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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day review: Politics smothers the life out of drama
The Sydney Morning Herald
Everybody here has a message to deliver. The Indigenous girl, April Tucker (Miah Madden), is supposed to embody the many ways in which Aboriginal children are betrayed by the system. Brown's Terry Friedman typifies traditional white Australia as a ...

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Daily Telegraph
'I'm very proud of my Indigenous heritage'
Daily Telegraph
DOWNTIME is a precious commodity for Charlee Fraser. Since making her debut at New York Fashion Week last year, she has worked almost non-stop. When Stellar catches up with the Australian model, she is just off the plane in Paris, readying for a job ...

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Green Left Weekly
Moreland council to drop references to January 26 as Australia Day
Green Left Weekly
Moreland City Council took a big step forward on September 13 when it voted to drop all references to January 26 as Australia Day out of respect for Aboriginal people. But it stopped short of cancelling its official Australia Day citizenship ceremony ...

SBS
Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen 'opposed HIV screening for Indigenous Australians'
SBS
Former Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen reportedly tried to stop Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders from being screened for HIV because he believed the virus was a punishment from God. Speaking in an exclusive interview with ...
Joh refused Indigenous AIDS tests: AhernYahoo7 News

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Joh refused Indigenous AIDS tests: Ahern
Yahoo7 News
Former Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Peterson refused to curb the spread of AIDS among indigenous Australians out of belief it was punishment from God, his successor claims. Mike Ahern, who served as Health Minister in Bjelke-Peterson's cabinet ...

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WAtoday
Football benefits Indigenous communities long after the siren
WAtoday
A recent report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre – After the Siren: The community benefits of Indigenous participation in Australian Rules Football – has highlighted the physical health, mental well being and community connectedness benefits ...

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WAtoday
Football benefits Indigenous communities long after the siren
WAtoday
A recent report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre – After the Siren: The community benefits of Indigenous participation in Australian Rules Football – has highlighted the physical health, mental well being and community connectedness benefits ...

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The Australian
'Money holes' around Roebourne swallow kids' future
The Australian
It's phenomenal.” If it happened in a Perth suburb, he said, “there'd be more noise (but) because it's an Aboriginal community and they are Aboriginal children we're not as outraged by it”. O'Callaghan's successor, the former head of the Australian ...

NEWS.com.au
We need to start planning now, for a growing and vibrant South Australia, Deloitte's Andrew Culley says
NEWS.com.au
For those of us who are not Aboriginal South Australians, the traditional custodians of this state for more than 50,000 years, we are here because of a choice made in places like Calabria, on the Peloponnese peninsula or in the Mekong River delta. Of ...

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Courier Mail
Mike Ahern's startling claims: Joh Bjelke-Petersen thought AIDS was Aborigines' punishment
Courier Mail
FORMER premier Mike Ahern has revealed some of the state's darkest secrets including how Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen wanted Aborigines infected with AIDS to be left to die and how authorities knew the state's biggest mass murderer convicted of torching the ...

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The Australian
Declaration of Australia: three epic strands in a grand narrative
The Australian
First, it recommended a referendum be held to provide in the Australian Constitution for a representative body that gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander First Nations a voice to the parliament in relation to their affairs. Second, it recommended ...

The Australian
Rounded perspective incorporates James Cook's ship and shore
The Australian
Our challenge is to add to this narrative in ways that honour the cultures and experiences of indigenous Australians, as well as those of Cook and his crew. I am reminded of the words of Muran elder Don Christophersen, of the Cobourg Peninsula, who ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Wallabies and Waratahs centre Kurtley Beale ready for unfinished business in Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
"As players we have to build a successful journey, and that will help supporters get on board and back us," Beale said. "We can reach out to multi-cultural Australia. The indigenous jersey is the start of that, and it's something so special to me. That ...

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Herald Sun
The evolution of the Australian accent
Herald Sun
While indigenous Australians had developed over 250 different languages at the time of European colonisation, non-indigenous Australians simply haven't been around long enough to develop regional accents. And as an English-speaking immigrant ...

Community Newspaper Group
Decision on City of Cockburn's Australia Day activities still in the air
Community Newspaper Group
A motion put forward by Councillor Chamonix Terblanche for the City to continue its Australia Day events was lost, with councillors voting 5-4 to wait for an Aboriginal Reference Group Consultation Report to be received in November. Cr Terblanche, who ...

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Community Newspaper Group
Decision on City of Cockburn's Australia Day activities still in the air
Community Newspaper Group
A motion put forward by Councillor Chamonix Terblanche for the City to continue its Australia Day events was lost, with councillors voting 5-4 to wait for an Aboriginal Reference Group Consultation Report to be received in November. Cr Terblanche, who ...

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The RiotACT
ACT to hold Australia's first Reconciliation Day holiday next May
The RiotACT
The introduction of a Reconciliation Day public holiday marks the first time in Australia that an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander focused public holiday has been established. The move follows the passing of the Holidays (Reconciliation Day ...
Reconciliation Day is a fair swap for Family and Community DayThe Canberra Times

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Recognition for a life less than ordinary
The Sydney Morning Herald
Next week Noel Tovey, Australia's first male ballet dancer of Indigenous heritage, will be inducted into the Australian Dance Awards Hall of Fame – one award it's surprising the legendary performer hasn't already notched up. The pioneering dancer ...

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SBS
Crazy sh*t: name of Melbourne winery has people in hysterics
SBS
Their website claims that the words mean 'black swan' in the local Aboriginal dialect – Wurundjeri. NITV's enquires to the Wurundjeri Tribe Land Council confirmed that the words Goona Warra do in fact mean what Celeste and her friends thought. “It ...

Noosa News
Noosa set to bid for acclaimed Aboriginal art works
Noosa News
She said the people of Noosa will love these artworks ranging from $80 upwards created by some Australia's most popular Indigenous talents. "Our auction in Noosa on Sunday 24th September at Sofitel Resort in Hastings St will be featuring rising star ...