Northern Territory Aboriginal health organisations say the Territory Government needs to do more to reduce alcohol consumption, by ensuring strong liquor is made more expensive than weaker drinks.

Cardiology researchers say Indigenous people hospitalised with a common heart disorder are on average 20 years younger than non-Indigenous people.

The Queensland Government has issued the first new permanent liquor licences to far north Aboriginal communities since a widespread revoking of licences in 2008.

The New South Wales Constitution now recognises Aboriginal people as the first people in the state, after the Premier introduced a new bill into Parliament yesterday.

The Northern Land Council (NLC) is calling for Labor's two federal politicians in the Northern Territory to retire.

Amnesty International has called on Julia Gillard to exercise genuine and principled leadership in protecting human rights, and in upholding Australia's formal international human rights obligations.

Health groups have called on the Gillard Government to focus on delivering health reforms.

The co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (NCAFP), Dr Kerry Arabena has welcomed the major political parties support for Indigenous Australians to be officially recognised in the Australian constitution.

Northern Territory Aboriginal politician Alison Anderson has called on the Prime Minister to remove Jenny Macklin from the Indigenous Affairs portfolio, saying federal Labor had allowed the momentum built by the Northern Territory Intervention to slip away.

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