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Firestick Flicks The Dark Emu Story
Indigenous Youth Justice Australia
Firestick Flicks, How to Host – The Dark Emu Story
3 July 2024 | 1:27 pm

Accessibility – The Amnesty International website has built in accessibility tools to help ensure that our activism is inclusive. To open the accessibility menu click on the accessibility icon located at the bottom right of your screen. Amnesty International Australia’s Indigenous Rights team is proud to launch our new film club, Firestick Flicks, as part […]

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Alyawarr children watch Aboriginal stockmen unload brumbies (wild horses) at the Arlparra stockyards, Northern Territory, Australia, August 2009. Background: In 2007, the Australian Government launched an intervention into Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. To enact the Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation and to implement the intervention, the Australian Government suspended the Racial Discrimination Act and Northern Territory anti-discrimination legislation. More than 45,000 Aboriginal people are now subject to racially discriminatory measures, including the acquisition of Indigenous land and the compulsory and blanket quarantining of social security payments in 73 Northern Territory communities. For many, these measures have stripped them of their dignity and further contributed to a deep sense of exclusion and voicelessness. Amnesty International is calling for laws designed to protect people from discrimination to be immediately reinstated without any loopholes.
Community is Everything Australia
Amnesty’s Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2024-2026
18 March 2024 | 1:21 pm

Amnesty is honoured to work closely with the oldest continuing culture in the world. We value the relationships we have with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. To be an effective human rights organisation, we’ll continue working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in their fight for justice in order to achieve […]

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Walk for Yes Perth 2023
Community is Everything Australia
Rach’s Holiday watch list to stay informed on Indigenous Rights 
21 December 2023 | 1:45 pm

2023 has been a big year for Indigenous issues in Australia. The result of the Voice referendum was obviously gutting, and that’s probably what 2023 will be remembered for. However, we’re really proud of the YES campaign we ran, the important conversations that were sparked, and the fact that more than six million Australians voted […]

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Community is Everything Australia
Heartbreaking result as Voice referendum ‘No’ votes prevail
18 October 2023 | 2:23 pm

We come to you with heavy hearts. The result of the Voice referendum has left us devastated. We wanted address you, our valued human rights supporters, to express our profound disappointment. But mostly, we want to reinforce our unwavering commitment to First Nations justice. The outcome of the referendum is not what we had hoped […]

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A child's hands on a fence
Indigenous Youth Justice Australia
Urgent need to invest in diversion as shown by treatment of kids in Banksia Hill
14 November 2022 | 3:15 pm

Responding to reports regarding the treatment of children in Western Australia’s Banskia Hill Youth Detention Centre, Amnesty International Australia Indigenous Rights Lead Campaigner, Maggie Munn, said: “I am disgusted to see what children in Banksia Hill are subject to. The majority of those children are First Nations kids and for nearly 300 years this country […]

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