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The Advertiser
Adelaide model Akiima featured in Vogue Australia April 2018 edition celebrating diversity in fashion
The Advertiser
Editor-in-chief Edwina McCann said the 23-year-old, who was born in a Kenyan refugee camp, was the catalyst for the April issue. Ms McCann met Akiima at the 2017 Adelaide Fashion Festival. Akiima stars on “The Faces: Uniting Australian Fashion” cover ...

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Herald Sun
Adelaide model Akiima featured in Vogue Australia April 2018 edition celebrating diversity in fashion
Herald Sun
Editor-in-chief Edwina McCann said the 23-year-old, who was born in a Kenyan refugee camp, was the catalyst for the April issue. Ms McCann met Akiima at the 2017 Adelaide Fashion Festival. Akiima stars on “The Faces: Uniting Australian Fashion” cover ...

ABC Online
Drug dealers, rustlers and crocs — the life and dangerous times of tracker Barry Port
ABC Online
In his far north Queensland hometown of Coen, Barry Port is a living legend — even the town's public bar is named in his honour. The 74-year-old was the last Aboriginal tracker officially employed by an Australian police service. Mr Port hung up his ...

Australia's sacred Aboriginal sites: To climb or not to climb?
The Straits Times
Tourists climbing Uluru. Since 1992, a sign at the base of the sandstone rock From October next year, climbing on Uluru will be banned. Experts said the ban suggests a growing sensitivity towards Aboriginal history and may lead to changes at other ...

Voice of America
Australia to Export Celebrated Aboriginal Education Program to Africa
Voice of America
One of Australia's most successful Aboriginal mentoring projects is bringing its methods to South Africa and Uganda. The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, or AIME, began in 2005, serving just 25 Aboriginal children in Sydney. Since then, the ...

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Voice of America
Australia to Export Celebrated Aboriginal Education Program to Africa
Voice of America
One of Australia's most successful Aboriginal mentoring projects is bringing its methods to South Africa and Uganda. The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, or AIME, began in 2005, serving just 25 Aboriginal children in Sydney. Since then, the ...

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BBC News
National Geographic apology: 'We were anticipated to be a dying race'
BBC News
Last Tuesday, US magazine National Geographic apologised for what it called decades of past racist coverage. Among some examples, editor Susan Goldberg cited a photo caption from 1916 that left her "speechless". Beneath photos of Aboriginal Australians ...

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Daily Telegraph
Vogue Australia: Charlee Fraser, Akiima, Fernanda Ly and Andreja Pejic represent diverse country
Daily Telegraph
Australian beauties, both male and female, feature heavily on the international runways, but never before have we seen so many homegrown models at the top of their game from such diverse backgrounds. Ly's modelling career is on the rise and is taking ...
Gossip Queen: Andreja Pejic takes a leap into acting worldHerald Sun

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ABC Online
Syphilis jumps to Western Australia; doctors say 'complacent' safe sex attitudes to blame
ABC Online
Some sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in Western Australia, with Aboriginal communities in the north hit particularly hard by a syphilis outbreak. Across the population, Syphilis has more than doubled the five-year average, up 112 per cent ...

ABC Online
Syphilis jumps to Western Australia; doctors say 'complacent' safe sex attitudes to blame
ABC Online
Some sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in Western Australia, with Aboriginal communities in the north hit particularly hard by a syphilis outbreak. Across the population, Syphilis has more than doubled the five-year average, up 112 per cent ...

The Guardian
So many Australian place names honour murderous white men and their violent acts
The Guardian
Willshire wrote books about his maltreatment (including killing) of Aboriginal men and sexual abuse of Indigenous women who were, he maintained, put on earth to satisfy the needs of white pioneering males. As you drive around this continent, stop and ...

The Guardian
So many Australian place names honour murderous white men and their violent acts
The Guardian
Willshire wrote books about his maltreatment (including killing) of Aboriginal men and sexual abuse of Indigenous women who were, he maintained, put on earth to satisfy the needs of white pioneering males. As you drive around this continent, stop and ...

Blue Mountains Gazette
Emu Trekkers donates first funds to Indigenous Literacy Foundation
Blue Mountains Gazette
“Our core business is about providing resources to help Indigenous Australians develop a love of books and at the same time increase literacy rates,” she said. “Because many books in the market are not culturally appropriate for remote communities, our ...

Radio Australia
Indigenous work for the dole scheme 'failing abysmally', worsening poverty, Greens say
Radio Australia
Participants are being slapped with more penalties than every other Australian jobseeker combined, prompting claims it is worsening poverty and hunger in Aboriginal communities. The Government has conceded the Community Development Programme (CDP ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous work for the dole scheme 'failing abysmally', worsening poverty, Greens say
ABC Online
Participants are being slapped with more penalties than every other Australian jobseeker combined, prompting claims it is worsening poverty and hunger in Aboriginal communities. The Government has conceded the Community Development Programme (CDP ...

ABC Online
Indigenous work for the dole scheme 'failing abysmally', worsening poverty, Greens say
ABC Online
Participants are being slapped with more penalties than every other Australian jobseeker combined, prompting claims it is worsening poverty and hunger in Aboriginal communities. The Government has conceded the Community Development Programme (CDP ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Whitefella dreaming: it's time to discover our reconciled republic
The Sydney Morning Herald
After nearly 230 years of living with Indigenous Australians, has it not too been altered? Now that the Indigenous cultures that were thought to be destined for extinction have emerged to demand their rightful place in the Commonwealth, and in light of ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Whitefella dreaming: it's time to discover our reconciled republic
The Sydney Morning Herald
As Peggy Rockman Napaljarri and Lee Cataldi explain in their introduction to Warlpiri Dreamings and Histories, an extraordinary collection of 15 stories from Warlpiri elders, the arrival of Europeans meant the “end of the Jukurrpa as a world view, as a ...

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The Australian
Adoption can save Aboriginal kids from chaos
The Australian
Children need permanent care, guidance and a home.” Some Aboriginal leaders agree, but unfortunately the federal government does not have the legislative power to change policy in this area, although it does in the case of international adoptions. Most ...

The Australian
Adoption can save Aboriginal kids from chaos
The Australian
Children need permanent care, guidance and a home.” Some Aboriginal leaders agree, but unfortunately the federal government does not have the legislative power to change policy in this area, although it does in the case of international adoptions. Most ...