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The Conversation AU
The Indigenous employment gap is widening and we don't know how to fix it
The Conversation AU
The Closing the Gap framework sought to halve the employment gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, among other targets. But the employment target expired unmet this year. In remote parts of Australia, the gap has actually widened ...

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The Guardian
Labor targets Michael Sukkar's seat with Indigenous recognition advocate
The Guardian
So when I say I've reaped the benefits of the amazing opportunities Australia offers, I really have.” On Monday, Morris, a prominent advocate for Indigenous recognition known for her work at Noel Pearson's Cape York Institute, announced another career ...

The Guardian
States failing to take up lifesaving phone service for Indigenous prisoners
The Guardian
Western Australia and the Northern Territory have agreed to create the custody notification service (CNS), a 24-hour legal advice and RU OK phone line for Aboriginal people taken into police custody. New South Wales, which has had the service since ...
'National Shame': 147 Indigenous Deaths in Australian CustodyteleSUR tv HTTPS (press release) (blog)
Almost 150 Indigenous Australians Die In Custody In Country Since 2008 - ReportsUrduPoint News

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The Guardian
States failing to take up lifesaving phone service for Indigenous prisoners
The Guardian
The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, says he is “disappointed” that only two of Australia's states and territories have accepted the federal government's offer to fund a lifesaving custody notification service, two years after he made the ...
'National Shame': 147 Indigenous Deaths in Australian CustodyteleSUR tv HTTPS (press release) (blog)
Almost 150 Indigenous Australians Die In Custody In Country Since 2008 - ReportsUrduPoint News

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The Australian
APY Lands general manager insists he's not going anywhere
The Australian
The general manager of South Australia's self-governed Aboriginal lands is refusing to vacate his position, setting the scene for a return to the infighting that led to several inquiries and the suspension of federal funding. Richard King, the general ...

The Australian
Leah Purcell credits indigenous unit of Screen Australia for helping her career
The Australian
Purcell is one of many actors and filmmakers whose work has been supported by the indigenous department of Screen Australia, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. Since 1993 more than 160 titles — features, television series and ...

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The Australian
Leah Purcell credits indigenous unit of Screen Australia for helping her career
The Australian
Purcell is one of many actors and filmmakers whose work has been supported by the indigenous department of Screen Australia, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. Since 1993 more than 160 titles — features, television series and ...

The Weekly Times
Miranda: Pre-settlement Australian history must be preserved locally
The Weekly Times
It's part of an international project called The Relational Museum and Its Objects: Engaging Indigenous Australia With Their Distributed Collections. The idea is to link indigenous people with their material culture and to link small, local and often ...

Indigenous  ABC Online

The Guardian
'National shame': 147 Indigenous people die in custody in Australia in a decade
The Guardian
Australia's shocking treatment of Indigenous people has been laid bare with the publication of new figures by the Guardian showing 147 Indigenous people – some of them children – have died in custody in the past 10 years. Opposition parties have ...

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The Guardian
'National shame': 147 Indigenous people die in custody in Australia in a decade
The Guardian
Australia's shocking treatment of Indigenous people has been laid bare with the publication of new figures by the Guardian showing 147 Indigenous people – some of them children – have died in custody in the past 10 years. Opposition parties have ...

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NEWS.com.au
First male Aboriginal magistrate for WA
NEWS.com.au
Mr Maclean worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service from 1998 to 2001, joined the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in February 2007 and became a full-time ordinary member of the State Administrative Tribunal in 2015. Former Aboriginal Legal ...

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First male Aboriginal magistrate for WA
The Australian
Experienced lawyer David Maclean has become the first indigenous man to be appointed a magistrate in Western Australia, following in the footsteps of Sue Gordon. Mr Maclean worked for the Aboriginal Legal Service from 1998 to 2001, joined the Office of ...

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RACGP
Ochre Day celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male health
RACGP
'If we are to truly transform the health status of our First Australians, we need every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander man to take responsibility and be proud of themselves and their heritage – proud of the oldest continuous culture on Earth ...

The 147 dead: terrible toll of Indigenous deaths in custody spurs calls for reform  The Guardian

Exclusive: Guardian investigation of a decade of Indigenous deaths prompts calls for independent detention monitor.

'National shame': 147 Indigenous people die in custody in Australia in a decade  The Guardian

Australia's shocking treatment of Indigenous people has been laid bare with the publication of new figures by the Guardian showing 147 Indigenous people ...

'National shame': 147 Indigenous people die in custody in Australia in a decade  The Guardian

Australia's shocking treatment of Indigenous people has been laid bare with the publication of new figures by the Guardian showing 147 Indigenous people ...

Deaths inside: every Indigenous death in custody since 2008 tracked – interactive  The Guardian

More than 400 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the end of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991.

Deaths inside: every Indigenous death in custody since 2008 tracked – interactive  The Guardian

More than 400 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the end of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991.

Art Guide Australia
Islamic Museum of Australia showcases Australian Muslim Artists
Art Guide Australia
Racquel Austin-Abdullah's installation You Left Something Behind (Wangkumara Woman), 2014, also uses textiles to share a perspective that doesn't receive as much attention in the general scheme of the Australian Muslim experience: that of the ...