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The Conversation AU
Countering the claims about Australia's Aboriginal number systems
The Conversation AU
Australia's Indigenous people had many methods for counting, and they didn't use just numbers.
Treaty holds the key to robust environmental law - Eureka StreetEureka Street (registration)

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The Conversation AU
Countering the claims about Australia's Aboriginal number systems
The Conversation AU
Norris claimed that our paper was about the largest numbers in Australian Aboriginal languages that could extend beyond ten, but still didn't extend past 20. He gave some examples of other Aboriginal counting systems with limits higher than those we ...

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WAtoday
No spark for Australia Day fireworks in Cockburn
WAtoday
Fremantle's Australian Day fireworks event will no longer take place. Photo: Jay Cronan. The cancellation of the fireworks sparked condemnation from many quarters with the Chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine ...

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WAtoday
No spark for Australia Day fireworks in Cockburn
WAtoday
Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt said in August that there was a growing movement that January 26 is increasingly becoming a day that is not for all Australians. "For many Aboriginal Australians it is indeed a day of sadness and dispossession," he said.
Australia Day fireworks: Cockburn council opts not to replace Fremantle event over cultural concernsABC Online
City of Armadale to push on with Australia Day fireworksCommunity Newspaper Group

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SBS
Chansey Paech is Australia's first gay, Indigenous parliamentarian
SBS
Chansey Paech spent the last several few weeks driving his silver Nissan four-wheel-drive around central Australia, meeting with small communities and sleeping under the stars. “I'm a pro at changing tyres and tying stuff on the back of the car,” he ...

Daily Mail
Indigenous Australians may have been the first bakers making loaves 15000 years before the Egyptians
Daily Mail
Australian author Bruce Pascoe claims Aboriginal people were not only hunter gatherers as commonly portrayed after European colonisation in his book 'Dark Emu, Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?' 'Yes, we were the first to invent bread by 15,000 years.

Celebrating Indigenous achievements in business::
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... capture and processing is adhered to, for this we are working through the process with the government and Aboriginal groups. I hope we can have in future a very viable native harvest business that provides products all over Australia and around the ...

Independent Australia
Australia's Indigenous children are incarcerated at the world's highest rate
Independent Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are sentenced and incarcerated at three times the rate of non-Aboriginal children arrested. This is another reason why many of us are calling for the national rollout of the Custody Notification Service ...

ABC Online
John Howard, Tony Abbott lock in against treaty with Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Two former Liberal prime ministers have outright rejected a treaty with Indigenous Australians, as public debate continues about the merits of holding a referendum to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
One in Ten Young Aboriginal Men Rate Their Happiness at ZeroVICE

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ABC Online
John Howard, Tony Abbott lock in against treaty with Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
Two former Liberal prime ministers have outright rejected a treaty with Indigenous Australians, as public debate continues about the merits of holding a referendum to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Let the market unchain indigenous communities
On Line opinion
The remote town of Warburton, Western Australia, gives us a glimpse into everyday life for many indigenous Australians. The average life expectancy in Warburton is 45. The population of 800 is mostly unemployed. Most young adults do not go to high school.

ABC Online
Sung into her seat: Indigenous MP Linda Burney makes history as the world watches
ABC Online
Wiradjuri woman Lynette Riley has been "blown away" by the international interest in her Indigenous acknowledgement, sung from the public gallery of the Australian Parliament, to welcome her long-time friend Linda Burney as the first Aboriginal woman ...

Star Observer
Chansey Paech: Australia's first openly gay Aboriginal MP
Star Observer
ONLY a couple of months shy of his 29th birthday, Chansey Paech has managed to achieve a pretty incredible feat – he is the first openly gay and Aboriginal person elected to parliament at a state, territory or federal level. Paech was part of the ...

Hyperallergic
Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
Hyperallergic
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia's Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics. They did so ...

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Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
Hyperallergic
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia's Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics. They did so ...
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happinessABC Online
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are IndigenousHuffington Post Australia
[ September 7, 2016 ] We can't let our young people despair and lose hope, says Calma NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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Huffington Post Australia
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are Indigenous
Huffington Post Australia
Even though they only comprise 2.5 percent of the population.
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happiness - ABCABC Online

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Huffington Post Australia
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are Indigenous
Huffington Post Australia
But alongside this evidence of progress are reminders of the wrongs of our colonial history, from the abuses at Don Dale to racism at the football ground and the ongoing disadvantages faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people today.
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happinessABC Online

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Huffington Post Australia
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happiness - ABC
ABC Online
Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men have lower rates of happiness than their non-Indigenous counterparts, with 10 percent rating their happiness as ...
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are IndigenousHuffington Post Australia
We can't let our young people despair and lose hope, says Calma ...National Indigenous Times
Report reveals alarming number of young Indigenous children are "unhappy"SBS
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ABC Online
'Zero out of ten': Indigenous youth rate low levels of happiness
ABC Online
Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men have lower rates of happiness than their non-Indigenous counterparts, with 10 percent rating their happiness as zero out of ten, a new survey has found. The Mission Australia Youth Survey spoke to 18,727 ...
25 Percent Of Homeless People In Australia Are IndigenousHuffington Post Australia
Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian ArtHyperallergic
[ September 7, 2016 ] We can't let our young people despair and lose hope, says Calma NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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SBS
Press Council rules out action over Bill Leak's cartoon despite more than 700 complaints
SBS
After accusations of inflaming already heightened racial tensions, The Australian editor-in-chief Paul Whittaker doesn't say the cartoon is racist, but instead, insinuates that people often focus on the tough issues, suggesting Aboriginal adults need ...

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