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Fencing surrounding the new Darwin Correctional Precinct. Source: News Corp ... - NEWS.com.au

Thu, 2015/04/23 - 3:25am

NEWS.com.au

Fencing surrounding the new Darwin Correctional Precinct. Source: News Corp ...
NEWS.com.au
Even more concerning is the disproportionate rate in which indigenous communities are being jailed. Despite making up just 30 per cent of the population in the NT, indigenous Australians account for 86 per cent of the prison inmates. The problem is far ...

World War One's forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous Army - BBC News

Wed, 2015/04/22 - 11:55pm

BBC News

World War One's forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous Army
BBC News
Anzac Day, 25 April, is probably Australia's most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during World War One, and commemorates all the conflicts ...
Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...Courier Mail
Stage show Black Diggers reveals the forgotten story of Indigenous soldiers in ...Herald Sun
Black Diggers: a forgotten historyNEWS.com.au

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Indigenous art faces flooding marketplace - ArtsHub (subscription)

Wed, 2015/04/22 - 2:15pm

ArtsHub (subscription)

Indigenous art faces flooding marketplace
ArtsHub (subscription)
Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre. Western Australia. Venues. The Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre brings the South West community the best of live music, theatre, film, dance and more!

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Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ... - Courier Mail

Wed, 2015/04/22 - 12:21pm

Courier Mail

Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...
Courier Mail
Indigenous Australian men went to fight and yet were not recognised by the constitution,” he said. This meant that indigenous soldiers fought and died for a country they were not defined by as citizens. But, as Enoch made clear, the parameters of ...
Stage show Black Diggers reveals the forgotten story of Indigenous soldiers in ...Herald Sun
Black Diggers: a forgotten historyNEWS.com.au

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Indigenous heritage site safe after miner drops plans to drill for gas - The Guardian

Wed, 2015/04/22 - 8:15am

The Guardian

Indigenous heritage site safe after miner drops plans to drill for gas
The Guardian
A mining company has retreated from plans to drill for gas at one of Australia's oldest Indigenous heritage sites, prompting celebrations among traditional landholders. Representatives of the Djungan people of north Queensland in a statement said they ...

Indigenous Australia exhibition at the British Museum is insider activism at ... - The Conversation UK

Wed, 2015/04/22 - 5:57am

The Conversation UK

Indigenous Australia exhibition at the British Museum is insider activism at ...
The Conversation UK
The British Museum is about to its open doors to the first ever major exhibition in Britain devoted to the history of Indigenous Australia. Enduring Civilisation will showcase more than 170 startling and mostly never previously exhibited Aboriginal and ...
British Museum to feature Australia's Aboriginal mastersPanARMENIAN.Net

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Australia occasionally interrupts its 'normal' mistreatment of Aboriginal ... - The Guardian

Wed, 2015/04/22 - 3:56am

The Guardian

Australia occasionally interrupts its 'normal' mistreatment of Aboriginal ...
The Guardian
Australia has again declared war on its Indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that brought universal condemnation on apartheid South Africa. Aboriginal people are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of ...
Learn from history, forced closure of remote communities not the solutionThe Age

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People are poor because they have no money: rich platitudes from 'experts' - Sydney Morning Herald

Wed, 2015/04/22 - 12:51am

International Business Times AU

People are poor because they have no money: rich platitudes from 'experts'
Sydney Morning Herald
Preferences of indigenous Australians and development of social norms and attitudes to work are also likely to play a part. "Each issue alone is not enough to explain employment and income differences between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
Over 1 Million Australians Living In Poverty Despite 20 Years Of Economic GrowthInternational Business Times AU

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One million Australians living in poverty - it's just not good enough - Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2015/04/21 - 8:50pm

Sydney Morning Herald

One million Australians living in poverty - it's just not good enough
Sydney Morning Herald
And for children from disadvantaged families to be helped and specially funded so that they do not start school behind and do not keep going through their lives behind their peers. It also talks about reducing discrimination against Indigenous people ...
One million Australians 'entrenched in disadvantage', report findsThe Guardian

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Chinese war hero Australia's top Gallipoli sniper - Digital Journal

Tue, 2015/04/21 - 11:50am

Digital Journal

Chinese war hero Australia's top Gallipoli sniper
Digital Journal
Under Australia's 1909 Defence Act, "those who are not substantially of European origin or descent" were blocked from active service. But some from minority backgrounds including indigenous Australians still stepped forward, trying multiple times ...

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Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation review – a fabulous beast - The Guardian

Tue, 2015/04/21 - 6:38am

The Guardian

Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation review – a fabulous beast
The Guardian
Westerners pride themselves on traditions that go back a few hundred years: Indigenous Australian art was being made in 1770 in an unbroken tradition with a pedigree of somewhere in the region of 40,000 years. There is a bark shield here probably made ...
Indigenous Australia, British Museum, review: 'all too familiar'Telegraph.co.uk
Noel Pearson's assimilation agenda divides Indigenous AustraliansIndependent Australia
Indigenous Australia at the British Museum: It's time to give the Aboriginal ...The Independent
ArtsHub (subscription) -Aboriginal Art Directory News -WA today
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Chinese war hero Australia's top Gallipoli sniper - Bangkok Post

Tue, 2015/04/21 - 5:45am

Bangkok Post

Chinese war hero Australia's top Gallipoli sniper
Bangkok Post
Under Australia's 1909 Defence Act, "those who are not substantially of European origin or descent" were blocked from active service. But some from minority backgrounds including indigenous Australians still stepped forward, trying multiple times ...

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More than a million Australians live in poverty: report - Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2015/04/21 - 5:26am

Sydney Morning Herald

More than a million Australians live in poverty: report
Sydney Morning Herald
... to early intervention programs to minimise hospital admissions for those with mental illness, targeting parents as well as children to stop intergenerational educational disadvantage and fixing discrimination against Indigenous Australians in the ...
A Million Aussies Living in PovertyPro Bono Australia
Over 1 Million Australians Living In Poverty Despite 20 Years Of Economic GrowthInternational Business Times AU
One million Australians living in poverty - it's just not good enoughWA today
The Guardian
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Stage show Black Diggers reveals the forgotten story of Indigenous soldiers in ... - Herald Sun

Tue, 2015/04/21 - 4:04am

Herald Sun

Stage show Black Diggers reveals the forgotten story of Indigenous soldiers in ...
Herald Sun
Their stories are woven together to create Black Diggers, which tells the forgotten story of Australia's Indigenous soldiers. Despite being unrecognised and oppressed, unable even to vote in their home country, these men took up arms to defend the free ...

A Million Aussies Living in Poverty - Pro Bono Australia

Tue, 2015/04/21 - 1:13am

Mozo.com.au

A Million Aussies Living in Poverty
Pro Bono Australia
It is unlikely that any country can wholly eliminate poverty and disadvantage. However, Australia most definitely can and must do better.” Professor Martin said CEDA's report focuses on three key areas- education gaps, Indigenous disadvantage and ...
More than a million Australians live in poverty: reportBrisbane Times

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Thousands of Indigenous Lives Lost Prematurely - Pro Bono Australia

Tue, 2015/04/21 - 12:26am

Thousands of Indigenous Lives Lost Prematurely
Pro Bono Australia
The report, Australian Burden of Disease Study: Fatal burden of disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, provides estimates of the fatal burden of disease and injury for Indigenous Australians, as well as estimates of the 'gap' in fatal ...

Indigenous Australia, British Museum, review: 'all too familiar' - Telegraph.co.uk

Mon, 2015/04/20 - 11:05pm

Telegraph.co.uk

Indigenous Australia, British Museum, review: 'all too familiar'
Telegraph.co.uk
Your guarantee from any British Museum exhibition is a factual nugget or two you'll be sharing in the days, weeks and months ahead. In the case of Indigenous Australia, it's that around 250 Aboriginal languages were being spoken at the time of British ...
Noel Pearson's assimilation agenda divides Indigenous AustraliansIndependent Australia
British Museum exhibit reignites call for return of Indigenous relicsArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous Australia at the British Museum: It's time to give the Aboriginal ...The Independent
Crikey (blog) -Aboriginal Art Directory News -WA today
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More than a million Australians live in poverty: report - Sydney Morning Herald

Mon, 2015/04/20 - 9:41pm

Sydney Morning Herald

More than a million Australians live in poverty: report
Sydney Morning Herald
... to early intervention programs to minimise hospital admissions for those with mental illness, targeting parents as well as children to stop intergenerational educational disadvantage and fixing discrimination against Indigenous Australians in the ...
A Million Aussies Living in PovertyPro Bono Australia
One million Australians living in poverty - it's just not good enoughWA today
One million Australians 'entrenched in disadvantage', report findsThe Guardian

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Indigenous Australia — Enduring Civilisation at the British Museum - The Times (subscription)

Mon, 2015/04/20 - 5:15pm

The Times (subscription)

Indigenous Australia — Enduring Civilisation at the British Museum
The Times (subscription)
Read the label and you find yourself time-travelling; taken back to that tense moment 245 years ago when Captain James Cook first set foot upon the shores of Australia, a buckled shoe sinking into the thick sands of Botany Bay. You can almost hear the ...

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The fighter pilot who inspired a generation - NEWS.com.au

Mon, 2015/04/20 - 11:55am

NEWS.com.au

The fighter pilot who inspired a generation
NEWS.com.au
This extraordinary story of a boy born in a northern NSW mission in 1924 hasn't ended. The RAAF now wants to get its first indigenous woman fighter pilot, something that may never have happened without Len Waters. When Mr Waters died in 1993 the RAAF ...

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