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The Economist
In Australia's outback, aboriginal people try a novel approach to fighting crime
The Economist
“Back of Bourke” is Australian vernacular for the outback. The town faces the Darling River, about 800km north-west of Sydney in the state of New South Wales. About a third of its almost 3,000 people are aboriginals. Until recently, Bourke had one of ...

The Australian
Silence is golden but not when it's permanent
The Australian
In Australia, about 10 in every 10,000 births involves a child who will be diagnosed with a moderate or greater hearing loss in both ears. By the age of 17, another 23 children in 10,000 will acquire a hearing impairment. The indigenous are most at risk.

The Australian
Silence is golden but not when it's permanent
The Australian
In Australia, about 10 in every 10,000 births involves a child who will be diagnosed with a moderate or greater hearing loss in both ears. By the age of 17, another 23 children in 10,000 will acquire a hearing impairment. The indigenous are most at risk.

Northern Territory legal profession must act on juvenile injustice
The Australian
Aborigines in Australia are a beleaguered people. For the best part of 230 years, they have been the subject of dispossession, murder, gross abuse and unsuccessful attempts at genocide. Since 1788, the law has treated them as unworthy and subhuman.

The Australian
Black Rainbow reaches out to gay indigenous mob
The Australian
Dameyon Bonson had a light bulb moment a few years ago, while working in the fraught area of indigenous suicide in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Why, he suddenly wondered while pondering the grim monotony of continuing deaths, was ...

The Australian
Black Rainbow reaches out to gay indigenous mob
The Australian
Dameyon Bonson had a light bulb moment a few years ago, while working in the fraught area of indigenous suicide in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Why, he suddenly wondered while pondering the grim monotony of continuing deaths, was ...

The Australian
Advance Australia to a place where ex-PMs don't re-Joyce at losing government
The Australian
All adult (21 years) male British subjects were entitled to vote in South Australia from 1856, in Victoria from 1857, New South Wales from 1858, and Tasmania from 1896 including indigenous people … (In 1895) all adult women in South Australia ...

Times Now
Harper is not an impudent child, she is hope
The Sydney Morning Herald
“[The anthem] says 'Advance Australia Fair', which when it was originally written meant advance white Australia. It says we are young, but we're not young if we count the Indigenous Australians, who were here for over 50,000 before the British ...
Nine-yr-old Australian girl threatened by politicians after her refusal to stand for 'racist' national anthemTimes Now
9-year-old Australian girl punished for refusing to stand for anthem in 'racism' protestWAPT Jackson
Aust schoolgirl's national anthem protestPOST-COURIER

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SBS (blog)
Indigenous community 'sits with' anthem schoolgirl
SBS (blog)
Indigenous people from around Australia, including high profile sports stars and TV personalities have banded together to support the Queensland schoolgirl who refused to stand for the national anthem last week. The nine-year-old Harper Nielsen ...
Harper is not an impudent child, she is hopeThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Politicians Threaten Schoolgirl Over National Anthem ProtestWRAL.com
Prominent Australian politicians attack 9-year-old for not standing during national anthemfox6now.com
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Alice Springs News Online
NT pipeline to make substantial contribution, says industry
Alice Springs News Online
The MCA says the mining industry is a large employer of Indigenous Australians. In 2016, Indigenous Australians were 3.8% of the mining industry workforce – more than double the national average of 1.7% and the highest Indigenous employment share of ...

Manning River Times
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Manning River Times
“All Australians have access now to a resource that teaches them about Indigenous Australia and also provides a great engagement tool for those Indigenous students who are disengaging with the education system and have fallen through the cracks, ...

Manning River Times
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Manning River Times
“All Australians have access now to a resource that teaches them about Indigenous Australia and also provides a great engagement tool for those Indigenous students who are disengaging with the education system and have fallen through the cracks, ...

UNSW Newsroom
Noel Pearson envisages an Australia unified through the pursuit of self-interest
UNSW Newsroom
His proposed declaration put words to a unified vision of Australia that threaded together the nation's Indigenous, white colonial and multicultural immigrant heritage for the first time, providing an unexpected cherry to his characteristic serving of ...

The Guardian
Bowraville murders: court rejects bid to try man over Aboriginal children's deaths
The Guardian
The New South Wales government has lost its bid to bring a man to trial for murdering three Aboriginal children in Bowraville nearly 30 years ago. The 52-year-old, who can't be named for legal reasons, was previously acquitted at separate trials in ...
NSW Court of Appeal rules no trial for Bowraville accusedThe Australian
No retrial for the man acquitted over Bowraville child murdersNEWS.com.au

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InDaily
ON ART Podcast - Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits
InDaily
Robert McFarlane has worked behind a camera for more than 50 years. He makes images that transport his audience into cinematic and captivating visual spaces and has photographed on the street, on set and within Aboriginal Australia. He has amassed a ...

Pro Bono Australia
Making Australia Safer – Really?
Pro Bono Australia
Safety is also a critical issue for Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are grossly over-represented in every measure of violence and imprisonment. The solutions are not just about enabling Indigenous people to play a ...

Pro Bono Australia
Making Australia Safer – Really?
Pro Bono Australia
Safety is also a critical issue for Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are grossly over-represented in every measure of violence and imprisonment. The solutions are not just about enabling Indigenous people to play a ...

Washington Post
What the Herald Sun's Serena Williams cartoon reveals about Australia's racial history
Washington Post
In Australia, the visual representation of black Australians by non-indigenous artists began shortly after the landing of the First Fleet in 1788. Early settlers such as William Bradley and Thomas Watling fixed an anthropological eye on indigenous ...
That Racist Serena Williams Cartoon Is So Very AustralianHuffPost
Newspaper reprints controversial cartoon of Serena WilliamsUSA TODAY
'Welcome to PC World': Australian newspaper doubles down, reprints controversial cartoon of Serena WilliamsNational Post
Chicago Tribune
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The Canberra Times
A decade after saying 'sorry', a new generation is struggling
The Canberra Times
Today is a milestone, and a day for some soul-searching. September 13 is the 11th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, which the United Nations General Assembly resolved in 2007. Australia came late to the declaration ...

The Canberra Times
A decade after saying 'sorry', a new generation is struggling
The Canberra Times
Today is a milestone, and a day for some soul-searching. September 13 is the 11th anniversary of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, which the United Nations General Assembly resolved in 2007. Australia came late to the declaration ...