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UQ mentors Australia's future leaders
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“The visit is an opportunity to profile the amazing work that The University of Queensland is doing on the ground to see the day when Indigenous children finish school at the same rate as all Australian children,” he said. “It's so good to see ...

Australia's Aboriginal children detained at the world's highest rates
Sydney Indymedia
Australia's Aboriginal peoples are the world's most imprisoned peoples – adults and children. Former Governor of Western Australia, General John Sanderson once said that in most countries such incarceration rates of any minority population would have ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal actors racially abused in Melbourne
ABC Online
A group of Aboriginal actors say they were refused service by four Melbourne taxis and racially abused on a tram within a 24-hour period. Actor Jada Alberts, one of the cast members of the production The Shadow King, says four booked taxis drove away ...
Taxi drivers bar Aboriginal actorsThe Age
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Bangarra Dance Theatre's BLAK Reaches Out to Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...
Broadway World
Blak is drawn from the artists' urban perspectives, telling the stories of Indigenous Australia in powerful and moving dance theatre. Exploding with stories about a contemporary clan and the collision of two worlds, the dynamic physicality is ...

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Aboriginal actors refused taxis four times before being racially abused
The Australian
“This is probably the biggest work to come out of our Engine Room,'' Potts said. “It's a large-scale indigenous work that's taken a long time to develop and assembles a cast from all over Australia, so it's hugely exciting for us to be finally doing it ...

Western Australia: it's now the “State of Imprisonment”
National Indigenous Times
Western Australia has become the "State of imprisonment" according to the former Inspector of Custodial Services, Professor Richard Harding after figures released recently revealed the State's prison population now exceeds 5000 people. The jail numbers ...

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Aboriginal squalor among Australia's 'dirtiest secrets' says expat
Courier Mail
To film Utopia he flew to Western Australia to compare the living conditions of Aboriginal communities with the riches of the mining boom, commenting that "barely a fraction of mining, oil and gas revenue has benefited Aboriginal communities, whose ...

Australian Times
Treatment of Indigenous Australians our "dirtiest little secret", says Pilger
Australian Times
An upcoming documentary, Utopia, produced for ITV by expat John Pilger is set to lift the veil on Australia's “racist” treatment of its indigenous population, with the journalist calling the conditions faced by Australian aborigines the country's ...

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Aboriginal squalor among Australia's 'dirtiest secrets' says expat
The Daily Telegraph
To film Utopia he flew to Western Australia to compare the living conditions of Aboriginal communities with the riches of the mining boom, commenting that "barely a fraction of mining, oil and gas revenue has benefited Aboriginal communities, whose ...

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Aboriginal squalor among Australia's 'dirtiest secrets' says expat
Perth Now
To film Utopia he flew to Western Australia to compare the living conditions of Aboriginal communities with the riches of the mining boom, commenting that "barely a fraction of mining, oil and gas revenue has benefited Aboriginal communities, whose ...
Treatment of Indigenous Australians our "dirtiest little secret", says PilgerAustralian Times

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Aboriginal squalor among Australia's "dirtiest secrets" says expat
NEWS.com.au
To film Utopia he flew to Western Australia to compare the living conditions of Aboriginal communities with the riches of the mining boom, commenting that "barely a fraction of mining, oil and gas revenue has benefited Aboriginal communities, whose ...

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Forrest helps young offenders on the quiet
The Australian
He is not the only well-known West Australian to visit juvenile offenders though he is thought to be the only billionaire to venture behind the razor wire; AFL players and indigenous newsreader Narelda Jacobs are among the role models who accepted ...

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Australia's Boom is Anything But for its Aboriginal People
Center for Research on Globalization
More than any other colonial society, Australia consigns its dirtiest secrets, past and present, to wilful ignorance or indifference. When I was at school in Sydney, standard texts all but dismissed the most enduring human entity on earth, the ...

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Libs keep faith with ALP indigenous campaign chief
The Australian
Opposition indigenous affairs spokesman Nigel Scullion told The Australian that YouMeUnity, now known as Recognise, was strongly supported by Tony Abbott, who had met Mr Gartrell and his deputy Tanya Hosch regularly. "The Coalition supports this ...

Youth detention gap widening
The Australian
Although they account for 5 per cent of young Australians, 39 per cent of those under supervision were indigenous. On an average day there were 236 indigenous youth per 10,000 -- up from 226 in 2008-09 -- under community supervision, compared with 23 ...

Youth detention gap widening
The Australian
Although they account for 5 per cent of young Australians, 39 per cent of those under supervision were indigenous. On an average day there were 236 indigenous youth per 10,000 -- up from 226 in 2008-09 -- under community supervision, compared with 23 ...
Australian Youth Climate Coalition indigenous rep heads to UNMelbounre Times Weekly

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Indigenous art on show on Paris rooftop
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Rupert Myer, chairman of the Australia Council, said the new work was a powerful example of indigenous art. 'This is an historic opportunity to highlight and promote indigenous Australian art and cultures to a global audience in Paris,' Mr Myer said ...
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Indigenous art on show on Paris rooftop
Sky News Australia
The rooftop of a Parisian museum is to become home to an enormous art piece by leading Aboriginal Australian artist Lena Nyadbi. The critically acclaimed Musee du quai Branly has commissioned an artwork of nearly 700 square metres in size, designed to ...
Paris museum to host rooftop Aboriginal artworkABC Message Stick
Indigenous artwork to become Paris rooftop installationSBS
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Indigenous artwork to become Paris rooftop installation
SBS
“We are very excited to present work of this magnitude by an important contemporary Australian Aboriginal artist,” said Stéphane Martin, President of the Musée du quai Branly who approached the Australia Council in 2011 with the proposal for a large ...

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Indigenous art on show on Paris rooftop
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Rupert Myer, chairman of the Australia Council, said the new work was a powerful example of indigenous art. "This is an historic opportunity to highlight and promote indigenous Australian art and cultures to a global audience in Paris," Mr Myer said ...
Paris museum to host rooftop Aboriginal artworkABC Message Stick

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