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Brisbane Times
Whether you're listening or not, Australia is a nation of white privilege
Brisbane Times
But if Australia's Indigenous population were to be ranked separately, it would come 100th out of nearly 200 nations. In other words, Australia is one of the richest Western countries in the world built on an industry of mining from the lands of ...

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The Guardian
Arnhem Land fishing show gives viewers an insight into Aboriginal culture
The Guardian
“The world doesn't need another fishing show,” says the Australian co-host of a brand new fishing show. But Fishing the Wild is unlike your average fishing show. The most striking element is its setting, the gloriously remote tropical region of Arnhem ...

ABC Online
Babies among thousands of Aboriginal children signed up to 'shocking' funeral ...
ABC Online
Ms Kapeen was a customer with private Gold Coast business Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund (ACBF). It is the biggest funeral insurance company catering for Aboriginal Australians. ACBF says it has 27,500 customers, a third which are under the age of ...

The Australian
Can new PM turn around the disaster of indigenous affairs policy?
The Australian
On becoming Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull declared “this is the most exciting time to be an Australian”. His optimism lifted my spirits, as I think it did for many Australians. But, I wondered, is it also the most exciting time to be an indigenous ...

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The Australian
Can new PM turn around the disaster of indigenous affairs policy?
The Australian
On becoming Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull declared “this is the most exciting time to be an Australian”. His optimism lifted my spirits, as I think it did for many Australians. But, I wondered, is it also the most exciting time to be an indigenous ...

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The Canberra Times
Canberra's new-look National Gallery
The Canberra Times
As part of the general process of dissolving boundaries between categories in art, there is also a blurring of lines between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian art, especially when artists do not come from traditional tribal areas. I have long ...

Catch News
Poisoned rivers, bank boycotts, aboriginal pushback: Gautam Adanis Australian ...
Catch News
Nothing exemplifies Adani's international expansion plans more than the Carmichael coal mine in Queensland, Australia. Located in the north of the Galilee Basin in Central Queensland, this is supposed to be the largest coal mining project in Australia ...

VICE
What Life Is Like as a Night-Shift Worker Looking After Australia's ...
VICE
In Australia, Client Service Officers (CSOs) are responsible for checking in on the wellbeing of every Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander taken into custody within Victoria and Tasmania. Established in response to Australia's deplorable record of ...

ABC Online
Indigenous actor Robbie Collins takes centre stage as Mufasa in The Lion King
ABC Online
"Traipsing a family across Australia has been the hardest thing." The Australian production of The Lion King opened in Sydney at the end of 2013. The international musical has now been running for almost 20 years and is currently being performed in ten ...

ABC Online
Australian War Memorial publishes history of Indigenous service
ABC Online
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) has published an online history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's service in Australia's Defence Force, but says this does not signify a step towards commemoration of the Frontier Wars. The memorial ...
Bill Shorten: The injustice dealt to Indigenous people is a stain on our whole ...The Guardian
Two charts that show Australia's human rights crisisSydney Morning Herald

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New initiative to support Aboriginal families
ABC Local
One of the Gomeroi Elders who worked on the model, Aunty Yvonne Kent, said she would like to see it implemented across Australia. "I'd like it Australia-wide because there are areas within in Australia that need it, just to have somebody to stand up ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Two charts that show Australia's human rights crisis
Sydney Morning Herald
Michael Bochenek, senior counsel for children's rights at Human Rights Watch, has argued: "The impact of these practices falls disproportionately on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, who are substantially over-represented in the juvenile ...
Australian War Memorial publishes history of Indigenous serviceABC Online
Bill Shorten: The injustice dealt to Indigenous people is a stain on our whole ...The Guardian

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The Guardian
Bill Shorten: The injustice dealt to Indigenous people is a stain on our whole ...
The Guardian
We cannot let it be said of modern Australia that the colour of your skin determines whether or not you end up in jail. It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural ...
Australian War Memorial publishes history of Indigenous serviceABC Online

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InDaily
SA to compensate stolen generations
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Aboriginal people who were stolen from their families in South Australia will be compensated by the state government. An $11 million fund will provide payments to members of the Stolen Generations, including $6 million to go to individuals and their ...
Stolen Generations members to have access to $11 million fund announced by ...ABC Online
$50000 payments for Stolen Generation survivors under $11 million schemeThe Advertiser
Finally, compensation for SA's Stolen GenerationsInDaily

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Five Australians Shortlisted for Human Rights Medal
Pro Bono Australia
Professor Pat Dudgeon, who was the first Aboriginal psychologist to graduate in Australia and is one of the first Mental Health Commissioners in the country, is also on the shortlist for the 2015 Human Rights Medal. Former Australian of the year and ...

The Conversation AU
Kimberley conservation threatens to take a step back on Indigenous rights
The Conversation AU
Mr Jacob is proposing is the Dambimangari people surrender exclusive control of their ancestral lands to enter into a joint-management arrangement with the West Australian Government. For some, this choice presents a watering down of Indigenous ...

ABC Online
Indigenous jail rates, female education ALP priority: Shorten
The Australian
Aboriginal men are 15 times more likely to be jailed than non-indigenous Australians, and the imprisonment rates have more than doubled in the past decade. “For Aboriginal women, the rate of imprisonment is accelerating even faster, a 74 per cent ...
Bill Shorten pledges to end 'national shame' by reviving Indigenous ...ABC Online

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The Guardian
Labor promises 'justice reinvestment' to reduce number of Indigenous prisoners
The Guardian
The Labor leader used a speech to the Melbourne University law faculty to repeat the party's 2013 promise that if elected it will use his first meeting with state premiers to set national targets to reduce Indigenous incarceration, saying that goal is ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous protesters peacefully demonstrate against court's power
The Canberra Times
Activists peacefully demonstrated against the jurisdiction of the ACT courts over Indigenous Australians in support of an Aboriginal woman challenging its power to hear minor traffic charges against her. The group of protesters sang and moved through ...

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Sky News Australia
Indigenous defence service in Australia
Sky News Australia
Indigenous men have served in Australia's armed forces in peace and in every post-federation conflict with evidence of a few in uniform even before 1901, a new study says. Historian Chris Clark said this was remarkable considering the expansion of ...

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