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Tony Abbott given extra entitlements as former prime minister
The Guardian
Tony Abbott was given an additional entitlement as a former prime minister to use Comcars in Sydney. Photograph: Ben Macmahon/AAP. Malcolm Turnbull granted Tony Abbott extra travel entitlements for the use of chauffeured cars in Sydney after replacing ...

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Naracoorte Herald
Celebration of first Aboriginal XI at Edenhope
Naracoorte Herald
The Edenhope Aboriginal Cricket Team Committee is organising a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first Aboriginal XI, as well as remembering those who followed in their footsteps in 1988. The celebration at Lake Wallace will consist of many ...

Naracoorte Herald
Celebration of first Aboriginal XI at Edenhope
Naracoorte Herald
The Edenhope Aboriginal Cricket Team Committee is organising a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the first Aboriginal XI, as well as remembering those who followed in their footsteps in 1988. The celebration at Lake Wallace will consist of many ...

IT Brief Australia
Fujitsu Australia rolls out 12-month Reconciliation Action Plan
IT Brief Australia
Fujitsu Australia has reached another milestone in its 12-month Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), an initiative that promotes equality for Australia Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people. The RAP, launched at the company's Macquarie Park Head ...

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IT Brief Australia
Fujitsu Australia rolls out 12-month Reconciliation Action Plan
IT Brief Australia
Fujitsu Australia has reached another milestone in its 12-month Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), an initiative that promotes equality for Australia Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people. The RAP, launched at the company's Macquarie Park Head ...

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New Matilda
We Do Need To Be Concerned About Creating 'Another Stolen Generations'
New Matilda
The state intervenes often into the realm of family to ensure the protection of Australia's children, investigating 119,173 cases of suspected child abuse or neglect last financial year (2016-17). More than 36% of all Australian children living in care ...

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New Matilda
We Do Need To Be Concerned About Creating 'Another Stolen Generations'
New Matilda
The state intervenes often into the realm of family to ensure the protection of Australia's children, investigating 119,173 cases of suspected child abuse or neglect last financial year (2016-17). More than 36% of all Australian children living in care ...

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Independent Australia
Dutton, Sunrise and the invisible system of white privilege
Independent Australia
Dr Jennifer Wilson discusses the ethos of white superiority and entitlement in recent comments by Peter Dutton and Channel 7's 'Sunrise' panel. HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER PETER DUTTON last week postulated the interesting notion that white farmers in South ...

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ABC Online
Think there are no homeless people in your area? Think again
ABC Online
... was the greatest contributor to the national increase in homelessness of nearly 5 per cent since the last census. Indigenous people represent 20 per cent of the homeless, and nearly three-quarters of those were living in severely crowded dwellings ...

ABC Online
Think there are no homeless people in your area? Think again
ABC Online
... was the greatest contributor to the national increase in homelessness of nearly 5 per cent since the last census. Indigenous people represent 20 per cent of the homeless, and nearly three-quarters of those were living in severely crowded dwellings ...

Townsville Bulletin
Charters Towers student stuns at Australia's largest fashion event
Townsville Bulletin
Babetha Nona, from Blackheath and Thornburgh College, was chosen as one of 50 models from 6000 applicants to represent her culture at Virgin Australia's Melbourne Fashion Festival last week. “I got accepted during the holidays in December,” Ms Nona ...

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The Australian
Indigenous ABC comedy clip parodies white people
The Australian
Lui is an award-winning Aboriginal playwright who wrote the Sydney Theatre Company hit play Black is the New White, which has toured Australia and is returning for an encore season this year. “The clip, which is clearly satirical and humorous, has been ...

The Australian
Indigenous ABC comedy clip parodies white people
The Australian
Lui is an award-winning Aboriginal playwright who wrote the Sydney Theatre Company hit play Black is the New White, which has toured Australia and is returning for an encore season this year. “The clip, which is clearly satirical and humorous, has been ...

Great Lakes Advocate
The Evonne Goolagong Foundation (EGF) is visiting Forster Tennis Club in 2018
Great Lakes Advocate
The EGF runs Australia wide, based on the dream, believe, learn, achieve program supported by the Australian Government, which promotes and helps provide better health and education for young Indigenous Australians. “We use tennis as a vehicle to ...

The Guardian
Senate inquiry to examine claims Indigenous suicide prevention funding misspent
The Guardian
Claims that funding for Indigenous suicide prevention programs is being spent on travel costs will be examined at Senate inquiry into rural and remote mental health services. The inquiry was approved in the Senate on Monday with backing from Labor and ...

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The Guardian
Senate inquiry to examine claims Indigenous suicide prevention funding misspent
The Guardian
Claims that funding for Indigenous suicide prevention programs is being spent on travel costs will be examined at Senate inquiry into rural and remote mental health services. The inquiry was approved in the Senate on Monday with backing from Labor and ...

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Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum?  ABC News

A regularly repeated claim is that Indigenous Australians were covered by a flora and fauna act, until the 1967 referendum. It's not true. RMIT ABC Fact Check ...

Riverine Herald
'It could diminish Aboriginality'
Riverine Herald
“Sadly indigenous returned servicemen were not treated as well when they returned to Australia, and didn't receive the same benefits as non-indigenous soldiers. “Once they took off those uniforms, they were nobodies. They weren't even allowed into RSLs ...

Washington Post
Peter Dutton's 'fast track' for white South African farmers is a throwback to a long, racist history
The Conversation AU
South African apartheid, the White Australia Policy, and treatment of Indigenous Australians became hot-button issues from the late 1950s onward. Apartheid, introduced in 1948 and modelled on Queensland legislation, entered public consciousness after ...
Australia's Trump thinks South Africa's white farmers need savingWashington Post
Australia has enough racists of its ownNews24

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Eternity News
Indigenous prayer vigil held at site of first contact
Eternity News
The sign was amended in the 1990s, replacing the “birthplace of a nation” with “the birthplace of modern Australia”, as an attempt to recognise the Aboriginal people who were already here when Cook arrived. Yet, as historian Mark McKenna wrote in the ...