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Bad old days surface as through a boozy haze
The Australian
ON A diamond day in Aurukun, the big Queensland sky seems limitless. The kids sing hello and run barefoot in the red dust. Beneath a spreading mango tree, the old men talk quietly, their eyes crinkled by the smoke of roll-your-owns. The women are ...

Bans on alcohol spawn generation of lucky children
The Australian
It revealed that alcohol-related deaths for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were eight times greater for males and 16 times greater for females than for non-indigenous Australians. Restrictions were applied to 19 communities. Many ...

Remote families fear the price of 'freedom'
The Australian
Neither of these are perfect and possibly too much is made of their successes, but in the face of otherwise intransigent problems across remote Aboriginal Australia, and in Cape York in particular, they have made a difference where much else has not ...

J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Oboler publishes report on online hate
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
The report documents an unprecedented online attack against Indigenous Australians and how racist content went viral through the use of social media and in particular Facebook. Also documented are the responses from Facebook, Government, and Civil ...

The Canberra Times
Changing the constitution law by law
The Canberra Times
One of Australia's leading constitutional experts, Professor George Williams, called this week for a firm timetable for a referendum to recognise indigenous people in the constitution and to rid the constitution of its remaining racist clauses. But ...

Cameco signs deal with Aboriginal landholders
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
PERTH (miningweekly.com) - Uranium miner Cameco has secured the support of the Martu people for the development of its Kintyre project, in Western Australia. The TSX-listed miner said that the Kintyre mining development Indigenous land use agreement, ...

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Indigenous remains returned from museums overseas
Radio Australia
A ceremony will be held at the Yathong Nature Reserve at Cobar tomorrow, where the skeletal remains of ancestors of the Ngiyampaa people will be interred. The remains have been in storage at the Australian Museum in Sydney, and some have been ...

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Looking for the positives in indigenous land management
Radio Australia
"People on Country, Vital Landscapes, Indigenous Futures" is a compilation of essays looking at some of the more positive aspects of Australia's indigenous people managing their country. It stems from the People and Country project which is jointly ...

Indigenous remains returned from museums overseas
ABC Local
Indigenous remains that have been stored in museums across the world are being returned to country in New South Wales. A ceremony will be held at the Yathong Nature Reserve at Cobar tomorrow, where the skeletal remains of ancestors of the Ngiyampaa ...

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Press TV
Indigenous Australians demand better recognition
Press TV
It's 2012 and despite Australia being a developed country, the situation for many Indigenous communities; especially in remote areas such as in the Northern Territory is a direct contrast, though there's been some progress. Journalist and Presenter for ...

King gives regal view on grog ban
Herald Sun
AUTHORITATIVE VOICE: Australia's only Aboriginal king, King Vincent 'Jabaan' Schreiber of the Gunggandji tribe in Yarrabah, says his people need to learn to drink in moderation not desperation. 'Sure we can bring back the grog. But it never left,' he says.

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Sydney Morning Herald
The Foyer escape offers hope for youth in need
Sydney Morning Herald
According to recent figures from Australia's Bureau of Statistics, indigenous people are 10 times more likely to be homeless than non-indigenous ones. The Salvation Army has reported a 72 per cent increase in the number of Aboriginal people seeking ...
A hearth for the homelessBrisbane Times

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Racism In Australian Media
theriskyshift.com (blog)
Andrew Bolt is a well-known columnist for the Australian newspaper The Herald Sun and he is infamous for his obnoxious commentaries. In 2009, Bolt published an article claiming that “fair skinned Indigenous Australians” exploit their Indigenous ...

Territory prisoner numbers keep rising
ABC Online
Almost 84 per cent of those prisoners are Aboriginal, compared to a national average of 27 per cent, but Indigenous people represent only 30 per cent of the Territory population. Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service lawyer Mark O'Reilly says ...

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Brisbane Times
Uproar as students dress as 'traditional' Aboriginal people
Brisbane Times
The publication of a photograph of university students at an official college function dressed up to look like "traditional" Aboriginal people, with their faces and limbs painted brown, has forced an internal investigation and rapid re-education ...
Students dressed as 'traditional aboriginal people' cause outrage down underTNT Magazine

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Sydney Morning Herald
Uproar as students dress as 'traditional' Aboriginal people
Sydney Morning Herald
The publication of a photograph of university students at an official college function dressed up to look like "traditional" Aboriginal people, with their faces and limbs painted brown, has forced an internal investigation and rapid re-education ...

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APY lands out of loop on disability scheme
The Australian
A SOUTH Australian politician is concerned Aboriginal people living in the remote APY lands have been left in the dark about details of the state's trial of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Unlike other states where trials will happen in ...

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South Australia continues its assault on Indigenous rights
National Indigenous Times
South Australian leaders are both despondent and outraged at the State Government's ram raid on the Aboriginal Heritage Act and they are being supported by the SA Greens however the changes to the Act will get... More of this story can be read in the ...

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“Australia doesn't deserve a seat on United Nations”
National Indigenous Times
Michael Anderson, the surviving member of the founders of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, has written to the United Nations urging it reject Australia's bid for a temporary seat on the Security Council because of Australia's treatment of ...

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Housing development plan shines light on LDC
ABC Message Stick
The Heights at Durack is a joint venture between the corporation and CIC Australia to develop a housing estate on the Charles Darwin University campus in Palmerston. It comes after a long, difficult period for the Darwin-based LDC. Federal Indigenous ...