Activists are continuing to pressure聽the NT government to close Don Dale Youth Detention Centre,聽writes聽Stephen W Enciso.
Mick Gooda
The Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory released its . Commissioners Mick Gooda and Margaret White are now due to deliver their final report on August 1.
Last week the ABC broadcast , a program following the joint travels of federal Labor MP Linda Burney and conservative commentator Andrew Bolt as they debate whether Indigenous peoples should be 鈥渞ecognised鈥 in Australia鈥檚 Constitution.
Viewers are told at the outset that they will be asked to vote in a referendum on constitutional reform. The program claims this referendum 鈥渃ould unite or divide our nation鈥 and asks: 鈥淗ow will you vote?鈥
About 300 Aboriginal people have joined a class action filed in the Federal Court on September 12 to recover wages they say were stolen by the Queensland government more than half a century ago.
The claim is for unpaid wages held in government trust accounts under Queensland鈥檚 Aboriginal Protection and Preservation Act 1939, which allowed the government to control the earnings of Aboriginal people until 1972. Much of the money was lost or stolen.