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The West Australian
No improvement from fed funds to NT: Gooda
The West Australian
The massive amount of money put into the Northern Territory under the federal government's controversial intervention has not led to significant improvement for Aboriginal people, a royal commissioner says. Commissioner Mick Gooda says there is a ...
Australian Northern Territory Aborigines' Livelihood Still Poor Despite FundingSputnik International

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The Guardian
NT intervention seen as 'act of war' on Aboriginal people, Nova Peris says
The Guardian
Peris, Australia's first female Aboriginal federal parliamentarian, said the intervention was “partly about a land grab under the guise of other things that demonised us all as a race of First Nations people”. “[It] was seen by many, particularly those ...
Intervention seen as 'act of war': Peris9news.com.au
Ten years on, it's time we learned the lessons from the failed Northern Territory InterventionThe Conversation AU

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Mandurah Mail
Aboriginal conservation training program plants seeds of success
Mandurah Mail
The Chevron Aboriginal Conservation Training Program, a partnership between Chevron Australia and Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) which began in 2014, celebrated the graduation of three participants in total from the 12-week program designed ...

The West Australian
Inquest into Aboriginal youth suicide in Western Australia starts today
The West Australian
The latest major inquiry into suicides of young Aboriginal people in WA has begun, with an inquest to spend months investigating the hanging deaths of 13 indigenous youth in the Kimberley — the youngest just 10 years old. The opening of the mass ...
Details of Aboriginal youth suicides 'heart-wrenching, Coroner warnsPerth Now
Inquest into 13 Kimberley youth suicidesNEWS.com.au
Inquest into high rate of suicide in Indigenous communities in WA's northABC Online

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The West Australian
Inquest into Aboriginal youth suicide in Western Australia starts today
The West Australian
The opening of the mass inquest this morning heard how almost 40 reports from government and non-government inquiries into indigenous youth suicide had been produced in WA in the past 15 years — but the horrific problem was still as prevalent as ever.
Inquest into high rate of suicide in Indigenous communities in WA's northABC Online
Call for radical change after 13 young Indigenous suicides in Kimberley regionThe Guardian
Details of Aboriginal youth suicides 'heart-wrenching, Coroner warnsPerth Now

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The Australian
ALP cares for power and glory over human rights
The Australian
The ALP had its chance to push through a great human rights victory, something up there with counting indigenous Australians in the Census, and giving women the vote, but Gillard cared too much about her own power to do it. And then what happened?

The Conversation AU
Intervention seen as 'act of war': Peris
The Australian
Ms Peris, Australia's first female Aboriginal federal parliamentarian, said the intervention was "partly about a land grab under the guise of other things that demonised us all as a race of First Nations people". "(It) was seen by many, particularly ...
Ten years on, it's time we learned the lessons from the failed Northern Territory InterventionThe Conversation AU

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ABC Online
Inquest into WA Aboriginal youth suicides
NEWS.com.au
... of the evidence will be disturbing and heartbreaking. Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. MensLine Australia 1300 78 99 78.Local Aboriginal Medical Service available from www.vibe.com.au.
Inquest into high rate of suicide in Indigenous communities in WA's northABC Online

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InDaily
Indigenous beverage company launches Wattleseed Lager
InDaily
Wattleseed has been part of the diet of indigenous Australians for thousands of years and was traditionally ground into a flour. Adelaide-based Something Wild Beverages is a division of native food company Something Wild Australia, which specialises in ...

ABC Online
Inquest into high rate of suicide in Indigenous communities in WA's north
ABC Online
Ten years after an almost identical inquiry, the State Coroner will examine the suicide of 13 Aboriginal people from the Kimberley region — including a 10-year-old girl from a remote bush community. It will be one of the largest inquests in Australia ...

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ABC Online
World's longest beanie, in honour of Cathy Freeman, in the works at Alice Springs Beanie Festival
ABC Online
Australia's Red Centre is awash with a record number of head accessory enthusiasts for the annual Beanie Festival, now in its 21st year. 'Chief beanieologist' Jo Nixon presides over the four-day festival that showcases colourful beanies made in ...

ABC Online
World's longest beanie, in honour of Cathy Freeman, in the works at Alice Springs Beanie Festival
ABC Online
Australia's Red Centre is awash with a record number of head accessory enthusiasts for the annual Beanie Festival, now in its 21st year. 'Chief beanieologist' Jo Nixon presides over the four-day festival that showcases colourful beanies made in ...

Bega District News
'Hell no': government rejects push for revamp of Advance Australia Fair national anthem
Bega District News
The government has poured cold water on a push for a revamped national anthem that would delete words considered offensive by some Aboriginal Australians and introduce a third verse paying tribute to the Dreamtime and Indigenous history before ...

Bega District News
'Hell no': government rejects push for revamp of Advance Australia Fair national anthem
Bega District News
The government has poured cold water on a push for a revamped national anthem that would delete words considered offensive by some Aboriginal Australians and introduce a third verse paying tribute to the Dreamtime and Indigenous history before ...

SBS
The unconventional army unit where Indigenous soldiers are key
SBS
A pre-recruitment course which guides Indigenous people into NORFORCE or other parts of the Army, it has the ability to waiver certain education and health requirements which might bar First Nations people from a career in the Australian Defence Force.

SBS
Victoria Police use pepper spray to separate nationalist, anti-racist protesters
SBS
UN finds racism against Indigenous Australians deeply disturbing. SBS World News Radio: A senior United Nations official has described the level of racism against Indigenous Australians as deeply disturbing after a recent visit to the country to ...

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ABC Online
Northern Territory Indigenous rangers upskilling to save injured wildlife
ABC Online
Nelson, who's training to become a wildlife rescuer, is here to take the injured bird to the vet for an urgent check-up. So far he's only handled small reptiles and a pet cockatoo. Dealing with Australia's largest bird of prey is a whole new level ...

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ABC Online
Northern Territory Indigenous rangers upskilling to save injured wildlife
ABC Online
Nelson, who's training to become a wildlife rescuer, is here to take the injured bird to the vet for an urgent check-up. So far he's only handled small reptiles and a pet cockatoo. Dealing with Australia's largest bird of prey is a whole new level ...

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Green Left Weekly
David Penberthy: Social engineering is not local councils' job
The Advertiser
And while White Australia does not deserve to be subjected to a never-ending guilt trip for past practices, I can see why some indigenous Australians regard it as an insult that the exact day their peaceful life was up-ended by uninvited guests has ...
Local councils back Australia Day date changeGreen Left Weekly

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Turkish label Les Benjamins accused of misusing Indigenous symbols in Paris collection
The Sydney Morning Herald
Fashion commentators have accused Istanbul-based Bunyamin Aydin, of Les Benjamins, of cultural appropriation after his latest range featured luxury sportswear adorned with dot paintings, geckos and "1788" – the year of European colonisation of Australia.