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Croc horror: Rupert visits Darwin … apartheid for indigenous legal experts … Sydney students are revolting …

The transcript and audio of academic Marcia Langton’s recent Boyer Lectures has been altered to remove her querying whether environmentalist Tim Flannery is “provocative and racist”.

Julia Gillard presented the latest report card on indigenous disadvantage today, revealing school kids are struggling, while Aboriginal employment drops. Amber Jamieson and Callum Denness report.

Is it fair to blame violence in indigenous communities on lenient sentences for Aboriginal men? Amy McQuire criticises recent comments by Mick Gooda and proposes a different approach.

For a brief period, Commonwealth and state/territory governments came together in a kumbaya on indigenous affairs. With Kevin Rudd gone, that is now shifting writes ANU’s Jon Altman.

So Noel Pearson has feet of clay. Does the emperor have no clothes? Academic Victoria Grieves examines how the media built up the Aboriginal leader then tore him down.

Outside the glare of the media spotlight, no one in government or bureaucracy would contest the view the intervention has failed to make a significant dent in Aboriginal disadvantage, write Professor Jon Altman and Dr Melinda Hinkson from the ANU.

Senator Nigel Scullion appeared in a Toronto Star profile on the NT Intervention. His comments appeared ill-informed or seriously out-of-step with contemporary policy and thinking — even within his own side of politics — writes Bob Gosford.

A lawyer academic sees the legal system as another form of prejudice, saying Aborigines have been treated differently in law “from the time of the initial invasion settlement”, writes Des Ryan, of InDaily.

On Tuesday night the Darwin City Council considered a letter from Dave Chalmers, state manager of the federal Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs’ NT state office, with the seemingly innocuous subject of “highway and community signs”.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, aborigines, Indigenous Australians: it can be difficult for media organisations to know what terms are appropriate when writing stories about Australia’s first inhabitants.

New research mapping the Aboriginal genome garnered international attention last week and is re-writing the history books on human migration, but scientists fear the news raises an ethical quagmire here in Australia.

Judging from a sign put up in Nyirripi, a small township in the Tanami desert, there are people in positions of power in remote townships who think that the bullet from the gun of the local cop is an effective means of animal control, writes Bob Gosford.