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Former Big Brother star Skye Wheatley says she wishes she was a 'naturally tanned Aboriginal'
NEWS.com.au
“Just a little disclaimer: My hands will probably annoy the F out of some people while watching this,” she said. “I apologise. I'm not a naturally tanned Aboriginal. I wish I was. But unfortunately I'm not,” she added, before telling viewers she did ...
Skye Wheatley says she wishes she was 'a tanned Aboriginal' in YouTube videoDaily Mail
Big Brother's Skye Wheatley says she wishes she were 'a naturally tanned Aboriginal'9TheFIX (blog)

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The Indigenous Jazz Singer Using Music To Heal Stolen Generation Wounds
Huffington Post Australia
In 1963 a 15-year-old Indigenous woman in Roebourne, Western Australia had her 8-month-old baby taken away from her. This baby -- Brenda -- was just one more child to add to the Stolen Generation. She was given the name Lois and adopted into the ...

Huffington Post Australia
The Cat Empire's Felix Riebl New Song Focuses On Ms Dhu's Death In Custody
Huffington Post Australia
Riebl wants the song to not only provide greater awareness over what happened to Ms Dhu but also shed light on the treatment of Indigenous Australians by the legal system. "We are deliberately bringing out this song in 2017 to put the tragedy of Ms Dhu ...
Cat Empire's Felix Riebl on his song for Ms Dhu: a 'devastating' storyThe Guardian
Ms Dhu prison death triggers stark video from The Cat Empire singerBrisbane Times

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Daily Review
Australia's 'Indigenous Kardashians' reality series kicks off
Daily Review
I'm not sure who first referred to the Rule family, the subject of their own new reality show on National Indigenous Television, as Australia's Kardashians. I can't figure out if the phrase first appeared in some NITV publicity material, or whether a ...

The Guardian
Indigenous baby may have survived if admitted by hospital, inquest hears
The Guardian
The 36-day-old girl, Masaly Mosby, was found unresponsive by her mother in their home in the Kennedy Hill or Mallingbarr Aboriginal community, a collection of houses in the centre of Broome, Western Australia, at 7.30am on 6 October 2011. She was taken ...

Daily Mail
Skye Wheatley says she wishes she was 'a tanned Aboriginal' in YouTube video
Daily Mail
Speaking a previous time to Daily Mail Australia about the ordeal, Skye warned young girls not to be lured by the promise of cheap plastic surgery and said, 'Don't, it's not worth it.' She added, 'If something goes wrong you have to pay for another ...
Big Brother's Skye Wheatley says she wishes she were 'a naturally tanned Aboriginal'9TheFIX (blog)

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Goondiwindi Argus
Psychologists issue official apology to Aboriginal people
Goondiwindi Argus
Professor Patricia Dudgeon, who was Australia's first Indigenous psychologist, said the science of psychology relied on a Western, individualistic understanding of "self", which was fundamentally different to the communal sense of self experienced by ...

Goondiwindi Argus
Psychologists issue official apology to Aboriginal people
Goondiwindi Argus
That's the mea culpa of Australian psychologists - courtesy of their peak body, the Australian Psychological Society (APS). The society officially apologised on Thursday for its profession's treatment of Aboriginal Australians over more than 200 years ...

Herald Sun
Footscray's Wominjeka Festival to showcase breakout indigenous musicians
Herald Sun
THE WEEK-long Wominjeka festival will kick off with a free concert featuring a stellar line-up of indigenous artists from around Australia. The seventh year of the festival will open with Terrain 2017 with headline act Frank Yamma and other breakout ...

The Guardian
Cashless welfare card treats Aboriginal people 'as third-class citizens'
The Guardian
“The cashless welfare card is unfair, a form of control and reminds Aboriginal people every day that they are treated as second- and third-class citizens in their own land,” she told Guardian Australia. “One of the key issues in many of the areas where ...
Indigenous People Treated “As Third-Class Citizens” Under Cashless Welfare CardStudent Edge (blog)

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The Guardian
Cashless welfare card treats Aboriginal people 'as third-class citizens'
The Guardian
“The cashless welfare card is unfair, a form of control and reminds Aboriginal people every day that they are treated as second- and third-class citizens in their own land,” she told Guardian Australia. “One of the key issues in many of the areas where ...

The Guardian
Cashless welfare card treats Aboriginal people 'as third-class citizens'
The Guardian
“The cashless welfare card is unfair, a form of control and reminds Aboriginal people every day that they are treated as second- and third-class citizens in their own land,” she told Guardian Australia. “One of the key issues in many of the areas where ...

Indigenous owners hope ancient eel traps will be recognised as world heritage
The Guardian
Known as Budj Bim, the site received national heritage listing in 2004 and has been put forward for inclusion in the Australian government's nomination to the Unesco world heritage council by the Victorian government, at the instigation of the ...

Investment Magazine
Big Super Day Out gets into the festival vibe in Melbourne
Investment Magazine
The Big Super Day Out is extending its reach. Now in its third year, the event designed to encourage Indigenous Australians to get engaged with their superannuation will hitch its wagon to major cultural festivals, in a bid to reach a larger audience ...

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The Guardian
Michael Chamberlain dies aged 72
Sky News Australia
More than 30 years after being thrust into Australian folklore as a central figure in one of the country's most notorious murder trials, Michael Chamberlain still railed against the 'gross injustice' that shaped his life. Mr Chamberlain, father of ...
Michael Chamberlain, father of baby taken by dingo in Australia, diesThe Guardian
'A dingo has got my baby' dad dies: Father of Azaria Chamberlain passes away in Australia aged 72Telegraph.co.uk
Michael Chamberlain dead at 72NEWS.com.au

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Helping children with drug and alcohol addiction deemed 'near impossible'
Yahoo7 News
At least 20 Aboriginal people were filmed fighting on Seaview Road last week, with experts warning alcohol and drug-fuelled violence is rife. “It's going to be like this for a long time unless South Australia starts looking at something that is really ...

ABC Online
Coles, Liquorland vouchers from Aboriginal corporations linked to surge in assaults: WA Police
ABC Online
Police in Western Australia's Pilbara believe up to $300,000 worth of Coles vouchers handed out by Aboriginal corporations may have contributed to the worst spike in alcohol-fuelled violence officers have seen in South Hedland in more than two years.

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Teaching doctors empathy through art
ArtsHub (subscription)
Another said the experience: '…enriched my knowledge about the hardship and troubles Indigenous Australians encountered. Whilst I was aware of the discrimination, abuse, and abduction, among other things that have occurred, it was still difficult to ...

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The Guardian
Vernon Ah Kee review – racism and politics dominate show that should not be dismissed
The Guardian
Ah Kee is part of a group of Indigenous artists who have made the struggle of Aboriginal Australia – and the attitudes, beliefs and ideologies of the non-Indigenous people that occupy their country – the explicit core of their work, underscored by ...

Brisbane Times
What is saving an Australian life worth?
Brisbane Times
"If we'd invested a little of the money we spent going to war in Iraq or inflating the budget of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation on programs that lowered indigenous diabetes to just twice that of non-indigenous Australians, around ...

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