New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (Australia)

The Special Rapporteur on indigenous land rights was invited by indigenous representatives to visit Australia and Canada.

The observer for Australia, said that indigenous people in Australia were generally poorer than the rest of the community.

37. According to news reports, legislation is being considered in Australia that would extinguish some or most of the land rights of the indigenous peoples of Australia.

The Australian Government's indigenous education programmes do not specifically target female students.

There are currently no indigenous women in the federal Australian Parliament.

He's an Australian Aboriginal elder, and he's also an artist.

In the same period, Indigenous peoples comprised 2.4 per cent of Australia's population.

Through the Indigenous Employment Policy, the Australian Government provides a focus on improving indigenous employment rates.

The observer for Australia said that the problems in health, housing, education and employment facing Australia apos s indigenous peoples were not easy to solve.

The Australian Government is committed to closing the educational divide between indigenous and non indigenous students.

The Australian Government has committed AUS 16.5 million over four years for three initiatives under the indigenous Women's Development Programme

The Government was currently reviewing the Act to ensure that it met the needs of both indigenous and non indigenous Australians.

98. The observer for the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council presented a joint statement on behalf of the Australian indigenous delegations.

While our indigenous peoples have called Australia home for more than 60,000 years, the evolving kaleidoscope of Australian life has seen many new faces become part of Australia in the last few years.

(i) The overrepresentation of indigenous people in custody in Australia (priority theme C).

The National Indigenous Council was recently appointed to advise the Australian Government on indigenous issues and strategies.

The Indigenous Women's Development Programme forms an integral part of the Australian Government's reform agenda in indigenous affairs.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the cross border region of Australia and Papua New Guinea

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326. The observer for the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council presented a joint statement on behalf of some of the indigenous organizations of Australia.

Life expectancy estimates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians born in the period 1996 2001 indicate that life expectancy at birth is around 18 years lower than the average life expectancy for all Australians.

47. It has been reported that Australia s criminal justice system remains heavily weighted against Aboriginal people .

3,000 indigenous Australians participating in gatherings or workshops focused on local priorities

In relation to compulsory acquisition of land, the Native Title Act ensured that just terms of compensation would be provided.

A year later, the Australian Bureau of Statistics noted that indigenous women were being imprisoned nationally at a rate almost 21 times that of non indigenous women.10

Increasing numbers of indigenous youth in Australia, Canada and New Zealand are living in poverty in urban areas.

164. The representative of Australia emphasized the importance to indigenous peoples of the right to education and of the right of indigenous communities to establish their own education systems, schools and media.

The Australian Government is providing funding to improve indigenous peoples' access to comprehensive primary health care services.

53. The Special Rapporteur has been informed of the surge in racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia in Australia towards Aborigines, Australians of Asian origin and foreigners, and in particular of the Hanson syndrome or phenomenon.

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As of 2005, it has restructured the indigenous education funding arrangements to states and territories in order to accelerate improvement in educational outcomes for Australia's indigenous students.

Indigenous custodial deaths in Australia had reached a new record level indigenous prisoners were dying at twice the rate of other prisoners.

31. The Special Rapporteur received information concerning deaths in custody of persons of Aboriginal origin in Australia.

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Collective rights, including the use of the term indigenous peoples , did not create any problems for Australia.

The National Network of Indigenous Women's Legal Services, funded as part of this programme, specifically operates to advance the rights and position of indigenous women in Australia.

The Court essentially denounced the doctrine by concluding that this unjust and discriminatory doctrine ... can no longer be accepted. This decision gave rise to the Native Title Act, adopted by the Australian Government in 1993, which established a framework and mechanism by which Aboriginal peoples in Australia can secure land rights.

Building the general capacity of the Australian Public Service to provide more effective service delivery to indigenous peoples

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8 Due to the difficulties of indigenous identification in mortality data, only data from Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory are considered to be of publishable standard all cervical cancer mortality data for both indigenous and non indigenous women used in this analysis are therefore confined to these jurisdictions.

There were various bodies that helped to prevent, investigate and prosecute corruption, such as the ombudsmen in each Australian jurisdiction, AFP and ACC, the Australian Taxation Office, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and the Australian Public Service Commission.

Australia, El Salvador, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Turkey.

Furthermore, with regard to articles 7 (b) and 10, Australia supported the right of indigenous peoples not to be forcibly removed from their lands.

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