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Māori Television
Marama Fox to attend protest against closure of Aboriginal communities in ...
Māori Television
Māori Party Co-leader, Marama Fox, will take part in a protest march in Australia next month opposing its Government's plan to close 150 remote aboriginal communities. The news comes days after the Māori Party sent a letter to Australian Prime Minister ...

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International Business Times AU
People are poor because they have no money: rich platitudes from 'experts'
Sydney Morning Herald
Preferences of indigenous Australians and development of social norms and attitudes to work are also likely to play a part. "Each issue alone is not enough to explain employment and income differences between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
Over 1 Million Australians Living In Poverty Despite 20 Years Of Economic GrowthInternational Business Times AU

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ABC Online
Hopes new 'tidy town' status will boost tourism in NT Aboriginal community
ABC Online
How does a tiny Aboriginal community in Central Australia, without mobile reception, WiFi or a petrol bowser, market itself as a tourist destination? Wallace Rockhole hopes a new four-star rating from Keep Australia Beautiful NT, a kind of permanent ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
One million Australians living in poverty - it's just not good enough
Sydney Morning Herald
And for children from disadvantaged families to be helped and specially funded so that they do not start school behind and do not keep going through their lives behind their peers. It also talks about reducing discrimination against Indigenous people ...
One million Australians 'entrenched in disadvantage', report findsThe Guardian

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Digital Journal
Chinese war hero Australia's top Gallipoli sniper
Digital Journal
Under Australia's 1909 Defence Act, "those who are not substantially of European origin or descent" were blocked from active service. But some from minority backgrounds including indigenous Australians still stepped forward, trying multiple times ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation review – a fabulous beast
The Guardian
Cook and his crew admired the ways of Tahiti and the art of Easter Island, but saw Australia as peopled by mere savages – a prejudice that continued until very recent times. Sigmund Freud expresses deeply negative opinions about Aboriginal culture in ...
Indigenous Australia, British Museum, review: 'all too familiar'Telegraph.co.uk
Nothing to be afraid of in giving Aboriginal citizens constitutional rightsWA today
CRY FOR HELPAboriginal Art Directory News
Crikey (blog)
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The Guardian
Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation review – a fabulous beast
The Guardian
Westerners pride themselves on traditions that go back a few hundred years: Indigenous Australian art was being made in 1770 in an unbroken tradition with a pedigree of somewhere in the region of 40,000 years. There is a bark shield here probably made ...
Indigenous Australia, British Museum, review: 'all too familiar'Telegraph.co.uk
Noel Pearson's assimilation agenda divides Indigenous AustraliansIndependent Australia
Indigenous Australia at the British Museum: It's time to give the Aboriginal ...The Independent
ArtsHub (subscription) -Aboriginal Art Directory News -WA today
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Bangkok Post
Chinese war hero Australia's top Gallipoli sniper
Bangkok Post
Under Australia's 1909 Defence Act, "those who are not substantially of European origin or descent" were blocked from active service. But some from minority backgrounds including indigenous Australians still stepped forward, trying multiple times ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
More than a million Australians live in poverty: report
Sydney Morning Herald
... to early intervention programs to minimise hospital admissions for those with mental illness, targeting parents as well as children to stop intergenerational educational disadvantage and fixing discrimination against Indigenous Australians in the ...
A Million Aussies Living in PovertyPro Bono Australia
Over 1 Million Australians Living In Poverty Despite 20 Years Of Economic GrowthInternational Business Times AU
One million Australians living in poverty - it's just not good enoughWA today
The Guardian
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Herald Sun
Stage show Black Diggers reveals the forgotten story of Indigenous soldiers in ...
Herald Sun
Their stories are woven together to create Black Diggers, which tells the forgotten story of Australia's Indigenous soldiers. Despite being unrecognised and oppressed, unable even to vote in their home country, these men took up arms to defend the free ...

Mozo.com.au
A Million Aussies Living in Poverty
Pro Bono Australia
It is unlikely that any country can wholly eliminate poverty and disadvantage. However, Australia most definitely can and must do better.” Professor Martin said CEDA's report focuses on three key areas- education gaps, Indigenous disadvantage and ...
More than a million Australians live in poverty: reportBrisbane Times

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Thousands of Indigenous Lives Lost Prematurely
Pro Bono Australia
The report, Australian Burden of Disease Study: Fatal burden of disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, provides estimates of the fatal burden of disease and injury for Indigenous Australians, as well as estimates of the 'gap' in fatal ...

Thousands of Indigenous Lives Lost Prematurely
Pro Bono Australia
The report, Australian Burden of Disease Study: Fatal burden of disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, provides estimates of the fatal burden of disease and injury for Indigenous Australians, as well as estimates of the 'gap' in fatal ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Indigenous Australia, British Museum, review: 'all too familiar'
Telegraph.co.uk
Your guarantee from any British Museum exhibition is a factual nugget or two you'll be sharing in the days, weeks and months ahead. In the case of Indigenous Australia, it's that around 250 Aboriginal languages were being spoken at the time of British ...
Nothing to be afraid of in giving Aboriginal citizens constitutional rightsWA today
CRY FOR HELPAboriginal Art Directory News
Recognition of Aborigines in Constitution only serves to divideHerald Sun
The Guardian
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Telegraph.co.uk
Indigenous Australia, British Museum, review: 'all too familiar'
Telegraph.co.uk
Your guarantee from any British Museum exhibition is a factual nugget or two you'll be sharing in the days, weeks and months ahead. In the case of Indigenous Australia, it's that around 250 Aboriginal languages were being spoken at the time of British ...
Noel Pearson's assimilation agenda divides Indigenous AustraliansIndependent Australia
British Museum exhibit reignites call for return of Indigenous relicsArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous Australia at the British Museum: It's time to give the Aboriginal ...The Independent
Crikey (blog) -Aboriginal Art Directory News -WA today
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Sydney Morning Herald
More than a million Australians live in poverty: report
Sydney Morning Herald
... to early intervention programs to minimise hospital admissions for those with mental illness, targeting parents as well as children to stop intergenerational educational disadvantage and fixing discrimination against Indigenous Australians in the ...
A Million Aussies Living in PovertyPro Bono Australia
One million Australians living in poverty - it's just not good enoughWA today
One million Australians 'entrenched in disadvantage', report findsThe Guardian

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The Times (subscription)
Indigenous Australia — Enduring Civilisation at the British Museum
The Times (subscription)
Read the label and you find yourself time-travelling; taken back to that tense moment 245 years ago when Captain James Cook first set foot upon the shores of Australia, a buckled shoe sinking into the thick sands of Botany Bay. You can almost hear the ...

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WA today
Nothing to be afraid of in giving Aboriginal citizens constitutional rights
WA today
The nation needs to change its thinking about Indigenous people. We are not invisible. We are not inferior. We are equal citizens of Australia., We are capable of making free choices and informed decisions, and of having opinions about the laws and ...
CRY FOR HELPAboriginal Art Directory News
Djambawa Marawili: On Homelands, Art and Caring for Indigenous KnowledgeCrikey (blog)
Recognition of Aborigines in Constitution only serves to divideHerald Sun
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
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NEWS.com.au
The fighter pilot who inspired a generation
NEWS.com.au
This extraordinary story of a boy born in a northern NSW mission in 1924 hasn't ended. The RAAF now wants to get its first indigenous woman fighter pilot, something that may never have happened without Len Waters. When Mr Waters died in 1993 the RAAF ...

NEWS.com.au
The fighter pilot who inspired a generation
NEWS.com.au
This extraordinary story of a boy born in a northern NSW mission in 1924 hasn't ended. The RAAF now wants to get its first indigenous woman fighter pilot, something that may never have happened without Len Waters. When Mr Waters died in 1993 the RAAF ...