Aboriginal children play an outstation in the Utopia community near Alice Springs.
The future of Aboriginal outstations considered
December 2, 2008 18:00:00
The Northern Territory Minister for Central Australia has told a workshop that many remote outstations are home to mainly birds and lizards and the government can't continue to fund them.
About 70 people, many of them residents of the NT's 500 outstations, have attended the workshop in Alice Springs to discuss their future.
An Indigenous health services group says it welcomes the development of a national men's health policy, but the policy must be backed by support and resources.
The Federal Government says it is offering more opportunities for Aboriginal groups to get funding for environmental projects.
A second remote Northern Territory Aboriginal health group has won the right to stop the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) from accessing its records.
The Federal Government has indicated it is not likely to try to push changes to the Northern Territory intervention through Federal Parliament next week.
A Cape York Aboriginal council in far north Queensland says it is outraged by a Supreme Court ruling that has shut down the community's only canteen.
People undergoing IVF treatment in New South Wales will no longer be barred from applying to adopt a child, under new laws passed by State Parliament.
The Fed Govt's plan to restrict public access to NT Indigenous communities has been killed in the Senate.
The peak Aboriginal health body in the Northern Territory says it welcomes the Australian Medical Association's (AMA) latest report card into the health of Indigenous people.
A relative of Indigenous author and inventor David Unaipon has been denied a compensation request for what he describes as the unauthorised use of Mr Unaipon's image on the $50 note.
The head of the Central Land Council says a development program specifically for young Warlpiri people is an inspiring example for other Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory and around Australia.
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