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French couple who have lived in Australia for 15 years 'gutted' at prospect of deportation
ABC Local
"[But] there has to be a benefit to Australia, and that usually means employment for Australians. "I know that Damien made several attempts to recruit locally within the Aboriginal community as well as local schools and children to do traineeships ...

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Bega District News
Women set to inspire at Eden's Giiyong Festival
Bega District News
The inaugural Giiyong Festival will bring with it a stellar line-up of Indigenous artists from all over Australia to celebrate and share culture, language, music and art. Within the mix, a number of renowned female artists and speakers are set to empower.

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Blackface stunt by Tasmanian footy players 'makes mockery' of non-white people: activist
ABC News
"There are more and more immigrants coming to Australia, to start a new life," he said. "They see this sort of behaviour and wonder what they've migrated to. "How many young Aboriginal players would want to go now to the Penguin Football Club or be ...
Please Reset Your 'Days Since Australia Has Had A Blackface Incident' Counter To ZeroJunkee
Outrage after Tasmanian footballers black up for Penguin's Mad MondayThe Sydney Morning Herald
Tasmanian footballers draw flak after donning blackface costumesStuff.co.nz

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The Big Smoke Australia
Five books that inspired me: Author and Indigenous leader, Warren Mundine
The Big Smoke Australia
All except Australia's first peoples of course. There was very little written about Aboriginal people in any of the books I read, even in Australian history books. Aboriginal people began to come out of the shadows of public life from the 1970s. When ...

The Australian
Abbott to deliver indigenous schools blueprint this year
The Australian
He said it was important to address the “reluctance to expect the same of indigenous kids that we expect of other Australian kids” and to tackle the “instinct that indigenous kids need to be treated differently”. Some key problem areas identified by Mr ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Remembering The Black Mist
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
This exhibition is a vivid and reflective collation that is raising awareness of the impact of nuclear testing in Australia. The cost for British and Australian army personnel and civilians was high. More so for Aboriginal people, who often weren't ...

Neos Kosmos
What multicultural gay communities can teach mainstream Australia
Neos Kosmos
Currently a Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne's Centre for Indigenous Studies, Dr Hodge is a contributor to yet another publication, Living and Loving in Diversity, An anthology of Australian Multicultural queer adventures ...

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ABC News
Remote kidney clinic heralds a homecoming for Aboriginal patients after years spent away
ABC News
Barbara Reid wishes she could have been there for those important early moments in her granddaughter's young life — her first steps, first words and big smile. Instead, Ms Reid, an Aboriginal woman from remote Western Australia, was stuck in a ...

ABC News
Remote kidney clinic heralds a homecoming for Aboriginal patients after years spent away
ABC News
Barbara Reid wishes she could have been there for those important early moments in her granddaughter's young life — her first steps, first words and big smile. Instead, Ms Reid, an Aboriginal woman from remote Western Australia, was stuck in a ...

ArtsHub
Why the arts sector needs to let Australia's First Peoples lead
ArtsHub
Walley, a Nyoongar man from south-west Western Australia, is one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers and writers. A former Australia Council Board member, he was named a State Living Treasure in 2015 for his lifetime contribution to arts and ...

ArtsHub
Why the arts sector needs to let Australia's First Peoples lead
ArtsHub
Walley, a Nyoongar man from south-west Western Australia, is one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers and writers. A former Australia Council Board member, he was named a State Living Treasure in 2015 for his lifetime contribution to arts and ...

ABC News
Aboriginal man Daniel Love facing deportation to PNG, lawyers say
ABC News
Daniel Love has an Aboriginal father and mother from Papua New Guinea, and has lived in Australia since he was five; He has an extensive criminal history including assault occasioning bodily harm; The Government wants to deport him to PNG but his ...

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Aboriginal man Daniel Love facing deportation to PNG, lawyers say
ABC News
Daniel Love has an Aboriginal father and mother from Papua New Guinea, and has lived in Australia since he was five; He has an extensive criminal history including assault occasioning bodily harm; The Government wants to deport him to PNG but his ...

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Virtual Songlines preserving Aboriginal heritage through video games
ABC News
Brett leavy is the leader of Virtual Songlines, a collection of first nations and non-indigenous game developers specialising in the recreation of precolonial Australia. He has been working with students at St Saviours college in Toowoomba to ...

ABC News
Virtual Songlines preserving Aboriginal heritage through video games
ABC News
Brett leavy is the leader of Virtual Songlines, a collection of first nations and non-indigenous game developers specialising in the recreation of precolonial Australia. He has been working with students at St Saviours college in Toowoomba to ...

The Conversation AU
Business as usual? The Sustainable Development Goals apply to Australian cities too
The Conversation AU
We are still settling Australian cities on unceded Aboriginal lands. With the global agreement on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, development has finally come home to the developed world. Yet in Australia we still often ...

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The Australian
NT indigenous child abuse rate rises 30pc in past year
The Australian
The overall rate rose by about 23 per cent in the same period, masking a slight decline in abuse and neglect substantiations in the non-indigenous population. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's Children's Headline Indicators study showed ...

The Australian
Call to let remote communities rule on indigenous funding
The Australian
The report said there was scant evidence about what worked in service delivery in indigenous Australia, but US and Canadian research showed “active involvement of indigenous residents” was crucial to the success in tacking the causes of dysfunction.

ABC News
Aboriginal bid to stop controversial Leigh Creek coal gas project fails
ABC News
"It's sad that it got to this point, but at least it confirms that the South Australian Government went through a proper process with the licencing process, and with the consultation process," he said. "There were numerous meetings we had with the ...

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Katherine Times
Academic spotlight zooms in on Min Min light
Katherine Times
“There are various scientific theories about what causes them but there has been no academic enquiry into what Indigenous Australians believe or know about them,” Dr Roman said. “Indigenous people living in or travelling to remote areas may have their ...

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