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Indigenous leaders back footy factory
NEWS.com.au
Young Australian of the Year Vincent “Jack” Buckskin and Central District legend Sonny Morey said the plan would help address unemployment in the region. A quarter of a million footballs, yet to be branded but used during the AFL's annual indigenous ...

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New project to shed light on legacy of Indigenous diggers
ABC Online
The Serving Our Country project documents the experiences of returned Indigenous soldiers and their families and is funded by the Australian Research Council, the Defence Department and the Australian War Memorial. Professor Mick Dodson of the ...
Australia Is Again Stealing Its Indigenous ChildrenTruth-Out
Aboriginal communities struggle with child suicideSBS

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Sydney Morning Herald
Jessica Mauboy bestowed rare Australian honour at Eurovision 2014
Sydney Morning Herald
“As a young indigenous artist who has achieved global success, Jessica's performance will be a fantastic coup for Eurovision's worldwide audience and showcase the strong links between the song contest and SBS's purpose of reflecting diversity. We are ...
Jess Mauboy to sing at EurovisionNEWS.com.au
Jessica Mauboy to perform at EurovisionYahoo!7 News
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New project to shed light on legacy of Indigenous diggers
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... the Defence Department and the Australian War Memorial. Professor Mick Dodson of the Australian National University is part of the team creating a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who fought for Australia from the Boer War ...
Aboriginal communities struggle with child suicideSBS

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Aboriginal communities struggle with child suicide
SBS
While Aboriginal children and teens struggle with their cultural identity, they also have to deal with the social pressures shared by all Australian kids and teens. Mr Button says a lot of this plays out online. "Some of the biggest things that we're ...

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New project to shed light on legacy of Indigenous diggers
ABC Online
... the Defence Department and the Australian War Memorial. Professor Mick Dodson of the Australian National University is part of the team creating a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who fought for Australia from the Boer War ...
Aboriginal communities struggle with child suicideSBS

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High school students want the gap closed
South Coast Register
National Close the Gap Day draws people together in events to remind politicians of their commitment to close the gap on health inequality between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. About 150,000 people across Australia gathered for events ...

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Students' pilgrimage to the past
Sunraysia Daily
But for about 350 Aboriginal children from 19 schools in south-eastern Australia, including some from as far away as Sydney, the trip to Mungo has become a pilgrimage to a place deep in time, and of increasingly deep significance to Aboriginal people.

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Australia Is Again Stealing Its Indigenous Children
Truth-Out
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognized abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands ...
New project to shed light on legacy of Indigenous diggersABC Online
Aboriginal communities struggle with child suicideSBS

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Australia Is Again Stealing Its Indigenous Children
Truth-Out
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because (as an Australian Aborigine) you're guilty before you're found innocent." The child's grandmother demands to know why "the stealing of our kids is happening all over again." A welfare official says ...

Whole-community approach needed
NTNews.com.au
Mr Paech, who works as Senator Nova Peris' Central Australia adviser, said the event was important for the community to understand that there is a need to close the gap on Aboriginal disadvantage and to achieve health equality. Whole-community approach ...

Andrew Bolt isn't a racist, but ...
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The Coalition's push to make changes to the Racial Discrimination Act was in part a response to a court ruling that Andrew Bolt had breached the Act over his comments about Aboriginal Australians. Here, Chelsea Bond revisits the newspaper columnist's ...

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Andrew Bolt isn't a racist, but ...
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The Coalition's push to make changes to the Racial Discrimination Act was in part a response to a court ruling that Andrew Bolt had breached the Act over his comments about Aboriginal Australians. Here, Chelsea Bond revisits the newspaper columnist's ...

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Latest death stats highlight killer habits
The Australian
The figures show the death rate for indigenous Australians is double that of non-indigenous Australians. The leading cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was heart disease followed by diabetes. Increase Text Size · Decrease ...
Six out of ten die from cancer or cardiovascular disease, says ABSThe Guardian
Dementia deaths up as heart disease fallsPerth Now

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$1b Wallarah coal plan could be declared invalid over Darkinjung Aboriginal ...
The Daily Telegraph
“We have about 12,000 indigenous people living on the Central Coast, the fastest growing Aboriginal community in Australia, and those are the people we represent. “Darkinjung has negotiated in good faith with the Wallarah 2 proponents over a number of ...
Coalmine faces costly legal stoushBrisbane Times

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Once Again, Australia is Stealing Its Indigenous Children
CounterPunch
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognised abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands ...

Once Again, Australia is Stealing Its Indigenous Children
CounterPunch
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Australian Aborigine] you're guilty before you're found innocent.” The child's grandmother demands to know why “the stealing of our kids is happening all over again”. A welfare official says ...

No way out for the mentally impaired
The Australian
He was found too brain damaged -- reportedly from solvent abuse -- to enter a plea over the car crash that killed his 12-year-old cousin and triggered a highly charged debate about Aboriginal parenting. In Western Australia a review is under way of the ...

Equality at risk as consequences of recognition are unclear
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leader Mick Dodson reckons that if the Australian Constitution is to have any relevance to Aborigines, it has to “affirm our basic identity as human beings”. So, Aborigines are not human beings unless they are recognised in the Constitution.

Equality at risk as consequences of recognition are unclear
The Australian
So, Aborigines are not human beings unless they are recognised in the Constitution. No one else is mentioned in the Constitution, so presumably all Australians are not human beings. Such is the mind-numbing nonsense of Aboriginal recognition.