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The Canberra Times
Indigenous sentencing trial overdue
The Canberra Times
The framework for an "Australian-first" sentencing system to combat increasing Indigenous incarceration rates in Canberra has been revealed in documents released under freedom of information laws. Legal Aid ACT was commissioned by the ACT ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous sentencing trial overdue
The Canberra Times
The framework for an "Australian-first" sentencing system to combat increasing Indigenous incarceration rates in Canberra has been revealed in documents released under freedom of information laws. Legal Aid ACT was commissioned by the ACT ...

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Fox Sports
Patty Mills heaps praise on young Indigenous-Australian star Tamuri Wigness Jr. ahead of FIBA U17 World Cup
Fox Sports
He points to Nathan Jawai – the Cairns Taipans centre – as one of his role models, and was recently an Australian indigenous Basketball All Star. For Mills, whose father, Benny, is a Torres Strait Islander, giving back to his community has long been a ...

Fox Sports
Patty Mills heaps praise on young Indigenous-Australian star Tamuri Wigness Jr. ahead of FIBA U17 World Cup
Fox Sports
He points to Nathan Jawai – the Cairns Taipans centre – as one of his role models, and was recently an Australian indigenous Basketball All Star. For Mills, whose father, Benny, is a Torres Strait Islander, giving back to his community has long been a ...

ABC News
Last Rabbit-Proof Fence girl, Daisy Kadibil, laid to rest in her homeland
ABC News
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following story contains images and names of people who have died. Hundreds of people have travelled to the remote West Australian community of Jigalong to farewell the ...

The Australian
Trial tries to lift Aboriginal vote
The Australian
Ms Dhamarrandji, an Aboriginal woman from Galiwin'ku on tropical Elcho Island off the Arnhem Land coast, is working for the Australian Electoral Commission to educate people about how the democratic process works and why it is important. Young men ...

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Funeral funds scrutinised for targeting Indigenous Australians  The Guardian

Indigenous Australians have been paying for four or five funeral insurance policies for their families, consumer groups say.

Pro Bono Australia
UN Set To Review Australia's Record On Women's Rights – And May Find it Wanting
Pro Bono Australia
The committee is expected to question the government on the endemic nature of violence against women in Australia, and the disproportionate impact this has on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women with disability (who are 40 per cent more ...

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Outcry over word 'Aboriginal' continues as historians push for ban on changing certificates
ABC News
The decision by a West Australian bureaucrat to redact the word "Aboriginal" from official documents has created an outcry among archivists, genealogists and historians across Australia. WA is the only jurisdiction in Australia to deem the word ...

Smithsonian
Daisy Kadibil's Story of Escape Called Attention to the “Stolen Generations” of Aboriginal Australians
Smithsonian
In 1931, an 8-year-old Australian Aboriginal girl named Daisy Kadibil was snatched up by a local constable and taken from her family in the Pilbara region of western Australia to an assimilation camp some 800 miles away. Her sister Molly and her cousin ...

Smithsonian
Daisy Kadibil's Story of Escape Called Attention to the “Stolen Generations” of Aboriginal Australians
Smithsonian
In 1931, an 8-year-old Australian Aboriginal girl named Daisy Kadibil was snatched up by a local constable and taken from her family in the Pilbara region of western Australia to an assimilation camp some 800 miles away. Her sister Molly and her cousin ...

The Australian
Funds targeted kids for funeral insurance
The Australian
The sorry business of predatory funeral insurers pushing policies on indigenous Australians will be picked through by the royal commission as it investigates cases of company dealings with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Funeral insurers ...

The Australian
Yunupingu told Turnbull of voice to parliament concerns
The Australian
One of Australia's most revered Aboriginal elders, Gumatj clan leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu, told Malcolm Turnbull he believed the proposal for an Aboriginal voice to parliament needed more work and could not succeed at a referendum in its current form, ...

The Australian
Searching for a home
The Australian
South Australia has long contemplated building a centre to enhance its credentials as home to Tarnanthi, a biennial festival of indigenous art, and Adelaide's art museum Tandanya, whose formal name is the National Aboriginal Cultural Institute.

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The Australian
Searching for a home
The Australian
It's not as if there haven't been plans, almost as many as there have been West Australian arts ministers. Going back to the 1980s, a plan was hatched for an indigenous art centre that would “float” out from the banks of the Swan River. In 2007, the ...

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
'Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from National Gallery of Australia' is a joint venture of the NGMA and the National Gallery of Australia, and features a range from paintings, prints, and photographs to sculptures and installations, revealing a great ...

NEWS.com.au
Bob Carr has renewed his call for a crackdown on immigration
NEWS.com.au
The former Foreign Minister, who in 2000 famously declared that “Sydney was full”, has warned that Australia must curb its population intake if it wishes to preserve its natural landmarks. In his new memoir, Run For Your Life, he offers this bleak ...
Grim vision for Australia in 2035Gympie Times

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Gizmodo Australia
The Gizmodo Guide To What's On In July
Gizmodo Australia
Code Like a Girl is an Australian organisation with the goal to reimagine the future for girls and women in the technology industry. The workshops at flagship Microsoft Store Sydney will be conducted by instructors with practical experience in the ...

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NEWS.com.au
'It's simply not good enough … to be leaving the next generation with a crisis like this'
NEWS.com.au
WHEN it comes to the loss of biodiversity, Australia has one of the worst records in the world, losing more mammals and plants in the past 200 years than any other country. Now a Senate inquiry is set to address the issue. Roughly 11 per cent of ...

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The Guardian
Ending 'aqua nullius': calls for laws to protect Indigenous water rights
The Guardian
... new plan to enshrine Aboriginal water rights in law and practice has been released, which gives governments a way to overturn “aqua nullius” and demands Aboriginal people have more say in how water is allocated and managed across Australia.