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SBS
Indigenous dying more of cancer: report | SBS News
SBS
A new report shows indigenous Australians are 1.4 times more likely to die from cancer as the non-indigenous population.
Indigenous dying more of cancer: reportIllawarra Mercury
Aboriginal Australians are more likely to die from cancer than the rest of the population - with lung and liver ...Daily Mail

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SBS
Indigenous dying more of cancer: report | SBS News
SBS
A new report shows indigenous Australians are 1.4 times more likely to die from cancer as the non-indigenous population.
Aboriginal Australians are more likely to die from cancer than the rest of the population - with lung and liver ...Daily Mail

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Indigenous protesters have been 'gearing up' for Gold Coast Commonwealth Games for years
Gold Coast Bulletin
Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy leader Wayne Wharton told the Bulletin the exact location of the protest camp would be made public closer to the date. He said up to 5000 to 6000 people from throughout Australia and overseas were expected to ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Indigenous protesters have been 'gearing up' for Gold Coast Commonwealth Games for years
Gold Coast Bulletin
He said up to 5000 to 6000 people from throughout Australia and overseas were expected to converge on the Coast to protest during the Games. Wayne Wharton at the indigenous protest ahead of G20 at Musgrave Park in South Brisbane in 2014. Picture: Tara ...

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The Australian
Push to close gap on kids in care
The Australian
The peak body representing Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has called for a 10-year revamp of the troubled Closing the Gap targets to expand them to include goals for getting indigenous kids out of child protection. The goals ...

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The Australian
Warning on sexually transmitted diseases ignored
The Australian
When contacted yesterday about the letter, Senator Scullion shifted blame for the government's inaction to Indigenous Health Minister Ken Wyatt. Senator Scullion's spokesman told The Australian he passed Senator Smith's letter on to the “health ...

The Australian
Push to close gap on kids in care
The Australian
The peak body representing Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has called for a 10-year revamp of the troubled Closing the Gap targets to expand them to include goals for getting indigenous kids out of child protection. The goals ...

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The Australian
Warning on sexually transmitted diseases ignored
The Australian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion ignored a plea from a government MP more than a year ago to implement a $25 million policy to combat sexually transmitted diseases gripping Aboriginal communities, instead adopting a $9m program that remains ...

Tori Nikolaou's career takes off as she becomes the first female indigenous commercial pilot
Herald Sun
As a young indigenous* kid growing up in the Northern Territory and wondering what career she wanted, Tori Nikolaou always had her eye on the skies. It always made sense to Tori, now 22, that she would one day follow the path of her Greek father Tony ...

Tori Nikolaou's career takes off as she becomes the first female indigenous commercial pilot
Herald Sun
As a young indigenous* kid growing up in the Northern Territory and wondering what career she wanted, Tori Nikolaou always had her eye on the skies. It always made sense to Tori, now 22, that she would one day follow the path of her Greek father Tony ...

Brisbane Times
'Systemic racism' fueling skyrocketing rates of Indigenous imprisonment, says peak law body
Brisbane Times
The nation's peak law body has warned of "systemic racism" in the justice system, as it presented shocking statistics on the sky-rocketing rate of Indigenous incarceration and called for a massive cash injection to fund legal aid. In his first major ...

Brisbane Times
'Systemic racism' fueling skyrocketing rates of Indigenous imprisonment, says peak law body
Brisbane Times
The nation's peak law body has warned of "systemic racism" in the justice system, as it presented shocking statistics on the sky-rocketing rate of Indigenous incarceration and called for a massive cash injection to fund legal aid. In his first major ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'Systemic racism' fueling skyrocketing rates of Indigenous imprisonment, says peak law body
The Sydney Morning Herald
The nation's peak law body has warned of "systemic racism" in the justice system, as it presented shocking statistics on the sky-rocketing rate of Indigenous incarceration and called for a massive cash injection to fund legal aid. In his first major ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'Systemic racism' fueling skyrocketing rates of Indigenous imprisonment, says peak law body
The Sydney Morning Herald
The nation's peak law body has warned of "systemic racism" in the justice system, as it presented shocking statistics on the sky-rocketing rate of Indigenous incarceration and called for a massive cash injection to fund legal aid. In his first major ...

SBS
National Geographic editor says decades of coverage was racist
NEWS.com.au
There was even a full-issue article on Australia that ran in 1916 in which Aboriginal Australians were called “savages” who “rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings”. “It hurts to share the appalling stories from the magazine's past,” wrote ...
'Our coverage was racist': National Geographic admits bias against Indigenous AustraliansSBS
National Geographic: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'PetaPixel (blog)
How National Geographic acknowledged its racist pastThe Guardian
Complex -NPR -89.3 KPCC -National Geographic
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Australian Mining
Fortescue delivers first agreement under ANZ initiative
Australian Mining
The initiative is an expansion of Fortescue's Billion Opportunities program, which has seen the company award at least $2 billion in contracts and sub-contracts to more than 100 joint ventures and Indigenous-owned businesses since its implementation in ...

9news.com.au
Racism evident in justice system: lawyers
9news.com.au
"What we were seeing was the sentencing and incarceration, mostly of young men but increasingly of women as well, of people from minor offences," she told the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday. Incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres ...

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9news.com.au
Racism evident in justice system: lawyers
9news.com.au
"What we were seeing was the sentencing and incarceration, mostly of young men but increasingly of women as well, of people from minor offences," she told the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday. Incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres ...

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Most Australian Indigenous languages came from just one place, research claims
The Guardian
Albert river near Burketown on the Gulf of Carpentaria. Burketown is the origin point for 90% of Australia's Indigenous languages, according to one study. Photograph: Auscape/UIG via Getty Images. Most Indigenous languages in Australia likely ...

Most Australian Indigenous languages came from just one place, research claims
The Guardian
Albert river near Burketown on the Gulf of Carpentaria. Burketown is the origin point for 90% of Australia's Indigenous languages, according to one study. Photograph: Auscape/UIG via Getty Images. Most Indigenous languages in Australia likely ...