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Indigenous incarceration: Too little action on national disgrace - The Age


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Indigenous incarceration: Too little action on national disgrace
The Age
It was Senator Dodson, after all, who 25 years ago as a royal commissioner into Aboriginal deaths in custody, made a call for a sweeping reforms to make imprisonment a measure of last resort. Yet even now, staggeringly, one in four people in Australian ...
WHO Report recommends free hepatitis B vaccinations for Indigenous AustraliansSBS

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Thanks for nothing, Hillary and Julia - dailytelegraph.com.au


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Thanks for nothing, Hillary and Julia
dailytelegraph.com.au
This alliance of green groups with native title owners is a frightening development detailed in a new book by historian Keith Windschuttle, The Break-up of Australia: The Real Agenda behind Aboriginal Recognition. He reveals the imminent expansion of ...

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WHO Report recommends free hepatitis B vaccinations for Indigenous Australians - SBS


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WHO Report recommends free hepatitis B vaccinations for Indigenous Australians
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A new Australian report for the World Health Organisation calls for free hepatitis B immunisations for all Indigenous adults. Royal Melbourne Hospital infectious-diseases specialist Benjamin Cowie is one of the authors. "An Aboriginal person has four ...

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WHO Report recommends free hepatitis B vaccinations for ... - SBS - SBS


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WHO Report recommends free hepatitis B vaccinations for ... - SBS
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SBS World News Radio: A new Australian report for the World Health Organisation calls for a national hepatitis B immunisation program for Indigenous ...

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Bias: ABC makes Aboriginal activist Stan Grant its gatekeeper - Herald Sun (blog)


Bias: ABC makes Aboriginal activist Stan Grant its gatekeeper
Herald Sun (blog)
Stan Grant, one of Australia's best known and most respected journalists, is joining ABC News in a two-fold role: Taking the newly-created position of Editor, Indigenous Affairs Coverage as well as hosting a new Friday night current affairs program ...

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the changing face of Australian hip-hop - The Sydney Morning Herald


The Sydney Morning Herald

the changing face of Australian hip-hop
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous rapper Briggs entered the mainstream with his 2014 album Sheplife. With this, his third release, he refined his percussive political rap enough to become a Chuck D-style commentator on Australian discrimination. On single Bad Apples, he took ...

No, Shireen. Apartheid in Australia is a real danger - Herald Sun (blog)


No, Shireen. Apartheid in Australia is a real danger
Herald Sun (blog)
In my experience, having talked with indigenous people about constitutional recognition for almost six years, very few indigenous Australians want a separate state in the international sense, as Windschuttle suggests. Few feel this is desirable, let ...

Reflecting on the Freedom Rides 50 years on from Charlie Perkins' graduation as first Aboriginal to complete university - ABC Online


ABC Online

Reflecting on the Freedom Rides 50 years on from Charlie Perkins' graduation as first Aboriginal to complete university
ABC Online
It was an unremarkable feat for most other students at the time, but for Charlie Perkins — and for Aboriginal people across Australia — it was part of a movement that propelled Indigenous rights forward, on to the front pages of our newspapers and to ...

Reflecting on the Freedom Rides 50 years on from Charlie Perkins' graduation as first Aboriginal to complete university - ABC Online


ABC Online

Reflecting on the Freedom Rides 50 years on from Charlie Perkins' graduation as first Aboriginal to complete university
ABC Online
It was an unremarkable feat for most other students at the time, but for Charlie Perkins — and for Aboriginal people across Australia — it was part of a movement that propelled Indigenous rights forward, on to the front pages of our newspapers and to ...

When Australian cricket was a relief from Indigenous misery - The Border Mail


The Border Mail

When Australian cricket was a relief from Indigenous misery
The Border Mail
The Boxing Day test at the MCG this year between Pakistan and Australia will be dedicated to the memory of Australia's first Aboriginal cricketers, and numerous lead-up events will be held to declare that cricket is a sport for all Australians. About ...

He's got history - The Australian


The Australian

He's got history
The Australian
The first volume of Australia's People focused on Aboriginal Australia, and Blainey acknowledged his “dismay” that so much of his early work had been overturned by new anthropological and documentary research. Perhaps most surprisingly – considering ...

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Pridham donates $5m to UniSA - The Australian


Pridham donates $5m to UniSA
The Australian
Investment banker and Sydney Swans chair Andrew Pridham will today donate $5 million to his alma mater, the University of South Australia, to help with major building works and provide scholarships to indigenous students and elite international athletes.

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'Separatism' through indigenous recognition an irrational fear - The Australian


'Separatism' through indigenous recognition an irrational fear
The Australian
Last Saturday, Inquirer ran an extract from Keith Windschuttle's new book, The Break-Up of Australia: The Real Agenda Behind Aboriginal Recognition, which contends that indigenous activists seek constitutional recognition because it will lead to ...

Listen or lose it: Indigenous community threatens to close Uluru | NITV - SBS


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Listen or lose it: Indigenous community threatens to close Uluru | NITV
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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.

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Turnbull calls Australia's domestic violence 'a disgrace' - SBS


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Turnbull calls Australia's domestic violence 'a disgrace'
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$25 million for services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians experiencing family violence. $15 million to improve and expand national domestic and family violence services. This includes developing innovative and collaborative service ...
Malcolm Turnbull declares: Bill Leak is not a racistThe Guardian
Domestic violence action plan to focus on indigenous women, kidsThe Australian
Quit the sexist jokes: TurnbullThe Australian Financial Review
Sky News Australia -Pro Bono Australia
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PM calls Australia's domestic violence "a disgrace" - SBS


SBS

PM calls Australia's domestic violence "a disgrace"
SBS
$25 million for services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians experiencing family violence. $15 million to improve and expand national domestic and family violence services. This includes developing innovative and collaborative service ...
Domestic violence action plan to focus on indigenous women, kidsThe Australian
Quit the sexist jokes: TurnbullThe Australian Financial Review
Malcolm Turnbull puts family violence talks with states back on agendaThe Guardian

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Call for nationwide Indigenous Hepatitis B vaccinations - SBS


SBS

Call for nationwide Indigenous Hepatitis B vaccinations
SBS
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are at significant increased risk of Hepatitis B, according to a new World Health Organisation report. Its authors say that with the higher rate of Hepatitis B for Indigenous Australians - 3.6 cases per ...

Stan Grant to join ABC as editor of Indigenous Affairs - ABC Online


ABC Online

Stan Grant to join ABC as editor of Indigenous Affairs
ABC Online
Stan Grant, one of Australia's best known and most respected journalists, is joining ABC News as an editor of Indigenous Affairs coverage. Starting in December, Grant will lead and drive ABC News's coverage of Indigenous Affairs, overseeing planning ...
ABC axes Friday edition of 7.30 programThe Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC axes Friday edition of 7.30 program - The Sydney Morning Herald


The Sydney Morning Herald

ABC axes Friday edition of 7.30 program
The Sydney Morning Herald
Grant – a media veteran with experience domestically and internationally, including roles at CNN, NITV, Sky News and Guardian Australia – has forged a reputation for his powerful writing and speeches on discrimination against Aboriginal Australians.

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Overhaul crisis-hit NT jail system: report - 9news.com.au


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Overhaul crisis-hit NT jail system: report
9news.com.au
A scathing report on the Northern Territory's correctional system calls for a complete overhaul to address a "devastating" crisis unfolding for Indigenous Australians. NT attorney-general and justice minister Natasha Fyles released the executive ...
'Gross over-representation' of Indigenous people in NT jails a 'crisis of devastating proportions': Hamburger reportABC Online

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