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Indigenous soldiers remembered: the research behind Black Diggers
The Conversation
Black Diggers premiered at the Sydney Festival last weekend – and initial inspiration came from the discovery by festival director Lieven Bertels, that a young Aboriginal soldier, Private Rufus Rigney from Raukkan in South Australia, was buried in the ...

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What Is Australia Day? From Convict Ships to Cultural Celebration
International Business Times UK
Purposefully held on the same date as Australia Day, it was a protest held by Aboriginal Australians against the 150 years of mistreatment and seizure of land when the first ships landed. The first march was organised by two bodies. One protest was ...

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Indigenous football ambassador on mission to find new stars
SBS
In the same year, he also became the first to lead an Australian club side to domestic success, after Newcastle Jets won the A-League championship. A proud indigenous Australian and FFA ambassador North is passionate about encouraging indigenous ...

Easy ways to make Australia Day a day to remember
The Daily Telegraph
The raising of the Aboriginal and Australian flags on the Sydney Harbour Bridge honours age-old custodial traditions and marks the start of the Australia Day celebrations across the state. A fire will be lit at the Sydney Opera House and carried aboard ...

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Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings
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Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings. by Helen Razer. There is one of those things I believe the expert photoshoppers call a “macro” currently circulating madly online. I am all for a critique of that ...

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Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings
Crikey
Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings. by Helen Razer. There is one of those things I believe the expert photoshoppers call a “macro” currently circulating madly online. I am all for a critique of that ...

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Archie Roach still a powerful voice for Indigenous justice
The Guardian (blog)
Yet Roach's music has had a more overtly political voice which speaks directly to issues affecting Australia's Indigenous people, drawing on stories from his life. Roach credits forerunners like Little and Bob Randall – whose 1970 song Brown Skin Baby ...

The Guardian (blog)
Archie Roach still a powerful voice for Indigenous justice
The Guardian (blog)
“The song with him has a lot do with what I've sung about through the years – the struggles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It is through these fresh voices in music that a new generation of Australians will become more familiar with ...

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Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings
Crikey
Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings. by Helen Razer. There is one of those things I believe the expert photoshoppers call a “macro” currently circulating madly online. I am all for a critique of that ...

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Razer's class warfare: Aboriginal Australia needs capital, not bullshit feelings
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It is time for a real Treaty ratified by the Australian Parliament and by a referendum of all Indigenous people. If Indigenous people really want the Constitution to be 'completed' that can be agreed in the Treaty as well. by Boerwar on Jan 23, 2014 at ...

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Australia's young Indigenous bring powerful voice to rights message
UNICEF Australia
YOUNG Indigenous teenagers from across the country converge on Sydney this week to bring their singing and song-writing talents to a project led by UNICEF Australia. The crew of talented performers has been brought together by experienced mentors and ...

Research shows Alaska Native, Australian indigenous groups' isolation from flu
Ktoo
Indigenous populations in Alaska and Australia may be vulnerable to influenza, particularly a recent form of bird flu. Since the first break-out of H7N9 in China early last year, 150 people have been infected and 45 people have been killed. Two people ...

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Patriot games: keeping it real on Australia Day
Brisbane Times
Twitter lit up with outrage, quickly followed by Facebook and news websites. Some said the T-shirts were insensitive towards indigenous Australians. Others went further and argued the shirts were racist. It wasn't long before Aldi took the T-shirts off ...
Racism leaves a bad tasteThe Advocate

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Harness goodwill to close the gap
The Australian (blog)
When prime minister Kevin Rudd made the apology to indigenous Australians in 2008, he invited indigenous and non-indigenous Australians to work in partnership to close the indigenous employment gap. Governments across Australia pledged to halve the ...

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Investigation finds no child abuse in Australian circumcision injuries
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DARWIN, Australia, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Northern Territory, Australia, Child Abuse Taskforce said an aboriginal circumcision ceremony that sent three teens to the hospital is not child abuse. Three teenage boys were medically evacuated in December ...
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keeping it real on Australia Day
The Age
Twitter lit up with outrage, quickly followed by Facebook and news websites. Some said the T-shirts were insensitive towards indigenous Australians. Others went further and argued the shirts were racist. It wasn't long before Aldi took the T-shirts off ...
Racism leaves a bad tasteThe Advocate

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Anger in NT community after circumcision rite ends with three boys airlifted ...
ABC Online
"There are number of cultures that operate in the NT and even more Australia-wide - Islamic cultures, Christian cultures, Aboriginal cultures, other religions and other cultural practices," he said. "So long as those practices don't amount to child ...
Investigation finds no child abuse in Australian circumcision injuriesUPI.com

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Australia's human rights performance under fire
SBS
The New York-based group, Human Rights Watch, has released a scathing review of Australia's policies on asylum seekers, disability, sexual orientation and Indigenous affairs. The report criticises the current Coalition government and its Labor predecessor.
Australia marked down in rights reportSydney Morning Herald

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Police get suspended term for tasering
Sky News Australia
Two West Australian policemen convicted of assaulting an Aboriginal man by repeatedly tasering him in a lock-up have been given suspended jail terms and fined. CCTV footage showed the officers - Aaron Grant Strahan, 45, and Troy Gregory Tomlin, ...
Two policemen found guilty of Taser assault against Kevin SprattPerth Now
Magistrate rules officers who repeatedly tasered man guilty of assaultThe Australian
WA cops guilty of lock-up tasering assaultYahoo!7 News

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More 'money on ground' with indigenous reforms
The Australian
THE powerful Minerals Council of Australia says the government's decision to merge 26 indigenous programs into five will provide significantly more money to be spent on aboriginal people with up to half of all commonwealth money spent clogged up in ...