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First Nations Entrepreneurship
Tag: mining
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Mining link to racist community? Regional Council Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin
In recent months, two Australian regions, the Barkly Region and Gunnedah, have found themselves at the centre of controversy surrounding citizen arrests and the treatment of Indigenous youth. The alleged citizen’s arrest of an Indigenous minor by Barkly Regional Council Mayor Jeffrey McLaughlin has ignited a nationwide debate, but as the dust settles on this
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A national call to arms to Protect Indigenous Rights
Australian state and federal governments don’t agree on much: from the handling of COVID-19 to how we can thrive after our most recent recession but there’s one thing they seem to have an understanding on – watering down of Indigenous Rights for commercial gains. The mining industry is the largest economic contributor to Australia’s GDP, which makes Rio Tinto