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Indigenous suicide inquest 'a mockery to Aboriginal people' MP Josie Farrer says
ABC Online
"I feel that this inquest is a mockery to Aboriginal people, it's not going the way it should," she wrote in a letter to WA Attorney-General John Quigley. Ms Farrer, whose staff attended the hearing earlier this week, said evidence from community ...

ABC Online
Indigenous suicide inquest 'a mockery to Aboriginal people' MP Josie Farrer says
ABC Online
"I feel that this inquest is a mockery to Aboriginal people, it's not going the way it should," she wrote in a letter to WA Attorney-General John Quigley. Ms Farrer, whose staff attended the hearing earlier this week, said evidence from community ...

Sky News Australia
Local councils push for new date for Aust Day
Sky News Australia
Hobart City Lord Mayor Sue Hickey, who led the push for change, believes Australia Day shouldn't be on a date that many indigenous people regard as 'Invasion Day' because it marks the arrival of the First Fleet from England in 1788. The push for change ...

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Local councils push for new Aust Day date
SBS
Huge protests by indigenous Australians and their supporters were held on Australia Day this year amid growing calls to change the date. But the federal government opposes any change to Australia Day. Government frontbencher James McGrath previously ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Philanthropy Gets Behind Connecting Aboriginal Children With Extended Families
Pro Bono Australia
VACCA CEO Professor Muriel Bamblett said Aboriginal children could stay in multiple placements for extended periods causing them to lose connection to family, community, culture and country. “Where there is family violence, abuse or neglect of children ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Activist Sarain Carson-Fox on finding hope for troubled indigenous communities
The Sydney Morning Herald
In Australia to launch her indigenous rights documentary series Rise, which starts screening on SBS Viceland next month, the livewire 29-year-old is also speaking about being "young and black" at the Splendour in the Grass festival in Byron Bay on the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Activist Sarain Carson-Fox on finding hope for troubled indigenous communities
The Sydney Morning Herald
In Australia to launch her indigenous rights documentary series Rise, which starts screening on SBS Viceland next month, the livewire 29-year-old is also speaking about being "young and black" at the Splendour in the Grass festival in Byron Bay on the ...

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Spatial Source
4 maps uncovering Aboriginal history and culture
Spatial Source
Aboriginal place names are familiar to most Australians, however there are many that people would not be aware of. Item names like Waratah and Kangaroo are familiar over the world, but place names like Wollongong (sounds of the sea), Wagga Wagga ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pharmacy Scholarships announcedAustralian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic paroleThe Guardian
Aboriginal Communities Continue Treaty Calls Following Referendum Council ReportBuzzFeed News

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Spatial Source
4 maps uncovering Aboriginal history and culture
Spatial Source
Aboriginal place names are familiar to most Australians, however there are many that people would not be aware of. Item names like Waratah and Kangaroo are familiar over the world, but place names like Wollongong (sounds of the sea), Wagga Wagga ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pharmacy Scholarships announcedAustralian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic paroleThe Guardian
Aboriginal Communities Continue Treaty Calls Following Referendum Council ReportBuzzFeed News

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Catholic Leader
Central Australia's Arrernte people can now read the Bible in their own language
Catholic Leader
ABOUT 5000 central Australian Aborigines are now able to read the Bible in their own Arrernte language. “It's a project that has taken more than twenty-five years,” Divine Word Missionaries Father Prakash Menezes, who is assistant priest at Our Lady of ...

Catholic Leader
Central Australia's Arrernte people can now read the Bible in their own language
Catholic Leader
The project is the result of a long-term collaboration between indigenous elders in Alice Springs and Santa Teresa community, and linguists from the Lutheran community and Australian Society for Indigenous Languages (AuSIL). They have translated the ...

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pharmacy Scholarships announced
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
The Rural and Indigenous Workforce team at the Pharmacy Guild of Australia are interested in talking with students who are thinking about or are currently studying their Bachelor or Master of Pharmacy and may wish to examine this opportunity ...
Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic paroleThe Guardian
Aboriginal Communities Continue Treaty Calls Following Referendum Council ReportBuzzFeed News

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The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic parole
The Guardian
All states and territories should end the practice of jailing for fines, introduce a statutory custody notification system and introduce automatic parole in an effort to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates, the Australian Law Reform Commission says.
Aboriginal Communities Continue Treaty Calls Following Referendum Council ReportBuzzFeed News

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The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic parole
The Guardian
All states and territories should end the practice of jailing for fines, introduce a statutory custody notification system and introduce automatic parole in an effort to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates, the Australian Law Reform Commission says.
Aboriginal Communities Continue Treaty Calls Following Referendum Council ReportBuzzFeed News

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Copyright Agency distributes $1.3 million
ArtsHub (subscription)
Additional funding is committed to the Eleanor Dark Foundation Fellowships for Indigenous Writers. Three Artist in Residence programs – in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria – have also been supported. The residencies will enable artists to ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Copyright Agency distributes $1.3 million
ArtsHub (subscription)
Additional funding is committed to the Eleanor Dark Foundation Fellowships for Indigenous Writers. Three Artist in Residence programs – in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria – have also been supported. The residencies will enable artists to ...

Inside Film
First Contact to return to SBS in November
Inside Film
Reconciliation Australia has found that six out of 10 Australians have had little or no contact with the nation's first people. The first season of First Contact generated headlines and debate in 2014 when Martin took six Australians into Aboriginal ...

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Saveur
The Steward of Australia's Original Food
Saveur
A writer whose work is based on that legacy, Pascoe has lately turned to the subject of indigenous food. Australia has only recently come to recognize the debt owed to its First Peoples, after nearly two and a half centuries of abuses and land seizures.

Community Newspaper Group
Cockburn Lakes Amateur FC to auction off jumpers to raise money for Outback Academy Australia
Community Newspaper Group
This year's recipient was established to support employment opportunities and the well-being of Aboriginal Australians. The jersey design is a mix between Cockburn's usual jersey and that used by wheelchair basketball side, the Red Dust Heelers, who ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Constitutional convention would offer a way forward on Aboriginal recognition
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal people have held a convention, and so too should the community at large. A constitutional convention representing all Australians will provide a platform to argue why an Indigenous advisory body is the right change. It will fill in the ...

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