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The Conversation AU
Ten classics of Indigenous design
The Conversation AU
Blak Design Matters is the first exhibition in Australia specifically dedicated to contemporary Indigenous design. Its curator, architect and academic Jefa Greenaway, describes the show as a snapshot that “takes the pulse of what's happening now ...

The Australian
'White feminists' blame colonisation for indigenous domestic violence
The Australian
Aboriginal women victims of domestic violence are ending up in jail at astonishing rates.” The latest statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, released in February, show that indigenous women are 32 times more likely than non ...

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The Australian
'White feminists' blame colonisation for indigenous domestic violence
The Australian
Aboriginal women victims of domestic violence are ending up in jail at astonishing rates.” The latest statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, released in February, show that indigenous women are 32 times more likely than non ...

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Pursuit
Q&A: The Indigenous design perspective
Pursuit
In Australia, and many other countries with colonial pasts, mainstream design - including architecture, town planning, as well as fashion, interior, product and landscape design - has largely eshewed both Indigenous design and designers. But, with ...

The West Australian
Kununurra women celebrated at NAIDOC Week march
The West Australian
WA Premier Mark McGowan was welcomed to Miriwoong country and said the State appreciated the role and importance of Aboriginal people in Australia. “It's important we acknowledge Aboriginal people here in the Kimberley but also Aboriginal people ...

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EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous boarding students face great challenges but reap big rewards
EducationHQ Australia
More than 4000 secondary Indigenous students received ABSTUDY boarding payments in 2015, and Indigenous boarding school scholarships receive major government and philanthropic funding. One of Australia's largest funding providers, the Australian ...

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EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous boarding students face great challenges but reap big rewards
EducationHQ Australia
More than 4000 secondary Indigenous students received ABSTUDY boarding payments in 2015, and Indigenous boarding school scholarships receive major government and philanthropic funding. One of Australia's largest funding providers, the Australian ...

Travel+Leisure
Australia's Uluru Is Back in the Hands of the Aboriginal People — and There's Never Been a Better Time to Visit
Travel+Leisure
Australia's more than 500 Aboriginal tribes are like individual nations, each with its own language and customs. But one belief unites them all: the idea of an ancestral tie to Mother Earth. For the Anangu people who live around Uluru, the rock is the ...

Travel+Leisure
Australia's Uluru Is Back in the Hands of the Aboriginal People — and There's Never Been a Better Time to Visit
Travel+Leisure
But since 1993, when the government reinstated the rock's local name, Uluru, and awareness began growing that the indigenous community considers it sacred, clambering to the summit has been controversial. Australia's more than 500 Aboriginal tribes are ...

Daily Telegraph
Australia campaigned for Nelson Mandela's freedom but disappointed indigenous Australians by not wanting to 'interfere'
Daily Telegraph
But the Australian visit was not without controversy. Indigenous leaders, many of whom regarded Mandela as a hero and had been active anti-apartheid campaigners, were hopeful Mandela would champion issues relating to the treatment of Aborigines.

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Daily Telegraph
Australia campaigned for Nelson Mandela's freedom but disappointed indigenous Australians by not wanting to 'interfere'
Daily Telegraph
During his visit to Australia in 1990 Mandela was presented with a cricket bat signed by Bradman. But the Australian visit was not without controversy. Indigenous leaders, many of whom regarded Mandela as a hero and had been active anti-apartheid ...

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Cashless cards' success could extend to most welfare recipients
The Australian
However, a significant proportion of indigenous people would be considered “mainstream”, in that they live like other Australians. This group is lifting the averages for the indigenous population, meaning the gaps for indigenous people who are ...

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The Guardian
Cashless welfare card's effectiveness unclear, auditor general says
The Guardian
... Australia and East Kimberley in Western Australia, but have been criticised as an overly punitive, paternal and blunt tool for addressing complex social problems. The program is not targeted at Indigenous Australians, but they are ...
Inadequate monitoring system casts doubt on cashless card trialsThe Australian
'Evidence lacking': Auditor-General criticises cashless welfare card trialThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Herald Sun
Michael Long's journey captured in bronze as Essendon pay tribute to on and off-field great
Herald Sun
“It is a tremendous tribute to him and his work for both the indigenous community and the wider Australian community.'' Three years after he retired, in 2004, Long set out to walk from Melbourne to Canberra to talk to the Prime Minister about improving ...
Michael Long's legacy forged in bronzeThe Canberra Times
AFL indigenous hero Long gets statueSports News

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Herald Sun
Michael Long's journey captured in bronze as Essendon pay tribute to on and off-field great
Herald Sun
Three years after he retired, in 2004, Long set out to walk from Melbourne to Canberra to talk to the Prime Minister about improving the health of and saving the lives of aboriginal Australians. “Too many are dying,'' Long once said. Footy folk will ...
Michael Long's legacy forged in bronzeThe Age

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Gizmodo Australia
3 Australian True Crime Podcasts You Should Definitely Be Listening To
Gizmodo Australia
Wrong Skin investigates the 20 year-old cold case of young Aboriginal couple – Julie Buck and Richard Milgin – who, in 1994, vanished in suspicious circumstances from the remote Aboriginal community of Looma in Outback WA. Buck, a young mother, was ...

History uncovered by DNA
Latrobe Valley Express
DNA from hair samples taken from Indigenous Gippslanders in the 20th century is being studied to reconstruct the genetic history of Aboriginal communities across Australia. The samples from 14 people from the Lake Tyers Aboriginal mission have been ...

The Guardian
Guards at Victoria's youth jails receive just 30 minutes of Indigenous cultural training
The Guardian
Guards at Victorian youth detention centres receive just 30 minutes of compulsory Indigenous cultural training despite Indigenous children making up one in five children in detention, a report has found. The youth detention system also has just four ...

The Guardian
Guards at Victoria's youth jails receive just 30 minutes of Indigenous cultural training
The Guardian
Guards at Victorian youth detention centres receive just 30 minutes of compulsory Indigenous cultural training despite Indigenous children making up one in five children in detention, a report has found. The youth detention system also has just four ...

ABC News
Family the remedy for young Indigenous mother for whom punishment has been no deterrent
ABC News
Trudy Murray has been in and out of prison five times over the past two years. The 24-year-old mother has regularly breached an intensive corrections order designed to keep her out of trouble. "If I didn't get mixed back up with my old friends, I ...