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Blue Mountains Gazette
Barnaby Joyce launches extraordinary attack on people who want to move Australia Day
Blue Mountains Gazette
Describing himself as a "conservative, Anglo-Celtic Australian," Mr Macfarlane has said that the day was inherently divisive because it commemorated what many Indigenous Australians regard as an invasion. He likened it to the idea of a Scottish person ...
City of Yarra to debate whether to dump Australia Day celebrationsHerald Sun

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The Cairns Post
Bob Katter to introduce law to protect indigenous artists from being ripped off
The Cairns Post
It has been reported that up to 80 per cent of tourist shops and markets have been selling “Aboriginal-style” souvenirs, with some using products imported from Indonesia. Under Australia's competition and consumer laws, it is not illegal for ...

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The Advertiser
Remains of Aboriginal infant, who died after 1950s Maralinga atomic tests, exhumed from burial cave
The Advertiser
The State Government has agreed to fund the reburial of the skeletal remains of the child — which a respected Aboriginal elder says died following the Maralinga atomic testing more than 50 years ago. Coroner Mark Johns has ordered a comprehensive ...
Police exhumed Indigenous baby's remains without speaking to elders, administrator saysABC Local

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Herald Sun
City of Yarra to debate whether to dump Australia Day celebrations
Herald Sun
AN inner city council may consider dumping Australia Day celebrations because they could offend Aborigines. City of Yarra Greens mayor Amanda Stone says January 26 marks the arrival of white settlers and the start of the dispossession of indigenous ...

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Herald Sun
City of Yarra to debate whether to dump Australia Day celebrations
Herald Sun
AN inner city council may consider dumping Australia Day celebrations because they could offend Aborigines. City of Yarra Greens mayor Amanda Stone says January 26 marks the arrival of white settlers and the start of the dispossession of indigenous ...

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Wanderlust
Searching the Songlines - discovering hiking trails, aboriginal culture and wildlife in Northern Australia
Wanderlust
The red hot dust blew around us. I'd been driving for two hours in the company of Sammy Wilson, an Aboriginal man whose clan name was Uluru. This made him one of the traditional owners of the rock of the same name, Australia's best-known landmark, ...

The Mercury
Defence says Rio Olympics sparked recruitment rush
The Mercury
THE Australian Defence Department has struck gold in the recruitment of indigenous Diggers and it's blaming it on Rio. Internal ADF figures has revealed a 200 per cent leap in indigenous Australians signing up to join the permanent military. Figures ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Australian Defence Forces recruitment: Huge spike in indigenous ...
dailytelegraph.com.au
THE Australian Defence Department has struck gold in the recruitment of indigenous Diggers and it's blaming it on Rio. Internal ADF figures has revealed a 200 ...

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Herald Sun
Australian Defence Forces recruitment: Huge spike in indigenous ...
Herald Sun
THE Australian Defence Department has struck gold in the recruitment of indigenous Diggers and it's blaming it on Rio. Internal ADF figures has revealed a 200 ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Greg Inglis says the NRL must retain the Indigenous All Stars concept
dailytelegraph.com.au
“It does educate a lot of people about the Aboriginal culture and Australia in general.” In the lead-up to Friday's All Stars clash in Newcastle, Inglis and his teammates assembled at the Quarantine Station in Manly for their annual Indigenous camp ...

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9news.com.au
Tirade against Australia Day posted on naval officer's Facebook page
9news.com.au
And I still don't.” The post goes on to declare while soldiers, sailors and airmen are honoured on those days, the impact of Australia Day on indigenous Australians is “overlooked”. Why does Australia neglect our history and my people on this day?” it ...

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SBS
Upcoming supermodel Lala to jet off China for the 2017 World Supermodel Pageant
SBS
Everybody has a dream, and for last year's Aboriginal Model Search winner Lala Bayles, it's to represent Aboriginal Australia in the modeling industry. She's now one step closer to achieveing her goal and has recently been selected to represent ...

Western Advocate
OPINION: News from Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre
Western Advocate
Saltbush, which centres on two friends as they cross Australia on foot, is an interactive journey through the culture and landscape of Aboriginal Australia, celebrated through live dance, music, song and stories. Children are invited to explore, play ...

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Stress hormones underlie Indigenous health gap in Australia
Science Daily
This raises the possibility of using this measure to study risk for future mental ill health in young Indigenous Australians and other First Nations' people worldwide. Dr Berger and his colleagues found that Indigenous participants who reported high ...

ABC Online
Abbott government's Indigenous Advancement Strategy shows how not to spend $5b taxpayers' dollars
ABC Online
A short chauffeur-driven jaunt from Parliament House in Canberra is the National Press Club. In front of its distinctive blue backdrop, and live on national television, politicians spruik how their ideas are going to help thousands, if not millions, of ...

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Open Democracy
Skin deep: reproducing aboriginal women in colonial Australia
Open Democracy
So when Europeans came to Australia, it was already in their mouths as meaning a racialised child. What is really interesting is the way in which this Portuguese-derived word became useful to aboriginal people themselves, when they needed to ...

SBS
Why Indigenous art is such big business internationally
SBS
Indigenous artwork is known in Australia for it's rich symbolism, cultural history and meaning - but internationally, it's a booming industry - worth millions. Art director and collector Simon Chan, explains to SBS Cantonese how collectors can ensure ...

SBS
Why Indigenous art is such big business internationally
SBS
As with the history and culture of Australian Indigenous communities, Aboriginal art has also been passed on for thousands of years. "For a lot of communities it's something that's been handed down for generations," Art director and collector Simon ...

Huffington Post
Advance Australia White
Huffington Post
“I can't stand for something that's racist. Advance Australia Fair, when it's really Advance Australia White.” Said Anthony Mundine, ahead of his fight against arch-enemy Danny Green. Mundine is Aboriginal Green is White Australian.
Anthony Mundine sticks by protest, won't enter ring until after anthem is playedESPN

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Gizmodo Australia
This WWII Booklet Helped Soldiers Translate From American To Australian
Gizmodo Australia
The book refers to the "70,000 or so primitive 'Abos'" in the country, a highly offensive term for Aboriginal Australians. And there's no shortage of racism against the Japanese (widely referred to as "Japs" in the US) who were, of course, the ...
The White House spokesman keeps mispronouncing the Australian prime minister's nameBusiness Insider Australia

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