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Inside Film
SA outback thriller Sweet Country gets huge applause at Venice Film Festival
The Advertiser
AUDIENCES at the prestigious Venice Film Festival stood and clapped for five minutes after watching Warwick Thornton's South Australian-backed indigenous thriller set in the MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs. Warwick was deeply moved by the ...
Warwick Thornton's 'Sweet Country' hailed as a milestone for Indigenous cinemaInside Film
Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country premieres to raves in Venice & releases first trailerDaily Review
Venice Film Review: 'Sweet Country'Variety
Global Times -Dark Horizons -Junkee
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The Australian
Stephen Hagan calls out judicial 'bias' behind indigenous prison rates
The Australian
Judges and magistrates have been accused of systemic bias and bigotry that has fuelled an explosion in the number of indigenous inmates within Australia's prison population. After five years of research, Aboriginal academic Stephen Hagan says there is ...
Judges must overcome inherent bias, says respected authorNational Indigenous Times
Rangers at home keeping eye on the northPS News

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The Australian
Stephen Hagan calls out judicial 'bias' behind indigenous prison rates
The Australian
Judges and magistrates have been accused of systemic bias and bigotry that has fuelled an explosion in the number of indigenous inmates within Australia's prison population. After five years of research, Aboriginal academic Stephen Hagan says there is ...
Judges must overcome inherent bias, says respected authorNational Indigenous Times

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Herald Sun
Senior minister criticises councils for dumping Australia Day celebrations without proper consultation
Herald Sun
And Local Government and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Natalie Hutchins said a treaty was far more important for indigenous groups than changing the date of Australia Day. The City of Moreland is set to become the third Melbourne council to consider ...

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Herald Sun
Senior minister criticises councils for dumping Australia Day celebrations without proper consultation
Herald Sun
And Local Government and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Natalie Hutchins said a treaty was far more important for indigenous groups than changing the date of Australia Day. The City of Moreland is set to become the third Melbourne council to consider ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous dictionary may save the Miriwoong language from extinction
ABC Online
The Aboriginal language Miriwoong is one of the oldest languages on Earth, but fewer than 10 people speak it fluently. Miriwoong is considered critically endangered — on the brink of completely disappearing — but a group in the remote Kimberley is ...

ABC Online
Indigenous dictionary may save the Miriwoong language from extinction
ABC Online
The Aboriginal language Miriwoong is one of the oldest languages on Earth, but fewer than 10 people speak it fluently. Miriwoong is considered critically endangered — on the brink of completely disappearing — but a group in the remote Kimberley is ...

Inside Film
Warwick Thornton's 'Sweet Country' hailed as a milestone for Indigenous cinema
Inside Film
Screen Daily's Lee Marshall lauded the film as a milestone for Australian Indigenous cinema, which he expects will travel extensively after the Venice premiere. Marshall saw echoes of The Searchers in Thornton's ravishingly shot, resonant Indigenous ...
Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country premieres to raves in Venice & releases first trailerDaily Review
Venice Film Review: 'Sweet Country'Variety
'Sweet Country': a look back to Australia's futureGuardian (blog)
Dark Horizons -Junkee
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Inside Film
Warwick Thornton's 'Sweet Country' hailed as a milestone for Indigenous cinema
Inside Film
Screen Daily's Lee Marshall lauded the film as a milestone for Australian Indigenous cinema, which he expects will travel extensively after the Venice premiere. Marshall saw echoes of The Searchers in Thornton's ravishingly shot, resonant Indigenous ...
'Sweet Country': a look back to Australia's futureGuardian (blog)
“Sweet Country” Gets A Trailer & Standing OvationDark Horizons

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The Australian
WA communities reform head backs cashless welfare card
The Australian
The senior state government bureaucrat in charge of radical reform of remote communities and towns across Western Australia's north has endorsed the federal government's cashless debit card, rejecting a suggestion by the Aboriginal Legal Service that ...

The West Australian
Inside the revolutions that have shaped Australia
The West Australian
The episode, which launches the series on Saturday, delves into migration into Australia, the experiences of and changing attitudes towards our newest citizens, and how their contributions have helped enrich our society as a whole. The three-part ...

The West Australian
Rangers fired up as protectors
The West Australian
Mr Hunter said Aboriginal people in the Kimberley and northern Australia were undertaking savanna carbon projects, which combined traditional burning methods with modern science. “This reduces the amount of greenhouse gas emissions released into the ...

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The West Australian
Rangers fired up as protectors
The West Australian
In the Kimberley, Aboriginal people are responsible for looking after nine indigenous-protected areas, four of which combine to create the largest indigenous-owned conservation corridor in northern Australia. “Aboriginal people play a major role in ...

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ABC Online
Albert Namatjira's family keeps copyright issue in spotlight, as Namatjira Project hits big screen
ABC Online
Gloria Pannka is the daughter of one of Namatjira's contemporaries and a follower of the Hermannsburg School. She said she wanted the royalty money returned to central Australia to help encourage younger generations to continue the unique painting style.

Planeta.com
August 6 is Indigenous Literacy Day – Planeta.com
Planeta.com
August 6 is Indigenous Literacy Day in Australia. Planeta.com applauds efforts around the world to raise awareness and attention to Indigenous culture, ...

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The Advertiser
Adelaide Lord Mayor Martin Haese championing efforts to bring unity over Australia Day ceremonies
The Advertiser
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community representative Ivan-Tiwu Copley put forward the motion and called for the council to meet the Australia Day Council of SA to add a protocol to better recognise the history of Aboriginal people before ...

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New York Times
Fitzroy Fights Australia Day and Demands Respect for Indigenous History
New York Times
FITZROY, Australia — Uncle Jack Charles, a well-known Australian Aboriginal actor, was born in 1943 under Australia's assimilation policy, which he said absorbed Aboriginal people into white society by removing children from their families. He grew up ...

New York Times
Why a Melbourne City Council Rejected Australia Day
New York Times
FITZROY, Australia — Uncle Jack Charles, a well-known Australian Aboriginal actor, was born in 1943 under Australia's assimilation policy, which he said absorbed Aboriginal people into white society by removing children from their families. He grew up ...

Courier Mail
Changing date of Australia Day prompts debate
Courier Mail
... the suggestion was “political correctness gone mad”. Rankin federal Labor MP Jim Chalmers (ALP) said he was “not convinced we should change the date but I do recognise that the day can be painful for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Eight-year-old kids hooked on drugs and grog, inquest told
The Australian
An inquest has been told of Aboriginal children as young as eight with cannabis and alcohol problems in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia as a senior bureaucrat revealed the new Labor government is poised to adopt the previous Liberal ...