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A group of Aboringinal women are shown sitting during a Sunday picnic in Telegraph Station in Alice Springs.

As more Aboriginal children are removed from families, critics say government risks a second Stolen Generation

The number of Aboriginal children removed from their families in Australia and placed in out-of-home care has doubled in the last 10 years. In the Northern Territory it is three times as high as a decade ago.

Workers butcher a Baird's Beaked whale at Wada port in Minamiboso, southeast of Tokyo. Today's order by a UN court now stops the practice in the southern ocean.

Japan told it can’t hunt whales near Antarctica — because it’s not scientific

Environment

Australia still struggling with legacy of “stealing” children from Aborigine families

Development & Education

Australia’s ‘Stolen Generation’

Conflict & Justice
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In Australia, left & right slug it out over a planned carbon tax

Business, Economics and Jobs
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In Australia, a Rise in Attacks on Indian Students

Conflict & Justice

Demonstrators are protesting in Australia, where dozens of assaults against Indian students have been reported in the past year. Gautam Gupta, a student who was attacked, joins The Takeaway from Melbourne to talk about the rise in ethnic tensions.

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The Wikileaks fallout continues

Conflict & Justice

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is in a British jail awaiting a hearing next week regarding his possible extradition to Sweden. The fallout from WikiLeaks’ disclosure of hundreds of US State Department cables continues. The World’s Clark Boyd reports.

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