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NT News
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull responds to front page criticism: Announces plans to visit NT over child protection ...
NT News
Founder of North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency Natalie Hunter, who has been working in child protection in the NT for 18 years, said Mr Turnbull was out of touch. “Look at what he has done. He has cut back on lots of areas when it comes to ...

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Australian Olympic Committee
Olympians join Indigenous runners in 'deadly' lap of Uluru
Australian Olympic Committee
AOC: A team of ten Australian Olympians will join more than 150 Indigenous runners from across Australia this weekend for a fun run and relay around the base of Uluru. The Deadly Fun Run is one of a series organised by the Indigenous Marathon ...

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The Guardian
Morning mail: Trump and children hit with lawsuit
The Guardian
Every year, the Bagala clan of the Jawoyn people opens their remote community of 350 up to more than 3,000 guests, who camp in their bushland backyards for Barunga festival: a celebration of music, sport and culture for Indigenous Australian audiences.

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The brutal, senseless massacre of 28 people on Myall Creek pastoral station in the New South Wales northern tablelands in 1838 echoes still.

In the litany of massacres, Myall Creek stands out - because it was the only mass murder for which some of the men responsible were charged, tried and executed for their crimes.

The ringleader, John Henry Fleming, escaped justice and died an unrepentant old man north-west of Sydney in 1894.

A symposium was held to mark the 180th anniversary of the massacre and the writer Bruce Pascoe delivered the keynote address.

The Conversation AU
Friday essay: Dark Emu and the blindness of Australian agriculture
The Conversation AU
The key contention in Pascoe's book is that the whole distinction between the farming colonist and the hunter-gatherer indigene is based on a radical, and frankly self-serving, misunderstanding of the way that the Indigenous peoples of Australia lived ...

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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: Dark Emu and the blindness of Australian agriculture
The Conversation AU
The key contention in Pascoe's book is that the whole distinction between the farming colonist and the hunter-gatherer indigene is based on a radical, and frankly self-serving, misunderstanding of the way that the Indigenous peoples of Australia lived ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous treaties are meaningless without addressing the issue of sovereignty
The Conversation AU
The major debate is whether, at the national level, there should be a single treaty, or treaties with each Indigenous nation. A template that could be used across Australia by each Indigenous nation (or a cluster of them) in such negotiations, would ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous treaties are meaningless without addressing the issue of sovereignty
The Conversation AU
The major debate is whether, at the national level, there should be a single treaty, or treaties with each Indigenous nation. A template that could be used across Australia by each Indigenous nation (or a cluster of them) in such negotiations, would ...

2GB
'We've chucked out money willy-nilly': Warren Mudine slams 'untargeted' indigenous spending
2GB
Mudine will be joining a NSW government advisory body tasked with overcoming indigenous disadvantage. He hopes to direct conversation away from tokenistic, virtue signalling debates around Australia Day and get back to what actually Advances ...

2GB
'We've chucked out money willy-nilly': Warren Mudine slams 'untargeted' indigenous spending
2GB
Mudine will be joining a NSW government advisory body tasked with overcoming indigenous disadvantage. He hopes to direct conversation away from tokenistic, virtue signalling debates around Australia Day and get back to what actually Advances ...

NT News
'Our least engaged PM for nearly 50 years'
NT News
Mr Turnbull is the least engaged prime minister in Australia's indigenous affairs since William McMahon, who left office in 1972. The problems facing Aboriginal children appear to discomfort him, as a topic. Worse, he and NT Chief Minister Michael ...

PS News
Indigenous land petition finds new home
PS News
The National Archives of Australia has formally presented a copy of the historic 1972 'Larrakia petition' in which 1,000 signatories appealed to Queen Elizabeth to help the Aboriginal people of Australia gain land rights and political representation ...

PS News
Indigenous land petition finds new home
PS News
The National Archives of Australia has formally presented a copy of the historic 1972 'Larrakia petition' in which 1,000 signatories appealed to Queen Elizabeth to help the Aboriginal people of Australia gain land rights and political representation ...

The Age
Nation ripe for talks on an Indigenous treaty
The Age
The Western Australian government recently announced it will hold talks on the establishment of an "independent office for Aboriginal people", even as the Northern Territory government committed to three years of consultation on a treaty. In Victoria ...

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Business News
Executive ordered to repay Aboriginal corporation
Business News
The former executive officer of a Western Australian Aboriginal corporation has been ordered to pay more than $430,000 in compensation and penalties after he borrowed money from the non-profit entity that he couldn't repay. Ashley James Taylor took ...

The West Australian
Exhibition provides Aboriginal perspective
The West Australian
The exhibition which featured at the William Grundt Memorial Library is a collaboration between the State Library of Western Australia and the Minderoo Foundation. From Another View project co-ordinator Tui Raven said the exhibit reflected what it was ...

Aboriginal corporation exec plundered cash
NT News
Ashley James Taylor took $211,612 from Geraldton-based Murchison Region Aboriginal Corporation between 2011 and 2015 without approval from the directors, and only repaid $29,085. Federal Court of Australia Justice Michael Barker said Taylor's ...

Lithgow Mercury
Roxsanne Van-Veen competes in Aboriginal XI tour
Lithgow Mercury
The Aboriginal XI tour recognises the group of men as the nation's first ever sports team to tour overseas, beginning Australia's international sporting legacy. “To retrace the footsteps of 1868 tour is like a dream come true,” Van-Veen told the ...

Aboriginal corporation exec plundered cash
The Australian
In the Federal Court of Australia on Thursday, Taylor was ordered to pay the corporation the remaining $182,527 and its court costs, and was also fined $250,000 and disqualified from managing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporations for seven ...

Aboriginal corporation exec plundered cash
9news.com.au
The former executive officer of a West Australian Aboriginal corporation has been ordered to pay more than $430,000 in compensation and penalties after he borrowed money from the non-profit entity that he couldn't repay. Ashley James Taylor took ...