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St Brigid's is a school that strives to be truly Catholic in our identity and life; a centre of the new evangelisation and a place where the dignity and potential of every student is recognised and enabled to achieve the fullness of life. St Brigid's ...

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Business Insider Australia
Homelessness is increasing in Australia as housing costs rise
Business Insider Australia
Numbers from the 2016 census released today show homelessness increasing in Australia despite strong economic growth, with young people, migrants and the elderly most vulnerable. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says the total number of homeless ...
Homelessness in Australia up 14% in five years, ABS saysThe Guardian
'An international embarrassment': More than 116000 Australians now homelessNine
Census reveals rising rate of homelessness in AustraliaMirage News

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Business Insider Australia
Homelessness is increasing in Australia as housing costs rise
Business Insider Australia
Numbers from the 2016 census released today show homelessness increasing in Australia despite strong economic growth, with young people, migrants and the elderly most vulnerable. The Australian Bureau of Statistics says the total number of homeless ...

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Techly
Try not to vomit as 'Sunrise' discusses the merits of Australia's Stolen Generations
Techly
It all started early Wednesday morning when federal Assistant Minister for Children, David Gillespie, announced his intention to make it easier for white families to adopt Aboriginal children, citing “rape, assault and neglect” in Indigenous ...

Pilbara pair in women's hall of fame
The West Australian
Fresh from being crowned WA's Australian of the Year in November, trailblazing psychologist and Njamal woman Dr Tracy Westerman joined Ms Howlett in being inducted into the WA Hall of Fame. Dr Westerman founded Indigenous Psychological Services in 1998 ...

Courier Mail
Making the final approach toward title of Australia's first indigenous female commercial pilot
Courier Mail
And as she makes the final approach towards her professional pilot licence, Ms Nikolaou is poised for another serious accolade — Australia's first indigenous female commercial pilot. Ms Nikolaou has devoted the past four years to nailing her dream of ...

Crikey
Deborah Cheetham is done with 'cleaning up the mess of a white man'
Crikey
Deborah Cheetham is done with 'cleaning up the mess of a white man'. While the furore may have died down surrounding poor and inaccurate research in a book detailing Indigenous women musicians, Deborah Cheetham says the issue is an exhausting and ...

New Matilda
No Joke: Capitalism, Australian Identity and The Threat to Unity
New Matilda
Each year, Australia Day ushers in the political calendar. And each year, the polity is more divided. A lot of people seem to feel left out of the party. And it isn't only Indigenous Australians, writes Mike Dowson. A Barkindji man, from Darling River ...

New Matilda
No Joke: Capitalism, Australian Identity and The Threat to Unity
New Matilda
Each year, Australia Day ushers in the political calendar. And each year, the polity is more divided. A lot of people seem to feel left out of the party. And it isn't only Indigenous Australians, writes Mike Dowson. A Barkindji man, from Darling River ...

Investment Magazine
Big Super Day Out will grow in 2018
Investment Magazine
In its third year of running the Indigenous community outreach program, First Nations Foundation is quadrupling its efforts. Is your fund involved yet? All the speakers and chairs at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) 2018 will be ...

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Investment Magazine
Big Super Day Out will grow in 2018
Investment Magazine
In its third year of running the Indigenous community outreach program, First Nations Foundation is quadrupling its efforts. Is your fund involved yet? All the speakers and chairs at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) 2018 will be ...

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Atlas Obscura
Climate Change May Have Helped Spread a Language Family Across Australia
Atlas Obscura
On the map of Australia's indigenous language types, Pama-Nyungan languages stretch expansively across the country, dipping down into the hollows of Western Australia and Victoria, and reaching high up into the furthest cranny of Queensland, to the ...

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Daily Mail
The origin of Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages: New research reveals Pama-Nyungan arose 6000 ...
Daily Mail
For places like Australia, the linguistic record, though incomplete, has more even coverage across the continent than the archaeological record does. At European settlement, there were about 300 Pama-Nyungan languages. Because there are at least some ...
Climate Change May Have Helped Spread a Language Family Across AustraliaAtlas Obscura

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Honi Soit
Could USyd be its own country?
Honi Soit
Czech libertarian and founder of 'Liberland,' Vit Jedlicka, invoked terra nullius when claiming a disputed three-square-mile section of the Croatia-Serbia border. Australia's history with these colonial notions of what constitute a nation is surely ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy leader applying for mining permit
Gold Coast Bulletin
“Each time 'Australia' has hosted the games thousands of Aboriginal, Torres Straight islanders as well as other groups who have been oppressed by the crown have united to resist colonial activity and authority,” the Stolenwealth Games Protest Facebook ...

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Gold Coast Bulletin
Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy leader applying for mining permit
Gold Coast Bulletin
“Each time 'Australia' has hosted the games thousands of Aboriginal, Torres Straight islanders as well as other groups who have been oppressed by the crown have united to resist colonial activity and authority,” the Stolenwealth Games Protest Facebook ...

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The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages
Phys.Org
These include the Yolŋu languages of Arnhem Land and Arrernte in Central Australia. Yet others (such as Kaurna around Adelaide) are undergoing a renaissance, gaining speakers within their communities. Finally, though not the focus of our study, there ...

Quitting for good
PRWire (press release)
Whilst Australia on the whole is leading the way in terms of low prevalence of tobacco usage, with only around 13 per cent of adults smoking, the country's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population remains disproportionately affected by smoking ...

World Socialist Web Site
Sweet Country: Bitter truths about Aboriginal dispossession in Australia
World Socialist Web Site
Samson and Delilah (2009), Warwick Thornton's first dramatic feature, announced the arrival of a talented filmmaker, committed to exposing some of the realities of the lives of Aboriginal Australians. The critically acclaimed work about two indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Adoptions for more Indigenous children should be an option, Minister says
ABC Online
"Open adoption — it's not forced, it's not hidden, the child knows where the parents are and the parents know where the children are, but they have a permanent, caring, stable environment in which to grow up, rather than cycling through foster care ...
Abused Indigenous children need safe homes, not derailed debate, says peak bodyThe Guardian
Why are white people on Sunrise with no experience calling for Indigenous child removals?SBS - The World Game
Some Politicians And Commentators Are Basically Calling For Another Stolen GenerationJunkee
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