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No forced adoption for aboriginal kids
Sky News Australia
The new laws, which are set to be debated in state parliament on Thursday, would see NSW become the first jurisdiction in Australia where child protection authorities would be required to consider adoption before placing a vulnerable child in foster care.

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Crikey (blog)
Gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous home ownership too big
ABC Local
Indigenous Business Australia says it's working to 'close the gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in the housing market. Its Home Ownership Program offers low deposit requirements and interest rates, to enable more Indigenous people ...
Knights support Close the Gap DayNewcastle Knights
Close the Gap Day recognises importance of health equalityWhyalla News
Mundine leaves many questions unanswered about future of Indigenous health ...Crikey (blog)

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No forced adoption for Aboriginal children
Ninemsn
The new laws, which are set to be debated in state parliament on Thursday, would see NSW become the first jurisdiction in Australia where child protection authorities would be required to consider adoption before placing a vulnerable child in foster care.

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Poor Cancer Survival in Indigenous Children - Report
Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous Australian children are 36 per cent more likely to die within five years of a cancer diagnosis than non-Indigenous Australian children, a landmark report has found. Released on national Close the Gap day, (March 20) researchers say it is the ...

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First Aboriginal Woman in Australia Senate Draws on Olympic Win
Bloomberg
While Peris won the seat for the now-opposition Labor party in last September's election and has since been tasked with a lead role in helping convince Australians to approve the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution, the furor over her ...

First Aboriginal Woman in Australia Senate Draws on Olympic Win
Bloomberg
While Peris won the seat for the now-opposition Labor party in last September's election and has since been tasked with a lead role in helping convince Australians to approve the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution, the furor over her ...

First Aboriginal Woman in Australia Senate Draws on Olympic Win
Bloomberg
While Peris won the seat for the now-opposition Labor party in last September's election and has since been tasked with a lead role in helping convince Australians to approve the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution, the furor over her ...

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First Aboriginal Woman in Australia Senate Draws on Olympic Win
Bloomberg
While Peris won the seat for the now-opposition Labor party in last September's election and has since been tasked with a lead role in helping convince Australians to approve the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution, the furor over her ...

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Atlanta Black Star
Invasion, Theft, Rape: The European Holocaust Against The Aboriginal ...
Atlanta Black Star
But, I assure you, there is a much more harsh reality for Tasmania. Tasmania is an island slightly larger in size than West Virginia, and is located two-hundred miles off Australia's southeast coast. The aboriginal inhabitants of the island were Black ...

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Australia Senate's First Aboriginal Woman Beat Cyclone, Racism
Businessweek
While Peris won the seat for the now-opposition Labor party in last September's election and has since been tasked with a lead role in helping convince Australians to approve the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution, the furor over her ...

Australia Senate's First Aboriginal Woman Beat Cyclone, Racism
Businessweek
Aborigines are among Australia's most marginalized people, with infant mortality rates twice that for non-indigenous people and life expectancy about a decade lower. Both Labor and the Liberal-National government have pledged to improve their lot and ...

Indigenous children at higher risk of dying from cancers
Bundaberg News Mail
INDIGENOUS Australian children are 36 per cent more likely to die within five years of a cancer diagnosis than non-indigenous Australian children, a landmark new report has found. Released on national Close the Gap day, it is the first time researchers ...

Green Left Weekly
How Aboriginal people created Australia -- book provides detailed account of ...
Green Left Weekly
This is an extraordinary book that details how Australian Aboriginal people cared for the land, or as Bill Gammage calls it the “Biggest Estate on Earth”. Gammage describes, with many examples, how Aboriginal people looked after the land. No corner was ...

SBS
Project investigates Indigenous self-identification
SBS
Aboriginal means native to land. I find it quite derogatory in the sense of an identification that we stand under. I don't like to be called an Aboriginal. If someone says what country do you come from, I say I come from Australia and I am an ...
Indigenous mental health report shows legal flawsWarrnambool Standard
Congress Lowitja to focus on racism and the growing risk of “interventions”Crikey (blog)

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SBS
Project investigates Indigenous self-identification
SBS
Aboriginal means native to land. I find it quite derogatory in the sense of an identification that we stand under. I don't like to be called an Aboriginal. If someone says what country do you come from, I say I come from Australia and I am an ...
Congress Lowitja to focus on racism and the growing risk of “interventions”Crikey (blog)

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SBS
Project investigates Indigenous self-identification
SBS
If someone says what country do you come from, I say I come from Australia and I am an Australian Aboriginal, so they know about my identification of what I am to this country, if I am outside this country, yeah, because that's all people know. But I ...
Congress Lowitja to focus on racism and the growing risk of “interventions”Crikey (blog)

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Indigenous mental health report shows legal flaws
Warrnambool Standard
Mr Clarke, who is deputy chairman of the First Peoples Disability Network, said successive inquiries had found Aboriginal Australians to be the most jailed sector of the human race and there were now similarities with treatment of refugees seeking asylum.

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Indigenous mental health report shows legal flaws
Warrnambool Standard
Mr Clarke, who is deputy chairman of the First Peoples Disability Network, said successive inquiries had found Aboriginal Australians to be the most jailed sector of the human race and there were now similarities with treatment of refugees seeking asylum.

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ABC Online
Debating race without rancour
The Australian (blog)
At the time the report was released, about 90,000 Aborigines in outback and northern Australia out of a total indigenous population of 350,000 were struggling with woefully low life expectancies and Third World living conditions. The urban-based ...
Andrew Bolt unhappy with ABC apology for 'racist' claim on Q&AThe Guardian
ABC apologises to Andrew BoltBrisbane Times

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inmycommunity
Aboriginal elder calls demolition a "dawn raid"
inmycommunity
POLICE cars surrounded the Swan Valley Nyungah Community this morning while buildings were destroyed, in what one Aboriginal elder called “a dawn raid.” Bella Bropho said by the time she arrived all the buildings on Lord Street, Lockridge, property had ...
Last remains of Swan Valley camp flattenedThe Australian
Swan Valley Nyungah community cleared to create conservation reserve and ...ABC Online
Swan Valley Nyungah community cleared to make way for reserveABC Message Stick

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