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Refugees shine at ethnic business awards
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The company provides services across business, health services, education and retail. Sam Bashiry left behind in Iran when he fled to Australia with his mother and sister. Safe on Australian soil, they spent two years inside a detention centre before ...

Football Australia (press release)
Inaugural National Indigenous Football Championships hailed a success
Football Australia (press release)
Football Federation Australia CEO David Gallop attended the event and paid tribute to the organisers for putting on a fantastic tournament. “I was really delighted to be at the Championships which were a true celebration of football and Indigenous culture.

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Kalgoorlie's CEO concerned for city's reputation after riots that followed Aboriginal teenager's death
ABC Online
He admitted racism and juvenile crime were ongoing problems in the community, but argued that was the case across much of Australia. "Is Kalgoorlie worse than others? We don't believe it is. But clearly some of the events recently which triggered what ...
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ABC Online
Crochet for a pope and a president: Aboriginal elder Mary Lee farewelled at Darwin funeral
ABC Online
Born in Darwin in the 1930s, Ms Lee endured some of Australia's greatest tragedies and controversial policy decisions, such as being taken from her family, and surviving the bombing of Darwin and Cyclone Tracy. She was in her 60s when she completed her ...

The Australian
18C complainant 'terrified to come back' to Australia
The Australian
She posted on August 30: “Every time someone stops listening to how the indigenous community feels about something and starts giving their bias (sic) opinion on race relations in Australia, little bits of dignity and pride get lost. Soon you realise ...

The Australian
'White lawyers' behind complaint
The Australian
A complaint on behalf of Mr Gunn and Mr Till was lodged by the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia, triggering another taxpayer-funded probe into Leak's art and The Australian. They are relying on the Racial Discrimination Act's section 18C ...

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It's wrong to put the onus on Bill Leak to justify himself
The Australian
As a result of the application of section 18C, state-enforced dogma challenges all public discussion of questions about Aboriginal Australia which is at risk of being permanently dumped down the memory hole. That Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel ...

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WA cave dig uncovers evidence of human activity dating back 25000 years
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Archaeologists say evidence of human activity found in a cave in Western Australia proves Aboriginal people lived in the area thousands of years earlier than previously thought. Radiocarbon tests carried out on samples collected during an excavation at ...

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National Indigenous Championships look to unearth more stars
SBS - The World Game
Held in NSW's Shoalhaven, the first fully national event will bring together 24 Indigenous men and women's teams from across Australia and New Zealand to compete for national honours with the finals to be played on Sunday. Indigenous players make up ...

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The Age
Could this be the place for a treaty to 'end the war' on Indigenous Australia
The Age
On Friday, 181 years after white settlers gave the Wurundjeri people blankets, tomahawks and flour in exchange for the land, a group of Aboriginal elders returned to Merri Creek. They came from around Victoria to discuss treaty talks currently underway ...

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The Age
Could this be the place for a treaty to 'end the war' on Indigenous Australia
The Age
In 1835, at a meeting place believed to be on the banks of Merri Creek, an agreement was struck between a group of Warundjeri elders and one of Melbourne's founders, John Batman. Not long after it was signed, the then Governor of NSW declared it ...

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Business Insider Australia
5 things you need to know in Australian tech today
Business Insider Australia
Two indigenous Australian entrepreneurs have launched an innovation hub for minority groups. StartupSmart reports D:Hive will open in February to provide “a centre for digital innovation, learning, collaboration” for indigenous and recent migrants to ...

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ABC Online
Saying g'day with emojis: Brisbane developer creates app to show off Australian culture
ABC Online
Originally from Jamaica, Mr Reid migrated to Queensland eight years ago and became an Australian citizen in 2014. He said he wanted to create emojis that explained the quirks of Australian culture as well as encompassing Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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Come our end: closing the gap with Indigenous culture
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It underscored a foundation that was set by Waradjuri man Mark McMillan, Associate Professor Melbourne Law School, who on the first day reframed the discussion between white and Aboriginal Australia as a discussion of how sovereignty can be shared in a ...

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Come our end: closing the gap with Indigenous culture
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It underscored a foundation that was set by Waradjuri man Mark McMillan, Associate Professor Melbourne Law School, who on the first day reframed the discussion between white and Aboriginal Australia as a discussion of how sovereignty can be shared in a ...

ABC Online
WA Department of Environment blocks expansion plans for award-winning Indigenous irrigation project at Mowanjum
ABC Online
The flagship project for Western Australia's Water for Food program is being denied the opportunity to expand by the Department of Environment Regulation, which has rejected an application to clear land on the Indigenous-owned Mowanjum Station. The WA ...

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Gillian Triggs rejects 18C 'bias' claims over Bill Leak probe
The Australian
“(He) expressed an opinion that a significant number of people would agree that the cartoon by Mr Leak was a racial stereotype of Aboriginal Australians and an opinion that our society shouldn't endorse racial stereotyping of Aboriginal Australians or ...

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The Australian
Deadly but preventable type 2 diabetes on the rise in Australia
The Australian
In 2013, diabetes contributed to 10 per cent of all deaths in Australia, most cases listing diabetes as an associated cause (coronary heart disease was the underlying cause in 23 per cent of those deaths and stroke in 6 per cent). Regrettably ...

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Toilet stop led to discovery of 49000-year-old Aboriginal settlement in Flinders Ranges, South Australia - Yahoo7
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La Trobe university archeologist Giles Hamm was surveying the Flinders Ranges region in South Australia with Aboriginal elder Cliff Coulthard when “nature called”, Mr Hamm told the ABC. "Cliff walked up this creek bed into this gorge and found this ...
49000 year old Aboriginal shelter foundSky News Australia
Man searching for toilet stumbles across 49000 year-old evidence of earliest human settlement in AustraliaThe Independent
Astounding archaeology discovery places inland human occupation of Australia at 49000 yearsThe Sydney Morning Herald
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Study into Aboriginal English used in WA
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University of Western Australia linguistics researcher Celeste Rodriguez Louro has received a grant to analyse variations and changes and understand the rules of the language spoken by Perth-based Aborigines. Aboriginal English was spoken throughout ...