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Deal for 5000 new Indigenous jobs puts business on notice, says magnate
Wingham Chronicle
The Australian Employment Covenant, established after the 2008 apology to Indigenous Australians and members of the Stolen Generations, aims to address the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands by creating 50,000 new jobs.

Deal for 5000 new Indigenous jobs puts business on notice: Andrew Forrest
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last year, VTEC surpassed 5000 job placements for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, by offering job-specific training to potential employees with the promise of guaranteed employment. Mr Forrest said the deal showed momentum was ...

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Deal for 5000 new Indigenous jobs puts business on notice: Andrew Forrest
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mining magnate and philanthropist Andrew Forrest says Australia's corporate bosses have been put on notice from the largest-ever deal by a single company to promote Indigenous employment. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joined Mr Forrest in Canberra ...

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Indigenous groups protest title law change
NEWS.com.au
Noongar spokespeople who were claimants from the McGlade v Native Title Register case in Western Australia were also in Canberra to lobby on the same issue. Mervyn Eades said that although well-intentioned, the Native Title Act was not working in the ...

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Indigenous groups protest title law change
The Australian
Mervyn Eades said that although well-intentioned, the Native Title Act was not working in the best interests of indigenous Australians. "We are here fighting for our rights but mining company rights to title seem to override our rights as custodians ...

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Tiwi Islands Sistagirls prepare to wow Sydney Mardi Gras, want to show Indigenous LGBTIQ culture
ABC Online
"We want to showcase out there in the wider world that there are people who are Indigenous in Australia and LGBTIQ." It has taken years for the Sistagirls to feel they can be open about their identities, including a spate of suicides among the group.

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Tiwi Islands Sistagirls prepare to wow Sydney Mardi Gras, want to show Indigenous LGBTIQ culture
ABC Online
It took decades of fighting for recognition and several suicides before the Northern Territory's Tiwi Islands community finally accepted a group of Aboriginal transgender women. The Sistagirls want to spread the message of their journey of resilience ...

Indigenous groups protest title law change
9news.com.au
Noongar spokespeople who were claimants from the McGlade v Native Title Register case in Western Australia were also in Canberra to lobby on the same issue. Mervyn Eades said that although well-intentioned, the Native Title Act was not working in the ...

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Bilney building grub knowledge
West Coast Sentinel
La Trobe University PhD candidate Conrad Bilney began his research in 2014 to locate and identify edible grubs known to Indigenous Australians. Before the study only the witchetty grub was classified as edible. Mr Bilney, a Kokatha man, said Aboriginal ...

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We Didn't Need Another Inquiry To Figure Out That Hate Speech Is Not Free Speech
Huffington Post Australia
Twenty percent of Australians say they have been subject to verbal racial abuse. That figure soars to 90 percent for Aboriginal Australians. This law provides assurance to Australians of all backgrounds that, in the eyes of the law, they are not fair ...
Turnbull assures 18C critics parliament a 'house of freedom' and debate welcomeThe Guardian

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SBS
Comment: Why the term “Australian” can be an imposition on Aboriginal people
SBS
What a lot of people don't understand in this country is that “Australia”, and indeed the idea of being “Australian”, is viewed by many Aboriginal people as an imposition. Our ancestors did not consent to being governed, there is no agreement in place ...
Inquiry: jail fewer Aborigines for bashing wivesHerald Sun (blog)

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SBS
Comment: Why the term “Australian” can be an imposition on Aboriginal people
SBS
What a lot of people don't understand in this country is that “Australia”, and indeed the idea of being “Australian”, is viewed by many Aboriginal people as an imposition. Our ancestors did not consent to being governed, there is no agreement in place ...

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Inquiry: jail fewer Aborigines for bashing wives
Herald Sun (blog)
The head of a national inquiry into Indigenous incarceration has said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people might need to be treated differently by the justice system in order to achieve equity under the law. Federal court judge Matthew Myers ...

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Inquiry: jail fewer Aborigines for bashing wives
Herald Sun (blog)
The head of a national inquiry into Indigenous incarceration has said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people might need to be treated differently by the justice system in order to achieve equity under the law. Federal court judge Matthew Myers ...

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PBS NewsHour
Aboriginal Australian artists are having a moment in the US These women are at the forefront.
PBS NewsHour
Aboriginal Australian art can take many forms: drawing, painting, weaving, carving, or, more recently, video and photography. Artists often use natural elements, such as bark, feathers, earth pigment, flowers or sand, but they may also use synthetic ...

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The Australian
Participant alleges SBS racism program 'biased by its agenda'
The Australian
It almost reads like the sort of joke the show's producers are looking to see punted to the scrap pile for ever: an African, Asian, Aboriginal, Muslim and a white Australian walk into an SBS experiment. Yet the goal of The Truth About Racism — which ...

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Bangarra Dance Theatre helps Australia's Human Rights Council bid
SBS
The world acclaimed Bangarra Dance Theatre is in Geneva helping Australia's charm offensive to win a seat on the UN's Human Rights Council. Bangarra says it was invited by the government to demonstrate the strength, power and resilience of Aboriginal ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian poet Ali Cobby Eckermann receives telephone call of a lifetime
The Sydney Morning Herald
It's described as a telephone call of a lifetime: that moment when an unsuspecting writer receives the ground shaking news that they have won one of the world's richest prizes for literature. For Ali Cobby Eckermann, a celebrated Aboriginal poet and ...
Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann wins US$165000 Windham-Campbell PrizeThe Advertiser
Yale awards eight writers $165000 Windham-Campbell PrizesYale News

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The Guardian
Cousins' gathering a model for pilot program for Aboriginal children in care
The Guardian
In 2014-15 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were 6.7 times more likely to be the subject of substantiated child protection reports than non-Indigenous children, and 9.5 times more likely to be placed in out-of-home care, according to the ...

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Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann wins US$165000 Windham-Campbell Prize
The Advertiser
The Aboriginal poet, writer and visual artist from South Australia's Mid-North has been named winner of the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry. Cobby Eckermann has published and performed her poetry around the world, and is honoured for her body ...

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