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Just three years out of university, Erin Eade became this school's first Aboriginal principal
ABC News
Erin Eade is Mogo Public School's first Aboriginal principal. The tiny primary school on the NSW south coast has 37 enrolled students, with about 79 per cent identifying as Aboriginal. "Being a leader of Mogo Public School is something I hold in high ...

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Aboriginal family photos showcase culture and landscape of central Australia
ABC News
Portrait photographer Milly Hooper captures striking images of Indigenous families in the stunning natural surrounds of central Australia. The self-taught mother of four started her business after realising that few Aboriginal people were using ...

ABC News
Aboriginal family photos showcase culture and landscape of central Australia
ABC News
Portrait photographer Milly Hooper captures striking images of Indigenous families in the stunning natural surrounds of central Australia. The self-taught mother of four started her business after realising that few Aboriginal people were using ...

Northern Star
Have your say on Australia Day date
Northern Star
"I am a proud Aboriginal and Australian so January 26 is a sad and hard day for me. It's Invasion Day and a day of mourning. I can't celebrate it. This shows not only the social but personal divide the day has. As I am both Aboriginal and Australian, I ...

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The Guardian
What's on in Canberra during NAIDOC Week
The Canberra Times
Canberrans will have plenty of opportunities to experience and learn more about Aboriginal culture as Australia comes together to celebrate NAIDOC week. NAIDOC week is held annually in July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of ...
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on ...The Guardian
NAIDOC Week puts Tasmanian women in the spotlightTasmania Examiner
NAIDOC Week 2018 – Because of Her, We Can!Insights News

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The Canberra Times
'We're leading the way': Access to justice for Aboriginal women
The Canberra Times
An access to justice program in the ACT led by Aboriginal women for Aboriginal women is one of the first of its kind in Australia. The Mulleun Mura program run through the Women's Legal Centre was launched in Canberra on Friday after 14 months of ...
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on ...The Guardian
Funeral insurer may face criminal chargesKatherine Times

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Leave the flag up: calls to keep Aboriginal flag on Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Morning Herald
NAIDOC week is one of four times each year the Aboriginal flag flies in place of the NSW flag on the bridge, where it is displayed in equal prominence to the Australia flag on the opposing arc. Opposition leader Luke Foley has taken aim at the expense, ...

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Aboriginal family photos showcase culture and landscape of central Australia  ABC News

Portrait photographer Milly Hooper captures striking images of Indigenous families in the stunning natural surrounds of central Australia.

ABC News
Cultural genocide or a great economic opportunity? Nuclear waste facility divides traditional owners
ABC News
Some Aboriginal elders have slammed the Federal Government's selection process for a nuclear waste facility in South Australia, saying it lacks cultural respect, but others have welcomed the facility as a great job opportunity. The Senate's Economic ...

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The Guardian
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous people
The Guardian
Over another week of scandalous revelations, the royal commission heard Indigenous Australians with poor financial literacy are routinely targeted with sales pitches for valueless insurance, sold faulty cars at usurious interest rates and wrongly ...

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The Guardian
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous people
The Guardian
Over another week of scandalous revelations, the royal commission heard Indigenous Australians with poor financial literacy are routinely targeted with sales pitches for valueless insurance, sold faulty cars at usurious interest rates and wrongly ...

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ABC News
Interpreter trial ensures hospitals are no longer places where Aboriginal people 'go to die'
ABC News
Many Aboriginal people feel like hospital is a place where they "go to die" but a groundbreaking trial is underway to change that. Interpreters have been introduced at hospitals in Western Australia's far north to improve patients' relationships with ...

ABC News
NAIDOC week: the unlikely friendship that's driving reconciliation in Gympie
ABC News
She's an Aboriginal elder of the stolen generation; he's a middle aged white male with Celtic roots. Aunty Lillian Burke and Sean Connelly, co-chairs of the NAIDOC Committee in Gympie, are preparing for a busy few weeks of cultural observance and ...

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ABC Local
Unconventional family violence program wins funding in Indigenous communities
ABC Local
"And it now stops with me." It's been 18 years since Mr Cuimara has used violence. He is now the founder and chief executive of the Aboriginal Male's Healing Centre, a not-for-profit community organisation based in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

ABC Local
Unconventional family violence program wins funding in Indigenous communities
ABC Local
"And it now stops with me." It's been 18 years since Mr Cuimara has used violence. He is now the founder and chief executive of the Aboriginal Male's Healing Centre, a not-for-profit community organisation based in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

ABC News
Banking royal commission: Predatory practices, exploitation of Indigenous Australians revealed
ABC News
But this week, we heard how deductions and fees costing just a few dollars are taking food out of the mouths of some of Australia's most vulnerable people. Take the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund (ACBF). With that name, you'd understandably think it ...
Funeral insurer may face criminal charges9news.com.au
Women front Melbourne Aboriginal marchThe West Australian
Neos Kosmos endorses Uluru Statement from the HeartNeos Kosmos
The Sydney Morning Herald -ABC Message Stick
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ABC News
Banking royal commission: Predatory practices, exploitation of Indigenous Australians revealed
ABC News
But this week, we heard how deductions and fees costing just a few dollars are taking food out of the mouths of some of Australia's most vulnerable people. Take the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund (ACBF). With that name, you'd understandably think it ...
Funeral insurer may face criminal charges9news.com.au
The Royal Commission revealed financial services woes for many Indigenous customers. Here's what can be doneThe Conversation AU
Indigenous voice must be a win for everyone, says UN officialThe Australian
QNews -Neos Kosmos -The West Australian
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ABC News
Arnhem Land artist John Mawurndjul celebrated in his first major Australian survey
ABC News
That same year, Mawurndjul's work showed in New York and Chicago as part of the exhibition Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia. At home, his painting of Ngalyod won the Telstra Indigenous Art Award. It would have been a heady time for an artist ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
'What sustains us?' ACCA's ambitious Indigenous exhibition finds joy amid sorrow
The Sydney Morning Herald
From top to toe there are rainbow colours dyed into the skin, mixed with a collection of traditional Indigenous designs from south-east Australia, as well as some dingo motifs. It's joyous and free-spirited, but also a work with gravitas, referencing ...

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Green Left Weekly
Gurrumul and Indigenous languages offer windows into Australia's past and present
Green Left Weekly
There's a scene towards the end of the film Gurrumul, directed by Paul Daniel Williams screening in cinemas now, that stays with me. Set in a record store, somewhere in the United States, we hear innocuous guitar strumming in the background as people ...