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The Guardian
Aurukun teachers evacuated after alleged carjacking in Indigenous community
The Guardian
Kate Jones, the Queensland education minister, ordered her department on Tuesday to urgently relocate 25 staff from the Aurukun campus of Noel Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy to Cairns after she became “deeply concerned” for their ...

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Socialist Worker Online
Aboriginal captives in Australia during colonization
Socialist Worker Online
Aboriginal captives in Australia during colonization. RENOWNED AUSTRALIAN anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner identified, in his 1968 Boyer Lecture, what he termed "the Great Australian Silence." Addressing the structural racism and the violent settler ...

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CRN Australia
Reseller banned from entering indigenous communities
CRN Australia
A reseller accused of "unconscionable conduct" against indigenous customers has agreed with the Federal Court to stop its sales practices and pay $20,000 in compensation. In January, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission commenced ...

CBC.ca
Canada removing objector status to UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
CBC.ca
The declaration — first adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007 — recognizes Indigenous people's basic human rights, as well as rights to self-determination, language, equality and land, among others. "We are fully adopting this and ...
Canada endorses United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeoplesGlobalnews.ca

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The Guardian
Shorten pledges 400 scholarships for Indigenous teachers – video
The Guardian
... seat of Leichhardt in Cairns. Shorten tells reporters that 'we need more kids from an Indigenous and Torres Strait background finishing Year 12'. Labor has pledged 400 scholarships for Indigenous Australians to become teachers, if it wins the 2 ...

The Guardian
Labor's Patrick Dodson says Indigenous treaty should be an option
The Guardian
Dodson noted that Victoria had begun negotiations with Indigenous Australians for a settlement agreement, which would be the first treaty with Indigenous Australians in Australia and follow similar arrangements with first peoples in Canada, the US and ...
Election 2016: Labor pledges more indigenous teachersSBS
Bill Shorten visits Cairns on first day of Federal Election campaignThe Cairns Post
LiveBlogLast Updated 7.20pm AEDTFederal Election 2016 live coverage: Turnbull, Shorten begin campaign blitzThe Australian

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The Guardian
Labor's Patrick Dodson says Indigenous treaty should be an option
The Guardian
Dodson noted that Victoria had begun negotiations with Indigenous Australians for a settlement agreement, which would be the first treaty with Indigenous Australians in Australia and follow similar arrangements with first peoples in Canada, the US and ...
Election 2016: Labor pledges more indigenous teachersSBS
Sam Dastyari hops on Shorten's busThe Australian Financial Review
Bill Shorten visits Cairns on first day of Federal Election campaignThe Cairns Post
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SBS
Election 2016: Labor pledges more indigenous teachers
SBS
Labor wants to get more indigenous teachers into Australian classrooms if it wins the July 2 federal election. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has promised 400 teaching scholarships for indigenous Australians, at a cost of $4.8 million over four years ...
Election 2016: Sam Dastyari hops on Bill Shorten's busThe Australian Financial Review
Federal election 2016: who won day two of the campaign?The Australian
Bill Shorten makes education a priority as Labor 'underdogs' hit campaign trailThe Guardian
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ABC Online
Aboriginal remains returned to country
ABC Online
Centuries-old Indigenous remains have been given an "emotional" burial ceremony in Western Australia's northern Goldfields. Members of the Wongatha community yesterday gathered at the Mount Margaret cemetery, 900 kilometres east of Perth, to lay their ...

The Conversation AU
Black Velvet: redefining and celebrating Indigenous Australian women in art
The Conversation AU
A picture of strength: lifelong activist Bonita Mabo OA in front of her portrait as a young woman, which features in her granddaughter Boneta-Marie Mabo's first solo exhibition. Josef Ruckli, courtesy of the State Library of Queensland, CC BY ...

Huffington Post Australia
Homelessness, Indigenous Affairs And Dementia Groups React To The Federal Budget
Huffington Post Australia
Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke said this lack of recognition showed the rhetoric of 'Closing The Gap' in healthcare and life expectancy for Indigenous Australians had not prompted any additional funding on top of previously announced ...
Don't forget victims in push to cut Indigenous numbers in prisonThe Age

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Huffington Post Australia
Homelessness, Indigenous Affairs And Dementia Groups React To The Federal Budget
Huffington Post Australia
Oxfam Australia Chief Executive Dr Helen Szoke said this lack of recognition showed the rhetoric of 'Closing The Gap' in healthcare and life expectancy for Indigenous Australians had not prompted any additional funding on top of previously announced ...
Don't forget victims in push to cut Indigenous numbers in prisonThe Age

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide prevention: Stan Grant inspired by WA town's search for answers
ABC Online
The conference, organised by a national Indigenous Suicide Prevention Project, brought together Indigenous academics, researchers and community members from around Australia to address what its co-chair Tom Calma has called "a suicide epidemic" ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide prevention: Stan Grant inspired by WA town's search for answers
ABC Online
The conference, organised by a national Indigenous Suicide Prevention Project, brought together Indigenous academics, researchers and community members from around Australia to address what its co-chair Tom Calma has called "a suicide epidemic" ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide prevention: Stan Grant inspired by WA town's search for answers
ABC Online
The conference, organised by a national Indigenous Suicide Prevention Project, brought together Indigenous academics, researchers and community members from around Australia to address what its co-chair Tom Calma has called "a suicide epidemic" ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous suicide prevention: Stan Grant inspired by WA town's search for answers
ABC Online
The conference, organised by a national Indigenous Suicide Prevention Project, brought together Indigenous academics, researchers and community members from around Australia to address what its co-chair Tom Calma has called "a suicide epidemic" ...

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The Guardian
Australian election 2016: talk turns to Indigenous treaty at Labor event – politics live
The Guardian
The Victorian government will begin talks to work out Australia's first treaty with Indigenous people within weeks. A meeting with First Nations representatives, convened by the State government earlier this month, firmly rejected Constitutional ...
Shorten unveils Indigenous scholarshipsSBS
LiveBlogLast Updated 1.40pm AEDTFederal Election 2016 live coverage: Turnbull, Shorten begin campaign blitzThe Australian

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The Guardian
Australian election 2016: talk turns to Indigenous treaty at Labor event – politics live
The Guardian
The Victorian government will begin talks to work out Australia's first treaty with Indigenous people within weeks. A meeting with First Nations representatives, convened by the State government earlier this month, firmly rejected Constitutional ...
Shorten unveils Indigenous scholarshipsSBS

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The Age
Don't forget victims in push to cut Indigenous numbers in prison
The Age
The campaign to reduce the number of Indigenous people in prison tends to miss the point. The majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners are in jail for assaults and sexual assault and, on average, for each Indigenous prisoner, there ...

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ABC Online
Ayers Rock Resort: GFC blamed as Indigenous Land Corporation secures $65ml bailout
ABC Online
Speaking at a ceremony on Saturday to mark the resort's Indigenous employment rate reaching 35 per cent, Mr Scullion said the loan was "precisely in keeping with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's commitment to do things with Indigenous people, not to ...

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