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May 29, 2012 · The scale of the dysfunction locked inside the tiny Aboriginal mission of Toomelah is breathtaking. In recent week there's have been rumours of a government-led intervention, or of a complete ...
The unvaccinated outnumber the vaccinated in Boggabilla and Toomelah, where only the fully jabbed are allowed over the border to shop for the bare essentials.
- Jenny Noyes
Nov 15, 2018 · As a funded adult literacy campaign in the remote Aboriginal community of Toomelah, northern NSW comes to a close, a University of New England (UNE) education research team says it is “vitally important” the work continues to support the community’s enthusiasm for learning and change.
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- Turning A Blind eye?
- 'Lazy Policing'
The ABC went searching for answers and eventually tracked down Deborah Sykes, a former DOCS child protection officer. Although she and her colleagues were based in Moree, they were more often in Toomelah. "Most of the alleged allegations ranged from fondling, touching to full-blown sexual assault," she said. "You'd report your findings back to who ...
Successive governments have known about the violence, neglect and sexual abuse occurring inside Toomelah for at least 25 years. In 1986, a NSW Health Department report on children under six years old found "almost 50 per cent had chronic ear disease ... other health problems identified include diabetes, alcoholism and sexually transmitted diseases"...
Today, 7.30 is told that no-one even bothers reporting the abuse to the local police anymore. Paul Underhill, the defence solicitor at the Aboriginal Legal Service in Moree, describes the policing of Toomelah as "lazy". In the year that he has been in the job, he has not seen one police prosecution for child sexual assault in Toomelah. "Nothing's d...
With the Toomelah Social Plan already underway, Toomelah people have an important chance to make a co-ordinated plan for the future of Toomelah. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission intends to give the steering committee every assistance it can.
Oct 14, 2019 · The long-lasting, potentially ineradicable effects of governmental terror against Indigenous Australia can be seen community-wide in Toomelah: connection to land and culture is diminished; living conditions are poor; alcoholism and drug-use are rife, unfortunate but inexorable products of racial and generational suffering and gross inequity.
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Jul 3, 2012 · PRU GOWARD, NSW COMMUNITY SERVICES MINISTER: That it is tragic, it's depressing and it's frightening to think we have spent - past governments have spent - millions of dollars in communities like Toomelah for results like that and that's what has to change.
