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Huffington Post Australia
Could NRL's Indigenous All Stars' Dance Could Be 'Australia's Haka'?
Huffington Post Australia
“It's good fun, and obviously something that means a great deal to this Indigenous team.” So said respected rugby league commentator Peter Sterling after the incredibly stirring pre-game war dance at the weekend's Indigenous All Stars vs World All ...

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SBS
Australia's population snapshots at 24 million, 14 million, four million
SBS
The Aborigines Act of 1905 was enacted at the time to provide for “the better protection and care of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia” by making a “Chief Protector” legal guardian of every Aboriginal and 'half-caste' child under 16 years ...

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Wall Street Journal
'Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art From Australia' Review
Wall Street Journal
“Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia” at the Harvard Art Museums showcases about 60 works, including 10 by Pintupi painters from the 1970s. The works range from a 1971 pencil sketch by Uta Uta Tjangala (c. 1926-1990), an ...

The Age
Prevent bushfires the Aboriginal way
The Age
Bushfire still burns somewhere in Australia pretty much all year round. Often it is uncontrolled and destructive fire, sometimes deadly. The nature of fire in our landscape has changed, as has the way we think about it and respond to it. The incidence ...

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The Age
Prevent bushfires the Aboriginal way
The Age
Largely missing from the modern landscape is the fire that Captain Cook saw, fire introduced into the landscape by Indigenous Australians. Cook sailed the east coast well after the bushfire season. He was most likely seeing smoke from the smaller, cool ...

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ABC Message Stick
Is the Gap Closing?
ABC Message Stick
The Government has released its latest report on Closing the Gap. That's the name of a plan that aims to help Indigenous Australians to live as long as non-Indigenous Australians. But the report shows that it's not going very well. So what's the issue?
White lies and Black lives: Turnbull just widened the credibility gapRed Flag
Address homelessness to Close the Gap: PHAAAustralian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Queen Emma's grave oversight
dailytelegraph.com.au
In life she provided a bridge between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia and her standing in the community was such that her death made headlines in the national press, including the Sunday Times that on December 3, 1916 dubbed Queen Emma as ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Queen Emma's grave oversight
dailytelegraph.com.au
Chris Ingrey from La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council is a part of the Empowered Communities initiative. Photo: Hollie Adams / The Australian. “This Queen was no proud and haughty aristocrat with a retinue of servants to do her bidding and a ...

Independent Australia
Indigenous Australia and an Australian Republic: Moving in the same direction
Independent Australia
... to upper class Australian of privilege [cough: white] you probably would think that Australia is fine the way it is. I should start by getting my bias out in the open immediately: I am Aboriginal and an advocate for Aboriginal self-determination ...

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Independent Australia
Indigenous Australia and an Australian Republic: Working together
Independent Australia
... thus, I advocate for Treaties to be enacted with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations for not only self-governance and land rights, but the most critical part of my personal agenda is to have all Australians educated on the truthful ...

The Guardian
Alan Jones says Australia needs another stolen generation 'to protect children'
The Guardian
Alan Jones says Australia needs another stolen generation to “protect” children in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families from the drug abuse problems of their parents. The talkback radio host made the comment while complaining about players in ...
Alan Jones calls for MORE Aboriginal children to be taken from their parentsDaily Mail
Alan Jones Just Said Australia 'Needs' Stolen GenerationsHuffington Post Australia
Alan Jones says Australia needs more 'Stolen Generations'9news.com.au
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Daily Mail
Alan Jones calls for MORE Aboriginal children to be taken from their parents
Daily Mail
Controversial radio shock jock Alan Jones has told listeners to his radio program that Australia needed to have another Stolen Generation to save Indigenous children from their 'drug and alcohol addicted' Aboriginal mothers and fathers. Jones made the ...
Alan Jones says Australia needs another stolen generation 'to protect children'The Guardian
2GB broadcaster Alan Jones says 'we need stolen generations'Sydney Morning Herald
We need more Stolen Generations: Jonesdailytelegraph.com.au
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Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Address homelessness to Close the Gap: PHAA
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
The ABC Without a Home Fact File, released in 2011, shows more than half of homeless Indigenous Australians are located in the NT and 70% in remote or very rural areas. The Fact File also shows homeless services only accommodated for 3.7% of all ...

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Gizmodo Australia
Scabies Research Breakthrough Will Help Remote Indigenous Australian Communities
Gizmodo Australia
Australian researchers have used cutting-edge genome technologies to reveal the genetic makeup of a widespread skin parasite causing serious health problems in Aboriginal communities. The research team identified the genetic 'map' of the human ...

ABC Online
The story of Australia's first Aboriginal political movement returns to Coranderrk
ABC Online
The play Coranderrk will be performed on the site of the former Aboriginal mission, an hour's drive from Melbourne, for the first time on February 21. Charles is a descendant of the people of Coranderrk, who convinced a parliamentary inquiry in 1881 ...

teleSUR English
6 Ways Gov't Has Abandoned Indigenous Australians Since Apology
teleSUR English
13, 2008, then prime minister Kevin Rudd's apology speech was seen by many Australians as the start of a new era. But how much has really changed for Indigenous Australians since then? The latest Closing the Gap report on the state of Indigenous ...
K-Rudd: Booing Adam Goodes & Claiming It's Not Racist Is "100% Bullshit"Pedestrian TV
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest WordHuffington Post Australia

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PRI
An Aboriginal comedy show in Australia finds a mainstream audience
PRI
An example: Lui wrote and starred in a satirical advertisement for a cosmetic line, Pretty for an Aboriginal. Lui is light-skinned. Her mother is an Aboriginal from the Gamilaroi Nation in interior Australia. Her father is a Torres Strait Islander ...

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PRI
An Aboriginal comedy show in Australia finds a mainstream audience
PRI
But "Black Comedy" became an instant hit and just started its second season. Lui says the show has something for everyone and it also taps into white guilt over Australia's original sin: colonizing Australia's indigenous people. "We have some very ...

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The Guardian
Scabies mite genome mapped in boost for remote Indigenous health
The Guardian
Thousands of scabies mites were analysed by Australian researchers in a study that could lead to more healthy skin in people in remote Indigenous communities. The team used cutting-edge genome technologies to identify the genetic map of the human ...
Gene technology to help healthy skin in Aboriginal AustraliansEurekAlert (press release)

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Courier Mail
Moves afoot for Aussie indigenous war dance
Courier Mail
Kangaroos captain Cameron Smith met with the NRL indigenous leader and welfare manager Dean Widders last month about bringing the tribal dance to the Australian team. However, The Courier-Mail understands the idea would need to be formally ...
Push continues for Kangaroos to adopt pre-game Indigenous war danceSydney Morning Herald
Kangaroos captain Cameron Smith reveals Australian rugby league team might bring back pre-match war danceDaily Mail

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