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The Sydney Morning Herald
Lunch with Megan Davis: Indigenous reconciliation in Australia is about 'making Aboriginal people white Australians'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Megan Davis, expert member of the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People (EMRIP) and the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, knows what is going to happen in Canberra on Monday, when Malcolm Turnbull ...
Closing the gap on Indigenous health: this is our national shame, but it can be fixedABC Online

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Lunch with Megan Davis: Indigenous reconciliation in Australia is about 'making Aboriginal people white Australians'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Megan Davis, expert member of the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People (EMRIP) and the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, knows what is going to happen in Canberra on Monday, when Malcolm Turnbull ...
Closing the gap on Indigenous health: this is our national shame, but it can be fixedABC Online

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Lunch with Megan Davis: Indigenous reconciliation in Australia is about 'making Aboriginal people white Australians'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Megan Davis, expert member of the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People (EMRIP) and the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, knows what is going to happen in Canberra on Monday, when Malcolm Turnbull ...
Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languagesInDaily
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the GapNewcastle Herald
Australia's Aboriginal life expectancy gap widensBorneo Bulletin Online
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Closing the gap, or closing the book on Aboriginal poverty?
The Sydney Morning Herald
Gough Whitlam, in 1972, promised that all Aboriginal Australians would be decently housed within 10 years. A ridiculous, irresponsible, perhaps impossible promise? Around that time, it was generally estimated that building 40,000 dwellings would do the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Lunch with Megan Davis: Indigenous reconciliation in Australia is about 'making Aboriginal people white Australians'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Megan Davis, expert member of the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People (EMRIP) and the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a UN body, knows what is going to happen in Canberra on Monday, when Malcolm Turnbull ...
Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languagesInDaily
Closing the Gap requests for Indigenous participation are ironic — at ...Independent Australia
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the GapThe Australian
Borneo Bulletin Online
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ABC Online
Equine therapy can help Aboriginal university students, says researcher
ABC Online
A Sunshine Coast researcher wants to replicate a successful equine therapy program being used in America to improve the retention rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students in Australia. Dr Bindi Bennett, from the University of ...

ABC Online
Equine therapy can help Aboriginal university students, says researcher
ABC Online
A Sunshine Coast researcher wants to replicate a successful equine therapy program being used in America to improve the retention rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students in Australia. Dr Bindi Bennett, from the University of ...

My Sunshine Coast (press release)
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the Gap
Western Advocate
Former PM Kevin Rudd says he will fight any attempts to water down the Closing the Gap strategy. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says he'll fight any attempt to water down the Closing the Gap strategy for indigenous Australians. Days before the 10th ...
Failure to close the gap is proof of need for Indigenous voiceMy Sunshine Coast (press release)

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ABC Local
Change the date: Darwin City Council flags axing Australia Day
ABC Local
Last month, the Indigenous Affairs Minister and Senator for the Northern Territory Nigel Scullion said not a single Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person had approached him about changing the date of Australia Day. Senator Scullion said many ...
Could This Be The First Sydney Council To Ditch Australia Day?Junkee

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ABC Local
Change the date: Darwin City Council flags axing Australia Day
ABC Local
Last month, the Indigenous Affairs Minister and Senator for the Northern Territory Nigel Scullion said not a single Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person had approached him about changing the date of Australia Day. Senator Scullion said many ...
Could This Be The First Sydney Council To Ditch Australia Day?Junkee

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Independent Australia
Closing the Gap requests for Indigenous participation are ironic — at best
Independent Australia
Unless overcome, structural issues in the heart of Australian politics and governance seem destined to doom the Turnbull Government's Closing the Gap "refresh", writes Dr Zoe Staines. LAST YEAR was full of highs and lows in Australian Indigenous ...
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the GapWestern Advocate

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Junkee
Could This Be The First Sydney Council To Ditch Australia Day?
Junkee
Sydney's Inner West Council could be the first local government in Australia's largest city to ditch Australia Day festivities if a Greens motion calling for the change is successful next week. Greens councillor Tom Kiat is moving a motion at the next ...

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Junkee
Could This Be The First Sydney Council To Ditch Australia Day?
Junkee
Sydney's Inner West Council could be the first local government in Australia's largest city to ditch Australia Day festivities if a Greens motion calling for the change is successful next week. Greens councillor Tom Kiat is moving a motion at the next ...
Change the date: Darwin City Council flags axing Australia DayABC Local

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NEWS.com.au
As a gay man, this is why I want to thank Anthony Mundine for his homophobic outbursts
NEWS.com.au
Got it. And as for Aboriginal culture forbidding homosexuality? Well Dameyon Bonson, the founder of Black Rainbow, a mental health and anti-suicide organisation for LGBTI Indigenous Australians, calls BS on that. “There's no basis in his argument. You ...

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InDaily
Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languages
InDaily
“In Australia, it is Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that are struggling most with maintaining their languages. “These are communities that didn't give up their language because they wanted to, but because they've been at ...

InDaily
Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languages
InDaily
Photo: AIATSIS/Wikimedia Commons. In today's podcast, The Message Pod's Nicole Haack talks to Daniel Bogre Udell, the founder of Wikitongues – a volunteer-driven organisation that has been growing its online database since 2013. The movement has more ...

SBS
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the Gap - SBS
SBS
Kevin Rudd, speaking ahead of the 10th anniversary of his apology to indigenous Australians, says more needs to be done to close the gap for Aboriginal people.

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The Australian
Leave Australia Day alone, Albanese tells Sydney's Inner West Council
The Australian
“I look forward to future citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day and note the Greens political party councillors and state MPs participated in this celebration without telling the new citizens that they didn't think their induction into our nation was ...

Daily Mail
'Filthy black humans who inhabit Australia': Urban Dictionary - the Wikipedia of slang words - forced to delete vile ...
Daily Mail
Urban Dictionary has been forced to delete racist definitions of what an Aboriginal person is. The website, which features user-submitted definitions for slang words, was home to a string of vile, and abusive descriptions of what an Aboriginal person ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Turnbull rejects claims government has abandoned strategy
The Guardian
The campaign, which was the push behind the formation of the Closing the Gap strategy 10 years ago, held its annual breakfast in Canberra on Thursday. It said the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians had widened in ...
Closing the gap on Indigenous health: this is our national shame, but it can be fixedABC Online
Labor slams 'hopeless' government for 'abandoning' Closing the GapSBS
Turnbull's early exit fuels fury over failure to close indigenous gapThe Australian
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