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SBS
Celebrating 10 years of National Indigenous Television
SBS
National Indigenous Television (NITV) celebrates 10 years of broadcasting on Thursday, marking a decade since the television service first appeared on screens (on 13 July 2007) with its thought-provoking content produced by Indigenous Australians.

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SBS
Celebrating 10 years of National Indigenous Television
SBS
National Indigenous Television (NITV) celebrates 10 years of broadcasting on Thursday, marking a decade since the television service first appeared on screens (on 13 July 2007) with its thought-provoking content produced by Indigenous Australians.

Curator (designated Australian First Nations role)
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... and team members at ACCA, the Curator takes a leadership role in the development of a new Indigenous visual arts initiative. The role also contributes to ACCA's artistic program, exhibitions and public programs involving Australian and ...

Daily Mail
Melbourne Council Considers Aus Day Changes
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Moreland council failed to make similar changes less than a month ago but Darebin is now flagging a move to its citizenship ceremony from January 26, out of respect to indigenous Australians. The council, north of the city, covers Bundoora, Kingsbury, ...
Australia Day citizenship ceremony in Melbourne could move from January 26 - because it's 'insensitive to Aboriginal ...Daily Mail

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ABC Online
Indigenous youth suicide: Commissioner urges action amid worries 'children think no-one cares'
ABC Online
It's a story far more personal for Australia's first female Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar. Ms Oscar was at the inquest back in 2007, too. She was concerned about why so many young people were killing ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous youth suicide: Commissioner urges action amid worries 'children think no-one cares'
ABC Online
It's a story far more personal for Australia's first female Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar. Ms Oscar was at the inquest back in 2007, too. She was concerned about why so many young people were killing ...

Herald Sun
Darebin Council considering moving Australia Day citizenship ceremony
Herald Sun
The citizenship ceremony could be replaced by an event acknowledging indigenous Australian suffering on January 26. The survey, distributed to a council advisory committee, asks a range of questions in order “to broaden council's perspective and ...

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Herald Sun
Darebin Council considering moving Australia Day citizenship ceremony
Herald Sun
The citizenship ceremony could be replaced by an event acknowledging indigenous Australian suffering on January 26. The survey, distributed to a council advisory committee, asks a range of questions in order “to broaden council's perspective and ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Why blackfellas need a voice in Parliament
dailytelegraph.com.au
Because of this history, Parliament makes special laws about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — like Native Title, to recognise their land rights, and cultural and heritage protection, or closing the gap policies. These laws are ... Now ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Why blackfellas need a voice in Parliament
dailytelegraph.com.au
Because of this history, Parliament makes special laws about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — like Native Title, to recognise their land rights, and cultural and heritage protection, or closing the gap policies. These laws are ... Now ...

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Sky News Australia
Plans for Indigenous people to watch cops
Sky News Australia
Indigenous communities across Australia could be trained to expose police harassment with mobile phones and social media if a human rights group's plan succeeds. The Copwatch project will provide human rights lawyers and journalists to teach ...

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Plan for indigenous people to watch cops
The Australian
Sixteen Aboriginal communities in NSW's central west will put their hand up for Copwatch if it gets off the ground. "The community shouldn't be the ones monitoring the police behaviour but we have to because of ongoing abuse," Murdi Paaki chair Des ...

Plan for indigenous people to watch cops
The Australian
The Copwatch project will provide human rights lawyers and journalists to teach indigenous communities how to film and share interactions with police and authority figures. Sydney-based National Justice Project is developing the program as a response ...

SBS
Australia nearly a shoo-in for UN Human Rights Council seat as France drops out of race
SBS
Australia has made a series of “pledges” to the United Nations as part of its HRC bid. It promised to hold a referendum to recognise Indigenous people in the Constitution, campaign to end violence against women and girls, and advocate for the ...

Australia's Indigenous artefact repatriation program has a long way to go
ABC Science Online
In 1948, a team of Americans and Australians travelled throughout the Northern Territory, collecting data and artefacts. But on a visit to one remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land, the scientific mission they also robbed graves. The bones were ...

Australia's Indigenous artefact repatriation program has a long way to go
ABC Science Online
In 1948, a team of Americans and Australians travelled throughout the Northern Territory, collecting data and artefacts. But on a visit to one remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land, the scientific mission they also robbed graves. The bones were ...

EducationHQ Australia
New scholarship, ancient culture
EducationHQ Australia
The Francis Xavier Conaci Scholarship recognises the life of an extraordinary Indigenous seminarian and enables an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student to study at the Rome Centre. The scholarship commemorates the story of Francis ...

The Guardian
The Kimberley: 'We want people to appreciate how long Aboriginal people have been here'
The Guardian
Angela Bell expected her two-week tour of the outback Kimberley region in Western Australia would give her a rich cultural experience, given Aboriginal history in the region dates back at least 40,000 years. The 28-year-old communications manager paid ...

National Indigenous Times
Racism puts Aboriginal kids at abuse risk
The Australian
"(It) contributes to the heightened risk of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children being abused in those settings by separating them from the protections of strong Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures," the report released on ...
NAIDOC Week rich with colour, ceremonyNational Indigenous Times

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National Indigenous Times
Racism puts Aboriginal kids at abuse risk
The Australian
"We have highlighted the racist social attitudes that dehumanised, denigrated and sexualised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and empowered perpetrators by providing legal and social sanction to high levels of sexual and other violence ...
NAIDOC Week rich with colour, ceremonyNational Indigenous Times

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