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The Sydney Morning Herald
The brutal images that have defined 2016 for Indigenous Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Brutal images of Aboriginal women and children being mistreated in custody are a defining feature of 2016. From Dylan Voller and the young detainees of Don Dale to Ms Dhu, Australians have been forced to reckon with the cruel reality of Australia's ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The brutal images that have defined 2016 for Indigenous Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Brutal images of Aboriginal women and children being mistreated in custody are a defining feature of 2016. From Dylan Voller and the young detainees of Don Dale to Ms Dhu, Australians have been forced to reckon with the cruel reality of Australia's ...

Crikey (registration)
Off with her head (on our coins)! The case for an Aussie republic in 2017
Crikey (registration)
For example, we could start by replacing the Queen's head on all our coins with the faces of famous indigenous Australians. Our first peoples have achieved so much and what could better acknowledge the past than recognising a history that goes back not ...

The Age
The brutal images that have defined 2016 for Indigenous Australia
The Age
Brutal images of Aboriginal women and children being mistreated in custody are a defining feature of 2016. From Dylan Voller and the young detainees of Don Dale to Ms Dhu, Australians have been forced to reckon with the cruel reality of Australia's ...

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Carbonated.tv (blog)
Aboriginal Woman Brutal Death In Custody Exposes Australia's Shame
Carbonated.tv (blog)
An aboriginal woman's brutal slaying in prison has exposed the racial divide in one of the world's most developed and “happiest” countries in the world: Australia. The video above is CCTV footage of how the woman, currently identified only as Ms Dhu ...
[ December 21, 2016 ] Ms Dhu's family consider action after appalling jail death NEWSNational Indigenous Times
'How you can do that to anybody?' Indigenous MPs calls for sackings over Dhu deathSBS

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ABC Online
Indigenous doctors graduate, but thousands more needed
ABC Online
Department of Health figures show only 261 out of the 85,510 medical practitioners employed in Australia in 2014 identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. Reaching parity with their non-Indigenous counterparts would require approximately 2 ...

ABC Online
Indigenous doctors graduate, but thousands more needed
ABC Online
Australia's two newest Indigenous doctors say they have overcome significant obstacles to complete their degrees, but were driven by a passion to help their people and a desire for equality. Department of Health figures show only 261 out of the 85,510 ...

Vale Paul Pholeros AM, 1953–2016
Architecture AU
Housing for Health: Towards a Healthy Living Environment for Aboriginal Australia (1993) by Paul Pholeros, Stephan Rainow and Paul Torzillo (of Healthabitat). Throughout these times, on behalf of Indigenous Australia, Paul battled government at state ...

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SBS
6 native ingredients you should cook with this Christmas
SBS
Finger limes originate from, and thrive in, Australia's east coast rainforests - Barunggam, Wakka Wakka, Bundjalung and Gumbainggir lands. Indigenous people have not only cooked with native finger limes for thousands of years, but have drawn on their ...

National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] The Australia Day debate; Us and Them OPINION
National Indigenous Times
The National Australia Day Council has for more than 20 years worked to reconcile Indigenous and non-Indigenous realities. In 2004, it changed its priorities in its mission statement. “Promoting Australian achievement” was moved from No. 1, replaced ...
LankaWeb – The Stolen Generation: Most blemished chapter in ...Lankaweb

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National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] Mansell draws new boundaries for Aboriginal state BOOKS
National Indigenous Times
Central Australia could become a seventh, Aboriginal State taking in land from the Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland under a plan put forward by Tasmanian lawyer and veteran activist Michael Mansell. In a new book, ...
The Stolen Generation: Most blemished chapter in Australian historyLankaweb

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National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] The Australia Day debate; Us and Them OPINION
National Indigenous Times
The council is clear-eyed about the implications of the day to “all Australians”. It says: “Aboriginal Australians have continued to feel excluded from what has long been a British pioneering settler celebration, symbolised by the raising of the Union ...

National Indigenous Times
ABC 'shouldn't forget about remote Australia', say NT pollies
National Indigenous Times
The ABC's decision to switch off shortwave radio services in the Northern Territory could cost lives, according to NT federal Labor MPs Malarndirri McCarthy and Warren Snowdon. The MPs said the broadcaster had advised them it would continue switching ...

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National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] White Australia has lost its 'moral compass', says Anderson NEWS
National Indigenous Times
Lowitja Institute chair Pat Anderson, an Alyawarre woman who replaced Pat Dodson at the council's helm, said she was at a loss to explain the hostility and racism towards Aboriginal people in modern-day Australia. “It's like there is no moral compass ...

National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] White Australia has lost its 'moral compass', says Anderson NEWS
National Indigenous Times
Lowitja Institute chair Pat Anderson, an Alyawarre woman who replaced Pat Dodson at the council's helm, said she was at a loss to explain the hostility and racism towards Aboriginal people in modern-day Australia. “It's like there is no moral compass ...
The Stolen Generation: Most blemished chapter in Australian historyLankaweb

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National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] White Australia has lost its 'moral compass', says Anderson NEWS
National Indigenous Times
Lowitja Institute chair Pat Anderson, an Alyawarre woman who replaced Pat Dodson at the council's helm, said she was at a loss to explain the hostility and racism towards Aboriginal people in modern-day Australia. “It's like there is no moral compass ...
The Stolen Generation: Most blemished chapter in Australian historyLankaweb

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National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] SA begins Treaty talks with First Australians ACHIEVEMENT
National Indigenous Times
SA Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Kyam Maher said the State would begin the talks as a step towards reconciliation and Aboriginal governance. The SA government has set aside $4.4 million over five years for the process, including ...

National Indigenous Times
[ December 21, 2016 ] White Australia has lost its 'moral compass', says Anderson NEWS
National Indigenous Times
Lowitja Institute chair Pat Anderson, an Alyawarre woman who replaced Pat Dodson at the council's helm, said she was at a loss to explain the hostility and racism towards Aboriginal people in modern-day Australia. “It's like there is no moral compass ...
The Stolen Generation: Most blemished chapter in Australian historyLankaweb

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SBS
'How you can do that to anybody?' Indigenous MPs calls for sackings over Dhu death
SBS
Indigenous parliamentarians have called for the sacking of police and nurses involved in the preventable death in custody of Yamatji woman, Ms Dhu. The 22-year-old woman died after she was locked up in South Hedland police station in Western Australia ...
[ December 21, 2016 ] Ms Dhu's family consider action after appalling jail death NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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Brisbane Times
It's way too early to write off Aboriginal reconciliation
Brisbane Times
Sections of the media writing off the outcome of consultations around constitutional recognition, after the first of 12 discussions among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in Hobart just over a week ago, are selling the nation short ...