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Daily Mail
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment Rates
Pro Bono Australia
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council has called on governments to fundamentally rethink the way they work with Aboriginal communities if they are to combat the deepening crisis of rising imprisonment rates for indigenous people. The call comes on the eve of ...
Aboriginal young people make up half of the youths across Australia who are in prisonDaily Mail
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal SuperheroGizmodo Australia (blog)
'Cleverman' Series Australia & US Premiere: Meet the 1st Aboriginal Hero!Australia Network News
ABC Message Stick -Daily Life
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Daily Mail
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment Rates
Pro Bono Australia
The NSW Aboriginal Land Council has called on governments to fundamentally rethink the way they work with Aboriginal communities if they are to combat the deepening crisis of rising imprisonment rates for indigenous people. The call comes on the eve of ...
Aboriginal young people make up more than half of the youths across Australia who are locked up.Daily Mail
Australian indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked upStuff.co.nz
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal SuperheroGizmodo Australia (blog)
Junkee -Daily Life -Eureka Street (registration)
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SBS
Racism on Grindr: Indigenous gay man screenshots racial abuse online
SBS
I remember when I moved to Darwin and students in my class, who were barely 13 years old, were making offensive racial remarks about Aboriginal people. In my experience, people need to be taught from a young age that racism isn't acceptable.”.

Daily Mail
Actor Jack Charles calls for training for taxi drivers after being refused service
The Guardian
“I want to know who invented the idea of asking Aboriginal people to pay upfront, no matter what the time of day. “You need a bastard like me. A deadset, ridgy-didge, beyond redemption bastard like me, to take on the taxi industry, to take on the ...
Aboriginal actor Jack Charles refused a ride by a taxi in Melbourne AGAINDaily Mail

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Daily Mail
Actor Jack Charles calls for training for taxi drivers after being refused service
The Guardian
“I want to know who invented the idea of asking Aboriginal people to pay upfront, no matter what the time of day. “You need a bastard like me. A deadset, ridgy-didge, beyond redemption bastard like me, to take on the taxi industry, to take on the ...
Aboriginal actor Jack Charles refused a ride by a taxi in Melbourne AGAINDaily Mail

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ABC Local
Aboriginal people affected by Maralinga nuclear tests take peace sculpture to Japan
ABC Local
Members of an Aboriginal community affected by the nuclear bomb tests at Maralinga in the 1950s are connecting with nuclear bomb survivors in Japan. A group of artists from Yalata in South Australia are flying to Nagasaki today to unveil a sculpture ...

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Stuff.co.nz
Australian indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Stuff.co.nz
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

Gizmodo Australia (blog)
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal Superhero
Gizmodo Australia (blog)
“Cleverman marks a new era for Australia's production sector, inviting audiences to experience a bold new story-world where Aboriginal storytelling meets high concept genre drama,” said Sally Riley, Head of Indigenous, ABC TV. “With an 80 per cent ...

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Gizmodo Australia (blog)
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal Superhero
Gizmodo Australia (blog)
“Cleverman marks a new era for Australia's production sector, inviting audiences to experience a bold new story-world where Aboriginal storytelling meets high concept genre drama,” said Sally Riley, Head of Indigenous, ABC TV. “With an 80 per cent ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Deaths in custody: Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Deaths in custody: Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

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The Australian
Jail rates send indigenous people to 'broken, bleak future'
The Australian
Mr Dodson said indigenous people had lost trust in the legal system. “It is a feared and despised processing plant that propels the most vulnerable and disabled of our people towards a broken, bleak future,” he said. Advocating a “justice reinvestment” ...
Patrick Dodson says Indigenous incarceration rate an 'utter disgrace'The Guardian
[ April 13, 2016 ] Justice system “sucking us up like waste”, says Dodson NEWSNational Indigenous Times
Patrick Dodson makes impassioned plea for 'a smarter form of justice'Sydney Morning Herald
SBS -Sky News Australia -ABC Online
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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous prison rate is a national crisis, and our international shame
Sydney Morning Herald
Unpaid fines or drinking in public should never be a death sentence. Yet, for Indigenous people, this is still the case, a generation on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Twenty-five years ago, the royal commission laid out a ...
Aboriginal public servants on their own on pay, says govtThe Canberra Times
Call for overhaulThe Guardian (Australia)

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The Canberra Times
Aboriginal public servants on their own on pay, says govt
The Canberra Times
Aboriginal Hostels Limited has offered its 486 workers, 70 per cent of whom are Aborigine or Torres Strait Islanders, pay rises worth just 1 per cent a year while most Australian Public Service workers have been offered 2 per cent as part of the bitter ...
Indigenous prison rate is a national crisis, and our international shameSydney Morning Herald
Call for overhaulThe Guardian (Australia)

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The Age
Actor and Aboriginal elder Uncle Jack Charles refused taxi in Melbourne, again
The Age
Aboriginal elder and renowned actor Jack Charles has again been refused a cab in Melbourne because of what he calls systemic racial discrimination against Indigenous Australians by taxi drivers. The 72-year-old was with two artists visiting from Turkey ...

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SBS
How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
SBS
The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before Europeans came to Australia. And like today, they ...

The Guardian
Patrick Dodson says Indigenous incarceration rate an 'utter disgrace'
The Guardian
Dodson addressed the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, lamenting the fact that the number of Indigenous people in jail has doubled since the release of the findings of a landmark royal commission into deaths in custody 25 years ago.
Aboriginal people caught in vicious cycle of justice system, Patrick Dodson saysThe Australian
[ April 13, 2016 ] Justice system “sucking us up like waste”, says Dodson NEWSNational Indigenous Times
Patrick Dodson makes impassioned plea for 'a smarter form of justice'Sydney Morning Herald

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Too many indigenous Australians in jail, trends show  Catholic Leader

Mashable
Indigenous Australian pens invite to Jamie Oliver to visit and cook with her remote community
Mashable
As Jamie Oliver has become known for his fight for healthy eating around the world, an Indigenous Australian woman has invited him to do the same in her backyard. Julie Bangun, who lives in the Aboriginal community of Wadeye in the Northern Territory, ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Reduce Indigenous incarceration rates? Not so fast
dailytelegraph.com.au
In the push to lower Indigenous incarceration rates the real victims are often forgotten — people who are assaulted or even killed by their family members, like the woman whose partner set fire to her genitalia because she “looked at another man the ...