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TIMES NEWS GROUP (press release) (blog)
Lorne to host major Aboriginal conference
TIMES NEWS GROUP (press release) (blog)
VICTORIA will showcase its thriving Aboriginal tourism industry to the nation when it hosts the Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference (AITC) in Lorne later this year. The annual major conference will come to Victoria for the first time. AITC will ...
Perth selected to host third World Indigenous Tourism Summit in April 2020Community Newspaper Group

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Australians needing disability help rises
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However, despite having a much younger age profile, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had a higher need for assistance. The number of indigenous people requiring support in 2016 was 6.7 per cent compared with 5.3 cent of their non-indigenous ...

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Australians needing disability help rises
9news.com.au
Overall, the census found Australian women were more likely to seek support, largely due to higher rates of diseases associated with disability in females aged over 75. Young men aged five to 19 were almost twice as likely as women to receive ...

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Australians needing disability help rises
9news.com.au
Overall, the census found Australian women were more likely to seek support, largely due to higher rates of diseases associated with disability in females aged over 75. Young men aged five to 19 were almost twice as likely as women to receive ...

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ABC Online
What Australians think is good leadership might just be Anglo traits
ABC Online
This may present a problem for the 5.1 per cent of Australian senior business leaders who are neither European nor Anglo-Celtic background or for others who aren't Anglo but want to climb the corporate ladder. Especially when an estimated 24 per cent ...
Part of what Australians think is good leadership, might just be Anglo traitsThe Conversation AU

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ABC Online
Prison overcrowding prompts push to abolish mandatory sentencing in the Northern Territory
ABC Online
The Northern Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) said the problem had led to bed shortages in Darwin. "Prisoners are sleeping on the floor, they're sleeping on mattresses, they're sleeping outside," criminal law section manager Beth Wild said ...

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ABC Local
Mock court sessions help Indigenous offenders understand how justice system works
ABC Local
Imagine being in a foreign country where you cannot speak the language, then being arrested and tried in court for something you cannot understand, and being thrown into prison hundreds of kilometres away from your family. That is still the experience ...

ABC Local
Mock court sessions help Indigenous offenders understand how justice system works
ABC Local
Imagine being in a foreign country where you cannot speak the language, then being arrested and tried in court for something you cannot understand, and being thrown into prison hundreds of kilometres away from your family. That is still the experience ...

ABC Online
Youth detention 'will only make matters worse', grandmother says
ABC Online
He is calling on the Territory Government to provide the courts with more places and programs to send young offenders, in order to help them learn how to change their behaviour. "The Northern Territory doesn't have the non-custodial sentencing options ...

The Conversation AU
Part of what Australians think is good leadership, might just be Anglo traits
The Conversation AU
Some leadership attributes, like being trustworthy or encouraging, are viewed the same way in all cultures, but there are other characteristics that only spell leadership to people of Anglo-Celtic backgrounds. This may present a problem for the 5.1% of ...

SBS
Indigenous man granted $1.5m compensation for wrongful manslaughter conviction
SBS
An Indigenous man with cognitive impairment who spent nearly five years behind bars after being wrongly convicted in the manslaughter of Josh Warneke has been granted $1.5 million in compensation. Western Australia Attorney-General John Quigley ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous man granted $1.3m compensation for wrongful conviction
The Guardian
An Indigenous man who spent almost five years in jail after being wrongfully accused of killing a non-Indigenous man in Broome in 2010 has been granted $1.3m in compensation from the Western Australian government. Gene Gibson, a Pintupi man from the ...
Gene Gibson awarded $1.5m compensation payoutThe Australian

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The Guardian
Indigenous man granted $1.3m compensation for wrongful conviction
The Guardian
An Indigenous man who spent almost five years in jail after being wrongfully accused of killing a non-Indigenous man in Broome in 2010 has been granted $1.3m in compensation from the Western Australian government. Gene Gibson, a Pintupi man from the ...
Wrongly convicted WA man gets $1.5m compoThe Australian

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The Transcontinental
Pika Wiya respond to deadly outbreak
The Transcontinental
A recent outbreak of the deadly meningoccocal disease in remote South Australian communities has prompted health authorities to take action. Pika Wiya Health Service will be offering free meningococcal vaccines for young Aboriginal people aged between ...

National Indigenous Times
Richard Flanagan: 'Our politics is a dreadful black comedy' – press ...
The Guardian
Indigenous Australia, Anzac Day, the descent of democracy – in a National Press Club address Flanagan examines a divided Australia which he says can be free only if it faces up to its past.
Bold book reveals Indigenous war sacrifice - National Indigenous ...National Indigenous Times
'Kids can make a difference': Appeal for better Aboriginal educationThe Canberra Times

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Wauchope Gazette
Move for Aboriginal flag to fly on Anzac Day | poll
Wauchope Gazette
Should the Aboriginal flag be flown alongside the Australian and New Zealand flags at Anzac Day services in Port Macquarie? Port Macquarie RSL Sub-branch president Greg Laird has ruled out the call but that has raised the ire of the chair of the Mid ...

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Beat Magazine
Gurrumul's Djarimirri is a true Australian masterpiece
Beat Magazine
The passing of Indigenous Australian icon Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu last year was a tragedy. Following countless awards won, worldwide recognition as an Australian cultural icon, and even having been invited to perform for Queen Elizabeth, the ...
Gurrumul could score a posthumous #1 this weekendThe Industry Observer

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The Big Smoke Australia
Murrie's vision: The indigenous community of tomorrow that honours yesterday
The Big Smoke Australia
What he faces there are grand interpersonal challenges between two worlds, both in convincing white Australia that his is a viable plan to begin the complex process of healing, and to bridge the gap of feeling and suspicion that Indigenous Australia ...

ABC Online
Coles supermarket under fire as Kununurra teens allegedly refused entry, asked for ID
ABC Online
Related Story: Aboriginal-owned hotels in court over racial discrimination claims. A Coles supermarket in Western Australia has been accused of refusing entry to minors and demanding identification. Thirteen-year-old Amos Lippitt and his cousin were ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Review: The Song Keepers fails to hit right note
The Sydney Morning Herald
FILM THE SONG KEEPERS ☆½ (Unrated) Selected cinemas (87 minutes). It seems cruel to criticise a film that so plainly wants to be loved, but Naina Sen's The Song Keepers is one of the weakest Australian documentaries to score a big-screen release in a ...

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