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Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia review: The trials, tribulations - and pride  The Sydney Morning Herald

CHILDHOOD Growing up Aboriginal in Australia Ed., Anita Heiss Black Inc., $29.99. In the wake of the controversial segment on Channel Seven's morning show ...

Naracoorte Herald
Cultural Walks and Bush Food Talks has been a hit these holidays
Naracoorte Herald
Cultural Walks and Bush Food Talks, a pilot program out at the Naracoorte Caves that celebrates Aboriginal culture, has been a smashing success with kids and adults alike. “We're starting to put Aboriginal culture storylines in play here at the Caves ...

Gourmet Traveller
Sydney hosts its first MAD Mondays talk
Gourmet Traveller
MAD Symposium – the food forum created by Noma chef René Redzepi in 2011 – brought its spin-off conversation series, MAD Mondays, to Sydney this month for the first time, attracting 160-odd chefs, journalists, Aboriginal elders, producers and others ...

Gourmet Traveller
Sydney hosts its first MAD Mondays talk
Gourmet Traveller
MAD Symposium – the food forum created by Noma chef René Redzepi in 2011 – brought its spin-off conversation series, MAD Mondays, to Sydney this month for the first time, attracting 160-odd chefs, journalists, Aboriginal elders, producers and others ...

ABC Online
Alice Springs could face Tennant Creek-style grog restrictions in effort to curb alcohol-fuelled violence
ABC Online
Northern Territory Police say Tennant Creek-style alcohol restrictions are being considered for Alice Springs, in an effort to curb alcohol-fuelled violence. It comes as the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (CAAC) called for the NT Police ...
CAAC calls for Kershaw's scalp after town camp deathNT News

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The Sydney Morning Herald
The newcomers: Australian writers to watch on the ABIA shortlist
The Sydney Morning Herald
The diversity of this year's shortlist is striking, and Fairfax Media literary editor Jason Steger says it bodes well for the publishing industry, readers and the writers themselves. "In the list we have a novel by an Indigenous author that delves into ...

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Community Newspaper Group
New Murdoch University research centre aims to improve lives of indigenous Australians
Community Newspaper Group
A RESEARCH centre that could “change the life course” of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has launched at Murdoch University. The Ngangk Yira Research Centre for Aboriginal Health and Social Equity, which the university says is the first of its ...

Community Newspaper Group
New Murdoch University research centre aims to improve lives of indigenous Australians
Community Newspaper Group
A RESEARCH centre that could “change the life course” of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has launched at Murdoch University. The Ngangk Yira Research Centre for Aboriginal Health and Social Equity, which the university says is the first of its ...

ESPN
From the MCG to New York: Richmond presents to the UN
ESPN
Last week, Richmond became the first sporting club to present at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The Tigers' delegation, in partnership with the Korin Gamadji Institute and its director, Aaron Clark, spoke to the UN about their ...

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ESPN
From the MCG to New York: Richmond presents to the United Nations
ESPN
NEW YORK -- Not satisfied with breaking a 37-year AFL premiership drought last September, the Richmond Football Club is blazing a trail in bridging the gap between Australian Rules Football and Indigenous issues. Last week, Richmond became the first ...

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NT News
CAAC calls for Kershaw's scalp after town camp death
NT News
CENTRAL Australian Aboriginal Congress chief executive Donna Ah Chee has called for the resignation of Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw after the stabbing death of a woman at an Alice Springs town camp. A 62-year-old woman was killed late on Wednesday ...

South Burnett Times
Aboriginal art on display for good cause
South Burnett Times
A PRIVATE art collection will be on show, and for sale, this weekend to raise funds for an aged care facility. The Central Australian Aboriginal Art was collected over 25 years by current Blackbutt and Benarkin Aged Care Association secretary Roz ...

The Guardian
Morning mail: Beijing's campaign of intimidation
The Guardian
In an extract from Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, the writer and Indigenous activist describes what it was like to be a child who looked white but felt black. “Growing up, I equated my identity with the colour of my skin, and in my head assessed ...

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The Canberra Times
No justice or humanity to spare for Aboriginal people in Canberra
The Canberra Times
Thirty years ago, the then prime minister of Australia, Bob Hawke, deeply troubled by the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were dying in custody, announced a Royal Commission. The Royal Commission was initiated five years ...

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The Canberra Times
No justice or humanity to spare for Aboriginal people in Canberra
The Canberra Times
Thirty years ago, the then prime minister of Australia, Bob Hawke, deeply troubled by the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were dying in custody, announced a Royal Commission. The Royal Commission was initiated five years ...

The Canberra Times
No justice or humanity to spare for Aboriginal people in Canberra
The Canberra Times
Thirty years ago, the then prime minister of Australia, Bob Hawke, deeply troubled by the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were dying in custody, announced a Royal Commission. The Royal Commission was initiated five years ...

The Guardian
The day a stranger thought my dad had stolen me
The Guardian
... “Is that your baby?” He was worried I had been kidnapped. I don't know if that would happen today, given how diverse western Sydney is, but back then it must have been a shock to some to see a black man with a white baby. My mother is non ...

The Australian
Aborigines in Vanuatu living as second-class citizens, says South Sea islander
The Australian
Hundreds of South Sea Islanders living in Vanuatu complain they are being discriminated against because they have Aboriginal ancestry, and say they want official Australian recognition. One, Vanuatu policeman Pakoa Rudy Rolland, says the problem has ...

The Australian
Aborigines in Vanuatu living as second-class citizens, says South Sea islander
The Australian
The Australian has been shown official Vanuatu government documentation establishing descendants of “Rossie who is a pure Aboriginal bloodline from Australia”. While some blackbirded returnees took adult partners home, the abduction of Aboriginal ...

The Guardian
STaR data shines a light on cancer
The Australian
In a national first, and one of the few times it has happened internationally, data on “stage at diagnosis” for the top five incidence cancers has been published by Cancer Australia. It shows most cases of female breast cancer (77 per cent), prostate ...
Most lung and bowel cancers being diagnosed too late, data showsThe Guardian
Most lung cancers diagnosed too lateNEWS.com.au
New study shows 'detection gap' between different cancersSBS
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