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Police seek two women who attacked Indigenous man on Gold Coast bus - The Guardian


The Guardian

Police seek two women who attacked Indigenous man on Gold Coast bus
The Guardian
A spokesman for Surfside Buslines told Guardian Australia the bus was travelling through a “known traffic hotspot” and the driver pulled over as soon as he found a safe place to do so. “The fastest way to mitigate [a situation] ... is to first and ...
Racist attackers likely to be chargedThe Australian
Police identify women who attacked aged, blind man on busThe Sunshine Coast Daily
Women filmed attacking elderly man on Gold Coast busBrisbane Times
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Algoma U student to present at Indigenous Conference in Australia - SooToday.com


SooToday.com

Algoma U student to present at Indigenous Conference in Australia
SooToday.com
MARIE - Bernadette Pizzey (pictured), a fourth-year Social Work student at Algoma University, will be making the trek to Cairns, Australia to present at the 2014 National Indigenous Women Conference from the 13-15 of October, 2014. Pizzey, a mature ...

Truancy officers boost attendance at remote Indigenous community schools - ABC Online


Truancy officers boost attendance at remote Indigenous community schools
ABC Online
Figures show an additional 604 students have shown up to class at Indigenous community schools across the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland since the start of the school year. Across 17 schools in the Northern Territory, attendance ...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights Advocacy Lead - Pro Bono Australia


Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights Advocacy Lead
Pro Bono Australia
If Australia is the lucky country, why do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a lower life expectancy than other Australians – and many people in the developing world? Every Australian deserves equal access to income, employment, health ...

Two teenage girls have been caught on camera allegedly racially abusing and ... - The Australian


Two teenage girls have been caught on camera allegedly racially abusing and ...
The Australian
EARLIER: SOCIAL media has exploded with repulse at two teenage girls who punched, kicked and spat on an elderly indigenous man in a horrific assault on a bus in Kirra. Footage of the incident where two drunk teenagers assaulted and racially abused a ...

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Two teenage girls have been caught on camera allegedly racially abusing and ... - The Australian


Two teenage girls have been caught on camera allegedly racially abusing and ...
The Australian
EARLIER: SOCIAL media has exploded with repulse at two teenage girls who punched, kicked and spat on an elderly indigenous man in a horrific assault on a bus in Kirra. Footage of the incident where two drunk teenagers assaulted and racially abused a ...

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Alexander Dennis from Walgett, northwest NSW, with Joanna Barton, manager ... - The Australian


Alexander Dennis from Walgett, northwest NSW, with Joanna Barton, manager ...
The Australian
“What that man has done for indigenous people is amazing.” Jaki Adams-Barton, manager of the Fred Hollows Indigenous Australia Program, said the pilot was being used to assess different service models. She said having a lot of people come in at one ...

APY elders share sacred songline with the world - SBS


SBS

APY elders share sacred songline with the world
SBS
A painstaking project to capture one of Aboriginal Australia's most important creation stories is set to be unveiled in Adelaide. The endeavour has overcome controversy to preserve one of Central Australia's oldest intact songlines called the Ngintaka, ...

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Education key to Indigenous jobs - PS News


PS News

Education key to Indigenous jobs
PS News
The Australian Institutes of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and Family Studies (AIFS) have published a new paper on education and employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse is a website funded ...

Indigenous jobs in the Ord - ABC Online


Indigenous jobs in the Ord
ABC Online
"They are very portable skills once you have got tickets and accreditation and experience in a construction site you can pretty much work in any construction site in Australia." The state-funded development of the Ord Stage Two has officially been ...

James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away - ABC Local


James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away
ABC Local
Tributes have flowed today for the man from the Australian Greens with Senator Rachel Siewert expressing deep sadness at the man's passing. "His courage in fighting the James Price Point Gas hub proposal was inspiring and his leadership was a key to ...

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James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away - ABC Local


James Price Point Aboriginal cultural leader passes away
ABC Local
Tributes have flowed today for the man from the Australian Greens with Senator Rachel Siewert expressing deep sadness at the man's passing. "His courage in fighting the James Price Point Gas hub proposal was inspiring and his leadership was a key to ...

Truancy officers boost attendance at remote Indigenous community schools - The West Australian


The West Australian

Truancy officers boost attendance at remote Indigenous community schools
The West Australian
Figures show an additional 604 students have shown up to class at Indigenous community schools across the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland since the start of the school year. Across 17 schools in the Northern Territory, attendance ...

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John Pilger hopes to open eyes to plight of Aboriginals with Utopia - The Canberra Times


The Canberra Times

John Pilger hopes to open eyes to plight of Aboriginals with Utopia
The Canberra Times
John Pilger first got a taste of indigenous Australia in 1969 in a tour to Jay Creek in central Australia with Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins. The journalist and filmmaker likened what he saw to apartheid South Africa; "they were like prisoners of ...

John Pilger hopes to open eyes to plight of Aboriginals with Utopia - The Canberra Times


The Canberra Times

John Pilger hopes to open eyes to plight of Aboriginals with Utopia
The Canberra Times
John Pilger first got a taste of indigenous Australia in 1969 in a tour to Jay Creek in central Australia with Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins. The journalist and filmmaker likened what he saw to apartheid South Africa; "they were like prisoners of ...

Bell's tone mellows - The West Australian


Bell's tone mellows
The West Australian
Bell's depiction of indigenous victory includes a speech by the first Aboriginal president - after China buys Australia at a fire sale and gives it back to its traditional owners. "Privilege is invisible," he says. "There is so much racism in this ...

Closing gap is 'not the only way' - The Australian


Closing gap is 'not the only way'
The Australian
Yesterday he met with Labor's first indigenous MP, Nova Peris, who is also the deputy chair of the committee charged with coming up with a form of words to change the Constitution to recognise indigenous Australians. But Mr Mundine has rejected a push ...

Closing gap is 'not the only way' - The Australian


Closing gap is 'not the only way'
The Australian
Yesterday he met with Labor's first indigenous MP, Nova Peris, who is also the deputy chair of the committee charged with coming up with a form of words to change the Constitution to recognise indigenous Australians. But Mr Mundine has rejected a push ...

The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class - SBS


SBS

The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class
SBS
The great story of recent Australian art has been the resurgence of Indigenous culture and its recognition as a major art form. But in a country increasingly divided by class and wealth, the rise of Indigenous art has had consequences undreamed of by ...

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The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class - SBS


SBS

The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class
SBS
The great story of recent Australian art has been the resurgence of Indigenous culture and its recognition as a major art form. But in a country increasingly divided by class and wealth, the rise of Indigenous art has had consequences undreamed of by ...

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