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The Guardian
Indigenous well-represented on Australian TV but diversity has 'long way to go' – report
The Guardian
However, Indigenous Australians have recently become well-represented among main characters, and children's programs and comedy are forging the way to a more representative on-screen culture by casting more diverse leads. Based on analysis of 1,961 ...
Screen Australia diversity report finds Australian TV still lacks colourThe Sydney Morning Herald
Landmark study finds diversity lagging on Australian TVThe Conversation AU
Why Australian television needs a makeoverSBS (blog)
Junkee
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ABC Message Stick
WA linguist welcomes Indigenous words in Australian National Dictionary
ABC Message Stick
A West Australian linguist has welcomed the inclusion of words from more than 100 Indigenous languages to the Australian National Dictionary. The new additions were among more than 6,000 words and phrases added to the publication's first substantial ...
Australian dictionary releases new edition with more Indigenous wordsSBS
A New Dictionary Down UnderThe Atlantic
Tony Abbott inspires new words in latest Australian National DictionaryThe Australian
Gizmodo Australia -NEWS.com.au
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The Guardian
Indigenous prison rate soared 52% in decade, report reveals
The Guardian
Last month the ABC's Four Corners program released damning footage of abuse of Indigenous prisoners inside the Don Dale youth detention centre in Darwin. The Australian Institute of Judicial Administration has released a new report on Aboriginal ...

The Guardian
Comatose Indigenous man handcuffed and shackled to hospital bed
The Guardian
A comatose Indigenous man has been handcuffed and shackled to a hospital bed in Western Australia after collapsing during a court appearance. Noongar man Nathan Khan collapsed in front of a magistrate at the Midland magistrates court about 11.30am ...

Hard evidence necessary to lift indigenous welfare
The Australian
The CIS points out that most indigenous affairs policy fails to distinguish between markedly different sectors of indigenous Australia. Some 65 per cent of indigenous people had jobs and lives similar to other Australians; the obvious question is ...

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Herald Sun
Jeff Kennett on helping indigenous people in Australia: New thinking is vital
Herald Sun
Simply put, very few non-indigenous Australians know enough about indigenous culture to impose our standards and judgments on their customs. For instance, at The Torch, our board, mainly non-indigenous, provides the governance, support and raises ...

Aboriginal jail rates increase by 50 per cent
The Canberra Times
The imprisonment rate for Aboriginal Australians has increased by an alarming 52 per cent over a decade. But Indigenous people are missing out on rehabilitation programs that could help them avoid returning to jail because they are not being locked up ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal jail rates increase by 50 per cent
The Sydney Morning Herald
The imprisonment rate for Aboriginal Australians has increased by an alarming 52 per cent over a decade. But Indigenous people are missing out on rehabilitation programs that could help them avoid returning to jail because they are not being locked up ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal jail rates increase by 50 per cent
The Sydney Morning Herald
The imprisonment rate for Aboriginal Australians has increased by an alarming 52 per cent over a decade. But Indigenous people are missing out on rehabilitation programs that could help them avoid returning to jail because they are not being locked up ...
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ABC Online
Calls for tech companies to add Australia's Indigenous flags to emoji lineup
ABC Online
A Noongar man from Perth says a petition he started pushing for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to be turned into emojis has had a strong response. Derek Nannup said he got the idea when he saw a string of international flag emojis on ...

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ABC Online
Calls for tech companies to add Australia's Indigenous flags to emoji lineup
ABC Online
A Noongar man from Perth says a petition he started pushing for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to be turned into emojis has had a strong response. Derek Nannup said he got the idea when he saw a string of international flag emojis on ...

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The Guam Daily Post (press release) (registration)
Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on sacred land
The Guam Daily Post (press release) (registration)
It's this above-ground dump for domestic waste that affects the Flinders, known for its haunting landscapes and home to the Adnyamathanha people, one of several hundred indigenous groups in Australia. For the first time, the government says it has ...

Australian dictionary releases new edition with more Indigenous words
SBS
Australians can learn more about the country's Indigenous cultures with the Australian National Dictionary releasing a new addition on Tuesday containing words such as 'Tjukurpa', meaning 'the Dreaming', which forms a part of Indigenous Australian ...

Australian Geographic
Meet our dictionary's new...
Australian Geographic
A NEW EDITION of the Australian National Dictionary has just been published. It contains 16,000 words and while the first edition (published in 1988) included about 250 words from 60 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, the latest has more ...
The Australian National Dictionary Now Includes Goon Of Fortune, Bogans and 'Do A Bradbury'Gizmodo Australia
Australian dictionary includes new wordsSky News Australia
How Tony Abbott contributed to the Aussie vocabularyNEWS.com.au
The Guardian
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Pro Bono Australia
Songs and Stories of Indigenous Incarceration
Pro Bono Australia
In Australia's first musical documentary, filmmaker Kelrick Martin enters Berrimah Prison, the Northern Territory's largest jail, which is home to 800 men and women – 80 per cent of whom are Indigenous. Through stories and songs, the inmates share ...

Hard facts desperately needed to end shambles of indigenous policy
The Australian
Without proper needs assessments and greater accountability for the delivery of services to indigenous Australia, it's impossible to know how money in the sector should be spent at all. This year's Senate committee inquiry into the Indigenous ...

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The Australian
$6bn a year fails to help Aborigines, says CIS report - The Australian
The Australian
Indigenous affairs spending worth 5.9 billion a year is not delivering results because few of the schemes being funded are properly evaluated, the assessment of ...

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The Australian
$6bn a year fails to help Aborigines, says CIS report
The Australian
It documents massive duplication of services, with Roebourne in Western Australia having 67 local service providers and more than 400 state and federal funded programs for a population of 1150; Toomelah in NSW has more than 70 service providers for a ...

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Aljazeera.com
Enterprise draws on art to help Australia's Aboriginals
Aljazeera.com
Blak Markets in Bare island is an indigenous outfit that sells the works of aboriginal artists from across the country, both online and at events. "I think it would've been difficult for me to find employment anywhere else," Little told Al Jazeera. "I ...

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The Monthly (subscription)
Indigenous players face racism: Eddie Betts
Sky News Australia
AFL aboriginal advisory Committee chair Paul Briggs said there was no debate as to the intent. 'While speculation and debate will occur around the motivation of such behaviour, it is clearly an unambiguous racist act, something most fair-minded ...
Australia, we are terrible at talking about racismThe Monthly (subscription)
Port fan who threw banana at Eddie Betts during Showdown 41 banned 'indefinitely' by Port AdelaideHerald Sun
Shaun Burgoyne calls for further education following incidentPort Adelaide
The Advertiser -TripleM Sydney
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