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Remembrance Day: Private Miller Mack's 'spirit' to return home a century after he left for the Great War
ABC Online
Almost a century after he was buried in an unmarked, common grave in South Australia, the remains of an Aboriginal digger who fought in the Great War will be returned to his home. Private Miller Mack was buried in Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetery in ...

The New Daily
Possible 'first encounter' Aboriginal shield uncovered in Berlin
The New Daily
Aboriginal shield boomerang Berlin The boomerang found at the Berlin museum, believed to have been stolen by James Cook on April 29 1770. Photo: ABC/Dylan Wood. Mark Wilson, an Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools organisation involved in 'high risk' business practices ...
ABC Online
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools Australia organisation has been involved in "high risk" business practices potentially leaving the schools open to possible fraud and official misconduct, according to a confidential government ...

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Indigenous leader Noel Pearson withdraws support for troubled Aurukun school
ABC Online
Mr Pearson wrote to the Queensland Government today advising that the non-profit association he founded, Good to Great Schools Australia [GGSA], will cease "all negotiations in relation to Aurukun and any further provision of support to the school ...

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ASIC targets traders exploiting Aboriginal communities through dodgy credit practices
ABC Online
The court found that the owner of Nobby's Mintabie General Store in South Australia's APY Lands engaged in unconscionable and unlicensed conduct. 'Book up' is an informal credit used in many remote Aboriginal communities, that allows people to buy ...

ABC Online
ASIC targets traders exploiting Aboriginal communities through dodgy credit practices
ABC Online
The court found that the owner of Nobby's Mintabie General Store in South Australia's APY Lands engaged in unconscionable and unlicensed conduct. 'Book up' is an informal credit used in many remote Aboriginal communities, that allows people to buy ...

ABC Online
APY Lands shame: Shop took $1 million from Aborigines
The Advertiser
In a statement, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission said store owner Lindsay Gordon Kobelt's practices were “exploitative”, that he used the credit system to control his customers and what they bought, and to bind them to him and his ...
ASIC targets traders exploiting Aboriginal communities through dodgy credit practicesABC Online
Court lashes Mintabie store's unlicensed 'book-up' loansThe Australian

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New Matilda
South Australian Citizens' Jury Rejects International Nuclear Waste Dump Plan
New Matilda
Friends of the Earth Australia said: “The Premier said he will respect the views of Aboriginal Traditional Owners and it is clear that an overwhelming majority of Traditional Owners are opposed to the high-level nuclear waste dump plan. The Citizens ...

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ABC Online
Emotional Pat Dodson calls for action to stop devastating rate of Indigenous suicide
ABC Online
"I know it happened in Fitzroy [Crossing], a dear 12-year-old boy whose parents found him. "Whatever caused that, I don't know, and it's very hard for us to understand." Nearly a third of children who take their own lives in Australia are Indigenous.
Dodson sheds tears on indigenous suicideNEWS.com.au

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Warren's Indigenous Football legacy
FourFourTwo Australia
The late great Johnny Warren was a passionate advocate of the Indigenous community and their potential role that Aboriginal athletes had in growing the game of football in Australia. Jamie Warren, who runs the Australian football legend's foundation ...

FourFourTwo Australia
Warren's Indigenous Football legacy
FourFourTwo Australia
The late great Johnny Warren was a passionate advocate of the Indigenous community and their potential role that Aboriginal athletes had in growing the game of football in Australia. Jamie Warren, who runs the Australian football legend's foundation ...

SBS
Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
SBS
Many people don't know this, but Indigenous Australian children are born with much better eyesight than non-Indigenous children. Yet, at the population level, Indigenous people at the age of 40 have rates of vision loss three times that of non ...

SBS
Why is trachoma blinding Aboriginal children when mainstream Australia eliminated it 100 years ago?
SBS
Although it doesn't exist in mainstream Australia, trachoma persists in remote Aboriginal communities that still lack safe washing facilities and have notoriously poor and chronically overcrowded housing. Young children with constant eye and nose ...

SBS
Comment: "I have found strength in the resilience of my people"
SBS
What it means for me to be Indigenous is that I had to grow a thick skin as a young kid, all because of the colour of my skin. I have suffered abuse for trying to find out who I really was and what it meant to be Indigenous in Australia for me. While ...

No race-based uni support, says senator
NEWS.com.au
The NSW senator during a debate on support for indigenous students on Thursday said the disadvantage suffered by Aboriginal Australians continued to be "Australia's greatest policy failure" but throwing money at the problem was not the answer.

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Skill 360 Australia Indigenous pre-employment course boosts skills
The Cairns Post
Tori Warkill is a one of the success stories to come out of Skill 360 Australia's Cairns indigenous pre-employment training courses. The two-week program provides resume-building and interview tips. Ms Warkill completed a course in April and started a ...

ABC Online
Family from remote WA town travel to Canberra for launch of Indigenous suicide report
ABC Online
At the time, suicide was the fifth leading cause of death among Aboriginal people, twice as high as non-Aboriginal people in Australia. Late last year, a number of young people suicided in the northern WA Goldfields town of Leonora, including Norma ...

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The Australian
Oxfam Straight Talk summit focus on domestic violence in indigenous communities
The Australian
Eighty indigenous women from all over Australia visited parliament yesterday as part of the annual Oxfam Straight Talk summit, meeting politicians including Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, her Labor counterpart Penny Wong, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert ...

Daily Mail
Aboriginal community vows to cut tourist access to Australia's Uluru ...
Daily Mail
Mutitjulu, a remote indigenous community in the Northern Territory has threatened to close Uluru if their people continue to be neglected by the government as ...
We'll close Uluru: Indigenous community – EchonetdailyEchonetdaily

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Daily Mail
Aboriginal community vows to cut tourist access to Australia's Uluru
Daily Mail
A remote indigenous community near Uluru has threatened to 'close the rock' if their voices aren't heard and people continue to live in poverty. The Northern Territory royal commission into juvenile justice has visited, a small community where the ...

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