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The Advertiser
Artificial intelligence may reinforce racial bias for Aboriginal people because it fails to recognise cultural quirks
The Advertiser
SOUTH Australian lawyers have warned artificial intelligence could further disadvantage Aboriginal people as it fails to cater for cultural quirks. SA Law Society President Tim Mellor has told the Australian Law Council that there were particular ...

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The day an Aboriginal march stopped the miners and gave birth to a land council  The Guardian

Hundreds of Aboriginal people from across the Kimberley have recreated the historic Noonkanbah march, to mark the 40th anniversary of the protest that led to ...

The Cairns Post
Local Far North trio in hot New Zealand form
The Cairns Post
EMERGING Cairns talent Jakobe Hunter, Joel Matysek and Marshall Ware only had limited roles for the Australian indigenous basketball team but coach Joel Khalu says they completed them perfectly. The Australian squad wrapped up their fourth straight ...

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The Australian
Scott Morrison defends indigenous day proposal
The Australian
“I'm not saying we need another opportunity because indigenous Australians can't participate in Australia Day. Quite the contrary.” Mr Morrison said that in his own Sutherland Shire electorate of Cook, south of Sydney, a “meeting of two cultures ...
PM Morrison shifts gears on indigenous daySBS

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SBS
PM Morrison shifts gears on indigenous day
SBS
Scott Morrison has stressed the need to reconcile the arrival of the First Fleet with the contributions of indigenous people, after reopening debate about the date of Australia Day. The prime minister ripped open a can of worms last week after ...

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NEWS.com.au
Why everyday Australians should be mortified by the 'Uluru twerking' clip
NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal people are still over-represented in our jails and under-represented in positions of power, and calls to change the date of Australia Day to a less offensive spot on the calendar are routinely howled down by calls for Aboriginal people to ...

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NEWS.com.au
Why everyday Australians should be mortified by the 'Uluru twerking' clip
NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal people are still over-represented in our jails and under-represented in positions of power, and calls to change the date of Australia Day to a less offensive spot on the calendar are routinely howled down by calls for Aboriginal people to ...

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ABC Local
Min Min lights: Is there a scientific explanation for the mysterious phenomenon?
ABC Local
Min Min lights are a mysterious phenomenon that have spooked many people in the outback of Australia. But is there any scientific proof that Min Min lights exist? Or is it simply an Aboriginal folktale that has been passed down for generations? The ...

ABC Local
Min Min lights: Is there a scientific explanation for the mysterious phenomenon?
ABC Local
Min Min lights are a mysterious phenomenon that have spooked many people in the outback of Australia. But is there any scientific proof that Min Min lights exist? Or is it simply an Aboriginal folktale that has been passed down for generations? The ...

ABC Message Stick
Remote Aboriginal community sells art, crowdfunds to have uranium-free water supply
ABC Message Stick
A remote community in Western Australia's outback is crowdfunding and selling art to raise money to fix its water supply, which has uranium levels more than twice the national health standards. Buttah Windee is 760 kilometres north-east of Perth on the ...

ABC Message Stick
Remote Aboriginal community sells art, crowdfunds to have uranium-free water supply
ABC Message Stick
A remote community in Western Australia's outback is crowdfunding and selling art to raise money to fix its water supply, which has uranium levels more than twice the national health standards. Buttah Windee is 760 kilometres north-east of Perth on the ...

ABC News
'If you have one more drink, you will die': Battling booze addiction in Australia
ABC News
... drinks to be taxed according to alcohol content, not beverage class, and for alcohol to be made more expensive, as some drinks were "ridiculously cheap" and abused by the most disadvantaged, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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The Advertiser
Laine Anderson: We need to talk about shifting Australia Day
The Advertiser
If the majority of indigenous Australians support a national day of celebration – perhaps during NAIDOC week as suggested by Coalition frontbencher Ken Wyatt, an Aboriginal man from Western Australia – perhaps it's something we should explore. But then ...
'We want white people to stop celebrating the day they invaded us'SF Bay Area Indymedia

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The Advertiser
Laine Anderson: We need to talk about shifting Australia Day
The Advertiser
If the majority of indigenous Australians support a national day of celebration – perhaps during NAIDOC week as suggested by Coalition frontbencher Ken Wyatt, an Aboriginal man from Western Australia – perhaps it's something we should explore. But then ...

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Brisbane Times
Women sweep the field at annual WA Training Awards
Brisbane Times
... ABS Institute of Management; Australian Industry Training; Vocational Student of the Year: Caitlan Noble, Mount Lawley, North Metropolitan Tafe; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student of the Year: Soleil White, Bilingurr, Kimberley ...

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When there is something you think is not offensive removed or report something you think is offensive on Facebook, it might surprise you to know that the moderator who makes the decision is a low-paid person in the Philippines, a country that has a huge Christian population and where no-one is allowed to criticize the country's leader.

An interview on ABC RN 'Download This Show' with Hans Block, director of 'The Cleaners', a new film about this subject. When the trailer was put on Facebook, it was deleted - lets see how this post goes.

From ABC RN 'Download This Show' 28 September 2018

ABC Local
Family demands police to re-examine mysterious death of Indigenous boy left on NSW train tracks
ABC Local
Between 1986 and 2009, there have been around six inquiries into various aspects of police relations with Indigenous Australians, each focusing on different states and territories. They each concluded that Aboriginal people had a well founded fear of ...

ABC Local
Family demands police to re-examine mysterious death of Indigenous boy left on NSW train tracks
ABC Local
Professor Anthony has called on police to change their policies to ensure all mysterious deaths involving Indigenous Australians are thoroughly investigated. "I think the police need to have a proper disciplinary system where there are ramifications ...

ABC Local
Telstra debts in the hundreds of thousands accrued by just 74 remote users
ABC Local
Indigenous Australians in some of the nation's most remote communities are being handed exorbitant Telstra phone bills, with data suggesting more than $360,000 of debt has been accrued across just 74 cases in three states. Tiwi Islands woman Anne Marie ...

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The Guardian
'Signatures of killings': archaeologists uncover legacy of frontier violence
The Guardian
Not all place names are about killing Aboriginal people but one of the things about the topography of Australia is that there are lots of names like that and you wouldn't ignore that.” The project winds up in 2020 with a plan to make public as much ...