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The Northern Daily Leader
2018 Australian of the Year contenders reveal the objects that mean most to them
The Northern Daily Leader
"To be eligible, you had to prove you had served ties with your Aboriginal family, were free of disease, could speak English and were 'civilised' in your behaviour." NRL star Johnathan Thurston, Queensland 's 2018 Australian of the Year, provided ...

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cricket.com.au
CA tips its cap to Indigenous pioneers
cricket.com.au
Cricket Australia will assign individual cap numbers to every man and woman to have played for its national Indigenous teams, including the pioneering group of players who embarked on a historic tour of England almost 150 years ago. Players who ...

cricket.com.au
CA tips its cap to Indigenous pioneers
cricket.com.au
Cricket Australia will assign individual cap numbers to every man and woman to have played for its national Indigenous teams, including the pioneering group of players who embarked on a historic tour of England almost 150 years ago. Players who ...

Daily Telegraph
Australia's first indigenous protest album by Vic Simms named in 110 Best Australian Albums collection
Daily Telegraph
His debut album, The Loner, first released in 1973, has been named in The 110 Best Australian Albums: The Ultimate List of Australia's Best and Most Influential Music of All Time, a compendium of the best rock and pop albums of the past 50 years ...

Daily Telegraph
Australia's first indigenous protest album by Vic Simms named in 110 Best Australian Albums collection
Daily Telegraph
His debut album, The Loner, first released in 1973, has been named in The 110 Best Australian Albums: The Ultimate List of Australia's Best and Most Influential Music of All Time, a compendium of the best rock and pop albums of the past 50 years ...

Community Newspaper Group
Chris Ugle credits Ngalla Maya with helping transform his life
Community Newspaper Group
Where the incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders was predominately of males, in 2016 in excess of 10 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates were females. – Nationally, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth aged ...

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The North West Star
Cloncurry boy Zurack Dempsey selected for ABC Heywire story comp
The North West Star
ZU ZU'S STORY: Representing Cloncurry as winner of ABC Heywire storytelling competition, Zurack Dempsey; 'How hairdressing saved me'. Photo: supplied. Regional Australia is about to hear captivating stories from its young people in ABC's Heywire ...

ABC Online
Petrol sales restricted to $20 in NT's Papunya community during festive season
ABC Online
Community leaders in a remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia have limited the sale of petrol over Christmas to stop people leaving town and bringing in alcohol. Residents of the community of Papunya, 240 kilometres north-west of Alice ...

The Cairns Post
Call for diplomatic intervention after PNG villagers found to have broken treaty to poach dugong
The Cairns Post
An internal document, released under FOI, shows that while poaching and illegal sale of dugong and turtle meat throughout Queensland was “almost certainly minimal and usually opportunistic”, the poaching activities of PNG nationals in the Torres Strait ...

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Brisbane Times
Two out of three children in detention in Queensland are Indigenous
Brisbane Times
Youth Minister Di Farmer said the Palaszczuk government was deeply concerned about the rates of Indigenous youths in detention and was actively addressing the issue. "We have established a Youth Justice First Nations Action Board, the first of its kind ...

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Brisbane Times
Two out of three children in detention in Queensland are Indigenous
Brisbane Times
Youth Minister Di Farmer said the Palaszczuk government was deeply concerned about the rates of Indigenous youths in detention and was actively addressing the issue. "We have established a Youth Justice First Nations Action Board, the first of its kind ...

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Daily Telegraph
Indigenous disadvantage is driven by a lack of participation in the Australian economy
Daily Telegraph
Business isn't something that Australians normally associate with indigenous people. It's usually disadvantage, welfare, remote communities with “no jobs” and disparity. The disparity is real and exists for one reason — too many indigenous people don ...

Daily Telegraph
Indigenous disadvantage is driven by a lack of participation in the Australian economy
Daily Telegraph
Business isn't something that Australians normally associate with indigenous people. It's usually disadvantage, welfare, remote communities with “no jobs” and disparity. The disparity is real and exists for one reason — too many indigenous people don ...

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The Mercury
TasWeekend: New Year's dreaming returns
The Mercury
The headline act will be the uniting of two Aboriginal peoples from opposite sides of the country, to perform their own versions of the Devil Devil dance, a traditional dance that exists in tribes throughout Australia. Tasmania's pakana kanaplila ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Sol Bellear, one of the most influential national Aboriginal leaders of his generation
The Sydney Morning Herald
When a wide-eyed Sol Bellear visited Harlem, New York City, for the first time he broke into a sprint to escape a rain shower. "Stop running," one of his hosts from the Black Panther Party yelled at him. "Do you want to get yourself shot?" Bellear ...

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The Stringer
It is now time for a royal commission into Australia's world record high rate of child removals
The Stringer
However despite the tragic disproportionate rate of Aboriginal child removals, the high rate of child removals hits White and Brown children and families too, not just Black. Australia has to be brought to account for its high rate of child removals ...

9news.com.au
Fifty years on, Harold Holt's family remember 'genuine humanitarian' and loving father
9news.com.au
He had helped changed migration for Non-Europeans, assisted with the abolition of the White Australia policy, improved the lives of Indigenous Australians, oversaw major reforms to the banking industry and was the minister responsible for the ...
Opinion: Malcolm Turnbull and Harold Holt share many traits except the will to take risksCourier Mail
The life and death of Harold HoltThe Australian
Harold Holt: the legacy is evident, 50 years after his disappearanceThe Guardian

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ABC Online
Doctor had to plead for boy with lung problems to be moved out of mouldy rental house
ABC Online
Lawyers said the case highlighted the need for minimum standards for rental properties to protect people's health and safety. Ms Balhas said she first noticed mould spots in 2011, six months after she moved in. She said a housing officer with her ...

Daily Telegraph
It's not racist to be worried about immigration
Daily Telegraph
For many years, as a nation, we have accepted immigrants from around the world — it's part of what makes Australia unique. If you're not the child of an indigenous Australian, you're the child of an immigrant. I am — my family came here in the mid ...

Courier Mail
Opinion: Malcolm Turnbull and Harold Holt share many traits except the will to take risks
Courier Mail
Formerly as treasurer, Holt also launched our decimal currency in 1966 — and resisted Menzies' awful idea to name the new notes “royals” — and steered the iconic 1967 indigenous Australians referendum. Holt, unlike Menzies, also cultivated ...