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Government to spend $40m evaluating effectiveness of indigenous ...
The Australian
The Turnbull government will spend $40 million evaluating its indigenous affairs programs in an attempt to counter a national audit office report expected to be ...

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Whitsunday Times
Day of mourning for indigenous
Whitsunday Times
WHILE Australia Day celebrations were taking place in Airlie Beach last Thursday, a different type of recognition was taking place. TJ Bendeich set up a space she described as "a space for those mourning” and for people to share a minute's silence for ...

ABC Online
Top Indigenous players descend on Broome for much more than 'just footy'
ABC Online
The head of the AFL Players' Association (AFLPA) says this week's Indigenous All Stars' visit to Broome is about much more than just football. Fifty-five Indigenous footballers are in Western Australia's Kimberley region for a four-day camp, beginning ...

Busby Marou want to help 'close the gap'
NEWS.com.au
But on their upcoming album, Postcards from the Shell House, the duo subtly address their desire for the country to "close the gap" between indigenous and non-indigenous people on the song Paint This Land, which also features the indigenous Australian ...

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ABC Online
Bid to raise $1 million for giant Christian cross in Central Australia
ABC Online
The Christian organisation behind plans to build a giant illuminated cross atop a hill in remote Central Australia wants to raise a further $1 million for the project. Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner has ruled out contributing money to ...

Townsville Bulletin
Activists fan race war
Townsville Bulletin
THE biggest shame about the reconciliation movement is that Aboriginal activists – not white people – are the most divisive force at play. As the dust settles on another year of Invasion Day/Australia Day, it seems that just when some headway in race ...
'We need to choose our battles': Newman reacts to Mundine's anthem snubCentral Western Daily

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ABC Online
Indigenous Advisory Council's suspension applauded by rival advisory group
ABC Online
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples has applauded the Prime Minister for suspending the Indigenous Advisory Council (IAC), saying it is the better and more representative body for the Turnbull Government to turn to for advice on ...
Malcolm Turnbull dissolves Tony Abbott's Indigenous advisory councilThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Australian
If Australia Day is illegitimate, so are we
The Australian
In 1788 Australia was not controlled by a single Aboriginal nation. It is as near as inevitable as anything in history could be that in the 18th or 19th century Australia would be colonised by one of the European powers. British colonialism was vastly ...

Section 18C: a bad law that finds racism where there is none
The Australian
The Racial Discrimination Act's 18C treats us Aboriginal Australians as infants who can't speak or stand up for ourselves. It treats non-Aboriginal people as if they have no right to hold an opinion about anything that relates to us, especially the ...

WAtoday
Highest indigenous prisoner rates in WA
WAtoday
WA has the highest indigenous imprisonment rate in Australia. Photo: Andrew Meares. It also shows that WA has the highest percentage of female prisoners - 22.3 per cent compared to the national rate of 18.3 per cent. Six people died from apparent ...

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ABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull dissolves Indigenous Advisory Council, but 'commitment remains'
ABC Online
The Aboriginal leader has had a rocky relationship with Mr Turnbull, previously slamming the setting up of an Aboriginal incarceration inquiry. Mr Mundine questioned which "dickhead" had thought up the Australian Law Reform Commission's inquiry into ...

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ABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull dissolves Indigenous Advisory Council, but 'commitment remains'
ABC Online
The Aboriginal leader has had a rocky relationship with Mr Turnbull, previously slamming the setting up of an Aboriginal incarceration inquiry. Mr Mundine questioned which "dickhead" had thought up the Australian Law Reform Commission's inquiry into ...

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Courier Mail
Mundine wants to divide our country. Not unite it
dailytelegraph.com.au
Granted, there's no specific recognition of indigenous people in the lyrics — that could and should be addressed. But let's not junk the anthems just because of lines like “in history's page let every stage, Advance Australia Fair” or “for those who ...
'I'm trying to better Australia': MundineCourier Mail
Anthony Mundine won t stand for national anthem, Danny Green responds - Yahoo7Yahoo7 News
Anthony Mundine won't stand for Australia national anthemDaily Mail
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Central Western Daily
Standing up for unity in Australia
Central Western Daily
Mr Mundine has called the anthem “racist” and a theme song for the White Australia Policy. The decision has attracted many different opinions from both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Orange Aboriginal Medical Service chief executive officer ...

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Catholic Leader
Religious sister named Senior Australian of the Year full of joy
Catholic Leader
IN accepting her award as 2017 Senior Australian of the Year, Sr Anne Gardiner did so “on behalf of all Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, who have lived and ministered among Australia's indigenous people for more than a century”. “I am most ...

ABC Online
Hip hop engages Indigenous teenagers in social change
ABC Online
Indigenous teenagers from across Australia are using hip hop and social media to bring attention to social issues affecting their communities. The B-Town Warriors, from Bourke High School in north-western New South Wales, have had their song People of ...

Architecture AU
Remote Indigenous settlements – more than tiny dots on a map
Architecture AU
Some communities have disintegrated into troubled social localities, but in this hidden part of Indigenous Australia, there are also many quiet achievers who have initiated projects that sustain residents, invigorate remote regions and drive the ...

Architecture AU
Remote Indigenous settlements – more than tiny dots on a map
Architecture AU
Australia has over one thousand discrete Indigenous settlements distributed over the continent and on its surrounding islands. Public debate over plans to cut government support to remote communities in Western Australia and the Northern Territory ...

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SBS
Where are our Aboriginal actors? - Indigenous cast removed from ...
SBS
Aboriginal stories may be told overseas, but the people telling them are hidden.
Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal AustraliaABC Online

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SBS
Where are our Aboriginal actors? - Indigenous cast removed from ...
SBS
Aboriginal stories may be told overseas, but the people telling them are hidden.
Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal AustraliaABC Online
'Skinny-ankled Noongar kid' takes charge of Health ACHIEVEMENTNational Indigenous Times

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