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Australian Senate to consider supporting return of Aboriginal warrior's shield
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The Australian Senate is to consider joining with the NSW Parliament in calling for the return of an Aboriginal warrior's shield used during Cook's first landing in Australia. In 1770, two men of the Gweagal people, one known as Cooman and one unknown ...

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Former Miss Universe Renae Ayris said she's been spat on by Indigenous Australians in Perth
Daily Mail
Former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris has said her contact with Aboriginal people 'hasn't been pleasant' as she's been verbally abused and spat on in the past. The 26-year-old, who will appear on an SBS program to debunk the stereotypes ...
I was spat on by indigenous people in Perth: Renae AyrisThe West Australian

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Former Miss Universe Renae Ayris said she's been spat on by Indigenous Australians in Perth
Daily Mail
Former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris has said her contact with Aboriginal people 'hasn't been pleasant' as she's been verbally abused and spat on in the past. The 26-year-old, who will appear on an SBS program to debunk the stereotypes ...
I was spat on by indigenous people in Perth: Renae AyrisThe West Australian

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Israel no model for Aboriginal people
Red Flag
Grant was attempting to highlight the resilience of Aboriginal identity in the aftermath of European colonisation. But this praise for Israel shockingly ignored the Palestinian people and the fact that, like Australia, Israel is a settler colonial ...

The West Australian
I was spat on by indigenous people in Perth: Renae Ayris
The West Australian
The 26-year-old said she wasn't educated about Aboriginal history and culture at school so thought this was the perfect opportunity to learn. “I don't think it's talked about enough at the moment or has been for years,” she said. “I know all my friends ...
Former Miss Universe Renae Ayris said she's been spat on by Indigenous Australians in PerthDaily Mail

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I was spat on by indigenous people in Perth: Renae Ayris
The West Australian
The 26-year-old said she wasn't educated about Aboriginal history and culture at school so thought this was the perfect opportunity to learn. “I don't think it's talked about enough at the moment or has been for years,” she said. “I know all my friends ...

David Oldfield, former One Nation hardman, to lead celebrity First Contact
WAtoday
Former One Nation hardman David Oldfield will have a close encounter with indigenous Australia when SBS brings a celebrity version of its Logie-winning show First Contact to air in November. Oldfield is widely seen as a warrior of the hard right, and ...

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David Oldfield, former One Nation hardman, to lead celebrity First Contact
The Sydney Morning Herald
Former One Nation hardman David Oldfield will have a close encounter with indigenous Australia when SBS brings a celebrity version of its Logie-winning show First Contact to air in November. Oldfield is widely seen as a warrior of the hard right, and ...

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Intestacy Rules for Indigenous Australians
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The high rate of intestacy among Indigenous Australians, and the fact that existing intestacy law did not reflect Indigenous relationships and traditions, made the introduction of the amendments to the Succession Act a necessity. The necessity has been ...

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Societal cancers left to fester for too long
dailytelegraph.com.au
The issue of family violence in both the broader Australian community and among Aboriginal Australians has become politicised, just as the rate of Aboriginal incarceration is doomed to become because of a kneejerk decision to hold a royal commission ...

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The Guardian
Australia must act now to prevent a new Stolen Generation tragedy
The Guardian
It assumed, and the Australian people also assumed, that wholesale government sanctioned removal of Aboriginal children was our past and our future involved reconciling the consequences of this action and dealing with the harm it caused. We needed a ...

The Guardian
Australia must act now to prevent a new Stolen Generation tragedy
The Guardian
In February 2008, the then prime minister Kevin Rudd addressed the national parliament and the Australian people to apologise to every person and Indigenous family devastated by the forced removal of children. We know them as the Stolen Generations.

New Matilda
Not Just For Laughs: How Australian Satirists Are Undermining White Supremacist Patriarchy
New Matilda
Such men seem more upset by an invisible spear than the suicide of a 10-year-old Aboriginal girl. Such men perform more outrage at criticism of misogynistic “jokes” than the fact that each week in Australia, a woman is murdered by her intimate partner.

New Matilda
Not Just For Laughs: How Australian Satirists Are Undermining White Supremacist Patriarchy
New Matilda
In a conversation about constitutional recognition, Pickering's character adopts the breezy ignorance of white Australia about Aboriginal affairs. “So, we just put in an acknowledgement [of Indigenous Australians in the constitution]and that seems easy ...

Welfare over culture: indigenous children have a right to safety
The Australian
Similar assertions have been made by the Aboriginal industry in response to the escalating crisis in indigenous child welfare. Such arguments risk perpetuating the gaps in social outcomes between the most disadvantaged indigenous Australians and other ...

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Welfare over culture: indigenous children have a right to safety
The Australian
Similar assertions have been made by the Aboriginal industry in response to the escalating crisis in indigenous child welfare. Such arguments risk perpetuating the gaps in social outcomes between the most disadvantaged indigenous Australians and other ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal man's story of Maralinga nuclear bomb survival told with virtual reality
ABC Online
In an unlikely collision of cultures, state-of-the-art 3D film technology is bringing an Aboriginal man's unique tale of nuclear bomb survival to audiences across Australia. In the 1950s Nyarri Morgan was a young man, walking and hunting in South ...
Collisions: part disaster movie, part travelogue, completely immersiveInDaily

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Rare Menang artefacts return to Albany after 180 years
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After two years of negotiations between the Albany Heritage Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation (AHRGAC), Western Australian Museum and British Museum, the collection will be displayed at WA Museum Albany from November until April.

ABC Message Stick
Rare Menang artefacts return to Albany after 180 years
ABC Message Stick
After two years of negotiations between the Albany Heritage Reference Group Aboriginal Corporation (AHRGAC), Western Australian Museum and British Museum, the collection will be displayed at WA Museum Albany from November until April.

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WA real estate agent resigns after Australia Day fireworks debacle telling woman to get the f**k out of the country ...
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The annual celebrations had been cancelled in Fremantle, Western Australia in August because it was found to be insensitive to Indigenous Australians. Some of the Indigenous population of Australia view this anniversary as Invasion Day. Stuart Endersby ...