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ABC Online
Facebook page 'Blackfulla Revolution' hacked ahead of Australia Day, say admins
ABC Online
The administrators of a popular Aboriginal Facebook community claim their page was hacked and taken offline in an attack they believe was racially motivated. "Blackfulla Revolution" was launched in 2014 and had 157,000 likes before it was removed last ...

The Sunshine Coast Daily
Mental health is top concern for our young
The Sunshine Coast Daily
We have a duty to support all young people to reach their potential and we are calling for a long-term commitment to addressing the concerns Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people have identified. We need a more inclusive and consultative ...

NT News
Michael Gunner: Darwin CBD needs to represent the best of Northern Australia
NT News
We begin shading Smith St all the way to Myilly Point, where a new Museum of the Northern Territory will tell our incredible 60,000-year story: Aboriginal, Asian and European migration; war and cyclone; destruction and growth. On Cavenagh St, we grow a ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
SWEET COUNTRY
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Oh boy, has Warwick Thornton set us a series of virtually unanswerable ethical questions in his latest film as director and cinematographer! 'Sweet Country', his successor in terms of its examination of the Aboriginal condition in Central Australia to ...

ABC Local
Dumping Australia Day: Five years on, Flinders Island wants others to do the same
ABC Local
Remember when Fremantle council in Western Australia axed its Australia Day festivities and sparked a nation-wide debate? And remember when Flinders Island council canned its January 26 celebrations back in 2013? If the answer to that second question ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Hurricane D'Arcy Short blasts his way into national T20 selection mix
The Sydney Morning Herald
His heritage strikes a chord at Cricket Australia, where CA's indigenous engagement manager Paul Stewart has been working for four years to correct the historical abscess of the game's disconnect from Aboriginal people. Stewart's work is bearing fruit ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Hurricane D'Arcy Short blasts his way into national T20 selection mix
The Sydney Morning Herald
His heritage strikes a chord at Cricket Australia, where CA's indigenous engagement manager Paul Stewart has been working for four years to correct the historical abscess of the game's disconnect from Aboriginal people. Stewart's work is bearing fruit ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
This Australia Day, I'll be looking forward, not backwards
The Sydney Morning Herald
Next week most of us will celebrate Australia Day. In the lead-up to and on that day we have come to expect that some Indigenous activists will argue we should look upon the day as invasion day. That's a shame. It's a shame because the day is one where ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
This Australia Day, I'll be looking forward, not backwards
The Sydney Morning Herald
Next week most of us will celebrate Australia Day. In the lead up to and on that day we have come to expect that some Indigenous activists will be arguing that we should look upon that day as invasion day. That's a shame. It's a shame because the day ...

9news.com.au
Deadly 'Aussie flu' a wake-up call for 'complacent' Australia: AMA
9news.com.au
“(The flu) can make you feel terrible, but it also comes with other complications, including increased likelihood of hospitalisation and increased likelihood of other life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia. “We have become complacent and last year ...

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ABC Online
Vaccination campaign stepped up after fresh meningococcal W outbreak in Western Australia
ABC Online
Doctors are investigating the cause of a fresh outbreak of the life threatening W-strain of meningococcal disease among Aboriginal children, prompting a fresh vaccination campaign in outback Western Australia. The WA Country Health Service [WACHS] has ...

Gympie Times
Aboriginal Australia and the January 26 debate
Gympie Times
Simply because Australia Day, or Invasion Day if you will, has become a useful time of national reflection, which would not occur at any other time of year. As well as promoting our liberal heritage, cultural diversity and origins, the national day ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Living off Aboriginal disadvantage: NT public servants' immoral rip-off
The Sydney Morning Herald
A well-researched Aboriginal complaint about how they, and Australian taxpayers, are ripped off by the Northern Territory government deserves particular attention in the months ahead, if only because changes to the way the GST dollar is carved up among ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Living off Aboriginal disadvantage: NT public servants' immoral rip-off
The Sydney Morning Herald
A well-researched Aboriginal complaint about how they, and Australian taxpayers, are ripped off by the Northern Territory government deserves particular attention in the months ahead, if only because changes to the way the GST dollar is carved up among ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
ACT among the worst for removing Aboriginal children from families
The Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty years ago, white Australia was shocked, even if only momentarily, to learn from the Bringing them home report on the stolen generations that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children represented, from a population base of just 3 per cent ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
ACT among the worst for removing Aboriginal children from families
The Sydney Morning Herald
Twenty years ago, white Australia was shocked, even if only momentarily, to learn from the Bringing them home report on the stolen generations that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children represented, from a population base of just 3 per cent ...

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Living off Aboriginal disadvantage: NT public servants' immoral rip-off
WAtoday
A well-researched Aboriginal complaint about how they, and Australian taxpayers, are ripped off by the Northern Territory government deserves particular attention in the months ahead, if only because changes to the way the GST dollar is carved up among ...

ACT among the worst for removing Aboriginal children from families
WAtoday
Twenty years ago, white Australia was shocked, even if only momentarily, to learn from the Bringing them home report on the stolen generations that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children represented, from a population base of just 3 per cent ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Review: Songlines, Tracking the Seven Sisters at the National Museum of Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Martu painter Nyanjilpayi Chapman. Photo: Sita McAlpine_National Museum of Australia. In traditional Aboriginal life there was no equivalent to the western sense of time. The Creation stories of the Tjukurrpa (previously referred to as the Dreaming ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Review: Songlines, Tracking the Seven Sisters at the National Museum of Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
That begins with a younger generation subject to the same distractions as young people everywhere, but it also means reaching out to non-Indigenous Australians and the rest of the world. After all, every society has stories of the utmost importance to ...

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