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New Australia Day lamb ad isn't landing well with Indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
While the latest Meat and Livestock Association's Australia Day ad has been hailed as diverse and progressive by some on social media, many Indigenous Australians have reacted very differently. The ad, featuring Cathy Freeman and TV chef Poh Ling Yeow ...

'I was invited because I'm the Trade Minister': Steve Ciobo defends MPs' taxpayer-funded attendance at sport events
The Age
Trade Minister Steve Ciobo has argued the case for politicians to attend sporting events on the taxpayer dime, describing it as the kind of activity that voters expect. Mr Ciobo, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and Tasmanian senator David Bushy ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Comment: The class gap is growing in Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Steven Dhu, chairperson of the Gumala Aboriginal Corporation. Photo: Jasmine Body. We distributed 882 $200 gift vouchers to members across Australia that could be redeemed at a range of outlets. But our generosity has been met with criticism in media ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Comment: The class gap is growing in Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Contrary to police comments, the gift cards distributed by Aboriginal corporations have not created this problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is a long-running and widespread issue fought by many Australian communities, both indigenous and non-indigenous.

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The Age
Comment: The class gap is growing in Australia
The Age
Contrary to police comments, the gift cards distributed by Aboriginal corporations have not created this problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is a long-running and widespread issue fought by many Australian communities, both indigenous and non-indigenous.

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The Age
Comment: The class gap is growing in Australia
The Age
Contrary to police comments, the gift cards distributed by Aboriginal corporations have not created this problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is a long-running and widespread issue fought by many Australian communities, both indigenous and non-indigenous.

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WAtoday
Comment: The class gap is growing in Australia
WAtoday
Contrary to police comments, the gift cards distributed by Aboriginal corporations have not created this problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is a long-running and widespread issue fought by many Australian communities, both indigenous and non-indigenous.

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WAtoday
Comment: The class gap is growing in Australia
WAtoday
Contrary to police comments, the gift cards distributed by Aboriginal corporations have not created this problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is a long-running and widespread issue fought by many Australian communities, both indigenous and non-indigenous.

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NEWS.com.au
Australia lambasted for being inhumane
NEWS.com.au
The report also notes indigenous adults are 13 times more likely to be imprisoned in Australia than non-indigenous counterparts and the nation still does not recognise the right of same-sex couples to marry. Human Rights Watch reviewed more than 90 ...
Australia: Revive Rights ReputationHuman Rights Watch
Turnbull government and Donald Trump highlighted in Human Rights Watch 2017 reportThe Canberra Times

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SBS
'Serious issues remain': Australia panned in global human rights report
SBS
The report also notes indigenous adults are 13 times more likely to be imprisoned in Australia than non-indigenous counterparts and the nation still does not recognise the right of same-sex couples to marry. Human Rights Watch reviewed more than 90 ...

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SBS
Australia panned in global human rights report
SBS
The report also notes indigenous adults are 13 times more likely to be imprisoned in Australia than non-indigenous counterparts and the nation still does not recognise the right of same-sex couples to marry. Human Rights Watch reviewed more than 90 ...
Australia: Revive Rights ReputationHuman Rights Watch
Turnbull government and Donald Trump highlighted in Human Rights Watch 2017 reportThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Canberra Times
AGL victory at power plant serves up massive pay cut to workers
The Canberra Times
Hundreds of workers at one of Australia's largest power plants will have their pay drastically slashed by up to 30 per cent, after energy giant AGL won a bid to abolish a long-standing agreement. The Fair Work Commission on Thursday agreed to tear up ...

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Human Rights Watch
Australia panned in global human rights report
9news.com.au
The report also notes indigenous adults are 13 times more likely to be imprisoned in Australia than non-indigenous counterparts and the nation still does not recognise the right of same-sex couples to marry. Human Rights Watch reviewed more than 90 ...
Australia: Revive Rights ReputationHuman Rights Watch
Turnbull government and Donald Trump highlighted in Human Rights Watch 2017 reportThe Sydney Morning Herald

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TNT Magazine
First UK exhibition by Australian Aboriginal artist
TNT Magazine
The two series presented at JGM Gallery, Milkwater and Luga, depict the remarkable desert landscape around Sturt Creek, Australia, where the artist spent her childhood, an area that sits between the Great Sandy Desert and Kununurra, Western Australia.

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Daily Mail
Megafauna and Aboriginal Australians coexisted and climate change may have killed them off
Daily Mail
Giant mammals, birds and reptiles twice the size of their modern counterparts roamed Australia with Aboriginals for thousands of years. Scientists assumed the huge beasts were killed off by hunters soon after the arrival of the country's first humans ...

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The New Daily
Aboriginal voices in the afterlife of photographs
The New Daily
The project is an extension of Dr Huebner's previous work in reconnecting Aboriginal families in Victoria and Western Australia to their ancestor Bessy Flowers (1849-1895) who lived at the Ramahyuck mission in Gippsland, Victoria. Bessy is unique in ...

Perth Now
Aboriginal corp defends gift card decision
Perth Now
Gumala Aboriginal Corporation was one of several organisations that handed out gift cards funded by mining royalties. Chairman Steven Dhu said yesterday in a statement that Gumala provided $200 gift cards to 882 people across Australia - a total of ...

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Tigerair gets four-day reprieve to get stranded passengers out of Bali
The Sydney Morning Herald
Late on Thursday the Indonesian government agreed to let Tiger operate scheduled flights out of Denpasar on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday to get about 2000 stranded passengers back to Australia. Flights from Australia to Indonesia from Friday to ...

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Perth Now
'Time police stop passing blame'
Perth Now
We distributed 882 $200 gift vouchers to members across Australia that could be redeemed at a range of outlets. But our generosity has been met with criticism in media reports that Coles gift cards, some individually valued at $1500, were distributed ...

Perth Now
'Time police stop passing blame'
Perth Now
Contrary to police comments, the gift cards distributed by Aboriginal corporations have not created this problem. Alcohol and drug abuse is a long-running and widespread issue fought by many Australian communities, both indigenous and non-indigenous.