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Year 4 student Harper Nielsen's Advance Australia Fair boycott leads to detention - Courier Mail

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 12:03pm

Courier Mail

Year 4 student Harper Nielsen's Advance Australia Fair boycott leads to detention
Courier Mail
She has vowed to continue her peaceful protest against Advance Australia Fair, which she said was not inclusive of indigenous Australians. “The reason why I don't sing it or stand is because – Advance Australia Fair means advance White Australia,” she ...

A cult corn hero, indigenous gun and a South African make-up Australia's Test bolters - Daily Telegraph

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 10:24am

Daily Telegraph

A cult corn hero, indigenous gun and a South African make-up Australia's Test bolters
Daily Telegraph
Fellow Queensland quick Brendan Doggett has also been hand-picked by Langer and could make history as just Australia's second indigenous cricketer after the great fast bowler Gillespie. Doggett, from the Worimi mob, toured England this year with ...
Australia injects fresh blood for Pakistan Test series, Peter Siddle added for experienceABC News
Australia Test squad for UAE: The newcomersInternational Cricket Council
Pakistan vs Australia: Aaron Finch, Peter Siddle bolt into Australia Test squad for UAE tourCricket Country News

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Steven Pepper is set to join indigenous coaching trailblazers after accepting Croydon Kings junior role - The Mercury

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 8:11am

The Mercury

Steven Pepper is set to join indigenous coaching trailblazers after accepting Croydon Kings junior role
The Mercury
He will also represent Kaurna at the 2018 Australian Indigenous Football Championships in Brisbane in November. Football Coaches Australia chief executive Glenn Warry is delighted with Pepper's new role but noted soccer still has room to reach maximum ...

Doggett's call up latest step in remarkable rise - cricket.com.au

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 7:21am

cricket.com.au

Doggett's call up latest step in remarkable rise
cricket.com.au
Brendan Doggett's remarkable rise from outback Queensland club cricket to the top of Australian cricket has continued, with the speedster on the verge of becoming just the third Indigenous player to earn a Baggy Green. A proud descendant of the Worimi ...

Body of second teenager pulled from Perth's Swan River - The Australian

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 7:19am

The Australian

Body of second teenager pulled from Perth's Swan River
The Australian
The Federal government's National Indigenous Critical Response Service is helping to support the relatives of the deceased boys as grief and shock sweeps a large network of Aboriginal families across Perth and regional Western Australia. The Australian ...
Two teenage boys die in Swan River after jumping in to escape during police chase in MaylandsABC News

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Australia injects fresh blood for Pakistan Test series, Peter Siddle added for experience - ABC News

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 7:07am

ABC News

Australia injects fresh blood for Pakistan Test series, Peter Siddle added for experience
ABC News
Doggett will become just the second Indigenous Australian cricketer to play a Test, following Jason Gillespie, should he be selected. The Queensland fast bowler only made his first-class debut last October but is playing for Australia A on its tour of ...
Australia Test squad for UAE: The newcomersInternational Cricket Council
Australia name five uncapped players for Pakistan seriesReuters
Pakistan vs Australia: Aaron Finch, Peter Siddle bolt into Australia Test squad for UAE tourCricket Country News

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Don't get why the Serena cartoon was racist? - The Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 6:42am

ten daily

Don't get why the Serena cartoon was racist?
The Sydney Morning Herald
Perhaps that's because we have never had an unflinching public debate about race and our treatment of Indigenous Australians. Nor have we had a great civil rights movement such as the one that has transformed the US since the 1950s. Until we do, let me ...
Why Does Australia Have A Racist Cartoon Problem?ten daily
Serena Williams: Cartoonist denies US Open depiction is racistBBC News
That Racist Serena Williams Cartoon Is Sadly Illustrative of Australian CartoonistsSlate Magazine
CNN International
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Defending racism in Australian media 101 - IndigenousX (press release) (blog)

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 5:46am

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)

Defending racism in Australian media 101
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
We also saw this narrative play out during the Bill Leak cartoon about Aboriginal fathers saga. That Bill Leak depicted Aboriginal children as small adults, robbing them of any compassion or humanity, or that he regularly depicted Aboriginal men and ...

A Toxic Mix: Welfare Reform And The Mob In Remote Australia - New Matilda

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 12:59am

New Matilda

A Toxic Mix: Welfare Reform And The Mob In Remote Australia
New Matilda
Rome (Canberra) continues to fiddle while Black Australia burns. Professor Jon Altman weighs in on the ongoing disasters of government policy that have a tight grip on remote living Indigenous people. In the last month I participated in two workshops.

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Audtions for 2019 - Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts - ArtsHub

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 12:03am

Audtions for 2019 - Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts
ArtsHub
The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts (ACPA) invites Australia's next generation of stage, screen and recording stars to audition this September for a coveted place in one of the centre's nationally accredited courses starting in February 2019.

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Greens demand Scott Morrison tackle high rate of Aboriginal deaths in custody - The Guardian

Tue, 2018/09/11 - 12:00am

The Guardian

Greens demand Scott Morrison tackle high rate of Aboriginal deaths in custody
The Guardian
It comes after Guardian Australia's Deaths Inside investigation found 407 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the end of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991. The Greens have said they ...

Taste test: a guide to native Australian honey varieties - Good Food

Mon, 2018/09/10 - 9:38pm

Good Food

Taste test: a guide to native Australian honey varieties
Good Food
Rod wants it to rain because even the hardy Australian bush closes down during a drought. He and beekeepers around the nation rely on access to native forests so their charges, European honey bees, can feast upon the nectar and make enough honey to ...

Drag mentorship brings Indigenous drag queens to Broken Heel festival - ABC News

Mon, 2018/09/10 - 8:17pm

ABC News

Drag mentorship brings Indigenous drag queens to Broken Heel festival
ABC News
A new generation of Indigenous drag queens is being mentored by the country's best in a program launched this year by Australia's only outback drag festival, Broken Heel. This year's three-day festival, a celebration of drag culture, saw record crowds ...

'Racism … hate … comes from that lack of education', student tells Q&A - NEWS.com.au

Mon, 2018/09/10 - 3:24pm

NEWS.com.au

'Racism … hate … comes from that lack of education', student tells Q&A
NEWS.com.au
Fellow panellist Dylan Storer agreed, drawing from experiences at a majority indigenous school in a small community in the Kimberleys in Western Australia. “We had eight weeks of that term focused on the American civil rights movement, in the last two ...

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Ex-ATSIC chief Geoff Clark and family could face more than 80 fraud charges - The Australian

Mon, 2018/09/10 - 2:00pm

The Australian

Ex-ATSIC chief Geoff Clark and family could face more than 80 fraud charges
The Australian
A high-stakes fraud case against Geoff Clark will allege serious criminal conduct stretching back to his time as chairman of the powerful Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, formerly the peak governing body for indigenous Australia. In ...

Critics of Abbott's new role are wasting time - Daily Telegraph

Mon, 2018/09/10 - 1:00pm

Daily Telegraph

Critics of Abbott's new role are wasting time
Daily Telegraph
Is the article assuming that Indigenous people need protecting from Abbott? Who is playing the role of modern-day protector here? Continuing the chorus of doom and gloom, Rod Little, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples ...

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A new way to recognise an Indigenous nation in Australia - The Conversation AU

Mon, 2018/09/10 - 2:48am

The Conversation AU

A new way to recognise an Indigenous nation in Australia
The Conversation AU
After years of debate, the process for achieving constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has reached a crossroads. More than a year has gone by since the Uluru Statement from the Heart, when Indigenous peoples rejected symbolic ...

Indigenous women in custody more likely than men to have died where policy not followed - The Guardian

Mon, 2018/09/10 - 2:43am

The Guardian

Indigenous women in custody more likely than men to have died where policy not followed
The Guardian
... as male prisoners to have not received appropriate medical care and 50% more likely to have died in circumstances where procedures were not followed. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are the fastest growing prison population in Australia.

A new way to recognise an Indigenous nation in Australia - The Conversation AU

Mon, 2018/09/10 - 2:41am

The Conversation AU

A new way to recognise an Indigenous nation in Australia
The Conversation AU
After years of debate, the process for achieving constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians has reached a crossroads. More than a year has gone by since the Uluru Statement from the Heart, when Indigenous peoples rejected symbolic ...

Aged care system must prepare for Stolen Generations - Australian Ageing Agenda

Mon, 2018/09/10 - 1:23am

Australian Ageing Agenda

Aged care system must prepare for Stolen Generations
Australian Ageing Agenda
Australia's aged care sector needs to start preparing for the specific needs of the Stolen Generations as they enter the system over the next five years, the head of the Healing Foundation says. The Healing foundation is a national Aboriginal and ...

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