Aboriginal Co-operative College is an Aboriginal-owned, Aboriginal-managed community based non-profit organisation, which provides an alternative and independent learning environment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders www.tranby.com.au
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The Indigenous Law Centre (formerly the Aboriginal Law Centre - ALC) was established in 1981 to develop and co-ordinate research, teaching and dissemination of information in the multi-disciplinary area of Indigenous peoples and the law www.law.unsw.edu.au/centres/ilc
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Wirringa Baiya: Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre, NSW www.wirringabaiya.org.au
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The Indigenous Youth Guide to Getting a Fair Go has information about your rights and responsibilities as a consumer. Check it out before you buy a car, rent a home or apply for credit. www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/indigenous/youth.html
networks & information
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NSW Aboriginal Land Council. Contains contact details for finding your Regional Aboriginal Land Council. www.alc.org.au
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The ReconciliACTION Network (RAN) is a network of Indigenous and non-Indigenous young Australians from metropolitan, regional and rural Australia, which aims to encourage more young people to become active in the Reconciliation movement, and to support young people who are working to overcome racism in their communities. www.reconciliaction.org.au
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The Reconciliation Australia site contains useful community and student information about reconciliaction, including on line learning packages. www.reconciliationaustralia.org
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Australians for Native Title & Reconciliation www.antar.org.au
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European Network for Indigenous Australian Rights (ENIAR) site contains information about Aboriginal history and heritage, treaty, stolen generations, sorry day and much more www.eniar.org
grants for Aboriginal youth projects
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Foundation for Young Australians www.youngaustralians.org/our/Current/ya_our_IYLP_temp_current.asp
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NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs www.daa.nsw.gov.au
other useful stuff
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Vibe Australia is committed to reinforcing the importance of completing a full secondary education, continuing with further education, and successfully securing employment and training opportunities. They profile positive role models and run up-beat news stories for Indigenous young people to read. www.vibe.com.au
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Guide to Aboriginal programs, stories and events featured on ABC TV, radio and the Web, and also has an events listing and links to other Indigenous sites. http://abc.net.au/message
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Student leadership opportunities in schools for Aboriginal students www.schools.nsw.edu.au/studentsupport/src/play.php
- How Indigenous Young People are Faring in 2003. A report with useful statistical information. www.dsf.org.au/papers/108.htm
working with Aboriginal young people & communities
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Protocols for Working with the Indigenous Communities of Western Sydney www.ccdnsw.org/ccdnsw/artwork/protocols.pdf
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Our place: Review of a great publication by South Sydney Youth Services titled Our Place: stories about good practice in youth work with Aboriginal young people www.abc.net.au/message/blackarts/review/s1086306.htm
news
child sex abuse in NSW Aboriginal communities
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Alcohol tax seen as key to cutting assault smh.com.au 13/7/07
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What goes unmeasured is ignored: Have economists anything to contribute about the abuse of indigenous children? smh.com.au 4/7/07
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How NSW fails its most vulnerable: Outback NSW is plagued by a shocking lack of resources to tackle indigenous child abuse - a permanent queue of 40 cases needing investigation & another 30 waiting for court smh.com.au 30/6/07
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Abuse not just black problem: Indigenous leaders in western NSW fear that child sexual abuse is being cast as a black-only issue smh.com.au 28/6/07
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The day 13-year-old decided to end it: When Chris Binge Snr was 13 he told his parents he was going fishing, packed a rope instead of a rod, strung it up a tree & tried to hang himself. It snapped smh.com.au 29/6/07
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Expert critical of plan for child abuse checks: An authority on child abuse condemns plans for compulsory checks for sexual abuse on indigenous children & believes doctors may refuse to carry them out smh.com.au 27/6/07
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Non-indigenous prey on young: Non-indigenous pedophiles screen porn to young Aboriginal males & give them alcohol if they bring young children smh.com.au 23/6/07
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Anger simmers over Iemma's rejection of funding increase: Aboriginal lobby groups & the NSW Opposition angry the NSW Premier & Treasurer knocked back $20-40 million to tackle the problem smh.com.au 23/6/07
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Report buried for 12 months: Proposal to audit efforts to combat sex abuse of indigenous children unheeded by NSW Government smh.com.au 25/6/07
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Minister did not act on abuse - adviser: The former Aboriginal Affairs Minister facing child sex charges did not take child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities seriously when he was minister smh.com.au 27/6/07
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Sex assault epidemic ignored: Report that exposed an epidemic of child sexual assault in NSW Aboriginal communities ignored by Premier. smh.com.au 23/10/06
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NSW's untold story of shame: Sexual abuse of children has devastated Aboriginal communities in NSW, where it is widespread, rarely detected and shrouded in a terrible silence. smh.com.au 10/6/06
- Read the NSW report Breaking the silence: Creating the future Aboriginal Child Sexual Assault Taskforce 6/06
other news
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More identify as indigenous: The number of Australians who identify themselves as indigenous has increased by almost a third over the past decade, but they still remain a small ethnic group smh.com.au 28/6/07
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Black jail rates soar despite reforms: The rate of Aboriginal imprisonment has increased by almost 55 per cent since 1991 smh.com.au 6/11/06 download the reports lawlink.nsw.gov.au 6/11/06
