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The Australian
Uncomfortable truths
The Australian
They are all 100 per cent Australian.” Her point? “Most of the self-identifying indigenous members of our community who claim to feel hurt by Australia Day being held on January 26 would also have white ancestors in their family trees and may not even ...

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The Australian
Uncomfortable truths
The Australian
“She's a politician punk. She really is, she's a punk when it comes to Aboriginal politics because she's stepping out from how the Aboriginal community believe an Aboriginal woman should be behaving. And she's a punk — she's taking it from the inside ...

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The Australian Financial Review
NGV exhibitions showcase early and contemporary impressions of the Great Southern Land
The Australian Financial Review
His local views, whether of a convict road gang, a new road snaking into the conquered distance, a sublime waterfall in the Blue Mountains or an overnight rest for explorers in the Illawarra rainforest, all capture the relentless progress and movement ...

Herald Sun
Ed Sheeran wows Melbourne crowd on record-breaking tour
Herald Sun
Wearing an Aboriginal flag T-shirt, Sheeran played the first of his four Etihad Stadium shows tonight — no one else has played the venue that often on the same tour. He has sold 250,000 tickets in Melbourne and 1 million in Australia and New Zealand ...

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The Economist (blog)
“Sweet Country” gives Australia an indigenous hero
The Economist (blog)
MANY like to think of Ned Kelly, Australia's favourite 19th-century bushranger, as an Antipodean Robin Hood. His father was an Irish convict who had stolen two pigs; Kelly's own criminal career began at 14 when he was arrested for allegedly assaulting ...

Daily Telegraph
David Speers: Big issue ignored on International Women's Day
Daily Telegraph
The violence and sexual abuse in indigenous communities is surely the greatest crisis facing women and girls in Australia today and yet it barely rated a mention this International Women's Day. It would be unfair to lay the blame solely on Kelly O ...

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Herald Sun
David Speers: Silence on abuse hurts indigenous children
Herald Sun
As The Australian has documented this week, there's been a staggering rise in sexually transmitted diseases among Aboriginal children over the past decade. Aboriginal girls in the Territory are now 60 times more likely to contract syphilis than non ...

The Cairns Post
New CIAF senior partnerships and communications manager Bianca Barling-Seden connects with culture
The Cairns Post
“As a platform for artists, CIAF provides professional and economic development opportunities that is unique to Queensland and Australia.” In the future, Ms Barling-Seden's hope in her newest venture is to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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The Cairns Post
New CIAF senior partnerships and communications manager Bianca Barling-Seden connects with culture
The Cairns Post
Her hope for the future of Australia's indigenous cultures is clear: she wants to see preservation of culture, of land and of arts dating back thousands of years. “Having worked overseas and travelled a lot, the Torres Strait is probably one of the ...

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The Advertiser
Aboriginal elder and activist Katrina Ngaityalya Power verbally attacks MPs at International Women's Day breakfast
The Advertiser
In her Welcome to Country, Ms Power, who was also criticised last year for her Welcome to Country before an Anzac Day service, where she used words such as “invasion” and “slavery”, slammed Mr Marshall for not consulting about his party's proposed ...

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The Advertiser
Aboriginal elder and activist Katrina Ngaityalya Power verbally attacks MPs at International Women's Day breakfast
The Advertiser
In her Welcome to Country, Ms Power, who was also criticised last year for her Welcome to Country before an Anzac Day service, where she used words such as “invasion” and “slavery”, slammed Mr Marshall for not consulting about his party's proposed ...

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UNSW Newsroom
UNSW alumna to represent Australia at Venice Biennale
UNSW Newsroom
The selection was done by an independent panel of respected arts professionals chaired by Professor Callum Morton from Monash University and comprising Chris Saines, Director, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art; Franchesca Cubillo, Senior ...

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ABC Online
'The killing time': How placenames reveal violence, murder and injustice in the Kimberley
ABC Online
Rudolph Philchowski was killed in 1913 — in the middle of the killing time — by an Aboriginal man known as Gulbooding, commonly referred to as Wallambain. There are recordings that Philchowski was a Polish count, but it was more likely he was a ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Language revival preserving history
The Sydney Morning Herald
A teacher chats to people who are fishing along the turquoise waters of Nalina Nalina, a beach in Broome, in Western Australia's Kimberley region. She is speaking Yawuru, the local Indigenous language. The ''excursion'' is part of an adult immersion ...

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The Australian
Miners urge amendments to Native Title Act
The Australian
It also urged the federal government to match West Australian legislation that will retrospectively validate WA tenements and associated native title agreements. “Among the MCA's membership are companies that pioneered the use of the NTA to negotiate ...

InDaily
Hard targets needed to end the disgrace of indigenous incarceration
InDaily
The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Service has suggested adding a further target to slash the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care. These should not be overly ambitious targets ...

InDaily
Hard targets needed to end the disgrace of indigenous incarceration
InDaily
Closing the Gap contains a range of targets, including closing the life expectancy between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians within a generation. What it doesn't contain yet is a justice target equivalent, such as closing the gap in ...

The Australian
Uni of Adelaide joins $1bn defence upgrade
The Australian
The University of Adelaide will play a key role in supporting the $1 billion upgrade to Australia's Jindalee over-the-horizon radar network which keeps large parts of the air and sea north of the continent under constant surveillance,. The work will be ...

The Guardian
Child protection report reveals soaring number of investigations
The Guardian
Rates of substantiated abuse cases increased further with remoteness and low socioeconomics, particularly for Indigenous children. The report found almost half of Indigenous children who were the subject of substantiated notifications were from the ...
Child protection report lacks crucial national detail on abuse in out-of-home careThe Conversation AU

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Child protection report reveals soaring number of investigations
The Guardian
Rates of substantiated abuse cases increased further with remoteness and low socioeconomics, particularly for Indigenous children. The report found almost half of Indigenous children who were the subject of substantiated notifications were from the ...

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