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Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languages
InDaily
“In Australia, it is Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that are struggling most with maintaining their languages. “These are communities that didn't give up their language because they wanted to, but because they've been at ...

InDaily
Podcast: Recording Australia's threatened indigenous languages
InDaily
Photo: AIATSIS/Wikimedia Commons. In today's podcast, The Message Pod's Nicole Haack talks to Daniel Bogre Udell, the founder of Wikitongues – a volunteer-driven organisation that has been growing its online database since 2013. The movement has more ...

SBS
Rudd to fight watered down Closing the Gap - SBS
SBS
Kevin Rudd, speaking ahead of the 10th anniversary of his apology to indigenous Australians, says more needs to be done to close the gap for Aboriginal people.

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The Australian
Leave Australia Day alone, Albanese tells Sydney's Inner West Council
The Australian
“I look forward to future citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day and note the Greens political party councillors and state MPs participated in this celebration without telling the new citizens that they didn't think their induction into our nation was ...

Daily Mail
'Filthy black humans who inhabit Australia': Urban Dictionary - the Wikipedia of slang words - forced to delete vile ...
Daily Mail
Urban Dictionary has been forced to delete racist definitions of what an Aboriginal person is. The website, which features user-submitted definitions for slang words, was home to a string of vile, and abusive descriptions of what an Aboriginal person ...

The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Turnbull rejects claims government has abandoned strategy
The Guardian
The campaign, which was the push behind the formation of the Closing the Gap strategy 10 years ago, held its annual breakfast in Canberra on Thursday. It said the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians had widened in ...
Closing the gap on Indigenous health: this is our national shame, but it can be fixedABC Online
Labor slams 'hopeless' government for 'abandoning' Closing the GapSBS
Turnbull's early exit fuels fury over failure to close indigenous gapThe Australian
Daily Mail -Daily Telegraph -BBC News
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The Guardian
Closing the Gap: Turnbull rejects claims government has abandoned strategy
The Guardian
The prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has brushed off claims the federal government has ditched the Closing the Gap strategy to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians, saying it is expanding the program and devoting more money to the cause. A ...
Closing the Gap review finds policy 'effectively abandoned' amid 'extensive funding cuts'ABC Online
Australia's Aboriginal life expectancy gap widensABC News
Australia accused of 'effectively abandoning' indigenous goalsBBC News
SBS -Daily Telegraph
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SBS
Figure skating - Aboriginal Windsor breaks ice in Pyeongchang
SBS
... homeland and during Friday's opening ceremony, he will march in the front row of Australia's delegation with chef de mission Ian Chesterman and four-times Olympian snowboarder Holly Crawford. "It's absolutely an honour to be able to do that, a ...

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SBS
Figure skating - Aboriginal Windsor breaks ice in Pyeongchang
SBS
... homeland and during Friday's opening ceremony, he will march in the front row of Australia's delegation with chef de mission Ian Chesterman and four-times Olympian snowboarder Holly Crawford. "It's absolutely an honour to be able to do that, a ...
Australia's indigenous Winter Olympian inspired by FreemanUSA TODAY

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Daily Mail
Australia's pyramids? Mysterious sand mounds once thought to be bird nests found to be Aboriginal GRAVES - built ...
Daily Mail
Sand mounds once thought to be abandoned bird nests are actually the graves of indigenous Australians that could date back to before Egypt's pyramids were built. A research project in western Cape York at the northern tip of Queensland has confirmed ...

The Australian
Price to run for Coalition in next federal election
The Australian
She will campaign on a platform of changing Aboriginal land rights, fighting domestic violence and cutting youth crime. Ms Price, the daughter of a Warlpiri woman and a non-Aboriginal man, today confirmed she would seek preselection by the Country ...

ABC News
Australia's Aboriginal life expectancy gap widens
ABC News
Australian indigenous opposition lawmakers Linda Burney, left, Pat Dodson, center, and Malarndirri The Associated Press. Australian indigenous opposition lawmakers Linda Burney, left, Pat Dodson, center, and Malarndirri McCarthy speak to reporters in ...
Closing the Gap health goals 'effectively abandoned' for political reasonsThe Guardian
Closing the Gap review finds policy 'effectively abandoned' amid 'extensive funding cuts'ABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull slammed for leaving indigenous health, Close the Gap breakfast earlyDaily Telegraph
SBS -BBC News
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POPSUGAR Australia
What We're Fighting For: 3 Indigenous Australians Tell Us About the Change They Wish to See
POPSUGAR Australia
This feature is dedicated to our #NoChangeNoFuture initiative. From the Women's March, to Australia voting yes to same sex marriage, and the #MeToo movement, 2017 taught us to look beyond ourselves and come together as a collective of powerful women ...

POPSUGAR Australia
What We're Fighting For: 3 Indigenous Australians Tell Us About the Change They Wish to See
POPSUGAR Australia
This feature is dedicated to our #NoChangeNoFuture initiative. From the Women's March, to Australia voting yes to same sex marriage, and the #MeToo movement, 2017 taught us to look beyond ourselves and come together as a collective of powerful women ...

Daily Telegraph
Labor slams 'hopeless' government for 'abandoning' Closing the Gap
SBS
Indigenous Labor Senator Pat Dodson has condemned the Turnbull government for not committing to Closing the Gap between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians. Speaking at the Close the Gap Campaign review, a frustrated Senator Dodson ...
The flags we fly and holidays we celebrate signal who we are as a nationThe Guardian (blog)
Closing the Gap review finds policy 'effectively abandoned' amid - ABCABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull slammed for leaving indigenous health, Close the Gap breakfast earlyDaily Telegraph
BBC News -Illawarra Mercury
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The Guardian
Labor slams 'hopeless' government for 'abandoning' Closing the Gap
SBS
Indigenous Labor Senator Pat Dodson has condemned the Turnbull government for not committing to Closing the Gap between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians. Speaking at the Close the Gap Campaign review, a frustrated Senator Dodson ...
Closing the Gap health goals 'effectively abandoned' for political reasonsThe Guardian
Closing the Gap review finds policy 'effectively abandoned' amid 'extensive funding cuts'ABC Online
Australia's Aboriginal life expectancy gap widensABC News
Daily Telegraph -Illawarra Mercury -BBC News
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ABC Online
Closing the gap on Indigenous health: this is our national shame, but it can be fixed
ABC Online
A decade ago, hopes were high for a new beginning when Australian governments united in a landmark statement that vowed to close the gap in life expectancy and health inequality faced by our nation's First Peoples. Today, the damning reality is ...
Closing the Gap health goals 'effectively abandoned' for political reasonsThe Guardian
Turnbull's early exit fuels fury over failure to close indigenous gapThe Australian
Australia accused of 'effectively abandoning' indigenous goalsBBC News
Daily Telegraph -Pro Bono Australia
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Daily Mail
Sydney council to consider Aus Day change
SBS
"It's pretty clear coming from the indigenous community that January 26 is not an appropriate day to have an Australia Day event," he told AAP on Thursday. "I think that's shared by probably a majority of people in the inner west who are not indigenous ...
Sydney council considers dumping Australia Day celebrations and replacing them with with an Aboriginal ...Daily Mail

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ABC Online
Youth united by pale skin and Aboriginality here to inspire interest in Indigenous culture
ABC Online
Brianna Martin and Michael James want you to know that beneath their white skin runs a rich and proud Indigenous heritage that they want to share with as many people as possible. The teenagers have heard it before — yes they are Indigenous Australians ...

ABC Online
The flags we fly and holidays we celebrate signal who we are as a nation
The Guardian (blog)
Regrettable but perhaps not surprising, given the recent rhetorical contortions of opponents, from the prime minister down, to re-thinking Australia Day. Barely a week later we hear the yowls of resistance from the bunker, amid spurious arguments that ...
Labor slams 'hopeless' government for 'abandoning' Closing the GapSBS
Closing the gap on Indigenous health: this is our national shame, but it can be fixedABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull slammed for leaving indigenous health, Close the Gap breakfast earlyDaily Telegraph
BBC News -The Australian
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