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Study of indigenous smokers provides new strategies for quit campaigns
The Canberra Times
''But a huge amount - 92 per cent - of the indigenous population want to quit smoking, so there is an opportunity for change.'' Dr Lovett said the indigenous community in Australia was very young, with half the population aged under 30. ''If you can ...

Humanism, writ large at the Adelaide Biennial
The Australian
This is not an allusion to the culture of his city but to the history of Australia and the sense that there are still, within the national psyche, unhealed wounds that go back to the days of the convicts and early interaction with the Aborigines. One ...

Racist ideas are more effectively countered in debate, rather than in court or ...
The Australian
That's also true in Australia. Those who were around during the human rights and civil liberty battles in the 1950s and 60s will recall the vile insults thrown at Charlie Perkins, Ken Brindle, Faith Bandler, Kath Walker and many others. It's very rare ...

Australian Museum's new director Kim McKay is a rare find
The Australian
In a long career here and in the US, she has promoted everything from world pro surfing and Oprah Winfrey's 2010 visit to Australia to the National Geographic Society's groundbreaking scientific research on the history of human migration. The great ...

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Our Constitution is racist, says Australian of the Year Adam Goodes
The Daily Telegraph
AUSTRALIAN of the Year Adam Goodes has described the Constitution as “very, very racist'' as he campaigns to have indigenous people recognised in the nation's founding document. Goodes highlighted several aspects of the Constitution he believes to be ...

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Our Constitution is racist, says Australian of the Year Adam Goodes
The Daily Telegraph
AUSTRALIAN of the Year Adam Goodes has described the Constitution as “very, very racist'' as he campaigns to have indigenous people recognised in the nation's founding document. Goodes highlighted several aspects of the Constitution he believes to be ...

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ABC Online
The Gods of Wheat Street: a TV drama about a family who just so happens to be ...
ABC Online
Taking Australians into the home, and hearts, of an Aboriginal family, 'The Gods of Wheat Street' aims to fill a huge gap in Australian television. Director Jon Bell says the production, which explores modern Aboriginal stories, has been described as ...

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The Gods of Wheat Street: a TV drama about a family who just so happens to be ...
ABC Online
Taking Australians into the home, and hearts, of an Aboriginal family, 'The Gods of Wheat Street' aims to fill a huge gap in Australian television. Director Jon Bell says the production, which explores modern Aboriginal stories, has been described as ...

South Australia sarfari camp: Pitch perfect
Sydney Morning Herald
Advertisement. Ikara's 15 en suite premium tents are situated in a secluded location away from the main resort, which was bought in 2012 by Indigenous Business Australia and the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands. Set amid river red gums and native pines, ...

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by: public works: BRONWYN WATSON
The Australian
According to Paul Donnelly, an expert in Australian gold and silver, 1851-1900, the use of the oversized emu egg was widespread because it was viewed as an exotic souvenir from nature. Aboriginal figures were frequently used because Europeans at that ...

laws should be applied equally
The Australian
The majority of Australians are not racist — the majority embrace a moral code and know that racism is wrong. In a truly good society, a state-imposed sanction should be irrelevant; the punishment should reside within the conscience of an individual.

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Mark Williams backs vision of all Australian football factory in Adelaide
Herald Sun
AFL coaching great Mark Williams has emphatically backed a ground-breaking all Australian football factory planned for Adelaide's northern suburbs that will tackle indigenous disadvantage. Former state cricketer Chris Harms' innovative plan for a ...

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Mark Williams backs vision of all Australian football factory in Adelaide
Herald Sun
AFL coaching great Mark Williams has emphatically backed a ground-breaking all Australian football factory planned for Adelaide's northern suburbs that will tackle indigenous disadvantage. Former state cricketer Chris Harms' innovative plan for a ...

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Constitution racist, says Australian of the Year Adam Goodes
The Australian
AUSTRALIAN of the Year Adam Goodes has described the Constitution as “very, very racist'' as he campaigns to have indigenous people recognised in the nation's founding document. Goodes highlighted several aspects of the Constitution he believes to be ...
AFL footballer Adam Goodes: 'For us to reconcile you can't have people still ...NEWS.com.au

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Australian Multiculturalism in an Asian Century: The Case for Racial Tolerance
ABC Online
The modern story of Australia is one of a nation of immigrants. Apart from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, all of us have been immigrants or are the descendants of immigrants. The successive waves of immigration following the Second ...
Top 5 acts of racial discrimination in AustraliaThe Vine
Remove Section 18C – normalise Holocaust denial…writes Andre ObolerJ-Wire Jewish Australian News Service

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Be Deadly Online: Campaign to improve Indigenous digital literacy
SBS
Australia's media watchdog has launched its Be Deadly Online Project to improve the cybersmarts of Indigenous Australians. By. Myles Morgan. Source. NITV News. UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO. Australia's media watchdog has launched its Deadly Online ...

Hundreds apply for Australia's first Indigenous model program
SBS
More than 200 applicants have applied to be a part of the Australian Indigenous Fashion Week model search hoping to follow in the footsteps of Indigenous model Samantha Harris. By. NITV News. Source. NITV News. UPDATED 14 MINS AGO. With such a ...
Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashionMonash Weekly

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SBS
Cultures combine for Homeground Festival
SBS
The Festival will showcase a unique collaboration of song, music and dance from Indigenous cultures across Australia and the world. "It's part of our commitment to really engaging with not only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures of ...

Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Frankston weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

Style Dreamtime: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Frankston weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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