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Group highlights indigenous super troubles
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Indigenous Australians have less retirement savings and greater difficulty in accessing their superannuation funds than the rest of the population. They also have less opportunity to benefit from their compulsory savings because they have lower life ...

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Green Left Weekly
Gough Whitlam's Wave Hill hand back celebrated by Indigenous elders 40 years on
ABC Online
"I want to promise you that this act of restitution which we perform today will not stand alone - your fight was not for yourselves alone and we are determined that Aboriginal Australians everywhere will be helped by it. "Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly ...
Custodianship in the 21st CenturyGreen Left Weekly

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NEWS.com.au
Julieka Dhu died while in custody at a Pilbara watch-house. Picture: Facebook ...
NEWS.com.au
This month marks the anniversary of the death of a 22-year-old Aboriginal woman, Julieka Dhu, in police cells in Western Australia — her crime was unpaid fines. For Mr Langdon, the end came three hours after his arrest. “He died in his sleep with ...

The Australian
Mimili Maku centre helps indigenous art bloom in the desert
The Australian
When artists Robert Fielding and Betty Kuntiwa Pumani were recognised at Darwin's peak National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards this month, a tiny community in South Australia's remote and often troubled Anangu Pitjantjatjara ...
DARWIN – THE BIGGER PICTUREAboriginal Art Directory News

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The Australian
Mimili Maku centre helps indigenous art bloom in the desert
The Australian
When artists Robert Fielding and Betty Kuntiwa Pumani were recognised at Darwin's peak National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards this month, a tiny community in South Australia's remote and often troubled Anangu Pitjantjatjara ...
DARWIN – THE BIGGER PICTUREAboriginal Art Directory News

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The New Daily
Mentally ill Indigenous Australians betrayed by the system
The New Daily
Early death, widespread disease and dispossession have taken their toll. Still the nation's health workers fail the First Peoples. Indigenous Australians have different health needs, experts say. Photo: Getty. Single Indigenous mother of five Linda ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Nigel Scullion's mission to stop festering tension among the Block's ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has flown in to broker a peace deal between Aboriginal rivals fighting for control of the Block, the historic parcel of Redfern that has been besieged for 15 months by protests and sporadic violence ...

The Guardian
Paperless arrests endanger Indigenous lives, Northern Territory coroner says
The Guardian
About 95% of people being held in NT cells for liquor offences are Aboriginal, and so there is an increased chance of their dying in police custody, the inquest heard. “Unless the paperless arrest laws are struck from the statute books, more and more ...
NT coroner says paperless arrest system 'manifestly unfair' at inquest into ...ABC Online
NT coroner recommends repeal of new police powers after Indigenous death in ...ABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Paperless arrests endanger Indigenous lives, Northern Territory coroner says
The Guardian
About 95% of people being held in NT cells for liquor offences are Aboriginal, and so there is an increased chance of their dying in police custody, the inquest heard. “Unless the paperless arrest laws are struck from the statute books, more and more ...
NT coroner says paperless arrest system 'manifestly unfair' at inquest into ...ABC Online
NT coroner recommends repeal of new police powers after Indigenous death in ...ABC Message Stick

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Huffington Post
The Firsthand Racism I Experienced in Australia
Huffington Post
Adam Goodes, an indigenous Australian football player, doing an indigenous dance and throwing an imaginary spear (it was actually choreographed as a boomerang) towards the crowd to celebrate a goal during Indigenous Week has opened a can of ...
Why do Australian elites think racism lurks in every suburb?The Australian Financial Review
Australian PM calls for end to Goodes booingBulletin Leader

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The Australian
Mutitjulu unaware of 'Uluru bark petition' on sanctity
The Australian
The so-called Uluru bark petition was signed by about 30 indigenous people, but claimed to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia. “This is a cultural initiative, it is not a Christian initiative,'' Pastor Walker said. “But you can align the two ...

The Australian
Mutitjulu unaware of 'Uluru bark petition' on sanctity
The Australian
The so-called Uluru bark petition was signed by about 30 indigenous people, but claimed to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia. “This is a cultural initiative, it is not a Christian initiative,'' Pastor Walker said. “But you can align the two ...

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Independent Australia
Tony Abbott and White Australia: Let's be serious about change
Independent Australia
The innate conservatism of Tony Abbott and much of white Australia is steering the discussion of genuine Indigenous rights towards a minimalist and almost meaningless constitutional conclusion, says Jeff McMullen. When most of the world recognises the ...

Independent Australia
Tony Abbott and White Australia: Let's be serious about change
Independent Australia
The innate conservatism of Tony Abbott and much of white Australia is steering the discussion of genuine Indigenous rights towards a minimalist and almost meaningless constitutional conclusion, says Jeff McMullen. When most of the world recognises the ...

PS News
DFAT launches Indigenous strategy
PS News
Australia's first ever strategy for advancing the interests of the world's Indigenous peoples has been released by the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Peter Varghese (pictured). As part of the DFAT Indigenous Peoples ...

Independent Australia
How sharing stories with Aboriginal communities is healing the racial divide
Independent Australia
That is particularly apparent in the racial tensions that still exist in Australia, in our politics, our policies and the way of life for our two communities — Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal. Our past is an emotional storm of two peoples in traumatic ...

Gympie Times
Kabi Kabi indigenous title claims could be put to the test
Gympie Times
GYMPIE region's Kabi Kabi aboriginal people have declared their independence from Australia and claimed sovereign ownership of at least two near-Gympie properties, tribal representative Gary Tomlinson said yesterday. But the State Government says the ...

The Guardian
Australia desperately needs more Indigenous teachers. Our students deserve it
The Guardian
Currently I'm in the last few months of fieldwork, looking at the experiences of Aboriginal girls in Australian urban boarding schools incorporating a Māori girls' school as a comparison. I'm passionate about Indigenous research, and am developing a ...

The Guardian
Australia desperately needs more Indigenous teachers. Our students deserve it
The Guardian
Feel-good stories of “success” like mine may hide the fact that Australia is startling short on Indigenous educators. Indigenous teachers form about 1% of the teaching community, while Indigenous students make up 5% of the student population. It has ...

The Maitland Mercury
Word Watch: So, what exactly is Australian?
The Maitland Mercury
Not so long ago I was thumbing through my copy of the Oxford Australian National Dictionary. The first entry under Australian said “l: An Aboriginal”. Aboriginal Australian or Vietnamese Australian, Italian Australian or Greek Australian or any other ...