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Infamous MLA Australia Day ad script leaked
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The obtained copy of the script, titled The First First Fleet, details the “arrival of the first fleet Terra Australia, late January, 58,000 B.C. (ish).” BuzzFeed goes on to say that The Monkeys has apparently found it difficult to cast the Aboriginal ...

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The Mercury
'I can't believe this is who we are'
The Mercury
Those are the words indigenous journalist Stan Grant used to call attention to a version of Australia he says has lost its way. Grant was delivering a speech on Wednesday night in Sydney after winning GQ Magazine's Agenda Setter of the Year. He said ...

NEWS.com.au
'I can't believe this is who we are'
NEWS.com.au
“Indigenous youth make up half of juvenile incarceration rates. Indigenous Australians die 10 years earlier. And I can't believe that this is who we are — in a country as wealthy, as prosperous, in a country that's allowed me to pursue my dreams ...

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Courier Mail
'I can't believe this is who we are'
Courier Mail
Those are the words indigenous journalist Stan Grant used to call attention to a version of Australia he says has lost its way. Grant was delivering a speech on Wednesday night in Sydney after winning GQ Magazine's Agenda Setter of the Year. He said ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal health: Indigenous medical graduate wants to bring skills home to Derby
ABC Online
A young Aboriginal medical graduate hopes to return to her home in a remote part of Western Australia to become the town's first Indigenous doctor. In a record for the University of Western Australia, six Aboriginal medical students will graduate this ...

MuMbrella
MLA to push on with Australia Day ad despite Aboriginal unrease after leak of 'early draft' of script
MuMbrella
It's the first united celebration of Australia”. Two Aboriginal characters called Ian and Stewart bring their canoes to the shore and step onto land. One says, “Cracking spot. Let's fire up the barbie.” The Indigenous characters then decide to have a ...
Infamous MLA Australia Day ad script leakedAdNews

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ABC Online
Indigenous leader Andrea Mason named Australian Businesswoman of the Year
ABC Online
Indigenous leader Andrea Mason, who runs an organisation helping more than 3,000 women in a remote part of the Northern Territory, has been named the Australian Businesswoman of the Year. Ms Mason is the chief executive of the Ngaanyatjarra ...

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Indigenous Australians' wellbeing 'stagnating or worsening', Productivity Commission report reveals
Radio Australia
The commission's Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report says despite some positive trends, the plight of Indigenous Australians has "stagnated or worsened" in critical areas of wellbeing. Among the findings, the national Indigenous imprisonment rate ...

ABC Online
Indigenous Australians' wellbeing 'stagnating or worsening', Productivity Commission report reveals
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians are becoming more disadvantaged, with alarming increases in imprisonment rates, mental health problems and self harm, according to a damning Productivity Commission report released today.
'Lift the bonnet' on Indigenous spending, Productivity Commission urgesThe Australian Financial Review
Indigenous disadvantage getting worse in mental health and incarcerationThe Guardian
Productivity Commission slams lack of policy evaluation as Indigenous incarceration soarsThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Courier Mail
Gallery captures arts and mines
Courier Mail
In one of Australia's biggest corporate sponsorships for art, the world's largest mining company has given AGSA the money to present the national indigenous visual arts festival annually for the next five years. Like the festival it staged for the ...

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The Advertiser
Gallery captures arts and mines
The Advertiser
In one of Australia's biggest corporate sponsorships for art, the world's largest mining company has given AGSA the money to present the national indigenous visual arts festival annually for the next five years. Like the festival it staged for the ...
BHP Billiton puts up $17.5m to support indigenous art festivalsThe Australian

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Gallery captures arts and mines
dailytelegraph.com.au
In one of Australia's biggest corporate sponsorships for art, the world's largest mining company has given AGSA the money to present the national indigenous visual arts festival annually for the next five years. Like the festival it staged for the ...
TARNANTHI returnsAboriginal Art Directory News

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The Australian
BHP Billiton puts up $17.5m to support indigenous art festivals
The Australian
South Australian governments may have been slow to celebrate indigenous art, but today Premier Jay Weatherill will reveal he has brokered a deal in which resources giant BHP Billiton will spend $17.5 million on three Aboriginal art festivals across the ...

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The Australian
US activist Carole Johnson recalls role in Aboriginal dance
The Australian
Jenny was Jenny Isaacs, indigenous officer of the then Australian Council for the Arts. It was in her Glebe home that a young woman by the name of Carole Johnson first gleaned the idea for what would become Australia's most significant indigenous ...

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The Australian
Lack of account in $5.9bn indigenous spend 'beggars belief'
The Australian
Only 24 of more than 1000 indigenous programs show clear evidence of success and meet rigorous assessment criteria, a new government report finds as it questions the efficiency of the $5.9 billion spent on reducing the disadvantage of First Australians.

The Guardian
Western Australian Indigenous ranger program proposed for 5m hectares
The Guardian
Five million hectares of unmanaged pastoral leases in outback Western Australia would become national park land under a proposal being put before the Barnett government to expand the Indigenous ranger program and create more than 200 jobs. The 66 ...

The Age
Refugee advocate Paris Aristotle named 2017 Victorian Australian of the Year
The Age
Meanwhile indigenous educator Lois Peeler, 72, was named Victorian Senior Australian of the Year. Ms Peeler was a member of wartime pop group the Sapphires, which inspired the movie hit of the same name. An elder of the Yorta Yorta people, she's also ...

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Perth Now
Australia ignorant on Aboriginals: Barnett
Perth Now
WA Premier Colin Barnett says most of Australia is ignorant about a social crisis in which more Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children live in state care despite indigenous people representing well under seven per cent of the population. New figures ...

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Sky News Australia
Australia ignorant on Indigenous: Barnett
Sky News Australia
WA Premier Colin Barnett says most of Australia is ignorant about a social crisis in which more Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children live in state care despite indigenous people representing well under seven per cent of the population. New figures ...
It's time to invest in carbon farming on Aboriginal lands | Rowan FoleyThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Australia ignorant on Aboriginals: Barnett
SBS
WA Premier Colin Barnett says most of Australia is ignorant about a social crisis in which more Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children live in state care despite indigenous people representing well under seven per cent of the population. New figures ...
It's time to invest in carbon farming on Aboriginal lands | Rowan FoleyThe Guardian

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