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Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson makes emotional plea for action on Aboriginal incarceration
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's legal system has become a "feared and despised processing plant" for most Aboriginal people, propelling the most vulnerable and disadvantaged toward a "broken, bleak future", according to Patrick Dodson. Lamenting that the situation has ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson makes emotional plea for action on Aboriginal incarceration
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's legal system has become a "feared and despised processing plant" for most Aboriginal people, propelling the most vulnerable and disadvantaged toward a "broken, bleak future", according to Patrick Dodson. Lamenting that the situation has ...

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SBS
Australia facing the same suicide crisis as Canada's native communities, says mental health expert
SBS
Media attention is quite often the only call to action on Indigenous suicide said Ms Cox, who described similarities between Canada and Australia. “Aboriginal Suicide in Australia has been like an epidemic and Nigel Scullion championing change also ...
The Canadian First Nation suicide epidemic has been generations in the makingThe Guardian
'Rolling Nightmare' of Suicide Attempts Prompts First Nation Community to Declare State of EmergencyTruthdig

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The Ecologist (blog)
Starvation in Australia: Utopia's dirty secret
The Ecologist (blog)
Australian governments have long waged a one-sided war on the continent's Aboriginal peoples, writes John Pilger. And now a new weapon has come into play: the starvation of the most remote, culturally intact communities. It's all part of a multi ...

The Ecologist (blog)
Starvation in Australia: Utopia's dirty secret
The Ecologist (blog)
Australian governments have long waged a one-sided war on the continent's Aboriginal peoples, writes John Pilger. And now a new weapon has come into play: the starvation of the most remote, culturally intact communities. It's all part of a multi ...

The Australian
Push to end passive indigenous welfare delivers results
The Australian
The review was funded by the federal government and the Commonwealth Bank. The old model of indigenous affairs was one that “never interacted with anybody that made money or worked in an enterprise that made money”, Mr Pearson told The Australian.

There's no longer tolerance for Aboriginal amnesia
ArtsHub (subscription)
Many exhibitions have ushered understanding for the integral connection Indigenous Australian culture has with the land. These are exhibitions both traditional and contemporary in nature; some have been political and others have taken a more ethereal ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australia should look to China, the global beacon of poverty reduction
The Guardian
For two months a nine member Aboriginal delegation was a guest of the Chinese Communist Party. It angered the Australian government and was a PR coup for the Chinese. At the time China remained in the cold – US President Nixon had only that year ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Australia should look to China, the global beacon of poverty reduction
The Guardian
For two months a nine member Aboriginal delegation was a guest of the Chinese Communist Party. It angered the Australian government and was a PR coup for the Chinese. At the time China remained in the cold – US President Nixon had only that year ...

Atlanta Black Star
Australian Government's Failed Intervention Leaves Aborigines Poor, Hungry, Suicidal and Criminalized
Atlanta Black Star
The Indigenous people of Australia continue to suffer from terrible living conditions and unfair criminalization years after the government began an unsuccessful intervention to aid them. Many of these people live in Utopia, a broad, distant region in ...
The dirty secret of UtopiaOn Line opinion

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Scroll.in
How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
Scroll.in
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 ...

SBS
Indigenous cancer stats worse than thought, study says
SBS
Indigenous Australians are dying from lung cancer at eight times the rate of non-indigenous people, with concerns remoteness and disadvantage are hampering access to treatment. The findings come from a University of Sydney study looking at the ...

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Indigenous cancer stats worse than thought
The Australian
"When we stratified for incidence by socio-economic disadvantage, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were more than four times likely to receive a lung cancer diagnosis and also die from their lung cancer," lead researcher Kalinda Griffiths ...

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Indigenous cancer stats worse than thought
NT News
Indigenous Australians are dying from lung cancer at eight times the rate of non-indigenous people, with concerns remoteness and disadvantage are hampering access to treatment. The findings come from a University of Sydney study looking at the ...

Independent Australia
Utopia: The dirty secret of Indigenous Australia
Independent Australia
Nine years after the Howard Government's "Intervention", conditions are dire for Indigenous Australians who are "denied consistent running water, sanitation and power. That basic sustenance should join this list is not surprising", says John Pilger. I ...

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The Advertiser
Flying the flag in mum's honour
The Advertiser
It is also why Campbelltown Council's backflip last week on a decision not to fly the Aboriginal flag outside its chambers means so much to him. “I grew up for a long time knowing I was Aboriginal, but not having a strong sense of identity about my ...

Cross-Cultural Training Call
Pro Bono Australia
There is desperate need for proper cross-cultural training for people who work with Indigenous clients and communities, according author and community educator, Richard Trudgen. Trudgen, the author of Why Warriors Lie Down and Die and a community ...

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The Australian
Jim Hagan, pioneering indigenous activist, dies at 83
The Australian
In 1964, he was a founding member of the Cunnamulla Australian Native Welfare Association, in west Queensland, and among the first local indigenous people to join the Australian Labor Party. A father of five, Mr Hagan sought elected office after Gough ...

Independent Australia
Utopia: The dirty secret of Indigenous Australia
Independent Australia
Nine years after the Howard Government's "intervention" conditions are dire for Indigenous Australians who are "denied consistent running water, sanitation and power. That basic sustenance should join this list is not surprising", says John Pilger. I ...

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teleSUR English
Starvation of Indigenous in Australia. Utopia's Dirty Secret
teleSUR English
Black incarceration in Australia is greater than that of Black people in Apartheid South Africa. Indigenous people go to prison, are beaten up in custody and die in custody as a matter of routine. In despairing communities, children as young as 10 take ...
Utopia residents hungry, but this isn't newsGreen Left Weekly

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