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Pro Bono Australia
Rising Number of Indigenous Professionals But Still Unfinished Business
Pro Bono Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have a history of entrepreneurship and engaging with the mainstream economy but constitutional reform remains unfinished business, according to author, journalist and special adviser to the Prime ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Rising Number of Indigenous Professionals But Still Unfinished Business
Pro Bono Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have a history of entrepreneurship and engaging with the mainstream economy but constitutional reform remains unfinished business, according to author, journalist and special adviser to the Prime ...

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The Guardian
Sentence for Elijah Doughty's killer sparks anger. Was justice served?
The Guardian
The outcome was met by anger and grief from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, as well as many non-Indigenous Australians, who say it is a product of systemic inequality. The same systemic inequality that has contributed to the ...
Elijah Doughty trial: How Indigenous rangers worked with police to ease tensions in KalgoorlieABC Online
Elijah Doughty decision shows there is rarely justice for aboriginal victimsEureka Street (registration)

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The Mercury
Hobart Lord Mayor Sue Hickey says council will continue campaign to change date of Australia Day
The Mercury
“Every year there are public rallies, with people protesting against the current legislated date for Australia Day because Aboriginal people view it as invasion day. “In Melbourne this year, 50,000 people — both indigenous and non-indigenous — protested.

The West Australian
Activist in Referendum showcase
The West Australian
The life of an Aboriginal activist and women's rights champion from the Pilbara has been put on display at the State Library of Western Australia as part of an exhibition remembering the 1967 Referendum. The Right Wrongs: 1967 Referendum — The WA ...

WAtoday
Family 'gambled away' funeral money for WA girl who killed herself
WAtoday
The older sister grew up in Kalumburu, which on a map looks like an exotic, coastal location at the top of Australia. But it was a predatory environment where 13 per cent of the men were convicted child sex offenders among others who had not been caught.

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Inquest uncovers horrors of Kimberley life
NEWS.com.au
WA Government child protection worker Rosalee Webb was talking about a 13-year-old Aboriginal girl who killed herself in 2013 in Kalumburu, the northern-most human settlement in WA. Ms Webb, a psychologist, has seen a lot in a career spent in ...

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ABC Online
How Indigenous rangers worked with police to ease tensions in Kalgoorlie during Elijah Doughty trial
ABC Online
And walking through the crowd, a link between members of what has been called one of Australia's most divided communities, were the Goldfields Land and Sea Council's (GLSC) Rangers: young Aboriginal men who put their hand up to help keep the peace.

ABC Online
Why the remote APY Lands dominate the Australian art scene
ABC Online
The centre of Australia's contemporary art scene isn't the wharves of Sydney Harbour or an alleyway in Melbourne: it's a handful of tiny art centres in remote Indigenous communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South ...

ABC Online
Why the remote APY Lands dominate the Australian art scene
ABC Online
The centre of Australia's contemporary art scene isn't the wharves of Sydney Harbour or an alleyway in Melbourne: it's a handful of tiny art centres in remote Indigenous communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands of South ...

ABC Online
Australia Day: Hobart Mayor lashes 'pale, male and stale' councillors over date change vote
ABC Online
... over their 60s … certainly I don't think local government is as representative as I'd like it to be with some of the modern thinking around such issues as marriage equality and changing to be more inclusive for Australia Day and Aboriginal people ...

NEWS.com.au
Aussie NBA superstar Patty Mills talks pre-game rituals, Australian basketball and sledging
NEWS.com.au
The 28-year-old point guard for the San Antonio Spurs is the only indigenous Australian in history to have an NBA title to his name. He's also just become very, very rich. The Canberra-born superstar just signed a $50 million four-year contract ...
Patty Mills relishing basketball's growth in Australia as he helps promote 2018 Commonwealth GamesSporting News

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The West Australian
Councils join to forge reconciliation plan
The West Australian
The partnership's steering committee suggested that a regional plan could reduce duplication of consultation with indigenous groups in the Bunbury Geographe Region as they are spread across local government boundaries and therefore result in a more ...

Justice 'grossly unequal' for Aboriginal people: judge
National Indigenous Times
The Chief Justice of Western Australia — a state where Aboriginal people are imprisoned at a higher rate than anywhere else in Australia — says there's no doubt Aboriginal people are disadvantaged within the justice system. Chief Justice Wayne Martin ...

Justice 'grossly unequal' for Aboriginal people: judge
National Indigenous Times
The Chief Justice of Western Australia — a state where Aboriginal people are imprisoned at a higher rate than anywhere else in Australia — says there's no doubt Aboriginal people are disadvantaged within the justice system. Chief Justice Wayne Martin ...

Holmes a Court shares exclusive artworks
National Indigenous Times
The paintings and sculptures come from the collection of West Australian businesswoman and philanthropist Janet Holmes a Court, who travelled to Brisbane for the exhibition's opening on Friday. Ms Holmes a Court began collecting work by Aboriginal ...

National Indigenous Times
Kris keeps his eye on the prize
National Indigenous Times
Dr Kris Rallah Baker surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital. Dr Baker is Australian's first indigenous eye doctor set to become an opthlamologist next year. As a straight 'A' student in high school, Kris Rallah-Baker wisely chose to ignore the people who ...

National Indigenous Times
Kris keeps his eye on the prize
National Indigenous Times
Dr Kris Rallah Baker surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital. Dr Baker is Australian's first indigenous eye doctor set to become an opthlamologist next year. As a straight 'A' student in high school, Kris Rallah-Baker wisely chose to ignore the people who ...

National Indigenous Times
Kris keeps his eye on the prize
National Indigenous Times
Dr Kris Rallah Baker surgery at Royal Darwin Hospital. Dr Baker is Australian's first indigenous eye doctor set to become an opthlamologist next year. As a straight 'A' student in high school, Kris Rallah-Baker wisely chose to ignore the people who ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
When the Sky Fell: Legacies of the 1967 Referendum
ArtsHub (subscription)
The topic was the removal of two clauses within the Australian Constitution that were discriminatory towards Indigenous Australians. One, I believe, was about members of this ancient culture no longer being classed as fauna. Did I say this was only ...