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Indigenous teen's 'trust experiment' makes global impact after beach video ...
Radio Australia
The brave teen said it was part of a larger social experiment to raise awareness about the level of distrust towards Indigenous Australians. "It was pretty confronting to learn that only 13 per cent of Australians trusted Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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NEWS.com.au
Blame booze, not the past: Pearson
NEWS.com.au
The Australian reports that the noted academic used a speech in Brisbane to urge indigenous people to “rise above historic trauma”, likening that process to the way in which Jewish people have endured after the Holocaust. “I have to push back against ...

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Blame booze, not the past: Pearson
NEWS.com.au
Mr Pearson told the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists conference that blaming the past had become “a convenience”, but the greater problem facing Aboriginal communities today was alcohol abuse — a state of affairs he called ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Christian Thompson tells Indigenous Australia's story in The Imperial Relic
Sydney Morning Herald
In one photograph, Christian Thompson's head can be just seen emerging from a fabric sheath resembling an old-fashioned gramophone horn. In another, he wears an elaborate helmet made of maps, including one of the distribution of Aboriginal language ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Christian Thompson tells Indigenous Australia's story in The Imperial Relic
Sydney Morning Herald
In one photograph, Christian Thompson's head can be just seen emerging from a fabric sheath resembling an old-fashioned gramophone horn. In another, he wears an elaborate helmet made of maps, including one of the distribution of Aboriginal language ...

Bundaberg News Mail
Letters: This is why the Aboriginal flag needs to fly
Bundaberg News Mail
This is not the "Black Arm Band View" of the history of Australia since 1788 this is the "White View" written by White Australian historians. On the 10th, December 1992 then Prime Minister the Hon Paul Keating gave a speech on Aboriginal reconciliation ...

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Uranium Contaminated Indigenous Australian Communities' Water
teleSUR English
Unsafe levels of uranium were found in the water supplies of four Indigenous communities during tests between 2012 and 2014, according to a report from the Office of the Auditor General Western Australia. “Uranium leaches naturally from soils, rocks ...

Get over historical indigenous wrongs: Noel Pearson
The Australian
“But too many white Australians think the door opens to opportunity from the outside, when you've got to be let into the door from the inside.'' Mr Pearson said constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as Australia's first ...

Get over historical indigenous wrongs: Noel Pearson
The Australian
“We've constructed a major industry out of indigenous disadvantage. Australia spent $33 billion last year in the name of indigenous people … yet the results are the poorest you can imagine.'' Mr Pearson said white Australia believed indigenous people ...

Get over historical indigenous wrongs: Noel Pearson
The Australian
“We've constructed a major industry out of indigenous disadvantage. Australia spent $33 billion last year in the name of indigenous people … yet the results are the poorest you can imagine.'' Mr Pearson said white Australia believed indigenous people ...

The Canberra Times
ADFA theatre honours Australia's first Indigenous officer, Reg Saunders
The Canberra Times
When Captain Reg Saunders, Australia's first Indigenous army officer, discovered a cold and hungry baby in an abandoned Korean village more than 60 years ago the veteran of the Middle East, Greece, Crete and the Pacific war was stumped. "How were we ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous legal services peak body wins last-minute pre-budget reprieve
The Guardian
Wednesday's funding announcement comes less than two months after Brandis reinstated $25m worth of cuts to community-based legal aid services, citing the impact the cuts would have on Indigenous Australians and survivors of domestic violence in ...
Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many storiesBBC News

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The Guardian
Indigenous legal services peak body wins last-minute pre-budget reprieve
The Guardian
Wednesday's funding announcement comes less than two months after Brandis reinstated $25m worth of cuts to community-based legal aid services, citing the impact the cuts would have on Indigenous Australians and survivors of domestic violence in ...
Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many storiesBBC News

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BBC News
Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many stories
BBC News
An enormous exhibition banner flaps gently in the breeze as a small group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women crane their necks upwards to read the words: 'Indigenous Australia: enduring civilization'. The long awaited exhibition ...

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BBC News
Indigenous Australia exhibition tells many stories
BBC News
An enormous exhibition banner flaps gently in the breeze as a small group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women crane their necks upwards to read the words: 'Indigenous Australia: enduring civilization'. The long awaited exhibition ...

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The Guardian
Most groups funded under Indigenous advancement strategy non-Indigenous
The Guardian
Having got “many calls” after the announcement of the process, Gooda said some organisations did not have the capacity to put together the complicated applications, a suggestion also made by the – otherwise largely supportive – North Australian ...
Funding for Indigenous organisations an improvement on Labor, Nigel Scullion ...ABC Online
Plato said engage with our politicians or risk being governed by the 'dumb ...The Stringer

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The Guardian
Most groups funded under Indigenous advancement strategy non-Indigenous
The Guardian
Geographically, the largest share went to eastern New South Wales (18%), which has a quarter of Australia's Indigenous population, followed by greater Western Australia (13%) and the Top End and Tiwi Islands region (11%). A 10th of the funding went to ...

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ABC Online
Revive stamp duty exemption for Tasmania's Indigenous first home buyers ...
ABC Online
One of Tasmania's peak Indigenous bodies has urged the State Government not to "ignore" Indigenous Australians in this year's state budget. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) wants the Government to reinstate first home buyers stamp duty exemption ...

ABC Online
Majority of grants from Indigenous Advancement Strategy first round given to ...
ABC Online
Less than half of the successful applicants for the first round of the new federal Indigenous Affairs funding scheme were Aboriginal organisations. The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet confirmed the figure in its submission to a Senate inquiry ...
Most groups funded under Indigenous advancement strategy non-IndigenousThe Guardian

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ABC Online
Majority of grants from Indigenous Advancement Strategy first round given to ...
ABC Online
Less than half of the successful applicants for the first round of the new federal Indigenous Affairs funding scheme were Aboriginal organisations. The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet confirmed the figure in its submission to a Senate inquiry ...
Most groups funded under Indigenous advancement strategy non-IndigenousThe Guardian

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