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The Conversation AU
The great Australian plays: The Cake Man and the Indigenous mission experience
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australian activists and artist have consistently utilised the potential for theatre… to create different frames… of Indigenous Australians… In a show like Basically Black (1972), the “gaze” as an expression of racial objectification was ...

The Conversation AU
The great Australian plays: The Cake Man and the Indigenous mission experience
The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australian activists and artist have consistently utilised the potential for theatre… to create different frames… of Indigenous Australians… In a show like Basically Black (1972), the “gaze” as an expression of racial objectification was ...

B&T
Study: Only 17% Supported Triple J's Hottest 100 Move (& Only 27% Want Australia Day Moved)
B&T
The findings are part of this year's national study about attitudes towards Australia Day conducted among a representative sample of 1001 Australians 18 and older by Review Partners/ Research Now SSI. It also found that when it came to youth network ...

Herald Sun
Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood says Melbourne City Council should mark 'atrocities” against Aborigines on Australia Day
Herald Sun
Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood wants changes to Australia Day celebrations. But Cr Wood, who is acting in the top job while Robert Doyle faces sexual harassment claims, said new elements should be added to the council's Australia Day program. “In the ...

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Herald Sun
Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood says Melbourne City Council should mark 'atrocities” against Aborigines on Australia Day
Herald Sun
Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood wants changes to Australia Day celebrations. But Cr Wood, who is acting in the top job while Robert Doyle faces sexual harassment claims, said new elements should be added to the council's Australia Day program. “In the ...

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Daily Telegraph
Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood says Melbourne City Council should mark 'atrocities” against Aborigines on Australia Day
Daily Telegraph
Acting Lord Mayor Arron Wood wants changes to Australia Day celebrations. But Cr Wood, who is acting in the top job while Robert Doyle faces sexual harassment claims, said new elements should be added to the council's Australia Day program. “In the ...

Pro Bono Australia
First Commissioner for Aboriginal Children Steps Down
Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous organisations have hailed Australia's first commissioner for Aboriginal children a “fearless advocate” as he steps down from the role. Andrew Jackomos, the inaugural Victorian commissioner for Aboriginal children and young people, stepped ...

Pro Bono Australia
First Commissioner for Aboriginal Children Steps Down
Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous organisations have hailed Australia's first commissioner for Aboriginal children a “fearless advocate” as he steps down from the role. Andrew Jackomos, the inaugural Victorian commissioner for Aboriginal children and young people, stepped ...

ABC Online
Older Indigenous Australians with illness or disability at high risk of depression, study finds
ABC Online
In the month before completing an interview for the study, a fifth of Indigenous patients aged 45 or over had experienced anxiety and depression requiring professional help, as well as feelings of restlessness and hopelessness. "They feel marginalised ...

ABC Online
Older Indigenous Australians with illness or disability at high risk of depression, study finds
ABC Online
"Before this study people were aware of the impact of social disadvantage and poverty on poorer mental health in older Aboriginal people, but we didn't really appreciate the important role that living with chronic illness and physical disability has in ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Poll shows strong support for a national tribute to Indigenous people on Australia Day
The Sydney Morning Herald
A majority of voters would prefer the date of Australia Day to remain unchanged, but there is strong support for the introduction of a formal ceremony on the national day to recognise Indigenous people and their history and culture, polling conducted ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Poll shows strong support for a national tribute to Indigenous people ...
The Sydney Morning Herald
A majority of voters would prefer the date of Australia Day to remain unchanged, but there is strong support for the introduction of a formal ceremony on the national day to recognise Indigenous people and their history and culture, polling conducted ...

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Herald Sun
Poll shows strong support for a national tribute to Indigenous people on Australia Day
Brisbane Times
A majority of voters would prefer the date of Australia Day to remain unchanged, but there is strong support for the introduction of a formal ceremony on the national day to recognise Indigenous people and their history and culture, polling conducted ...
Melbourne city council should mark 'atrocities' against Aborigines on Australia DayHerald Sun

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Aboriginal 'warrior' seems tormented by self-hate
The Australian
This display has been matched, even outdone, by the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance group which says, among a bunch of profanities, “abolish Australia, not just Australia Day”. Despite these public displays of hate, nobody is branding the entire ...

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Aboriginal 'warrior' seems tormented by self-hate
The Australian
Anthony Dillon, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney, NSW. Let's just for a moment try to imagine that Dtarneen Onus-Williams's wish has come true and Australia as we know it has been abolished, the settlers have gone back to wherever they and ...

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SBS - The World Game
Fashion label calls Indigenous people 'alcoholics and drug abusers' on Instagram
SBS - The World Game
At one point the fashion brand referred to Aboriginal people as “your people” and claimed they had been free for “hundreds of years”. “Nobody gives you anything you have to take it, your people have been free for hundreds of years how long does it take ...

SBS - The World Game
Fashion label calls Indigenous people 'alcoholics and drug abusers' on Instagram
SBS - The World Game
At one point the fashion brand referred to Aboriginal people as “your people” and claimed they had been free for “hundreds of years”. “Nobody gives you anything you have to take it, your people have been free for hundreds of years how long does it take ...

Herald Sun
Melbourne city council should mark 'atrocities' against Aborigines on Australia Day
Herald Sun
But Cr Wood, who is acting in the top job while Robert Doyle faces sexual harassment claims, said new elements should be added to the council's Australia Day program. “In the morning you have a chance to reflect on the atrocities (against indigenous ...

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Herald Sun
Melbourne city council should mark 'atrocities' against Aborigines on Australia Day
Herald Sun
Aboriginal activist Tarneen Onus-Williams sparked outrage last week after she told an Invasion Day march Australia should be burnt to the ground. Ms Onus-Williams is a member of the state government-funded Koorie Youth Council, while also linked to ...

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ABC Online
Lisa Reihana: a monumental, immersive new artwork reanimates the story of Captain Cook and first contact
ABC Online
Bringing Australia's First Nations into the picture. "It completed the work to have [the Aboriginal Australian performers] in it," Reihana says. "So many Aboriginal people died after that first contact [with Europeans]. But also I found the way [Cook ...