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The Cairns Post
New CIAF senior partnerships and communications manager Bianca Barling-Seden connects with culture
The Cairns Post
“As a platform for artists, CIAF provides professional and economic development opportunities that is unique to Queensland and Australia.” In the future, Ms Barling-Seden's hope in her newest venture is to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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The Cairns Post
New CIAF senior partnerships and communications manager Bianca Barling-Seden connects with culture
The Cairns Post
Her hope for the future of Australia's indigenous cultures is clear: she wants to see preservation of culture, of land and of arts dating back thousands of years. “Having worked overseas and travelled a lot, the Torres Strait is probably one of the ...

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The Advertiser
Aboriginal elder and activist Katrina Ngaityalya Power verbally attacks MPs at International Women's Day breakfast
The Advertiser
In her Welcome to Country, Ms Power, who was also criticised last year for her Welcome to Country before an Anzac Day service, where she used words such as “invasion” and “slavery”, slammed Mr Marshall for not consulting about his party's proposed ...

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The Advertiser
Aboriginal elder and activist Katrina Ngaityalya Power verbally attacks MPs at International Women's Day breakfast
The Advertiser
In her Welcome to Country, Ms Power, who was also criticised last year for her Welcome to Country before an Anzac Day service, where she used words such as “invasion” and “slavery”, slammed Mr Marshall for not consulting about his party's proposed ...

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UNSW Newsroom
UNSW alumna to represent Australia at Venice Biennale
UNSW Newsroom
The selection was done by an independent panel of respected arts professionals chaired by Professor Callum Morton from Monash University and comprising Chris Saines, Director, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art; Franchesca Cubillo, Senior ...

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ABC Online
'The killing time': How placenames reveal violence, murder and injustice in the Kimberley
ABC Online
Rudolph Philchowski was killed in 1913 — in the middle of the killing time — by an Aboriginal man known as Gulbooding, commonly referred to as Wallambain. There are recordings that Philchowski was a Polish count, but it was more likely he was a ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Language revival preserving history
The Sydney Morning Herald
A teacher chats to people who are fishing along the turquoise waters of Nalina Nalina, a beach in Broome, in Western Australia's Kimberley region. She is speaking Yawuru, the local Indigenous language. The ''excursion'' is part of an adult immersion ...

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The Australian
Miners urge amendments to Native Title Act
The Australian
It also urged the federal government to match West Australian legislation that will retrospectively validate WA tenements and associated native title agreements. “Among the MCA's membership are companies that pioneered the use of the NTA to negotiate ...

InDaily
Hard targets needed to end the disgrace of indigenous incarceration
InDaily
The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Service has suggested adding a further target to slash the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care. These should not be overly ambitious targets ...

InDaily
Hard targets needed to end the disgrace of indigenous incarceration
InDaily
Closing the Gap contains a range of targets, including closing the life expectancy between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians within a generation. What it doesn't contain yet is a justice target equivalent, such as closing the gap in ...

The Australian
Uni of Adelaide joins $1bn defence upgrade
The Australian
The University of Adelaide will play a key role in supporting the $1 billion upgrade to Australia's Jindalee over-the-horizon radar network which keeps large parts of the air and sea north of the continent under constant surveillance,. The work will be ...

The Guardian
Child protection report reveals soaring number of investigations
The Guardian
Rates of substantiated abuse cases increased further with remoteness and low socioeconomics, particularly for Indigenous children. The report found almost half of Indigenous children who were the subject of substantiated notifications were from the ...
Child protection report lacks crucial national detail on abuse in out-of-home careThe Conversation AU

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Child protection report reveals soaring number of investigations
The Guardian
Rates of substantiated abuse cases increased further with remoteness and low socioeconomics, particularly for Indigenous children. The report found almost half of Indigenous children who were the subject of substantiated notifications were from the ...

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The Canberra Times
'Out of control': Rates of Indigenous kids in ACT government care jump again
The Canberra Times
Ms Causon described the review as an important opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to "have a real say in how to improve outcomes" and address the "alarming number of our kids involved in the child protection system". Louise ...

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The Canberra Times
'Out of control': Rates of Indigenous kids in ACT government care jump again
The Canberra Times
Ms Causon described the review as an important opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to "have a real say in how to improve outcomes" and address the "alarming number of our kids involved in the child protection system". Louise ...

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9news.com.au
Stark protection rates for indigenous kids
9news.com.au
Emotional abuse and neglect were the most common types of substantiated abuse investigations for both indigenous and non-indigenous children. The average age of engagement with child protection services was the same (eight years old) among indigenous ...
'Out of control': Rates of Indigenous kids in ACT government care jump againThe Sydney Morning Herald

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9news.com.au
Stark protection rates for indigenous kids
9news.com.au
Emotional abuse and neglect were the most common types of substantiated abuse investigations for both indigenous and non-indigenous children. The average age of engagement with child protection services was the same (eight years old) among indigenous ...
'Out of control': Rates of Indigenous kids in ACT government care jump againThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Weekly Times
Murnong: Indigenous root vegetable a menu pick
The Weekly Times
The murnong, a dandelion-like plant with a bright yellow flower and a nutrient-packed tuber, was cultivated for thousands years by Aboriginal people across Australia's cool, dry south and south east. But their crop was almost immediately wiped out with ...

The Weekly Times
Murnong: Indigenous root vegetable a menu pick
The Weekly Times
The murnong, a dandelion-like plant with a bright yellow flower and a nutrient-packed tuber, was cultivated for thousands years by Aboriginal people across Australia's cool, dry south and south east. But their crop was almost immediately wiped out with ...

The Australian
$8m project to fight syphilis epidemic in outback
The Australian
The majority of under-16s reporting are in the 14- and 15-year-old category, who believe it or not across Australia are having consenting sex, just as they are in indigenous Australia.” Northern Territory Labor MP Warren Snowdon said the scheme “couldn ...