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Herald Sun
Elder pans Barnett's 'redneck' comments on Fremantle's Australia Day saga
WAtoday
Colin Barnett's latest comments on Fremantle's Australia Day saga sound more like those of an "uneducated redneck" than a state premier, an Aboriginal community leader says. Premier Barnett on Tuesday compared the City's actions in moving Australia Day ...
Freo council's Australia Day ceremonies banned by The GovernmentHerald Sun
Freo sticking with citizenship ceremony plansSky News Australia
Australia Day row: Fremantle to fight ban on 'One Day' citizenship ceremonyThe Guardian
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NEWS.com.au
'Not tonight': Aboriginal couple barred from pub
NEWS.com.au
He made us feel guilty ... for being Aboriginal. That's not fair to hold us all responsible for the actions of a few. To me that is discrimination.” She said she asked several times what the reason for refusal and was told: “Management reserve the ...
Pub owners respond to racism stormThe Advertiser

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ABC Online
Broome Indigenous man proposes changing date of Australia Day
ABC Online
Changing the date of Australia Day because of the offence caused to Indigenous people by celebrating on January 26 is part of a proposal sent to all levels of government by a Broome resident. Celebrating Australia Day on the anniversary of the day the ...

WAtoday
Fremantle council stands ground over Turnbull government Australia Day threat
WAtoday
"I want a reconciled council, and when we focus on issues confronting our Indigenous Australians, we should focus on those issues that will make a difference to their lives, like Aboriginal incarceration, health, alcoholism, and employment." Earlier in ...
It's Freo … What did you expect?Perth Now
Fremantle fireworks: alternative Australia Day citizenship ceremony blockedCommunity Newspaper Group
Fremantle Australia Day row: citizenship ceremonies on 28 January barredThe Guardian
BBC News -Junkee
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NEWS.com.au
Dick Smith: 'We will destroy Australia'
NEWS.com.au
In lending his support, Mr Smith acknowledged controversy around Ms Hanson's views on Muslim immigration and past comments around indigenous Australians. “People tend to say that she's racist. So I asked her, does she think that she's superior to other ...

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Herald Sun
Fremantle council should be congratulated for alternative Australia Day
Herald Sun
For most white Australians, January 26 is the same as any other summer holiday; a bonus day of respite and relaxation. But for many indigenous Australians, it's not a day of celebration. This is why we should follow the lead of New Zealand and create a ...

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Anthill online
Australia's first Indigenous start-up accelerator launched at Brisbane's new innovation hub
Anthill online
The program is in partnership with Slingshot, offered by Barayamal, a new not-for-profit business, which will run Australia's first Indigenous accelerator program from mid-2017. CEO of Barayamal, Mr Dean Foley, said an accelerator typically helps start ...

B&T
Havas People Showcases Indigenous Recruitment Campaign For Telstra
B&T
The campaign, designed to provide an insight into life at Telstra as an Indigenous Australian, is nominated for two Australian Multicultural Marketing Awards (AMMAs) in the Big Business and Communication Award categories – a first for Havas People.

Perth Now
Freo council's Aust Day smackdown
Perth Now
Fremantle controversially bumped Australia Day events by two days, citing Aboriginal cultural sensitivities. Assistant immigration minister Alex Hawke said the Commonwealth would not allow the City of Fremantle to hold citizenship ceremonies as part of ...
City of Fremantle Council banned from holding alternative Australia Day citizenship ceremonyNEWS.com.au
Freo council given Australia Day ultimatum9news.com.au
Fremantle Australia Day row: citizenship ceremonies on 28 January barredThe Guardian
Daily Mail
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HeritageDaily
Separate but unequal: the sad fate of Aboriginal heritage in Western Australia
HeritageDaily
There is systemic discrimination against Aboriginal heritage in Western Australia. This does not come from a racist administrator somewhere who hates Aboriginal heritage, but from the evolution of the institutions, rules and conventions that make up ...

The Conversation AU
The limits of empathy: Matthew Flinders' encounters with Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Feeling as though I know Flinders well through working on his personal writings over the past few years, I've become intrigued by his accounts of his dealings with the Indigenous people of Australia as the ship circumnavigated Australia. How might his ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous textiles in a contemporary light
ArtsHub (subscription)
'The continuing strength and importance of textile practice in the Pacific and Indigenous Australia continues to carry a lot of cultural weight and a place in everyday lives – it is being maintained,' said Curator of Pacific Art, Ruth McDougall. 'The ...

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The Advertiser
Boys more likely to be burned
The Advertiser
YOUNG children, males and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are significantly more likely to be admitted to hospital with burn injuries than others, a new Flinders University report reveals. The latest report, written for the Australian Institute ...

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Varsity Online
'Weaponise your privilege': blocked Aboriginal Australian speaker addresses students by Skype
Varsity Online
Roxley, a Gumbaynggirr man from Nambucca Heads and Sacred Fire Keeper at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, had indeed been in the UK only weeks before as part of an indigenous contingent endorsed by the Australian Senate, campaigning for the ...

The Advertiser
Why a tougher childhood means softer sentence
The Advertiser
The Director of Public Prosecutions appealed against the “manifestly inadequate” non-parole periods granted to Aboriginal men David George Rigney-Brown and Ethram Ronald Hughes by District Court judge Paul Muscat. Rigney-Brown, Hughes and ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
ANU receives $16 million in NHMRC funding
The Sydney Morning Herald
Two major research projects at the Australian National University which are hoping to improve health outcomes for indigenous Australians are among those to receive a major boost in the latest round of funding. The ANU has received more than $16 million ...

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SBS
How can we meaningfully recognise cities as Indigenous places?
SBS
The return of land to Indigenous custodians in Australia over the past 20 years is a dramatic shift in Australian land tenure and management. Yet this revolution has, as yet, barely touched urban Australia. Public and policy discussion about the future ...

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The Guardian
Police discriminated against Palm Island's Indigenous community, federal court finds
The Guardian
Queensland police unlawfully discriminated against members of Palm Island's Indigenous community during the investigation of a death in custody and their handling of ensuing riots in 2004, a court has found. The federal court delivered a long-awaited ...
Palm Island riots: Federal Court finds police acted with 'impunity' in racial discrimination lawsuitABC Online
Palm Island riots: Federal Court upholds parts of racial discrimination case against Queensland GovernmentRadio Australia

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Courier Mail
'They're not like the Redfern ones, they're scary'
Courier Mail
That's just one of the many responses I've heard in Sydney and Brisbane from non-Aboriginal people about indigenous Australians as they learned I had spent more than five years working as a journalist in Darwin and throughout the Northern Territory.

dailytelegraph.com.au
'They're not like the Redfern ones, they're scary'
dailytelegraph.com.au
That's just one of the many responses I've heard in Sydney and Brisbane from non-Aboriginal people about indigenous Australians as they learned I had spent more than five years working as a journalist in Darwin and throughout the Northern Territory.