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AEC cuts will disempower the NT: Labor MP
The Australian
"Aboriginal people are already disadvantaged and under-represented," he said. "To take away their ability to vote in 2017 - 50 years after the 1967 referendum - is one more terrible example of the Turnbull government putting indigenous Australians last ...

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Broadsheet
Australia's Brave New World
Broadsheet
But scratch the surface and the tourism posters are propaganda pieces promoting Australia as a utopia for whites. The Depression was hitting hard. Indigenous-Australian cultures were being crushed. Some books were banned, including the satire from ...

Broadsheet
Australia's Brave New World
Broadsheet
But scratch the surface and the tourism posters are propaganda pieces promoting Australia as a utopia for whites. The Depression was hitting hard. Indigenous-Australian cultures were being crushed. Some books were banned, including the satire from ...

NT program boosts Indigenous army recruits
EducationHQ Australia
Last year's graduates brought the number of indigenous Australians in defence to more than 500 for the first time since World War II. Numeracy lecturer Bruce Garnett says the change he's seen in the students is phenomenal. "You see these young people ...

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NT program boosts Indigenous army recruits
EducationHQ Australia
Last year's graduates brought the number of indigenous Australians in defence to more than 500 for the first time since World War II. Numeracy lecturer Bruce Garnett says the change he's seen in the students is phenomenal. "You see these young people ...

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UQ News
Through the lens of the Wild Australia Show
UQ News
Was Meston's Wild Australia Show of the late nineteenth century a form of exploitation or a vital link between Indigenous Australians and the wider world? A new photographic exhibit, documenting the controversial troupe, is allowing people to decide ...

UQ News
Through the lens of the Wild Australia Show
UQ News
Was Meston's Wild Australia Show of the late nineteenth century a form of exploitation or a vital link between Indigenous Australians and the wider world? A new photographic exhibit, documenting the controversial troupe, is allowing people to decide ...

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Seeing BLOOD RED
ArtsHub (subscription) (blog)
Based on archival images from the Frontier Wars which depict Indigenous Australians chained and brutalised, the exhibition inverts the roles depicted, placing white Australians in chains and Indigenous Australians in positions of power. The resulting ...

Huffington Post Australia
It's About Time We Opened Our Eyes To The Risk Of Blindness From Diabetes
Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are particularly at risk. Already they are three times more likely to be blind than other Australians and diabetic retinopathy is the third leading cause of vision loss and blindness amongst Indigenous ...

Huffington Post Australia
It's About Time We Opened Our Eyes To The Risk Of Blindness From Diabetes
Huffington Post Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are particularly at risk. Already they are three times more likely to be blind than other Australians and diabetic retinopathy is the third leading cause of vision loss and blindness amongst Indigenous ...

The Conversation AU
Friday essay: painting 'The Last Victorian Aborigines'
The Conversation AU
Although Australia has officially rejected the notion of blood quantum and genetic arithmetic, even today there is a popular and erroneous perception that it is possible to measure the proportion of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ancestry through “blood”.

The Australian
Plan for indigenous to serve jail time at home
The Australian
A NSW Bar Association proposal for special indigenous courts has received a boost with new data on high incarceration rates, but the person behind that data, criminologist Don Weatherburn, said any revised system must come with adequate resourcing “to ...

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The Australian
Plan for indigenous to serve jail time at home
The Australian
A NSW Bar Association proposal for special indigenous courts has received a boost with new data on high incarceration rates, but the person behind that data, criminologist Don Weatherburn, said any revised system must come with adequate resourcing “to ...

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The Australian
NSW Bar pushes for indigenous court to cut incarceration
The Australian
Efforts to reduce the indigenous prison population since the 1993 report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody have failed, with the rate nationwide rising by 63 per cent since then. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians ...

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The Australian
NSW Bar pushes for indigenous court to cut incarceration
The Australian
Efforts to reduce the indigenous prison population since the 1993 report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody have failed, with the rate nationwide rising by 63 per cent since then. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians ...

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The Canberra Times
David Pocock's good deeds continue on rugby sabbatical in South Africa
The Canberra Times
"To have a group of Indigenous young people as part of the Classic Wallaby Program for five weeks, that's a life-changing experience I reckon," Pocock said. "A group of eight young Indigenous Australians are over here for five weeks as part of a school ...

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
YOU ARE HERE
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Presented by actress Miranda Tapsell, the TV series of films under the title of You Are Here explores the place of Indigenous people in Australia today. Included in the series are Warwick Thornton's We Don't Need a Map, Erica Glynn's In My Own Words, ...

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Aboriginal Art Directory News
YOU ARE HERE
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Presented by actress Miranda Tapsell, the TV series of films under the title of You Are Here explores the place of Indigenous people in Australia today. Included in the series are Warwick Thornton's We Don't Need a Map, Erica Glynn's In My Own Words, ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous people keen to be trained in filming interactions with police
The Guardian
Newhouse said more than 20 Indigenous communities across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland had requested training but were afraid of ramifications if they were identified. He said much of the training centred on ...
The Campaign To Help Aboriginal People Fight Police HarassmentHuffington Post Australia

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The Guardian
Indigenous people keen to be trained in filming interactions with police
The Guardian
Newhouse said more than 20 Indigenous communities across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Queensland had requested training but were afraid of ramifications if they were identified. He said much of the training centred on ...
The Campaign To Help Aboriginal People Fight Police HarassmentHuffington Post Australia

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