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From office administrator to award winning Indigenous film producer
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"She sort of stumbled into the industry and loved it and stayed here and is now a really fantastic Indigenous producer," Ms Smallacombe said. A 2016 report by Screen Australia showed that there was a higher proportion of Aboriginal main characters in ...

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From office administrator to award winning Indigenous film producer
ABC Online
"I believe that as an Aboriginal person, we should be telling our own stories, and I think as an Aboriginal person I can relate to the people that are telling the stories that I'm producing," she said. Despite Australia's history of limited roles for ...

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Aboriginal mothers in WA jails discuss domestic violence in lives, as study finds 'culture of fighting'
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"There was no way I was going to stand back and let a man flog me, so I gave just as much as he tried to give." Those were the words of Leonie, the pseudonym for one of 84 Aboriginal mothers in West Australian jails who were interviewed for a new ...

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Aljazeera.com
Australia failing to improve Aboriginal lives
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Australia is failing to close the child mortality and life expectancy gap between its indigenous and non-indigenous population, with the healthcare and education divide also widening, according to a new report. Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders ...
Anthony Dillon: No easy answers in effort to close the gapdailytelegraph.com.au
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without actionEureka Street (registration)
Australia misses targets to improve Aboriginal livesMedical Xpress
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The West Australian
Anthony Dillon: No easy answers in effort to close the gap
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If we fail to act now, the next generation will be blaming us for yet another lost generation of Aboriginal Australians. That will not just be a loss for Aboriginal Australians, it will be a loss for all Australians. How much has Australia already lost ...
Australia misses targets to improve Aboriginal livesMedical Xpress
Kevin Rudd warns of a new “stolen generation”The West Australian
Tony Abbott 'disappointed' with Malcolm Turnbull not spending time in Indigenous communitiesABC Online
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National Indigenous Times
Indigenous health starts with parents: Wyatt
National Indigenous Times
Mr Wyatt said the issue for Australian governments was how they formed partnerships with Indigenous communities to better tackle the areas that have been identified as gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. “I know when I have an illness ...

National Indigenous Times
Child removal spells second Stolen Generation: Rudd
National Indigenous Times
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned of a second Stolen Generation, describing the numbers of Indigenous children being removed from their homes in recent years as “chilling”. Speaking on the eve of the release of this year's Closing ...
Kevin Rudd warns of a new “stolen generation”The West Australian
Indigenous child removal rate risks 'second stolen generation', Kevin Rudd warnsThe Guardian

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National Indigenous Times
Child removal spells second Stolen Generation: Rudd
National Indigenous Times
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned of a second Stolen Generation, describing the numbers of Indigenous children being removed from their homes in recent years as “chilling”. Speaking on the eve of the release of this year's Closing ...
Kevin Rudd warns of a new “stolen generation”The West Australian
Indigenous child removal rate risks 'second stolen generation', Kevin Rudd warnsThe Guardian
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Aljazeera.com
Indigenous Leader Blames Revolving Door Of Bureaucrats For Failure To Close The Gap
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That's a sad reflection on Australia as a very rich nation in terms of Aboriginal people - we are the sickest and the poorest, and the least housed, job-wise... Every social statistic in our country is with Aboriginal people at the lowest ebb," Huggins ...
Australia failing to improve Aboriginal livesAljazeera.com
Increasing numbers of Aboriginal children in state care an 'indictment on families': CredlinYahoo7 News
Australia misses targets to improve Aboriginal livesMedical Xpress
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RSL club attacked by ACT MLA Bec Cody over tiles showing Aboriginal men in toilets
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They are a disgrace to themselves, a disgrace to the veterans they claim to represent and a disgrace to Australia. "Does the Sussex Inlet RSL think it appropriate that patrons embrace Aboriginal culture in the toilet block?" Ms Cody urged the national ...
Labor's Bec Cody blasts Sussex Inlet RSL Club as a disgrace for having Aboriginal kitsch tiles in the men's urinalThe Canberra Times

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Closing the Gap: A little window of hope amid the bleak picture for Indigenous Australians
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"The data tells us there is no employment gap, no employment gap between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians with a university degree." That line buried towards the end of the Prime Minister's recent Closing the Gap speech in ...
Australia failing to improve Aboriginal livesAljazeera.com
The gap isn't closing – latest report reveals few gainsNational Indigenous Times
Australia failing in six out of seven target areas to improve indigenous disadvantageNEWS.com.au
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Closing the Gap: A little window of hope amid the bleak picture for Indigenous Australians
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"The data tells us there is no employment gap, no employment gap between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians with a university degree." That line buried towards the end of the Prime Minister's Closing the Gap speech in Parliament ...
Australia failing in six out of seven target areas to improve indigenous disadvantageNEWS.com.au
Closing the Gap: Six of seven targets 'not on track', life expectancy gap unchangedThe Sydney Morning Herald
National progress on indigenous Closing the Gap programs stallingThe Australian
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Eureka Street (registration)
Australia misses targets to improve Aboriginal lives
Medical Xpress
Aborigines—who make up about three percent of the total national population of 24 million—are among the most disadvantaged Australians. Apart from lifting high school completion rates, all other targets including child mortality, life expectancy ...
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without actionEureka Street (registration)
Anthony Dillon: No easy answers in effort to close the gapdailytelegraph.com.au
Closing the Gap: A little window of hope amid the bleak picture for Indigenous AustraliansABC Online
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Labor's Bec Cody blasts Sussex Inlet RSL Club as a disgrace for having Aboriginal kitsch tiles in the men's urinal
The Canberra Times
ACT Labor politician Bec Cody has blasted the Sussex Inlet RSL Club a "disgrace" to itself, to veterans and to Australia for tiles in the men's urinal depicting Aboriginal men. Ms Cody used the adjournment debate in the ACT parliament to call on the ...
RSL club attacked by ACT MLA Bec Cody over tiles showing Aboriginal men in toiletsABC Online

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SBS
Indigenous LGBTQI suffering must be addressed, conference hears
SBS
Mr Bonson told the forum there was no data on the level of LGBTQI Indigenous suicides, but anecdotally it was higher than the rate of Indigenous suicide, which in turn is higher than Australia's total rates. He has written a guide to suicide prevention ...

ABC Online
Closing the gap: Australia is failing on Indigenous disadvantage goals
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Target: To close the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation (by 2031). Progress: Indigenous Australians die about 10 years younger than non Indigenous Australians, and that hasn't changed ...
Australia failing in six out of seven target areas to improve indigenous disadvantageNEWS.com.au
Closing the Gap: Six of seven targets 'not on track', life expectancy gap unchangedThe Sydney Morning Herald
Closing the Gap: Report shows targets for Indigenous disadvantaged 'not on track'SBS
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Closing the gap: Australia is failing on Indigenous disadvantage goals
ABC Online
... only a gain of 0.8 years for men and 0.1 for women — a fraction of what is needed. The mortality rate (the number of deaths per 100,000 people in a year) for Aboriginal people is 1.7 times that of the Australian population, and that hasn't changed ...
Australia misses targets to improve Aboriginal livesMedical Xpress
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without actionEureka Street (registration)
Kevin Rudd warns of a new “stolen generation”The West Australian
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Eureka Street (registration)
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without action
Eureka Street (registration)
On 9 February, Attorney-General George Brandis announced the terms of reference for a new Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) inquiry into Indigenous incarceration in Australia. The inquiry was announced in October 2016, and the final terms of ...
Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration issueABC Online

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Eureka Street (registration)
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without action
Eureka Street (registration)
In 1991, the year of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC), Indigenous Australians comprised 14 per cent of the Australian prison population. In 2016, it was 27 per cent. Yet Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration issueABC Online

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Eureka Street (registration)
Aboriginal custody inquiry means little without action
Eureka Street (registration)
In 1991, the year of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC), Indigenous Australians comprised 14 per cent of the Australian prison population. In 2016, it was 27 per cent. Yet Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Greens urge Government to address 'shameful' Indigenous incarceration issueABC Online

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