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gap program to target dementia
The Australian
Dementia affects the indigenous community earlier in life, with 73 per cent of indigenous dementia cases occurring between the age of 60 and 70; compared with 70 and older for the majority of non-Aboriginal Australians. Alzheimer's Australia chief ...

Brisbane Times
Adam Goodes decries muted response to John Pilger film Utopia
The Guardian
The 2014 Australian of the year, Adam Goodes, has called the muted response to John Pilger's latest film on Indigenous Australians disturbing, hurtful and embarrassing. Pilger's film Utopia explores the state of Indigenous affairs in Australia, and ...
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissedBrisbane Times
Why you have to watch this filmWA today

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Why you have to watch this film
The Age
For the last few weeks, I've seen a film bring together Aboriginal people all over Australia. The buzz around Utopia - a documentary by John Pilger - has been unprecedented. Some 4000 people attended the open-air premiere in Redfern last month - both ...

Brisbane Times
Why you have to watch this film
The Age
For the last few weeks, I've seen a film bring together Aboriginal people all over Australia. The buzz around Utopia - a documentary by John Pilger - has been unprecedented. Some 4000 people attended the open-air premiere in Redfern last month - both ...
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissedBrisbane Times
Adam Goodes decries muted response to John Pilger film UtopiaThe Guardian

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Aboriginal artist Richard Bell accuses Adelaide Festival artist of using ...
Herald Sun
A LEADING Australian indigenous artist has accused another artist featured in the Adelaide Festival's main exhibition of “blatantly” appropriating indigenous designs he says have been presented as “decoration and fluff”. Queensland-born Richard Bell ...

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Aboriginal artist Richard Bell accuses Adelaide Festival artist of using ...
Herald Sun
A LEADING Australian indigenous artist has accused another artist featured in the Adelaide Festival's main exhibition of “blatantly” appropriating indigenous designs he says have been presented as “decoration and fluff”. Queensland-born Richard Bell ...

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Aboriginal artist Richard Bell accuses Adelaide Festival artist of using ...
NEWS.com.au
Queensland-born Richard Bell said Archibald Prize-winning artist Del Kathryn Barton was insulting Aboriginal people with her large-scale painting, the heart land, at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The work, an intensely coloured and detailed 9m ...

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Aboriginal artist Richard Bell accuses Adelaide Festival artist of using ...
NEWS.com.au
A LEADING Australian indigenous artist has accused another artist featured in the Adelaide Festival's main exhibition of “blatantly” appropriating indigenous designs he says have been presented as “decoration and fluff”. Queensland-born Richard Bell ...

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Brisbane Times
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
Brisbane Times
We travelled across Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, treating Aboriginal men, women and children for trachoma and other eye diseases, problems which still plague remote Aboriginal communities today. The Australia I saw in ...
Hostility to John Pilger's film a denial of nation's brutal pastThe Canberra Times

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Brisbane Times
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
Brisbane Times
But for me, Pilger's interview with the former indigenous health minister, Warren Snowdon, and the responses of white people on Australia Day who were asked why they thought Aboriginal people didn't celebrate January 26, were the real nuggets in the film.

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The Age
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
The Age
But for me, Pilger's interview with the former indigenous health minister, Warren Snowdon, and the responses of white people on Australia Day who were asked why they thought Aboriginal people didn't celebrate January 26, were the real nuggets in the film.
Adam Goodes decries muted response to John Pilger film UtopiaThe Guardian
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The Age
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
The Age
Fortunately, there's a simple way in – an opportunity to get a "punter's guide" to the truth about the treatment of Aboriginal Australians. John Pilger's latest film, Utopia - a 110-minute feature length documentary more than two years in the making ...
Hostility to John Pilger's film a denial of nation's brutal pastWA today

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Sydney Morning Herald
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
Sydney Morning Herald
It's the new mantra in Aboriginal affairs: get your kids to school. Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd were fond of saying it. So too is Prime Minister Tony Abbott. While I don't accept that education alone, or rather a lack of access to it ...

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How Aborigines could solve Australia's bushfire problem
BBC News
Strong winds and soaring temperatures have led to dozens of bushfires in southern Australia. Could Aboriginal "gardening" techniques be used to control them in future? I am only an hour into visiting a retired couple just north of Sydney when I realise ...

Indigenous mentor system pours $38m into economy
The Australian
The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience program is now so big and successful that an independent KPMG report due to be released today has concluded it contributed $38 million to the economy in 2012. The Weekend Australian can reveal that ...

Indigenous mentor system pours $38m into economy
The Australian
The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience program is now so big and successful that an independent KPMG report due to be released today has concluded it contributed $38 million to the economy in 2012. The Weekend Australian can reveal that ...

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'Molly's Story' to be presented in Australia
LOCAL2 Sault Ste. Marie
Bernadette Pizzey, a fourth-year Social Work student at Algoma University, will be making the trek to Cairns, Australia to present at the 2014 National Indigenous Women Conference from the 13-15 of October, 2014. Pizzey, a mature student of Algoma ...

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Two young women have been caught on camera racially abusing and assaulting ...
The Australian
... Brian Swan said police believed they had identified the women, and it was with the help of a slew of public tip-offs. Police are expected to charge the two young women who bashed and racially vilified a partially blind indigenous man on a Gold ...

Two young women have been caught on camera racially abusing and assaulting ...
The Australian
... Brian Swan said police believed they had identified the women, and it was with the help of a slew of public tip-offs. Police are expected to charge the two young women who bashed and racially vilified a partially blind indigenous man on a Gold ...

The Guardian
Woman turns herself in over Gold Coast bus attack on elderly man
The Guardian
“The victim actually doesn't identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander,” he said. “However it is concerning that the alleged [attackers] perceived that he was.” Dr Tim Soutphommasane, race discrimination commissioner at the Australian Human ...
Women in racist attack on old manManawatu Standard
Gold Coast bus attack: two women leave elderly man 'upset and shaken'Brisbane Times

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