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The 5 Most Promising Indigenous Hip Hop Acts Of 2014
Tone Deaf
Our contemporary popular culture has a paternalistic and offensive relationship with Indigenous Australia. Not so long ago, through consecutive government policy we attempted a cultural genocide. Indigenous people all over the country were not allowed ...

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MP fears Indigenous students will suffer under controversial literacy program
The Guardian
"I think a phonics-based, robust curriculum in primary years should be the norm across all schools in Australia ... starting with those where we know that disadvantaged students, whether they are Indigenous or non-Indigenous, are struggling," he said ...

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Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job
ABC Local
"I just want to learn about how to become a great leader so that I can help both the Aboriginal people, my people, and non-Indigenous people in Australia so that we can work together to close the gap and move forward as one," he said. Elijah recently ...

Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job
ABC Local
Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job. By Blythe Moore. Australia has never had an Aboriginal Prime Minister, but a teenager from the remote community of Doomadgee in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria is hoping to one day change that. Print ...

Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job
ABC Local
Aboriginal student aims for Australia's top job. By Blythe Moore. Australia has never had an Aboriginal Prime Minister, but a teenager from the remote community of Doomadgee in Queensland's Gulf of Carpentaria is hoping to one day change that. Print ...

Indigenous Australians in wartime: it's time to tell the whole story
The Guardian
Australia is finally telling the stories of the Indigenous soldiers who have served in our wars and conflicts. This year's Naidoc (National Aboriginal and Islanders Observance Day Committee) week, which began yesterday, is fittingly celebrating the ...
Prince of footy talks NAIDOC WeekABC Online (blog)

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Indigenous Australians in wartime: it's time to tell the whole story
The Guardian
Australia is finally telling the stories of the Indigenous soldiers who have served in our wars and conflicts. This year's Naidoc (National Aboriginal and Islanders Observance Day Committee) week, which began yesterday, is fittingly celebrating the ...
Prince of footy talks NAIDOC WeekABC Online (blog)

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Mundine unhelpful on Aboriginal marginalisation
The Australian Financial Review
Warren Mundine's article “Green groups keep Aboriginal people in poverty” (AFR, July 2) is untrue, unfair and, most importantly, unhelpful in advancing meaningful action on Aboriginal disadvantage. Long ago, the Australian Conservation Foundation ...

Festival author urges more indigenous participation
Sunraysia Daily
Bruce – who has been a publisher, editor, teacher, farmer, fisherman, Aboriginal community secretary and curriculum designer – said his findings were backed by evidence from explorers in Australia who documented these ideas in their journals and writing.

Port Adelaide
Plenty of pride for Port Adelaide's plan
Port Adelaide
We've made a lot of progress towards recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and there is a broader push for this to continue through the recognition of all indigenous Australians in our nation's constitution, another initiative ...
No wrong time to pledge supportSouth Coast Register
Hip hop artists Jimblah, Horrorshow warm their vocals for NAIDOCSydney Morning Herald
NAIDOC Week celebrations kick offThe Queensland Times

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Brisbane Times
Cricket Australia recognises indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
Cricket Australia has thrown its weighty support behind the growing movement to have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders acknowledged in the Australian Constitution. The country's peak cricketing body announced on Saturday Australia's top players ...

Brisbane Times
Cricket Australia recognises indigenous Australians
Brisbane Times
Former Australian Test cricketer and the first indigenous Australian to represent Australia, Jason Gillespie, said via a statement Cricket Australia's support for the movement filled him with pride. Gillespie is currently coaching in the United Kingdom ...

Aboriginal Australian Art Exhibit Comes to South Jakarta
Jakarta Globe
Jakarta. An exhibition of indigenous Australian visual art opened at D'Gallerie in South Jakarta on Thursday night. “Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia,” tells the stories of some of the complex perspectives of contemporary ...

Aboriginal Australian Art Exhibit Comes to South Jakarta
Jakarta Globe
Jakarta. An exhibition of indigenous Australian visual art opened at D'Gallerie in South Jakarta on Thursday night. “Message Stick: Indigenous Identity in Urban Australia,” tells the stories of some of the complex perspectives of contemporary ...

Secret $700m deal ripping us apart
NEWS.com.au
A BITTER row over an until-now secret $700m mining deal involving two of Australia's pre-eminent Aboriginal clans is tearing part of our country asunder. In a special report, News Corp Australia goes to the birthplace of land rights in this nation to ...
$700 million mining deal in Arnhem Land tears the Aboriginal Gumatj and ...Herald Sun

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Aboriginal legal service loses funding
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The Federal Government recently announced that they will cease funding the Aboriginal Legal Services' Prisoner ThroughCare program, effective as of 30 June 2014. The purpose of the program, which was implemented at the recommendation of the Royal ...

Indigenous advisor calls Tony Abbott's comments about settlement of Australia ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''scarcely settled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in ...

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Indigenous advisor calls Tony Abbott's comments about settlement of Australia ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's chief indigenous adviser has described as ''silly'' the Prime Minister's comment that Australia was ''scarcely settled'' before British colonisation. The chairman of the Prime Minister's indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, was in ...
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments on British settlement 'highly offensive ...ABC Online
Abbott slammed for saying Australia 'unsettled' before British colonisationSBS
Indigenous senator angry at Australian PM's comment on settlementGlobalPost
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Illawarra Aboriginal leader on Abbott's 'unsettled' speech
Illawarra Mercury
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's comments that Australia was "unsettled" before British "foreign investment" arrived in 1788 were out of step with a great number of Australians who recognised Aboriginal history, Illawarra Aboriginal leader Sharralyn ...

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Kicking some Port Adelaide Power goals for indigenous youth
The Australian
As director of Adelaide Football Club's indigenous program, Andrew McLeod's good works extend as far as South Australia's furthest corner, the APY Lands in the shadow of Uluru. Hawthorn has forged a strong link with Aboriginal communities in the ...