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National leaders give their support to Damien Hooper “The Aboriginal flag is a ...
National Indigenous Times
By National Indigenous Times reporter Geoff Bagnall. Australia and the world stopped and listened, at least for a while, when Australia's Olympic boxing champion, Damien Hooper declared loud and proud his heritage as a descendant of Australia's First ...

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Australian government helps shut down racist Facebook page
Radio Australia
It took over 24 hours but a controversial Facebook page known as Aboriginal Memes has been shut down after complaints were made that it vilified indigenous Australians. Australian government helps shut down racist Facebook page (Credit: ABC). For much ...

More help urged for Indigenous inmates
ABC Message Stick
Western Australia's Inspector of Custodial Services says the programs at Albany Regional Prison do not do enough to help Indigenous detainees. Neil Morgan's report on the prison was released this week and made six recommendations to improve the ...

COMMENT: Unfair, unbalanced - misreporting petrol sniffing 'scourge'
SBS
Once again, petrol sniffing in Indigenous communities is in the headlines. And once again, sadly, the restraint that newspapers normally exercise in reporting drug issues among non-Indigenous Australians has been thrown aside, writes Peter d'Abbs from ...

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Shame on Facebook, but let's not forget that racism is a wider public health ...
Crikey (blog)
As of this moment, more than 10000 people have signed this petition calling on Facebook to take down the racist attack on Indigenous Australians that is in the news. And more than 16000 people have signed this one. I wonder how many people from the ...
Facebook should ban racist page: ConroySydney Morning Herald
Conroy in talks with Facebook over hate pageSBS
Contents removed from racist Facebook pageThe Age

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Conroy in talks with Facebook over hate page
SBS
The page used internet jokes or “memes” to racially vilify Indigenous Australians, with text referencing colonialism and substance abuse placed against photos of Indigenous people without their consent. SBS believes the site was created by a 16-year ...

Young Australians Want Reconciliation- Survey
Pro Bono Australia
The results indicate that the majority of young people believe trust between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is low (75 per cent), but 81 per cent of young people want to take action. “We know that young people are major players in ...
"Makes you proud to be black eh?": Reflections on meaningful Indigenous ...7thSpace Interactive (press release)

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Literacy workshops discovering writing talent in remote Australia
Radio Australia
But as Karen Williams, executive director of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation has found it takes a lifetime to improve living standards for indigenous communities. Ms Williams has been conducting literacy workshops for children in Australia's remote ...

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Unfair and unbalanced: misreporting the petrol sniffing 'scourge'
The Conversation
A July front page of The Australian showed two young Aboriginal men, both identifiable, one with a hose in his mouth siphoning petrol from a car, the other clutching a soft drink bottle apparently containing petrol. “The scourge is back”, declared ...

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Aboriginal flag appears at Olympic Village despite recent controversy ...
Herald Sun
During the first week of Olympic competition, Australian boxer Damien Hooper was forced to apologise for wearing a t-shirt bearing the Aboriginal flag. According to International Olympic Committee regulations, no form of commercial, political or ...
John Carlos's Advice to Olympic Boxer Damien HooperThe Nation. (blog)

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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says Facebook should have removed ...
Perth Now
The creator removed content from the Aboriginal Memes Facebook page following a barrage of complaints to Facebook, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Australian Human Rights Commission. But Mr Conroy says Facebook itself ...

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Aboriginal flag appears at Games village
Yahoo!Xtra Blogs (blog)
"I'm aware of it," Australian team boss Nick Green told AAP. "The IOC have not instructed it be removed." It is understood the flag hangs from an apartment occupied by popular indigenous basketballer Patrick Mills. From a nearby balcony hangs a Torres ...

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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says Facebook should have removed ...
NEWS.com.au
The creator removed content from the Aboriginal Memes Facebook page following a barrage of complaints to Facebook, the Australian Communications and Media Authority and the Australian Human Rights Commission. But Mr Conroy says Facebook itself ...

Aboriginal flag appears at Games village
Ninemsn
"I'm aware of it," Australian team boss Nick Green told AAP. "The IOC have not instructed it be removed." It is understood the flag hangs from an apartment occupied by popular indigenous basketballer Patrick Mills. From a nearby balcony hangs a Torres ...

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The Sapphires
Brisbane Times
Based loosely on fact, the script by Briggs and Keith Thompson centres on Australia's first indigenous girl group - three sisters and a cousin from the Cummeragunja Mission - who get their big break when they're invited to entertain American troops ...
Sapphire in the rough gets away from IT crowdSydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal voices silence Vietnamese war storiesEureka Street

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Eureka Street
Soul sisters shine in gem
Brisbane Times
Based loosely on fact, the script by Briggs and Keith Thompson centres on Australia's first indigenous girl group - three sisters and a cousin from the Cummeragunja Mission - who get their big break when they're invited to entertain American troops ...
Sapphire in the rough gets away from IT crowdWA today
Aboriginal voices silence Vietnamese war storiesEureka Street
All eyes on little Aussie sparklerThe Age

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Musical race motifs chime with the times
The Australian
The story of an Aboriginal girl group -- soulful and sequinned like The Supremes -- is set during the Vietnam War and the growing movement for indigenous rights in the 1960s. Meanwhile, Opera Australia is presenting a revival of the 1949 Rodgers and ...

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Amnesty a racist organisation, says Bess Price
The Australian
Ms Price's angry attack came after Amnesty activists wrote to Northern Territory election candidates, including Ms Price, seeking their views on Aboriginal homelands, but it has been brewing since Amnesty condemned the NT intervention in June. Mr ...
Aboriginal woman Bess Price Nungarrayi slammed for speaking the truthAdelaide Now
Nor is this assault on free speech limited to federal Labor.Herald Sun

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Literacy solutions not black and white
The Australian
A MISTAKEN belief that reading programs for indigenous children need to be culturally appropriate has hampered improvement in their literacy skills, education experts said yesterday in response to a report by the NSW Auditor-General showing no ...

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The Sapphires movie premiere at State Theatre, Sydney, Australia
StreetCorner
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam. Premiere... Tonight Sydney's State Theatre was once again the place for hot ...
Sapphire in the rough gets away from IT crowdSydney Morning Herald

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