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ABC Online
Indigenous stockman David Newry: Looking forward, looking back
ABC Online
Like many Indigenous people in Australia's far north, David Newry's surname is derived from the cattle industry. Located on the Western Australia and Northern Territory border, Newry station sits on Miriwoong country and was David Newry's home growing ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
US rockers withdraw from Sunrise appearance over stolen generations controversy
The Sydney Morning Herald
“Alaskan band Portugal. The Man advised on Tuesday evening they were cancelling their scheduled performance on Sunrise. We respect the band's decision and wish them well on the remainder of their Australian tour,” the spokeswoman said. Sunrise has been ...
US band Portugal. The Man cancel Sunrise appearance over Stolen Generation controversyABC Online
Portugal. The Man pull out of Sunrise performanceThe Industry Observer
How Sam Armytage dodged a boycott bombshellDaily Telegraph
Daily Mail -New Zealand Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald
US rockers withdraw from Sunrise appearance over stolen generations controversy
The Sydney Morning Herald
We respect the band's decision and wish them well on the remainder of their Australian tour,” the spokeswoman said. Sunrise has been mired in controversy since they first aired a segment about Aboriginal adoption with outspoken commentator Prue ...
How Sam Armytage dodged a boycott bombshellDaily Telegraph
Portugal. The Man pull out of Sunrise in protest over controversial First Australians segmentThe Music Network
A Band Cancelled Their Performance On 'Sunrise' Over That Infamous Stolen Generations SegmentJunkee
Daily Mail
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The Australian
$30m payout over Palm Island riot over Doomadgee death in custody
The Australian
The Australian exposed the heavy-handedness of police following the riot on November 26, and later unearthed details about the biased investigation in more than 100 reports. In a damning 560-page ruling in December 2016, Federal Court judge Debra ...
Justice for Palm IslandersThe Saturday Paper
Queensland to pay Palm Islanders $30m over police response to 2004 riotsThe Guardian
Palm Island riots: Queensland Government to pay $30m in class action caseABC Online

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ABC Online
Work-for-the-dole CDP scheme a costly failure that's harming people: report
ABC Online
The Government's stoush with Aboriginal organisations over CDP comes as a new report from the Australia Institute criticised the $1.3 billion scheme as a costly policy that had failed. Analysis by the Australia Institute said the scheme had helped ...

ABC Online
Work-for-the-dole CDP scheme a costly failure that's harming people: report
ABC Online
About 80 per cent of participants are Indigenous people living in regions where unemployment can be as high as 51 per cent. They're required to work 25 hours per week, for about $11.20 an hour. To compare, there were 47,729 fines issued in the three ...

The Australian
Incarceration of Aboriginal women a national shame, says June Oscar
The Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar said indigenous women made up 34 per cent of all female prisoners but only 2 per cent of the population. “The trajectory of incarceration in this nation shines a glaring light ...

The Australian
Incarceration of Aboriginal women a national shame, says June Oscar
The Australian
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar said indigenous women made up 34 per cent of all female prisoners but only 2 per cent of the population. “The trajectory of incarceration in this nation shines a glaring light ...

The Australian
Victorian budget 2018: $18m push to reach first treaty
The Australian
The Andrews government will spend $18 million advancing Australia's first indigenous treaty. The funding is within a $116m broader package the government says will promote self-determination and improve the lives of indigenous Victorians. The budget ...

Cosy arrangements in the corporate world are resistant to any reform
The Australian
In so far as it was inevitable that ancient Aboriginal Australia would be colonised by the spread of Anglo-European civilisation, it is also inevitable that modern Anglo-European Australia will be subsumed by the inexorable creep of China's Pacific ...

Music Feeds
Top rock band pulls out of Sunrise appearance over racism row
NEWS.com.au
Referring to a controversial segment on Aboriginal families aired by Sunrise in March, the band continued: “We come from rural Alaska and hold very close to our hearts the indigenous people of our home. “While we are by no means experts in your ...
Portugal. The Man Pull Out Of 'Sunrise' Appearance Following Aboriginal ControversyMusic Feeds
Band snubs Sunrise over race rowRockhampton Morning Bulletin

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Music Feeds
Top rock band pulls out of Sunrise appearance over racism row
NEWS.com.au
Referring to a controversial segment on Aboriginal families aired by Sunrise in March, the band continued: “We come from rural Alaska and hold very close to our hearts the indigenous people of our home. “While we are by no means experts in your ...
Portugal. The Man Pull Out Of 'Sunrise' Appearance Following Aboriginal ControversyMusic Feeds

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The Australian
The fact is that we don't need a race commissioner
The Australian
Like the time the race discrimination commissioner prejudged a cartoon by that fine Australian Bill Leak, who didn't have a racist bone in his body. When the cartoon was published in 2016, Soutphommasane said: “Our society shouldn't endorse racial ...

Music Feeds
Portugal. The Man Pull Out Of 'Sunrise' Appearance Following Aboriginal Controversy
Music Feeds
Portugal. The Man have pulled out of a scheduled performance on Channel Seven's Sunrise program tomorrow morning, following the show's recent controversy involving statements on Indigenous people. The American band, who are in the country for Groovin ...
Portugal. The Man Pull Out Of 'Sunrise' Performance Over “Recent Statements”Pedestrian TV
Top rock band pulls out of Sunrise appearance over racism rowNEWS.com.au

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Music Feeds
Portugal. The Man Pull Out Of 'Sunrise' Appearance Following Aboriginal Controversy
Music Feeds
Portugal. The Man have pulled out of a scheduled performance on Channel Seven's Sunrise program tomorrow morning, following the show's recent controversy involving statements on Indigenous people. The American band, who are in the country for Groovin ...

SBS
Inquiry into fake Aboriginal art underway in the NT
SBS
Hearings will be held across the Northern Territory this week into the fake Aboriginal art that is flooding the national market and robbing artists of an income. The federal parliamentary committee set up to investigate Fake Aboriginal art was ...

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WAtoday
Deadly rat poisons could threaten WA's indigenous communities
WAtoday
This was probably a severe underestimate of the total number of species impacted, as Australia had limited research done compared to other parts of the world. And the situation could be worse in Australia as a warm country with diverse, abundant ...
Australia's reptiles may be spreading rat poison through the food chainThe Conversation AU

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WAtoday
Deadly rat poisons could threaten WA's indigenous communities
WAtoday
This was probably a severe underestimate of the total number of species impacted, as Australia had limited research done compared to other parts of the world. And the situation could be worse in Australia as a warm country with diverse, abundant ...

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NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal superhero kills white people in Sydney Theatre Company comedy production
NEWS.com.au
The story follows “mild-mannered archaeologist Dr Jacqueline Black”, played by Megan Wilding, who uncovers a mass grave “somewhere in the Australian bush”. “She picks up a skull and is overpowered by the spirit of her great-great-grandmother ... BAM ...

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Launch of Australian-first fund to boost voluntary carbon market in Australia and create rural jobs
RenewEconomy
The Reducing Carbon Building Communities Fund will be launched at the Carbon Market Institute Summit in Melbourne tomorrow(Wednesday). The Australian-first Fund will connect corporate Australia to Australian carbon farming projects with environmental ...