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Jimmy Chi: Bran Nue Dae playwright, award-winning Indigenous 'WA treasure' dies
ABC Online
Indigenous playwright Jimmy Chi, who penned acclaimed Australian play Bran Nue Dae which was later turned into a major motion picture, has died. Chi passed away in Broome hospital yesterday afternoon aged 69. His sister, Maxine, told the ABC he ...
Bran Nue Dae playwright and Broome legend passes awaySBS
Bran Nue Dae playwright dies, aged 69Daily Review
Bran Nue Dae's award-winning playwright dies aged 69 in BroomeThe Guardian
Daily Mail -Business Insider Australia
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Perth Now
Drugs focus at Aboriginal suicide inquest
Perth Now
The court was also told about a 12-year-old girl who spent the first 11 years of her life at the Oombulgurri Aboriginal Community, which was so dysfunctional it was closed in 2011. The girl, believed to be a possible victim of sexual abuse, began ...

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The Conversation AU
Census 2016 reveals Australia is becoming much more diverse – but can we trust the data?
The Conversation AU
The 2016 Census reveals that Australia is becoming much more diverse – in language, country of birth, Indigenous status, and religion. In the 2011 Census, 69.8% of people reported being born in Australia. This declined over the past five years to 66.7%.
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian, less EuropeanThe Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 peopleABC Online
Census data reveals a fast changing nationSpatial Source
The West Australian -Daily Advertiser -BBC News -Australian Bureau of Statistics
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The Conversation AU
Census 2016 reveals Australia is becoming much more diverse – but can we trust the data?
The Conversation AU
The 2016 Census reveals that Australia is becoming much more diverse – in language, country of birth, Indigenous status, and religion. In the 2011 Census, 69.8% of people reported being born in Australia. This declined over the past five years to 66.7%.
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake SydneyThe Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than EuropeanThe Border Mail
Census: Australians are older, ethnically diverse and losing their religionThe New Daily
Business Insider Australia -Armidale Express -NEWS.com.au
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney
The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney as Australia's most populous city; for the first time in history the majority of us born overseas are from Asia not Europe; and there has been a 40 per cent surge in the number of people declaring themselves in a ...
Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 peopleABC Online
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than EuropeanDaily Advertiser
Census 2016: Perth households hit by mortgage stress while Australia loses its religionThe West Australian
Gizmodo Australia -Sky News Australia
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney
The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney as Australia's most populous city; for the first time in history the majority of us born overseas are from Asia not Europe; and there has been a 40 per cent surge in the number of people declaring themselves in a ...
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than EuropeanThe Islander
The 2016 Census: Australia at a glanceBusiness Insider Australia
Census data declared 'fit for purpose' but doubts remain over accuracySBS
Sky News Australia -Gizmodo Australia
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The Conversation AU
Why many high-achieving Indigenous students are shunning university
The Conversation AU
Indigenous students remain vastly underrepresented in higher education in Australia. According to Universities Australia, Indigenous people comprise 2.7% of Australia's working age population but only 1.6% of university domestic student enrolments.

ABC Online
Census 2016: This is Australia as 100 people
ABC Online
For the indigenous status, school education and religion categories, the people who did not state an answer were excluded from the calculation of proportions for each group. The number of federal MPs by gender came from the Parliament of Australia ...
Census 2016: Australia hits 'tipping point' as Melbourne is set to overtake SydneyThe Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than EuropeanDaily Advertiser
Census 2016: Perth households hit by mortgage stress while Australia loses its religionThe West Australian
Gizmodo Australia -The Guardian -Sky News Australia
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ABC Online
Bran Nue Dae playwright, award-winning Indigenous 'WA state treasure' dies
ABC Online
The Indigenous playwright who penned acclaimed Australian play Bran Nue Dae, which was later turned into a major motion picture, has died. The man, who is not named for cultural reasons, passed away in Broome hospital yesterday afternoon aged 69.

ABC Online
Barker College agrees to launch Aboriginal academy for girls in Utopia homelands
ABC Online
The 1955 Australian film Jedda told the story of a young Aboriginal girl separated from her family and raised by a white woman, taught European ways and forbidden to learn her own culture. Now, the woman who played Jedda hopes to reverse that by ...

ABC Online
Barker College agrees to launch Aboriginal academy for girls in Utopia homelands
ABC Online
The 1955 Australian film Jedda told the story of a young Aboriginal girl separated from her family and raised by a white woman, taught European ways and forbidden to learn her own culture. Now, the woman who played Jedda hopes to reverse that by ...

ABC Online
Through American eyes
ABC Online
It has been 50 years since Australia's Indigenous people won the right to be counted in the national census and to be covered by federal laws, 25 years since the High Court provided a way for them to reclaim land that colonisers stole. But many of ...

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ABC Online
Through American eyes
ABC Online
It has been 50 years since Australia's Indigenous people won the right to be counted in the national census and to be covered by federal laws, 25 years since the High Court provided a way for them to reclaim land that colonisers stole. But many of ...

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New York Times
Australia Through American Eyes - The New York Times
New York Times
A New York Times correspondent who covers race in the United States encounters a young indigenous population defying stereotypes.

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New York Times
Australia Through American Eyes
New York Times
But many of Australia's First Peoples continue to encounter both discrimination and despair. Indigenous Australians are imprisoned at roughly 13 times the rate of nonindigenous Australians. They are just 3 percent of the country's population, with ...

The Australian
Decade sees 46.7 per cent jump in indigenous school students
The Australian
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has projected that the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 14 and under will increase from 240,620 in 2011 to between 285,200 and 315,200 in 2026, equating to an increase of between 19 per ...

The Australian
Decade sees 46.7 per cent jump in indigenous school students
The Australian
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has projected that the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 14 and under will increase from 240,620 in 2011 to between 285,200 and 315,200 in 2026, equating to an increase of between 19 per ...

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Newcastle Herald
Advance Australia Fair excludes Indigenous Australians: Lake Macquarie Council
Newcastle Herald
LAKE Macquarie Council will ask the government to change Australia's national anthem because of references to “colonisation and white settlement” that exclude Indigenous Australians. Labor Councillor Brian Adamthwaite moved a notice of motion at ...

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Families go hungry under CDP: advocates
NEWS.com.au
The government is revamping its controversial Community Development Programme, which covers about 35,000 people, mostly from Aboriginal communities. The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Human Rights Law Centre have ...

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Families go hungry under CDP: advocates
NEWS.com.au
The government is revamping its controversial Community Development Programme, which covers about 35,000 people, mostly from Aboriginal communities. The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and the Human Rights Law Centre have ...

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