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The Conversation AU
Twelve charts on race and racism in Australia
The Conversation AU
And 27 years since the end of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in Custody, more than 400 Aboriginal and Torres Trait Islander people have died in custody, and Indigenous Australians are still massively over-representated in our prison system.

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The Conversation AU
Why racism is so hard to define and even harder to understand
The Conversation AU
... such as the US and Australia have benefited directly from being white. This has endowed them with the birthright of neither being owned (as in the case of enslaved people) nor “in the way” (as in the case of Indigenous peoples whose lands were ...

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The Conversation AU
Twelve charts on race and racism in Australia
The Conversation AU
And 27 years since the end of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in Custody, more than 400 Aboriginal and Torres Trait Islander people have died in custody, and Indigenous Australians are still massively over-representated in our prison system.

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BBC News
The fight over the right to name Australian places
BBC News
In 2016, following a successful campaign, Queensland's Stradbroke Island, named after British explorers, was renamed to its indigenous Australian name of Minjerribah (meaning Island in the Sun in the local Jandai language). The change reflected 20,000 ...

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National Indigenous Times
Australia's most popular Indigenous songs recorded on first-ever chart
National Indigenous Times
The weekly chart of the most heard Indigenous songs across Australian radio has been launched by the organisers of the National Indigenous Music Awards, Radio Monitor and music marketing group SGC. Busby Marou (Sounds of Summer) took out the first ...

National Indigenous Times
Wadeye women stun with plums
National Indigenous Times
“This collaboration between Wadeye Aboriginal Community, Something Wild Australia, and Fluerieu Milk Company is a great example of how Aboriginal communities can combine their landholdings with their ecological knowledge and commercialise them to ...

National Indigenous Times
Australia mourns loss of gentle and stoic mother of native title
National Indigenous Times
“She reminded us that Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander Australians share some common experiences – and that the reconciliation movement is strongest when we come together to campaign for the equality we all deserve.”.
Dr Bonita Mabo AO to recieve State funeral in TownsvilleTownsville Bulletin

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Aboriginal-led justice project saves rural town almost $3m  The Guardian

A groundbreaking Aboriginal community-led justice reinvestment program to address the underlying causes of crime delivered a saving of almost $3m to the far ...

Twelve charts on race and racism in Australia  The Conversation AU

Australia's population is growing fast, ticking over 25 million in August 2018. And as the population increases, it is also becoming more diverse. At the time of the ...

Aboriginal-led justice project saves rural town almost $3m  The Guardian

A groundbreaking Aboriginal community-led justice reinvestment program to address the underlying causes of crime delivered a saving of almost $3m to the far ...

SBS
Politicians pay tribute to the late Bonita Mabo
SBS
Last week she received an honorary doctorate from James Cook University, recognising 45 years of advocacy for Indigenous Australians and Australian South Sea Islanders. She co-founded the Black Community School in Townsville, the country's first ...

The Australian
Fracking ban lifted in Western Australia
The Australian
Fracking will be permitted across 5.2 million hectares of Western Australia — an area about three-quarters the size of Tasmania — but gas companies will need to win approval from farmers and Aboriginal groups before using the controversial ...

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Australia: Court decision questions the status of endorsed parties in Cultural Heritage Management Plan process
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On 31 October 2018, the Queensland Supreme Court handed down its decision in Mirvac v Chief Executive of the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships. The Court found in favour of Mirvac and ordered that the Cultural Heritage ...

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BDAC responds to 2018 Family Matters Report, highlights need for national strategy
Bendigo Advertiser
#FamilyMatters launch there is a resounding message that reducing the overrepresentation of Aboriginal children in care has to be a priority for all states and territories, not just for Vic or QLD and certainly not an issue just for Aboriginal people ...

The Age
Labor makes history with first cabinet that is 50 per cent women
The Age
Ms Hutchins was the minister for women, industrial relations and Aboriginal affairs. In her statement she said she wanted to spend more time with her children following the death of her husband, former Labor senator Stephen Hutchins, to illness last year.

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The Australian
Tackling crime differently pays off for outback town
The Australian
... last year from just one small outback NSW town tackling the underlying causes of crime rather than simply locking Aboriginal people up, an economic analysis by KPMG has revealed — prompting calls for the strategy to be rolled out around Australia.

ABC Local
The program helping Indigenous Australians quit smoking
ABC Local
A program in Sydney that's helping Indigenous people quit smoking is also exploring the deeper reasons why it's still the norm for roughly a third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults. Organisers behind the "Talking About Tobacco Use" (TATU) ...

ABC Local
The program helping Indigenous Australians quit smoking
ABC Local
A program in Sydney that's helping Indigenous people quit smoking is also exploring the deeper reasons why it's still the norm for roughly a third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults. Organisers behind the "Talking About Tobacco Use" (TATU) ...

RACGP
Screen-detected breast cancers less likely to cause death
RACGP
Cancer outcomes and screening behaviour were also not explored for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, despite the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have poorer outcomes and lower participation in BreastScreen Australia.

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The Guardian
Bonita Mabo: tributes pour in for 'mother of native title'
The Guardian
“A formidable 'woman Tanna', Aunty Bonita will be greatly missed as Australia has lost one of the greatest matriarchs of all time. Because of her, we can.” Reconciliation Australia's chief executive, Karen Mundine, said Mabo had “made a powerful ...
Bonita Mabo remembered as a 'proud woman' by her familyTownsville Bulletin
Anti-corruption body on the cardsThe Saturday Paper
Indigenous rights activist Bonita Mabo dies days after accoladeRadio New Zealand

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