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Student Edge (blog)
Indigenous Australians Share Their Stories Of Racism After Pauline Hanson Said There Is “No Definition To An ...
Student Edge (blog)
Senator Hanson says there's a need to open up a debate on Aboriginal identification. “I think that people need to toughen up a bit. I think we've all become so precious, we've stopped freedom of speech to have a say, to have an opinion,” the One Nation ...

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Perth Now
'This makes me wish I wasn't Australian'
Perth Now
The show also contained some shocking admissions from others involved including Natalie Imbruglia who said she had never “had a conversation with an Aboriginal person” and Nicki Wendt admitting she had had racist thoughts about indigenous people.

Radio Australia
How one school turned Indigenous performance on its head in two years
Radio Australia
... and Politics:ALL:ALL Australia:QLD:Ipswich 4305 Australia:QLD:ALL bremer state high school, darren godwell, stronger smarter institute, school, indigenous, daniel pym ABC Bridget Brennan This school turned its Indigenous students' performance around.

ABC Online
How one school turned Indigenous performance on its head in two years
ABC Online
At the end of the 2013 school year, teachers at Bremer State High School in Ipswich took a look at their results for Indigenous students. It was a sobering assessment. In some year levels, academic performance was dismal. Just half of the school's ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
First Contact: David Oldfield and Aboriginal elder clash 1:43
dailytelegraph.com.au
I felt a duty to immerse myself in this situation and to try and grapple with my own questions of white guilt about Aboriginal Australia. David Oldfield comes across as the most divisive of the six celebrities. Most of the days on this show, David ...

Deutsche Welle
How Australia is failing its indigenous people | Asia | DW.COM ...
Deutsche Welle
Australia's economy has been growing for 25 years, the country is deemed one of the happiest in the world. But one group is not profiting from this prosperity: the ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
'This country is racist': TV moment will shock us
dailytelegraph.com.au
Many condemned the show and “white privilege” shown by Mr Oldfield, with artist Brendon Marczan saying “makes me wish I wasn't Australian”. Others noted the “irony” of David Oldfield saying he had “sensitive” skin and blasted him for being “disrespectful”.

Huffington Post Australia
'Aboriginal Australia should have died'
Courier Mail
The views of the former One Nation politician were always going to be controversial but we didn't know how extreme until now. “Frankly it (Aboriginal Australia) should have died out like the stone age,” Oldfield says early on. “Aboriginality is just ...
SBS's 'First Contact' Sent Well-Known Aussies Into Aboriginal Australia. Here's What They LearnedHuffington Post Australia
First Contact 2016 on SBS: The TV moment that shocked AustraliaNEWS.com.au
Trapped in Australia's 'invisible prison'The Mercury
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Huffington Post Australia
'Aboriginal Australia should have died out'
NEWS.com.au
Six celebrities — talent judge Ian 'Dicko Dickson', ex One Nation politician David Oldfield, singer Natalie Imbruglia, comedian Tom Ballard, actor Nicki Wendt and former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris — spent 28 days visiting remote Aboriginal ...
SBS's 'First Contact' Sent Well-Known Aussies Into Aboriginal Australia. Here's What They LearnedHuffington Post Australia
Well-known Aussies in the heart of Aboriginal affairsThe West Australian
First Contact show sees David Oldfield weep with Aboriginal elder ...dailytelegraph.com.au
The New Daily -Gold Coast Bulletin -9news.com.au
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The Advertiser
Whatever you call it, Australia Day is our most divisive day
The Advertiser
Australia Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day. Whatever you call it, January 26 is either seen as a day for non-indigenous Australians to celebrate the founding of Australia or for Aboriginal people to mourn dispossession and slaughter. Australia is ...
Pauline Hanson Says There Is 'No Definition To An Aboriginal'Huffington Post Australia
#DefineAboriginal: Pauline Hanson's 'no definition to Aboriginal' comment sparks sharing of racism storiesABC Online
Pauline Hanson questions 'Aboriginal' definition, praised by Noel PearsonThe New Daily
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SBS
Test your knowledge of Indigenous Australia
SBS
First Contact follows the journey of six well-known Australians as they confront a startling truth about their own experience of being Australian: they have never experienced contact with indigenous Australians. It's a confronting, powerful series that ...
SBS's 'First Contact' Sent Well-Known Aussies Into Aboriginal Australia. Here's What They LearnedHuffington Post Australia
'Aboriginal Australia should have died'NEWS.com.au
First Contact show sees David Oldfield weep with Aboriginal elder ...dailytelegraph.com.au
The New Daily -The West Australian -Pedestrian TV
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The Conversation AU
Australian schools continue to fall behind other countries in maths and science
The Conversation AU
... in the home compared to 51% with few books in the home. The story is similar for Year 8 in mathematics and even worse in science. The gaps in achievement between Australia's Indigenous and non-Indigenous students remain as they were 20 years ago.
Wake-up call: Australian students fall behind Kazakhstan in maths and science rankingsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australian student performance flatliningTeacher Magazine

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The West Australian
'Don't tell us what to do from your government jobs'
The West Australian
An indigenous leader involved in Fremantle council's decision to move its Australia Day celebrations has hit back at former West Australian of the Year Robert Isaacs over his criticism of the plan. Mr Isaacs, a member of the Stolen Generation, last ...

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SBS
Racism is a reality, not just reality TV
SBS
First Contact shines a light on this deep divide by taking a group of non-Indigenous people, from different walks of life and with strong and varied opinions, and immersing them into Aboriginal Australia for the first time. It will reveal Aboriginal ...

SBS
You say 'kangaroo', I say 'rock wallaby': Children's Ground offers new approach to Indigenous education
SBS
First Contact (season 2) airs on 29 November, 30 November and 1 December 2016 at 8:30pm on SBS. Across 28 Days, six well-known Aussies take an epic journey into Aboriginal Australia. Watch the trailer here, and catch-up on episodes after the program ...

ABC Online
#DefineAboriginal: Pauline Hanson's 'no definition to Aboriginal' comment sparks sharing of racism stories
ABC Online
Indigenous people have shared their personal stories of racism on social media, after One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson said there was no definition of Aboriginal in an interview on the Bolt Report. "What defines an Aboriginal?" Senator Hanson told ...
Pauline Hanson questions 'Aboriginal' definition, praised by Noel PearsonThe New Daily
Pauline Hanson Says There Is 'No Definition To An Aboriginal'Huffington Post Australia
Whatever you call it, Australia Day is our most divisive dayThe Advertiser
Mashable -Sky News Australia -Herald Sun (blog)
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ABC Online
#DefineAboriginal: Pauline Hanson's 'no definition to Aboriginal' comment sparks sharing of racism stories
ABC Online
Indigenous people have shared their personal stories of racism on social media, after One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson said there was no definition of Aboriginal in an interview on the Bolt Report. "What defines an Aboriginal?" Senator Hanson told ...
Whatever you call it, Australia Day is our most divisive dayThe Advertiser
Pauline Hanson Says There Is 'No Definition To An Aboriginal'Huffington Post Australia
Pauline Hanson questions 'Aboriginal' definition, praised by Noel PearsonThe New Daily
Sky News Australia -Herald Sun (blog) -Mashable
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The Guardian
My experience on First Contact challenged everything I knew about Indigenous Australia
The Guardian
First Contact is based on the premise that six out of 10 Australians have little to no meaningful contact with Indigenous Australians. It tries to change that by taking six white Australians – in my case, blindingly white – and throwing them into the ...

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WAtoday
Aboriginal elders 'break silence' on Fremantle Australia Day saga
WAtoday
The Aboriginal elders that led the charge to have the Australia Day fireworks canned in Fremantle and celebrate the day two days later have finally had their say on the saga. Respected elder Robert Eggington said the group of elders were never silent ...

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Huffington Post Australia
SBS's 'First Contact' Sent Well-Known Aussies Into Aboriginal Australia. Here's What They Learned
Huffington Post Australia
It's hard to wrap your head around the fact that, in 2016, a television network has sent six high-profile Australians to the outback to meet their nation's first people. But once you learn that 6 in 10 Australians have actually had little or no contact ...
First Contact 2016 on SBS: Tensions flare on journey into Aboriginal AustraliaNEWS.com.au
Well-known Aussies in the heart of Aboriginal affairsThe West Australian
Indigenous culture 'should've died out'dailytelegraph.com.au
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