29/08 06:57,ABC Online
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| The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA) says the federal intervention has had a negative effect on the health and emotional wellbeing of people in the targeted communities. |
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29/08 03:39,The Australian
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| LEADING indigenous education expert Chris Sarra called on teachers to embrace federal government plans to hold schools accountable for their students' performance, describing it as long overdue. |
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28/08 23:54,CTV.ca
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| CTV.ca News Staff A new World Health Organization report says the poor around the world are dying on a "grand scale" even as economies of developing and industrial countries have shown "enormous (increases) in global wealth. |
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28/08 13:02,The Australian
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| PARENTS and health groups have slammed the media watchdog for failing to restrict junk food ads during kids' TV time. |
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28/08 04:53,The Age
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| Email Normal font Large font Kelly Burke Consumer Affairs ReporterAugust 28, 2008 THE government communications regulator has delivered a victory to the junk food industry by deciding not to impose further restrictions on advertising during children's television hours. |
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28/08 01:20,The Australian
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| SCHOOL authorities will have the power to choose whether to dob in welfare recipients who fail to ensure their children attend lessons under new laws introduced in parliament yesterday. |
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27/08 16:53,ABC Online
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| The National Children's and Youth Law Centre says the Federal Government must address the high detention rate for young Indigenous people. A report by the Institute of Health and Welfare shows the number of children in juvenile detention has risen to a four-year high. |
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27/08 02:58,The Australian
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| JUNK food advertising on television may be banned in two states unless advertisers and broadcasters make serious inroads to restrict the number ofsuch commercials during popular evening and children's programming. |
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27/08 01:45,The Australian
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| LA TROBE University vice-chancellor Paul Johnson has criticised Group of Eight proposals to deregulate fees and allow universities to raise tuition prices as an unnecessary recipe for social exclusion that is out of step with the federal Government's equity and access agenda. |
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27/08 01:44,The Age
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| CHILDREN as young as 11 have been locked up in juvenile detention centres around Australia as the number of young people being sent to 'prison' rises. While most of the 12,765 young people who were on juvenile justice orders in 2006-07 were under community-based supervision, an increasing number were sent to. |
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