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Adoptions for more Indigenous children should be an option, Minister says
ABC Online
In most states, a majority of those children are placed within the Indigenous community or with relatives, but in Tasmania and the Northern Territory more Aboriginal children are living in non-Indigenous homes. "What I said is that if there's a non ...
Abused Indigenous children need safe homes, not derailed debate, says peak bodyThe Guardian
'So many mistruths': Sunrise cops heat over Aboriginal adoption ...The Sydney Morning Herald
'Sunrise' Actually Called For A Return To the Stolen GenerationsJunkee
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Abused Indigenous children need safe homes, not derailed debate, says peak body
The Guardian
Revived arguments about the removal of Indigenous children from their families are just the latest instalment of a “narrow debate” bringing Australia closer to another Northern Territory-style intervention, an Indigenous peak body has said. The ...
Adoptions for more Indigenous children should be an option, Minister saysABC Online
Adoption not a stolen generation: Mundine9news.com.au
Some Politicians And Commentators Are Basically Calling For Another Stolen GenerationJunkee

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ABC Online
Abused Indigenous children need safe homes, not derailed debate, says peak body
The Guardian
Revived arguments about the removal of Indigenous children from their families are just the latest instalment of a “narrow debate” bringing Australia closer to another Northern Territory-style intervention, an Indigenous peak body has said. The ...
Some Politicians And Commentators Are Basically Calling For Another Stolen GenerationJunkee
Adoptions for more Indigenous children should be an option, Minister saysABC Online
Adoption not a stolen generation: Mundine9news.com.au

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The Guardian
Norfolk Islanders go to UN to fight Australia over right to self-govern
The Guardian
The Norfolk Islanders are distinct from mainland Australians with regard to all parameters that define ethnicity: homeland, shared ancestry, cultural narrative and cultural core values.” Robertson is representing Albert Fletcher Buffett, an Indigenous ...
The tiny island taking on AustraliaThe Queensland Times
Norfolk Island takes Australia to UN over human rightsThe New Daily

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Katherine Times
New chapter of Indigenous history told through food
Katherine Times
The undocumented colonial history of Indigenous food on Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland is about to unfold under a new, three-year study led by Flinders University. Picture: supplied. The undocumented colonial history of Indigenous food on Cape ...

Katherine Times
New chapter of Indigenous history told through food
Katherine Times
The undocumented colonial history of Indigenous food on Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland is about to unfold under a new, three-year study led by Flinders University. Picture: supplied. The undocumented colonial history of Indigenous food on Cape ...

Newsweek
National Geographic admits 'racist' decades-long coverage
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"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...
'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'KACU
National Geographic Publicly Admits 'Appalling' Racism in Stories on Africa, Australia and ElsewhereNewsweek

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SBS
National Geographic admits 'racist' decades-long coverage
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"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...

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SBS
'Our coverage was racist': National Geographic admits bias against Indigenous Australians
SBS
"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...
National Geographic editor says decades of coverage was racistNEWS.com.au
National Geographic admits 'appalling' racism of past coverageThe Australian
How National Geographic acknowledged its racist pastThe Guardian
Evening Standard
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SBS
'Our coverage was racist': National Geographic admits bias against Indigenous people
SBS
"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...
'National Geographic' Reckons With Its Past: 'For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist'KACU

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SBS
'Our coverage was racist': National Geographic admits bias against Indigenous people
SBS
"Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless, like a 1916 story about Australia. Underneath photos of two Aboriginal people, the caption reads: "South Australian Blackfellows: These savages rank lowest in intelligence of all human ...

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The Advertiser
We're failing women in prison. We need to act now
The Advertiser
“By far the majority of all women (in prison), and Aboriginal women more so than non-Aboriginal women, have been abused either sexually, physically, mentally or all of the above, and these are the pathways to jail,” said Professor Baldry. The trauma ...

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The West Australian
Meet Lynette Narkle, and join in her journey
The West Australian
In 2004, she forged the role of Indigenous programs officer at Screenwest to increase the engagement of emerging Indigenous filmmakers, in what Lynette described as “exciting times”. “That culminated in Aboriginal people directing and writing for ...

ABC Online
Pama-Nyungan: Australia's largest family of Indigenous languages
ABC Online
A team of international scientists, including from Australia, has shed light on how Australia's largest Indigenous language group became dominant across the continent. Pama-Nyungan is the world's largest hunter-gatherer language-family and before the ...
Tracking early hunter-gatherers through languageScoop.co.nz (press release)

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Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous Language and Storytelling at Heart of New Connecting Up Partnership
Pro Bono Australia
ICTV makes an incredible and important contribution to Indigenous Australian communities by providing opportunities for sharing video stories made in remote communities across Australia, including to some of the most remote parts of Australia, such as ...

Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous Language and Storytelling at Heart of New Connecting Up Partnership
Pro Bono Australia
This year's Australian Not-For-Profit Technology Awards, meanwhile, at the Hilton on Thursday 3 March, will include the inaugural ICTV Best Digital Storytelling by an Indigenous Australian Award. ICTV makes an incredible and important contribution to ...

SBS
Federal minister wants to relax adoption rules for Indigenous children
SBS
Federal children's minister David Gillespie says he has been shocked by the rates of sexually transmitted diseases amongst indigenous children. David Gillespie acknowledges there may be concerns about creating another Stolen Generation, but says he's ...
Editorial: Protecting children at risk is first priorityCourier Mail
'I don't want them recycled back into harm': Calls for abused Aboriginal children to be placed into the care of ...Daily Mail

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SBS
Federal minister wants to relax adoption rules for Indigenous children
SBS
Federal children's minister David Gillespie says he has been shocked by the rates of sexually transmitted diseases amongst indigenous children. David Gillespie acknowledges there may be concerns about creating another Stolen Generation, but says he's ...
Editorial: Protecting children at risk is first priorityCourier Mail
'I don't want them recycled back into harm': Calls for abused Aboriginal children to be placed into the care of ...Daily Mail

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The Conversation AU
The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of ...
The Conversation AU
The origin of around 300 of Australia's Aboriginal languages lies in Queensland, about 6000 years ago.
Pama-Nyungan: Australia's largest family of Indigenous languages ...ABC Online
Tracking early hunter-gatherers through language | Scoop NewsScoop.co.nz (press release)

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The Conversation AU
The origins of Pama-Nyungan, Australia's largest family of Aboriginal languages
The Conversation AU
The approximately 400 languages of Aboriginal Australia can be grouped into 27 different families. To put that diversity in context, Europe has just four language families, Indo-European, Basque, Finno-Ugric and Semitic, with Indo-European encompassing ...

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