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Starvation of Indigenous in Australia. Utopia's Dirty Secret - teleSUR English


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 ...

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Is There a Place for Indigenous Healers in Australia's Health System? - Yahoo News


Is There a Place for Indigenous Healers in Australia's Health System?
Yahoo News
It's Friday night and still over 35 degrees Celsius in the town of Alice Springs in Australia's Northern Territory. It is market night, and the pubs and streets are full of people. I hear glass shattering and a man and woman yelling at each other in ...

Cuban Aboriginal literacy program success - Green Left Weekly


Green Left Weekly

Cuban Aboriginal literacy program success
Green Left Weekly
More than 80 people packed into a lecture theatre at Sydney University on March 31 for a public forum entitled: "Increasing Aboriginal literacy: The Cuban 'Yes I Can!' literacy campaign in Australia". The forum was organised by the Australia-Cuba ...

Australia Needed To Take A Goodes Look At Itself - Huffington Post Australia


Huffington Post Australia

Australia Needed To Take A Goodes Look At Itself
Huffington Post Australia
I've spoken to people who have never even met Goodes who say they were so affected they could hardly get out of bed because of the things people were saying about Indigenous people that week. It made us sick and it polarized our country. Everyone was ...

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Indigenous groups say ranger program is working, but needs more funding - The Guardian


The Guardian

Indigenous groups say ranger program is working, but needs more funding
The Guardian
A coalition of Indigenous ranger groups are ramping up their campaign for more government support before the federal budget, claiming the government's program is working, but needs to be expanded if Australia is to close the gap on Indigenous ...

Indigenous groups say ranger program is working, but needs more funding - The Guardian


The Guardian

Indigenous groups say ranger program is working, but needs more funding
The Guardian
A coalition of Indigenous ranger groups are ramping up their campaign for more government support before the federal budget, claiming the government's program is working, but needs to be expanded if Australia is to close the gap on Indigenous ...

Crows unveil new Indigenous jumper - Adelaide Crows


Adelaide Crows

Crows unveil new Indigenous jumper
Adelaide Crows
The Crows will wear a jumper designed by the aunt of Eddie Betts in Indigenous Round this year. Renowned Australian Aboriginal artist, Susie Betts, created the vibrant and culturally significant artwork for the jumper, which will be on show against ...

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News article reignites Australia's 'history wars' - The Straits Times


News article reignites Australia's 'history wars'
The Straits Times
The article referred to language guidelines issued by one of Australia's top universities, the University of New South Wales (UNSW), which advised students and staff on how to discuss Australian history without offending the country's Aboriginal people.

Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary) - Mongabay.com


Mongabay.com

Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)
Mongabay.com
It is now acknowledged, however, that many indigenous people lit fires regularly as part of a sophisticated relationship with the land that helped nurture their future supply of food resources and encouraged biodiversity. Growing concern about climate ...

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Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary) - Mongabay.com


Mongabay.com

Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)
Mongabay.com
It is now acknowledged, however, that many indigenous people lit fires regularly as part of a sophisticated relationship with the land that helped nurture their future supply of food resources and encouraged biodiversity. Growing concern about climate ...

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Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary) - Mongabay.com


Mongabay.com

Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)
Mongabay.com
It is now acknowledged, however, that many indigenous people lit fires regularly as part of a sophisticated relationship with the land that helped nurture their future supply of food resources and encouraged biodiversity. Growing concern about climate ...
Near deaths in Australian prisons largely uninvestigated, human rights advocates sayABC Online

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Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary) - Mongabay.com


Mongabay.com

Rekindling Australia's Aboriginal past to fight climate change (Commentary)
Mongabay.com
It is now acknowledged, however, that many indigenous people lit fires regularly as part of a sophisticated relationship with the land that helped nurture their future supply of food resources and encouraged biodiversity. Growing concern about climate ...
Near deaths in Australian prisons largely uninvestigated, human rights advocates sayABC Online

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Asia Pacific|An Heir to a Tribe's Culture Ensures Its Language Is Not Forgotten - New York Times


New York Times

Asia Pacific|An Heir to a Tribe's Culture Ensures Its Language Is Not Forgotten
New York Times
Mr. Grant, 75, is an elder of Australia's second-largest Aboriginal tribe, the Wiradjuri, who roamed most of central New South Wales before white farmers surged inland in the early 1800s. Until recently, he was one of only a handful of people still ...

Did Aborigines use 'star maps' to plot their way across Australia? - Daily Mail


Daily Mail

Did Aborigines use 'star maps' to plot their way across Australia?
Daily Mail
Robert Fuller, a PhD student of indigenous cultural astronomy at the University of New South Wales in Australia, has found they navigated their way across hundreds of miles to trade with other groups using the star patterns to mark waypoints on their ...

Did Aborigines use 'star maps' to plot their way across Australia? - Daily Mail


Daily Mail

Did Aborigines use 'star maps' to plot their way across Australia?
Daily Mail
Robert Fuller, a PhD student of indigenous cultural astronomy at the University of New South Wales in Australia, has found they navigated their way across hundreds of miles to trade with other groups using the star patterns to mark waypoints on their ...

Indigenous rangers lobby for more positions amid threat of feral animals, weeds - ABC Online


ABC Online

Indigenous rangers lobby for more positions amid threat of feral animals, weeds
ABC Online
Indigenous rangers across Australia have launched a national campaign urging the Federal Government to double its funding and boost job numbers. The Indigenous Ranger program and Indigenous Protected Areas program have provided jobs for more ...

Secrecy and Despatch exhibition remembers the 1816 Appin Massacre of Indigenous Australians - ABC Online


ABC Online

Secrecy and Despatch exhibition remembers the 1816 Appin Massacre of Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
In the early hours of the morning on April 17, soldiers under the command of Captain James Wallis, by instruction of Governor Macquarie, shot at and drove a group of Aboriginal people over the gorge of the Cataract River. Two hundred years on, the ...
Artists shed light on Governor Macquarie's massacres of Indigenous AustraliansSydney Morning Herald

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Secrecy and Despatch exhibition remembers the 1816 Appin Massacre of Indigenous Australians - ABC Online


ABC Online

Secrecy and Despatch exhibition remembers the 1816 Appin Massacre of Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
In the early hours of the morning on April 17, soldiers under the command of Captain James Wallis, by instruction of Governor Macquarie, shot at and drove a group of Aboriginal people over the gorge of the Cataract River. Two hundred years on, the ...
Artists shed light on Governor Macquarie's massacres of Indigenous AustraliansSydney Morning Herald

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Aboriginal campaigner Jack Green to stand in Northern Territory election - The Guardian


The Guardian

Aboriginal campaigner Jack Green to stand in Northern Territory election
The Guardian
Should he win – a prospect supporters say is not unrealistic once preferences are taken into account – Green hopes to push for better housing and health outcomes for Aboriginal people who live on remote homelands and outstations. Development ...

Aboriginal people urged to enrol to vote - Clarence Valley Daily Examiner


Clarence Valley Daily Examiner

Aboriginal people urged to enrol to vote
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
THE NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) has urged Aboriginal people to enrol to vote in the upcoming federal election. NSWALC Chair Roy Ah-See said an election was required to be held before January 14, 2017, but a poll could be called at any time ...

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