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The Conversation AU
Australia could look to New Zealand to increase the number of Indigenous academics and students
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians represent 2.7% of the national population and 1.6% of university enrolments. Universities Australia proposes measures to increase the rate of Indigenous enrolment growth by at least 50% more than the general population and ...

Will remote indigenous settlements in future be condemned as apartheid?
The Australian
Probably some settlements are quite viable but many are clearly dysfunctional and we have compromised the educational and social development of several generations of indigenous Australians by allowing them to exist in the name of culture. They will ...

Will remote indigenous settlements in future be condemned as apartheid?
The Australian
Probably some settlements are quite viable but many are clearly dysfunctional and we have compromised the educational and social development of several generations of indigenous Australians by allowing them to exist in the name of culture. They will ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian National University researchers discover lost literary treasure trove
The Sydney Morning Herald
Many of the works are uniquely Australian, feature mostly male authors and range in subject from bushrangers, cricket and shipwrecks to the early days of Botany Bay. "The Australian stories that stand out for me are the ones that represent Aboriginal ...

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NT News
Allegations of students being 'abandoned' at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
NT News
Batchelor Institute is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education provider offering entry level VET certificates through to PhDs. It has been operating in the Territory, in several forms, since the late 1960s — when it was a small annex of ...

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NT News
Allegations of students being 'abandoned' at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
NT News
Batchelor Institute is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education provider offering entry level VET certificates through to PhDs. It has been operating in the Territory, in several forms, since the late 1960s — when it was a small annex of ...

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Katherine Times
Taste test for NT bush foods industry
Katherine Times
“Our involvement in events such as this will help grow the bush foods industry, bringing economic and social benefits to regions such as Central Australia and the Barkly. It also complements the appointment of a Bush Foods Development Officer in my ...

UNSW Newsroom
Opinion The VR film Carriberrie is a vital face-to-face experience of threatened Indigenous culture
UNSW Newsroom
OPINION: Virtual reality technology is making it far easier to connect with remote Indigenous Australians. Carriberrie, a mesmerising 360-degree, live-action documentary film showing at the Australian Museum in March, illustrates how well immersive ...

The colourful, fabulous, and sometimes turbulent history of the Sydney Mardi Gras
Cosmopolitan
In 1980, following a successful — but very cold — Mardi Gras, it was agreed that the event would be moved from winter to summer. This helped to distance the event from being purely a political demonstration, and established it as a celebration of the ...

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Radioinfo
The colourful, fabulous, and sometimes turbulent history of the Sydney Mardi Gras
Cosmopolitan
In 1980, following a successful — but very cold — Mardi Gras, it was agreed that the event would be moved from winter to summer. This helped to distance the event from being purely a political demonstration, and established it as a celebration of the ...
Parade detailsThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
If equality can happen for marriage, it can happen for Indigenous people
The Guardian
7 December 2017 saw Australia become the 25th country to legalise marriage between people of the same sex. Love essentially won. Images of my uncles and partner during the celebration on Oxford Street in Sydney filled me with feelings of jubilation and ...

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Katherine Times
'Syllable soup': MP urges rethink of Aboriginal name plan
Katherine Times
“I'm all for recognising Australia's Aboriginal heritage, so I've got no problem with the names themselves. “The point was in the instance of Kimberley Johnston's tragic death that first responders struggled to get to the location because her brother ...

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The Conversation AU
The VR film Carriberrie is a vital face-to-face experience of threatened Indigenous culture
The Conversation AU
Virtual reality technology is making it far easier to connect with remote Indigenous Australians. Carriberrie, a mesmerising 360-degree, live-action documentary film showing at the Australian Museum in March, illustrates how well immersive technology ...

and more »

The Conversation AU
The VR film Carriberrie is a vital face-to-face experience of threatened Indigenous culture
The Conversation AU
Virtual reality technology is making it far easier to connect with remote Indigenous Australians. Carriberrie, a mesmerising 360-degree, live-action documentary film showing at the Australian Museum in March, illustrates how well immersive technology ...

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Andrew Hastie urges local governments to reconsider Aboriginal names if they're a 'syllable soup' after Dwellingup death
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“I'm all for recognising Australia's Aboriginal heritage, so I've got no problem with the names themselves. “The point was in the instance of Kimberley Johnston's tragic death that first responders struggled to get to the location because her brother ...

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Illawarra Mercury
Andrew Hastie urges local governments to reconsider Aboriginal names if they're a 'syllable soup' after Dwellingup death
Illawarra Mercury
“I'm all for recognising Australia's Aboriginal heritage, so I've got no problem with the names themselves. “The point was in the instance of Kimberley Johnston's tragic death that first responders struggled to get to the location because her brother ...

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The Australian
Culture can never be used as an excuse for abuse of children
The Australian
The main reason indigenous children are seven times likelier than non-indigenous children to be the subject of a “substantiated” (proven) report of abuse and neglect — as the report released yesterday, Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence in Australia ...

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The Australian
Culture can never be used as an excuse for abuse of children
The Australian
The main reason indigenous children are seven times likelier than non-indigenous children to be the subject of a “substantiated” (proven) report of abuse and neglect — as the report released yesterday, Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence in Australia ...

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The Australian
Stolen Generations fears must not get in way of child safety
The Australian
Aboriginal academic Anthony Dillon said current child protection policy could lead to attempts for financial redress by Aboriginal children. “We're going to have a situation where children sue the government because they left them in disgusting, unsafe ...

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The Economist (blog)
The “gap” between aboriginals and other Australians
The Economist (blog)
BETWEEN 1910 and 1970 tens of thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their families in a failed assimilation programme that wanted to “breed the colour” out of them. Ten years ago the then-prime minister, Kevin Rudd, apologised to these ...