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Indigenous Affairs Minister: Hanson 'changed' - Sky News Australia

Tue, 2016/07/19 - 9:11am

Sky News Australia

Indigenous Affairs Minister: Hanson 'changed'
Sky News Australia
Ms Hanson and her party are opposed to the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians. When the Queensland Senator-Elect last entered Parliament almost twenty years ago, she used her maiden speech to attacked the so-called privileges enjoyed ...
Pauline Hanson publicly derided as 'racist redneck' by Indigenous activistThe Guardian
Pauline Hanson fields attack from Aboriginal leader Murrandoo Yanner while visiting CairnsABC Online

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Black Lives Matter movement striking a chord with Indigenous Australians, says visiting US activist - ABC Online

Tue, 2016/07/19 - 1:01am

ABC Online

Black Lives Matter movement striking a chord with Indigenous Australians, says visiting US activist
ABC Online
The Black Lives Matter movement has arrived in Australia and is striking a chord with the Indigenous population, says a prominent US activist who is visiting the country. Tory Russell grew up in Ferguson, Missouri, and is a founder of Hands Up United, ...
No, we won't get over it: Black Lives Matter protestersThe Age

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Malcolm Turnbull should listen to Indigenous Australians - The Sydney Morning Herald

Sun, 2016/07/17 - 2:21pm

The Sydney Morning Herald

Malcolm Turnbull should listen to Indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
After acting like a sook on election night, Malcolm Turnbull re-emerged this past week as something more akin to a statesman or Indigenous elder. He said he was touched when Bill Shorten rang to concede. Turnbull was carrying his young granddaughter on ...

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Magnificant seven: Indigenous Australian athletes at Rio Olympics - The Roar

Sat, 2016/07/16 - 4:09pm

Magnificant seven: Indigenous Australian athletes at Rio Olympics
The Roar
The Australian Rio Olympics Team of 410 includes seven Indigenous athletes, with five making their Olympic debut. Australian Indigenous representation starts from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics with boxers Adrian Blair and Francis Roberts along with ...

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Adam Goodes and Michael O'Loughlin kick goals for Indigenous education - The Australian Financial Review

Fri, 2016/07/15 - 2:18pm

The Australian Financial Review

Adam Goodes and Michael O'Loughlin kick goals for Indigenous education
The Australian Financial Review
You don't have to spend much time with the founders and figureheads of the GO Foundation to realise how much their history and culture mean to them, and how committed they are when it comes to making sure Indigenous Australians will be able to achieve ...

Google News

It's Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Recognition and Reform - The Australian

Fri, 2016/07/15 - 2:05pm

It's Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Recognition and Reform
The Australian
The book is edited by Megan Davis, director of the University of NSW law school, and Marcia Langton, foundation chair of Australian indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne. It's closely argued, well written and often graphic (“the airtight ...

Taking the long road - The Hindu

Thu, 2016/07/14 - 11:17am

The Hindu

Taking the long road
The Hindu
Linda Burney made history in Australia recently, when she won the election to the Lower House of the Federal Parliament. She was the former deputy leader of the New South Wales Labor Party. Linda belongs to Wiradjuri, an indigenous Australian Aborigine.
Recognition is a force that can unite AustraliaHerald Sun

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Does Indigenous Australia Need a #BlackLivesMatter Movement? - teleSUR English

Thu, 2016/07/14 - 9:55am

teleSUR English

Does Indigenous Australia Need a #BlackLivesMatter Movement?
teleSUR English
Indigenous Australians make up around 2 percent of Australia's population but account for 27 percent of the national prison population, according to 2015 figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. That means per capita Indigenous incarceration ...

EDUCATING Australians about the nation's indigenous pe - The Sunshine Coast Daily

Thu, 2016/07/14 - 9:07am

EDUCATING Australians about the nation's indigenous pe
The Sunshine Coast Daily
EDUCATING Australians about the nation's indigenous people could be the key to avoiding the level of racial tension America is experiencing. A CQUniversity lecturer has argued for compulsory learning about the "true history" of Australia and more ...

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EDUCATING Australians about the nation's indigenous pe - Fraser Coast Chronicle

Thu, 2016/07/14 - 9:02am

EDUCATING Australians about the nation's indigenous pe
Fraser Coast Chronicle
EDUCATING Australians about the nation's indigenous people could be the key to avoiding the level of racial tension America is experiencing. A CQUniversity lecturer has argued for compulsory learning about the "true history" of Australia and more ...

Fears Western Australia will close remote Indigenous communities 'by stealth' - The Guardian

Thu, 2016/07/14 - 8:11am

The Guardian

Fears Western Australia will close remote Indigenous communities 'by stealth'
The Guardian
Roxley Foley, son of Aboriginal activist Gary Foley, demonstrates outside Parliament House in Canberra in March 2015 over the Western Australian government's planned closures of remote Aboriginal communities. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP.
Western Australia unveils 'roadmap' to close remote communitiesSBS
Plan favours bigger WA remote communities9news.com.au

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Subscribe and save - Australian Geographic

Thu, 2016/07/14 - 7:34am

Australian Geographic

Subscribe and save
Australian Geographic
The Martu people were some of the last Indigenous people to make contact with colonised Australia. Hidden by the arid northern deserts of Western Australia, Martu people didn't meet western society until the 1950s and 1960s. In 2002, the Martu people ...

Death of Indigenous woman turned away from NSW hospital 'preventable' - The Guardian

Thu, 2016/07/14 - 12:17am

The Guardian

Death of Indigenous woman turned away from NSW hospital 'preventable'
The Guardian
The death of pregnant Indigenous woman Naomi Williams, who was told to take some paracetamol and sent home by emergency department staff at a regional hospital, was preventable, her distraught mother says. Sharon Williams has demanded answers ...

Google News

Indigenous Australian Duo AB Original Announce Debut Album 'Reclaim Australia - The Source

Wed, 2016/07/13 - 8:43pm

The Source

Indigenous Australian Duo AB Original Announce Debut Album 'Reclaim Australia
The Source
The release date for the highly anticipated debut album Reclaim Australia from Australian Hip Hop duo A. B. Original (consisting of Trials and Briggs) is set for September / October through Golden Era Records and Australia's first Indigenous Hip Hop ...

Indigenous suicide: Thousands call for royal commission, prevention measures - ABC Online

Wed, 2016/07/13 - 7:19pm

ABC Online

Indigenous suicide: Thousands call for royal commission, prevention measures
ABC Online
Over 21,000 Australians have signed the petition since Sunday. Among those calling for a royal commission are this year's National Indigenous Human Rights Awards recipients and several past NAIDOC winners, including Australian of the Year awards ...
These Women Are The Face Of A Heartbreaking EpidemicBuzzFeed News
Organisations push for post-election summitThe Guardian (Australia)

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West Australian plan favours large indigenous communities - The Australian

Wed, 2016/07/13 - 2:13pm

West Australian plan favours large indigenous communities
The Australian
The West Australian government will entice Aboriginal families away from the smallest of the state's 274 remote communities by upgrading services and facilities at large centres that may become gazetted towns, under a proposal to transform where and ...

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Indigenous mums in Australia face high murder rate - BBC News

Wed, 2016/07/13 - 7:10am

BBC News

Indigenous mums in Australia face high murder rate
BBC News
Indigenous Australian women who have children are 17.5 times more likely to be murdered than other mothers, new research says. Researchers said that the high homicide rates appeared to be a long-standing phenomenon. Domestic violence, poverty and ...
High homicide rates for WA Aboriginal mumsWAtoday

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Fears for Indigenous HIV epidemic as north Queensland's diagnosis rates rise - ABC Message Stick

Wed, 2016/07/13 - 5:55am

ABC Message Stick

Fears for Indigenous HIV epidemic as north Queensland's diagnosis rates rise
ABC Message Stick
Public health authorities are warning that Australia could be on its way to an HIV epidemic in Indigenous communities. Cathy Van Extel reports on the latest figures from far north Queensland. In the same week that Australia declared AIDS was no longer ...

Lisa Bellear captures decades of Indigenous Australian protests – in pictures - The Guardian

Wed, 2016/07/13 - 5:28am

The Guardian

Lisa Bellear captures decades of Indigenous Australian protests – in pictures
The Guardian
By the time she died at the age of 45 in 2006, Lisa Bellear had collected more than 30,000 images documenting the Indigenous Australian community, largely in Melbourne, where she was based. They capture protests, marches, graffiti, community ...

Call for more Indigenous people to help manage homelands - ABC Online

Wed, 2016/07/13 - 2:08am

ABC Online

Call for more Indigenous people to help manage homelands
ABC Online
Scientists are urging the Federal Government to help more Indigenous people move back into their homelands, to help improve the management of some of Australia's most pristine landscapes and biodiversity hotspots. On the Northern Territory-Queensland ...

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