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Aboriginal Australians, Pacific Islanders carry DNA of unknown human species, research analysis suggests
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People from Papua New Guinea and north-east Australia carry small amounts of DNA of an unidentified, extinct human species, a new research analysis has suggested. Key points: Statistical geneticist carried out research analysis on percentages of ...
Weird News 2016: Scientists Discover Modern Community Keeping 'Unknown Human Species'Health Aim

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Aboriginal Australians, Pacific Islanders carry DNA of unknown human species, research analysis suggests
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People from Papua New Guinea and north-east Australia carry small amounts of DNA of an unidentified, extinct human species, a new research analysis has suggested. Key points: Statistical geneticist carried out research analysis on percentages of ...

Financial Times
Care crisis revealed among Australia's aboriginal children
Financial Times
The report reflects a growing child protection crisis in Australia, where aboriginal children are 10 times as likely as non-indigenous peers to be placed in state care. Its publication follows an outcry over the treatment of an indigenous youth held in ...
Keeping kids with familiesHerald Sun

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Financial Times
Care crisis revealed among Australia's aboriginal children
Financial Times
The report reflects a growing child protection crisis in Australia, where aboriginal children are 10 times as likely as non-indigenous peers to be placed in state care. Its publication follows an outcry over the treatment of an indigenous youth held in ...
Victorian inquiry to address rise in Indigenous children in child protection servicesRadio Australia
Aboriginal children in care 'isolated from family and culture', says Victoria reportThe Guardian

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Google hands out more than $5m to Australian not-for-profits for innovation
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Professor Tom Calma from the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation proposed a special program to record Australia's many Indigenous languages. "Australia was once a home of over 600 Indigenous language spoken for tens of thousands of years," ...

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Dubbo students speak about Songlines at NAIDOC debating challenge
ABC Local
"It's a significant theme and something that's very important to the Aboriginal people of Australia ... because it's their history, it's their past. "Unlike Western culture where history is merely a set of bullet points and events, it's the stories ...

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AFL push for more Indigenous umpires
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Mr Wauchope believes the dearth of Indigenous umpires has had an impact on how Aboriginal people think about the game. "They don't see other Aboriginals doing it, they think in their head 'that's not my thing because that is their thing, the white ...

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AFL push for more Indigenous umpires
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"Certainly the last few years if you headed into an umpiring group throughout Australia it was full of a lot of white males and we are trying to change that – whether it be Indigenous, more females or more people from multicultural backgrounds," said ...

Exhibition launch: Indigenous Australians at war
Barossa & Light Herald
An exhibition honouring the role of Indigenous Australians in war will be launched at the Barossa Regional Gallery in the coming weeks. The Indigenous Australians at War exhibition will visit the region as part of a tour that has seen its stunning ...

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Exhibition launch: Indigenous Australians at war
Barossa & Light Herald
An exhibition honouring the role of Indigenous Australians in war will be launched at the Barossa Regional Gallery in the coming weeks. The Indigenous Australians at War exhibition will visit the region as part of a tour that has seen its stunning ...

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Sophie Collombet murder: Benjamin Milward jailed for life for raping, killing French student in Brisbane
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He said the family had been "completely overwhelmed" by the support and warmth shown by the Australian people, particularly those in Brisbane. "This is why they've wanted to come to Australia, all together as a family, so they could collectively say ...

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Indigenous arts take centre stage in Wesley Enoch's first Sydney Festival
The Sydney Morning Herald
A concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of Australia's 1967 Indigenous rights referendum and Aboriginal language classes are among the highlights of the 2017 Sydney Festival, which will also feature concerts by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and PJ ...

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Indigenous arts take centre stage in Wesley Enoch's first Sydney Festival
The Sydney Morning Herald
A concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of Australia's 1967 Indigenous rights referendum and Aboriginal language classes are among the highlights of the 2017 Sydney Festival, which will also feature concerts by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and PJ ...

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Poor, remote Indigenous Australians have increased risk of sexually transmissible infections
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A unique 21-year study of more than 2.4 million cases of infectious disease across Australia reveals a major social divide where being poorer, living remotely or being an Indigenous Australian means having an increased risk of sexually transmissible ...

Australia's coal politics are undermining democratic and Indigenous rights
The Conversation AU
These challenges sit outside the current powers of the Coordinator General and are at the intersection of Australia's native title system and the rights of Indigenous peoples under international law and conventions. For Indigenous communities, the mine ...

Moon Rock Aboriginal site in Sydney shows long association with astronomy and Dreamtime stories
The Sydney Morning Herald
"It's just fabulous that we are standing here at such an amazing site less than 15 kilometres from the CBD of Australia's largest city," said Nathan Moran, chief executive of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, which owns the 5.8-hectare site.

Rhodes Scholar Rebecca Richards aims to improve SA Museum Aboriginal collection
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Australia's first Aboriginal Rhodes Scholar says being selected for the South Australian Museum Pathways cadet program has taken her full circle in life. Rebecca Richards, 29, grew up among the Adnyamathanha and Barngarla people of South Australia's ...

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Rottnest Island: Black prison to white playground
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The inmates buried here were among almost 4,000 men and boys from all across Western Australia imprisoned in the Aboriginal-only Rottnest Island Prison between 1838 and 1931. When the first white settlers came sailing up the Derbarl Yerrigan, or Swan ...

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Rottnest Island: Black prison to white playground
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The inmates buried here were among almost 4,000 men and boys from all across Western Australia imprisoned in the Aboriginal-only Rottnest Island Prison between 1838 and 1931. When the first white settlers came sailing up the Derbarl Yerrigan, or Swan ...

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Business Insider Australia
Some Australians are furious with a new lamb ad for diversity, saying it's 'racist' and offensive to white people
Business Insider Australia
“It's easy to associate the Australian aboriginal with only eating kangaroo but with this current social need for 'integration' in Australia, this advert falls horribly short. “I found this advertisement offensive in the racist manner it portrays a ...

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