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Broome runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw to become first Indigenous Australian to ...
ABC Online
Broome marathon runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw is set to become the first Indigenous Australian to set foot on the North Pole and tackle one of the of world's most gruelling challenges, the North Pole Marathon. No stranger to overcoming obstacles, ...

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ABC Online
Broome runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw to become first Indigenous Australian to ...
ABC Online
Broome marathon runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw is set to become the first Indigenous Australian to set foot on the North Pole and tackle one of the of world's most gruelling challenges, the North Pole Marathon. No stranger to overcoming obstacles, ...

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ABC Online
Broome runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw to become first Indigenous Australian to ...
ABC Online
Broome marathon runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw is set to become the first Indigenous Australian to set foot on the North Pole and tackle one of the of world's most gruelling challenges, the North Pole Marathon. No stranger to overcoming obstacles, ...

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ABC Online
Broome runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw to become first Indigenous Australian to ...
ABC Online
Broome marathon runner Adrian Dodson-Shaw is set to become the first Indigenous Australian to set foot on the North Pole and tackle one of the of world's most gruelling challenges, the North Pole Marathon. No stranger to overcoming obstacles, ...

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InDaily
Designer lessons in Aboriginal cloaks
InDaily
Australian Aboriginal dress is rarely cited as a key inspiration – and, in that, I think many designers are missing an opportunity. 19th-century images of Aboriginal people from south-eastern Australia frequently feature subjects wearing possum-skin ...

Funding cut signals the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia
Eureka Street (satire) (registration)
The Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion is presiding over the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia. Last week he faced an angry protest by Indigenous organisations in Alice Springs over funding cuts. In last year's Budget, the Federal ...

Funding cut signals the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia
Eureka Street (satire) (registration)
The Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion is presiding over the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia. Last week he faced an angry protest by Indigenous organisations in Alice Springs over funding cuts. In last year's Budget, the Federal ...

The Conversation AU
Fire in the sky: The southern lights in Indigenous oral traditions
The Conversation AU
Aurorae are significant in Australian Indigenous astronomical traditions. Aboriginal people associate aurorae with fire, death, blood, and omens, sharing many similarities with Native American communities. They are quite different from Inuit traditions ...

Radio Australia
Ice addiction overtaking alcohol as biggest problem facing Indigenous ...
Radio Australia
Ice addiction overtaking alcohol as biggest problem facing Indigenous Australians, rehab expert says. Updated 1 April 2015, 20:00 AEDT. By Adam Harvey and Jeanavive McGregor. Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Ice addiction overtaking alcohol as biggest problem facing Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous populations, the head of a rehabilitation centre specialising in treatment for Aboriginal people says. Joe Coyte is CEO of The Glen, on the New South Wales Central Coast ...

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Ice addiction overtaking alcohol as biggest problem facing Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous populations, the head of a rehabilitation centre specialising in treatment for Aboriginal people says. Joe Coyte is CEO of The Glen, on the New South Wales Central Coast ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders take 'empowered communities' overhaul to the people
The Guardian
Eight regions in Australia have opted in to the “empowered communities” reforms, which aim to close the gap by returning control of funding and services to Indigenous communities and focusing on investing in measures that lead to economic self-sufficiency.
Indigenous MP Linda Burney condemns WA closuresSBS

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Indigenous MP Linda Burney condemns WA closures
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The Canterbury MP says closing Indigenous communities is reminiscent of Australia's past annihilation policies of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the 1961 Policy of Assimilation adopted by federal and state governments which intended Indigenous people to ...
Indigenous leaders take 'empowered communities' overhaul to the peopleThe Guardian

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Indigenous MP Linda Burney condemns WA remote community closures
SBS
The Canterbury MP says closing Indigenous communities is reminiscent of Australia's past annihilation policies of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the 1961 Policy of Assimilation adopted by federal and state governments which intended Indigenous people to ...
Indigenous leaders take 'empowered communities' overhaul to the peopleThe Guardian

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Top Indigenous politician condemns closures first time
SBS
The Wiradjuri woman says closing Indigenous communities is reminiscent of Australia's past annihilation policies of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the 1961 Policy of Assimilation adopted by federal and state governments which intended Indigenous people ...

The Guardian
#SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA: stop the forced closure of Aboriginal communities ...
The Guardian
'I was a part of a strong group of individuals who left a marker on history through the campaign to “Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia” and through the social media platforms created as #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA.' Photograph: ...

50 Aboriginal soldiers fought on Gallipoli
SBS
Perhaps 50 Aboriginal soldiers fought on Gallipoli in an era when they weren't recognised as Australian citizens and enlistment was technically forbidden. No-one really knows for sure, not even the Australian War Memorial which has sought to catalogue ...

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50 Aboriginal soldiers fought on Gallipoli
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Perhaps 50 Aboriginal soldiers fought on Gallipoli in an era when they weren't recognised as Australian citizens and enlistment was technically forbidden. No-one really knows for sure, not even the Australian War Memorial which has sought to catalogue ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Australia's Aboriginal war heroes 'finally' recognised by memorial sculpture
Telegraph.co.uk
Aboriginal groups have long campaigned for proper recognition of their service. “One way to get this recognition was to advocate for a memorial and the bullets are a great idea,” Ray Minniecon, from the Coloured Diggers movement, told Sydney's Daily ...
Aboriginal war heroes remembered with new Anzac memorial in Hyde ParkThe Daily Telegraph
Public artwork honours contribution of Indigenous soldiersSBS
Tony Albert's 'confronting' tribute to Indigenous Diggers unveiled in Sydney's ...Sydney Morning Herald
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SBS
Emergency summit held over SA Aboriginal community closures
SBS
Leaders from remote Aboriginal communities in South Australia have held an emergency summit to try to stop funding cuts that could force the closure of their communities - a move they've labelled cultural genocide. Representatives from every regional ...
Police Commissioner backs push to close remote WA Aboriginal communities ...ABC Online
Reality of Aboriginal child abuse far worseThe West Australian
West Australian police commissioner backs closure of remote communitiesThe Guardian

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