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Aboriginal people driven from their land
Green Left Weekly
At the Freedom Summit in Canberra over January 25 to 27, Aboriginal activists who had travelled from around the country brought with them many pressing concerns, which paint a picture of the many fronts on which Aboriginal Australia continues to be ...

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'2 Broke Girls' Offended Australians With An Aboriginal Australians Joke
Uproxx
People in Australia are pissed after a particular episode of 2 Broke Girls aired over there on Wednesday night. “And the Fun Factory,” which originally aired in the U.S. in early January, featured a joke made at the expense of Aboriginal Australians.

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The Wild Australia Troupe
Aboriginal Art Directory News
A little before 1892, a group of 27 Indigenous people came together from the groups of Wakaya, Kuthant, Kurtjar, Arapa, Walangama, Mayikulan, Kabi Kabi, Kalkadoon and Muralag. There were 22 men, four women and one child. And the man behind it, ...

The Australian
change propels inertia
The Australian
The leaders, managers and workforce of the entire indigenous sector across Australia have been given no information about their funding submissions. No one can plan service delivery and operability without clarity on what the minister's decision is on ...

The Australian
Philip Clarke's discovery of Aboriginal plant kingdom
The Australian
WHEN the young Philip Clarke arrived at the South Australian Museum as a volunteer worker in 1982, it was a musty, eccentric place, with a diverse range of near-forgotten treasures packed away. The Aboriginal artefact stores were housed in the east ...

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Indigenous Australians Face Eviction from Protest Camp
teleSUR English
When the AHC first began to be handed parts of what would later become the Block in the 1970s, it was widely viewed as a major victory in the battle for Indigenous land rights. The entire area was earmarked for affordable housing for Indigenous ...

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Australia's indigenous affairs minister set on outright kava ban
Radio Australia
Federal Indigenous Affairs minister and Northern Territory Senator Nigel Scullion says Australia accepts people practising their culture, but when it is perverted, redirected, and harms First Australians, it isn't a right, it's a privilege. He says in ...
Gulag Territory: NT's shameful incarceration of Aboriginal AustraliansCrikey

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Australia's indigenous affairs minister set on outright kava ban
Radio Australia
He says in order to protect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia, kava should be banned and he will continue pursuing it until it is banned. Anthropologist Kirk Huffman says the government is going about this in entirely the wrong way.

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2 Broke Girls slammed for Aboriginal joke
NEWS.com.au
In the scene a male character reveals that he has been flirting with an Australian girl online and says: “She's part Aboriginal, but she has a great personality!” Unhappy viewers took to social media with former Channel Nine personality and The Block ...
Popular sitcom '2 Broke Girls' slammed for racist Indigenous Australian jokeSBS
'It's not about being hypersensitive'Herald Sun
2 Broke Girls slammed for indigenous racial slurSheKnows.com

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US sitcom '2 Broke Girls' slammed for racist Indigenous Australian joke
SBS
Tuesday night's episode of American sitcom '2 Broke Girls' has angered Australians fans after a racist joke about Indigenous Australians was aired to more than 320,000 viewers. The joke was made by a male character named Han who explained that he was ...
Rudd slams 2 Broke Girls 'racist' jokeNEWS.com.au
2 Broke Girls under fire for racist joke about Aboriginal AustraliansStuff.co.nz
2 Broke Girls slammed for indigenous racial slurSheKnows.com

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SBS
Popular sitcom '2 Broke Girls' slammed for racist Indigenous Australian joke
SBS
Tuesday night's episode of American sitcom '2 Broke Girls' has angered Australians fans after a racist joke about Indigenous Australians was aired to more than 320,000 viewers. The joke was made by a male character named Han who explained that he was ...
Rudd slams 2 Broke Girls 'racist' jokeNEWS.com.au
Susie O'Brien: 2 Broke Girls Aboriginal slur just the latest in string of rape ...Herald Sun
2 Broke Girls slammed for indigenous racial slurSheKnows.com

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Crikey
Gulag Territory: NT's shameful incarceration of Aboriginal Australians
Crikey
In mid-November last year, the Australian Productivity Commission released the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report, which described Australia's ongoing failings in dealing with the problems that continue to afflict Australia's Aboriginal ...
Australia's indigenous affairs minister set on outright kava banRadio Australia

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Inside Out: Indigenous imprisonment in Australia - documentary video
The Guardian
Filmed on the plains of north-western New South Wales, this documentary looks at one man's fight against the scourge of Indigenous imprisonment in his community. Inside Out tells the story of a pastor and former prison guard, Uncle Isaac Gordon, whose ...

Australian fans are angry at American sitcom 2 Broke Girls for a racist joke ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian fans of the American comedy show 2 Broke Girls responded in uproar over the racist joke about Indigenous Australians, which aired on Tuesday evening. During the season four episode, titled And the Fun Factory, a male character is shown ...

Sydney Morning Herald
2 Broke Girls season 4 under fire for racist joke about Aboriginal Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian fans of the American comedy show 2 Broke Girls responded in uproar over the racist joke about Indigenous Australians, which aired on Tuesday evening. During the season four episode, titled And the Fun Factory, a male character is shown ...
2 Broke Girls slammed for indigenous racial slurSheKnows.com

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Sydney Morning Herald
2 Broke Girls season 4 under fire for racist joke about Aboriginal Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian fans of the American comedy show 2 Broke Girls responded in uproar over the racist joke about Indigenous Australians, which aired on Tuesday evening. During the season four episode, titled And the Fun Factory, a male character is shown ...
'WTF is with the racial slur?': Viewers take aim at popular US sitcom Two ...Daily Mail

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The Guardian
Colin Barnett turned down invitation to meet Aboriginal land councils
The Guardian
The Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, turned down an invitation to meet Aboriginal land councils about a government proposal to close up to 150 of the state's remote communities, one day before telling parliament he would consult Aboriginal ...

The West Australian
Abolish key Aboriginal body: Wyatt
The West Australian
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs should be abolished because it cannot properly advocate for Aboriginal West Australians, shadow Aboriginal affairs minister Ben Wyatt says. Mr Wyatt said the department should be replaced by a special advocate for ...

Aboriginal groups launch firm
The Australian
KRED legal director Wayne Bergmann said there was an urgent need for an Australia-wide Aboriginal-owned legal entity. “Across Australia, we're seeing pressure on traditional owners from proponents and companies wishing to access, explore and develop ...

Fulbright scholar plans to shine a light on indigenous entrepreneurship
StartupSmart
A PhD student at the University of Technology, Sydney has been awarded the 2015 Fulbright Indigenous Postgraduate Scholarship to advance his research into the socio-economic and cultural impacts of indigenous entrepreneurship and social enterprise.

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