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Australia's Aboriginal comedians fight prejudice with wit
BBC News
She is also all-Aboriginal. In the new show, Blak Cabaret, this burly drag queen rules. And in a retold version of history she asks: What would happen if blacks invaded a white native Australia? The Sydney Festival premiere, featuring Torres Strait ...

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BBC News
Australia's Aboriginal comedians fight prejudice with wit
BBC News
She is also all-Aboriginal. In the new show, Blak Cabaret, this burly drag queen rules. And in a retold version of history she asks: What would happen if blacks invaded a white native Australia? The Sydney Festival premiere, featuring Torres Strait ...

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BBC News
Australia's Aboriginal comedians fight prejudice with wit
BBC News
She is also all-Aboriginal. In the new show, Blak Cabaret, this burly drag queen rules. And in a retold version of history she asks: What would happen if blacks invaded a white native Australia? The Sydney Festival premiere, featuring Torres Strait ...

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BBC News
Australia's Aboriginal comedians fight prejudice with wit
BBC News
She is also all-Aboriginal. In the new show, Blak Cabaret, this burly drag queen rules. And in a retold version of history she asks: What would happen if blacks invaded a white native Australia? The Sydney Festival premiere, featuring Torres Strait ...

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Is this Australia's Stonehenge?
Northern Star
Father and son team Steven and Evan Strong have combined the written testimony of a forgotten Australia archaeologist, oral indigenous history, and ancient Australian artefacts to sensationally conclude that Aboriginal civilization was far more ...

Is this Australia's Stonehenge?
Northern Star
Father and son team Steven and Evan Strong have combined the written testimony of a forgotten Australia archaeologist, oral indigenous history, and ancient Australian artefacts to sensationally conclude that Aboriginal civilization was far more ...

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APY inquiries still under wraps, no action taken on recommendations
The Australian
He is working with APY and the Indigenous Land Corporation in implementing processes and procedure to grow the business,” she said. Ms Johns said Mr Singer's decision to resign now, ahead of general elections that must be held before the end of May, ...

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ABC Online
Charlie Hebdo v 18C: no contest
The Australian
Because of 18C Australians have to cautiously discuss the topic, especially non-Aboriginal Australians. The example highlights a fundamental flaw of 18C. The assumption behind the law is that racism essentially comes from the dominant racial group ...
Deeper waterThe Monthly (subscription) (blog)
Charlie Hebdo attacks provide a false pretext for 18C debateThe Conversation AU

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Westpac commits to 400 Aboriginal places
The Australian (blog)
Australia's top companies have broadened their indigenous engagement strategies to include not just current employment or procurement targets but education and training, spending $72 million last year according to the Business Council of Australia.

Westpac commits to 400 Aboriginal places
The Australian (blog)
Australia's top companies have broadened their indigenous engagement strategies to include not just current employment or procurement targets but education and training, spending $72 million last year according to the Business Council of Australia.

The Guardian
Aboriginal women address high rates of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in remote ...
Medical Xpress
The Lililwan study, led by Aboriginal leaders from the Fitzroy Valley communities, The George Institute for Global Health and The University of Sydney, provides Australia's first comprehensive data on the prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in remote ...
Foetal alcohol syndrome: Fitzroy Valley leader June Oscar hopes study brings ...ABC Online
Fitzroy Valley praised for response to scourge of foetal alcohol syndromeThe Guardian

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Indigenous business workshop on Coffs Coast this Wednesday
Coffs Coast Advocate
INDIGENOUS Business Australia (IBA) will be running a free Into Business workshop in Coffs Harbour this Wednesdays. The workshop is part of IBA's national Business Development and Assistance Program, which assists Indigenous Australians to establish, ...

Daily Mail
Shocking rates of foetal alcohol syndrome found by study in Aboriginal community
Daily Mail
One in eight children in remote communities of Western Australia are born with permanent learning and physical disabilities due to their mothers consuming alcohol while pregnant, a new study has found. Titled the Lililwan Project, meaning 'the little ...

Removal of Aboriginal children at crisis point and rising
Green Left Weekly
The Productivity Commission into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage released its findings into government attempts to 'close the gap' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia. It has been almost three years since the last Overcoming Indigenous ...

Removal of Aboriginal children at crisis point and rising
Green Left Weekly
The Productivity Commission into Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage released its findings into government attempts to 'close the gap' between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia. It has been almost three years since the last Overcoming Indigenous ...

Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal activists plan national convergence for freedom
Green Left Weekly
Aboriginal people and their supporters are converging in Canberra from all over Australia for the Invasion Day weekend. The weekend will feature a "sit-in" that is expected to release an historic Declaration of Independence reaffirming Aboriginal ...

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The Australian
Cries from remote indigenous communities go unheard
The Australian
But that's the point — while the Manoora tragedy is unprecedented for Queensland and Australia, there is a steady stream of information to services and agencies across the state and nation recording the lesser tragedies of remote indigenous Australia ...

The Australian
Cries from remote indigenous communities go unheard
The Australian
He was certainly sincere about turning back the boats and ditching the carbon tax, but those are easy marks by comparison to making a difference in indigenous affairs, particularly for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents of remote ...

The Australian
fetal alcohol hits one in eight
The Australian
A LANDMARK health study has found that one in eight children, or 120 children per 1000, in remote Aboriginal communities of the Fitzroy Valley in Western Australia suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome. The devastating findings of the Liliwan Study have ...
Nation's highest rate of fetal alcohol syndrome documented in WA's Fitzroy ValleyABC Online
Foetal alcohol syndrome: One in eight children has permament damage in ...Sydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
What if the French had settled Australia first?
Sydney Morning Herald
David Hill says either way the result would likely have not been different for the First Australians. Author and indigenous professor Larissa Behrendt agrees: "My father used to say that the only difference is that we'd probably be fighting for land ...

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