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Plea on indigenous misery - The West Australian

Sun, 2014/03/23 - 6:26am

Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
In an interview with _The Weekend West _, Senator Scullion said without immediate investment in Aboriginal Australia, especially in school attendance, incarceration rates would continue to be high. "I'm miffed that in a really forward-thinking, smart ...

Plea on indigenous misery - The West Australian

Sun, 2014/03/23 - 6:23am

The West Australian

Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
In an interview with _The Weekend West _, Senator Scullion said without immediate investment in Aboriginal Australia, especially in school attendance, incarceration rates would continue to be high. "I'm miffed that in a really forward-thinking, smart ...

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Plea on indigenous misery - The West Australian

Sun, 2014/03/23 - 6:23am

The West Australian

Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
In an interview with _The Weekend West _, Senator Scullion said without immediate investment in Aboriginal Australia, especially in school attendance, incarceration rates would continue to be high. "I'm miffed that in a really forward-thinking, smart ...

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Plea on indigenous misery - The West Australian

Sun, 2014/03/23 - 6:23am

The West Australian

Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
In an interview with _The Weekend West _, Senator Scullion said without immediate investment in Aboriginal Australia, especially in school attendance, incarceration rates would continue to be high. "I'm miffed that in a really forward-thinking, smart ...

Plea on indigenous misery - The West Australian

Sun, 2014/03/23 - 6:22am

Plea on indigenous misery
The West Australian
In an interview with _The Weekend West _, Senator Scullion said without immediate investment in Aboriginal Australia, especially in school attendance, incarceration rates would continue to be high. "I'm miffed that in a really forward-thinking, smart ...

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Review: From aboriginal Australia to Wagner's Rhine River with the FW Symphony - Dallas Morning News

Sun, 2014/03/23 - 4:36am

Review: From aboriginal Australia to Wagner's Rhine River with the FW Symphony
Dallas Morning News
In fact, the unnamed player alternated between two of the aboriginal Australian instruments in the concert-opening Earth Cry by Peter Sculthorpe, at 84 the dean of Australian composers. In each classical program this season, the FWSO is including a ...

British Columbia: An authentic aboriginal experience - eTurboNews

Sat, 2014/03/22 - 10:58am

eTurboNews

British Columbia: An authentic aboriginal experience
eTurboNews
Keith Henry, Aboriginal Tourism Association of B.C.'s chief executive officer, says he's had similar experiences in Australia and New Zealand, countries long considered innovators when it comes to developing aboriginal tourism markets, but it's the ...

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Another stolen generation: how Australia still wrecks Aboriginal families - OpEdNews

Fri, 2014/03/21 - 10:50pm

OpEdNews

Another stolen generation: how Australia still wrecks Aboriginal families
OpEdNews
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Aboriginal Australian] you're guilty before you're found innocent." The child's grandmother demands to know why "the stealing of our kids is happening all over again." A welfare official says ...

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First Aboriginal Woman in Senate Won Gold for Australia - WNN - Women News Network

Fri, 2014/03/21 - 9:11pm

First Aboriginal Woman in Senate Won Gold for Australia
WNN - Women News Network
Then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard offered her the chance to become the first female Aboriginal member of the federal parliament, ordering an incumbent senator to stand aside so Peris, who battled poverty and racist taunts on the path to becoming an ...

Another stolen generation: how Australia still wrecks Aboriginal families - The Guardian

Fri, 2014/03/21 - 7:28pm

The Guardian

Another stolen generation: how Australia still wrecks Aboriginal families
The Guardian
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Aboriginal Australian] you're guilty before you're found innocent." The child's grandmother demands to know why "the stealing of our kids is happening all over again". A welfare official says ...

Authentic aboriginal experience drives growing B.C. tourism market - Hamilton Spectator

Fri, 2014/03/21 - 4:05pm

Authentic aboriginal experience drives growing B.C. tourism market
Hamilton Spectator
Keith Henry, Aboriginal Tourism Association of B.C.'s chief executive officer, says he's had similar experiences in Australia and New Zealand, countries long considered innovators when it comes to developing aboriginal tourism markets, but it's the ...

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Culture war - The Australian

Fri, 2014/03/21 - 1:10pm

Culture war
The Australian
It would be the first enterprise to map the songlines of indigenous Australia with the tools of modern science, and do so with Aboriginal participation, in a cross-cultural spirit, co-operatively, preserving knowledge, advancing understanding. It would ...

Mandatory sentencing and indigenous Australians - Mondaq News Alerts (registration)

Fri, 2014/03/21 - 7:08am

Mandatory sentencing and indigenous Australians
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The recent debate of the Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Assault and Intoxication) Act 2014 ('the Act') in New South Wales Parliament has sparked discussion of the impact mandatory sentencing has on Australia's indigenous population. The Act is ...

A call for the wider community to stand in solidarity with Aboriginal and ... - Crikey (blog)

Fri, 2014/03/21 - 5:38am

A call for the wider community to stand in solidarity with Aboriginal and ...
Crikey (blog)
The story of Aboriginal leader William Cooper – “the lone voice in Australia in 1938 condemning the cruel persecution of Jews in Germany” – should stand as inspiration for greater solidarity from “multicultural Australia” with Aboriginal and Torres ...

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Is Racism the New Black? review – a light approach to Australia's dark side - The Guardian (blog)

Fri, 2014/03/21 - 2:13am

The Guardian (blog)

Is Racism the New Black? review – a light approach to Australia's dark side
The Guardian (blog)
“Australia is very diverse,” croons filmmaker and activist Richard Frankland, an Indigenous Australian of Gunditjmara origin. He smiles, waits a beat, then lets rip: “But I'm the only Greek-looking Aboriginal that's ever worked as a waiter in a Chinese ...

No forced adoption for Aboriginal children - The West Australian

Thu, 2014/03/20 - 10:17am

No forced adoption for Aboriginal children
The West Australian
The new laws, which are set to be debated in state parliament on Thursday, would see NSW become the first jurisdiction in Australia where child protection authorities would be required to consider adoption before placing a vulnerable child in foster care.

The long road to Close the Gap - ABC Local

Thu, 2014/03/20 - 7:06am

SBS

The long road to Close the Gap
ABC Local
The long road to Close the Gap. By Hilary Smale and Vanessa Mills. The head of Broome's main Aboriginal health organisation says there is still a long way to go in Closing the Gap, with a 17 year life expectancy difference in parts of northern Australia.
Government urged to maintain Indigenous health fundingABC Message Stick
Thousands gather across Australia for National Close the Gap DaySBS
Knights support Close the Gap DayNewcastle Knights
Whyalla News -Crikey (blog)
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Aboriginal drinkers punished by APOs - Sky News Australia

Thu, 2014/03/20 - 6:22am

Sky News Australia

Aboriginal drinkers punished by APOs
Sky News Australia
Not even suspected terrorists would face the wide-ranging police stop-and-search powers used to deal with indigenous problem drinkers in the Northern Territory. The North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) says the law regarding alcohol ...

No forced adoption for Aboriginal children - Courier Mail

Thu, 2014/03/20 - 4:59am

No forced adoption for Aboriginal children
Courier Mail
The new laws, which are set to be debated in state parliament on Thursday, would see NSW become the first jurisdiction in Australia where child protection authorities would be required to consider adoption before placing a vulnerable child in foster care.

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No forced adoption for Aboriginal children - Herald Sun

Thu, 2014/03/20 - 4:57am

No forced adoption for Aboriginal children
Herald Sun
The new laws, which are set to be debated in state parliament on Thursday, would see NSW become the first jurisdiction in Australia where child protection authorities would be required to consider adoption before placing a vulnerable child in foster care.

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