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Some Aboriginal people are facing sentences for charges they don’t understand. Here’s why.
Key PointsAn investigation found that the interpreter system in the NT and WA does not meet the needs of Aboriginal people. A shortage of interpreters in the court system means defendants are pleading guilty to charges they don't understand.Legal advocates point out that it is a human right for someone to communicate in a language
Aboriginal Australian ‘national treasure’ Yunupingu dies
Yunupingu played a pivotal role in Aboriginal Australians’ fight for ancestral land rights during the 1960s and 70s.One of Australia’s most influential Indigenous leaders, Yunupingu, has died aged 74, his family said on Monday, months before a referendum on whether to recognise the community for the first time in the country’s constitution. Yunupingu is best