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Children from migrant families are standout performers in spelling, NAPLAN results show
ABC Online
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students are also standout performers in reading and maths improvement over the past decade. But this year's national picture is mixed, and the Federal Government has described an overall decline in writing and ...
High school reading stalls in NAPLAN 'wake-up call'The Australian
NAPLAN 2017: results have largely flat-lined, and patterns of inequality continueThe Conversation AU

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ABC Online
Step up man, you're a representative of a proud Indigenous culture
ABC Local
Every day I wake up and know the last name I carry represents a whole lineage of people who have come before me. I am proud to be from an ancient culture. It is time to step up and be a positive role model for the next generation. Maybe one day we will ...
From turtle hunting to a future Aboriginal PM, 10 young Indigenous people share their dreamsABC Online

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ABC Online
Step up man, you're a representative of a proud Indigenous culture
ABC Local
Every day I wake up and know the last name I carry represents a whole lineage of people who have come before me. I am proud to be from an ancient culture. It is time to step up and be a positive role model for the next generation. Maybe one day we will ...
From turtle hunting to a future Aboriginal PM, 10 young Indigenous people share their dreamsABC Online

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Moving schools made me question what being Indigenous meant ...
ABC Local
As a kid, I loved spending my weekends going out fishing, crabbing and camping in the bush. It was the only life I knew. My town was full of family aunties, uncles and cousins wherever I'd go. But in 2013 everything changed. I was awarded a scholarship ...

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Planeta.com
Aboriginal and Indigenous Australia
Planeta.com
Aboriginal Australians conserve the oldest culture in the world. Human occupation of Australia started about 65,000 years ago with successive waves of immigration from south and southeast Asia. Archaeologists continue to revise the date of early ...

Planeta.com
Aboriginal and Indigenous Australia
Planeta.com
Aboriginal Australians conserve the oldest culture in the world. Human occupation of Australia started about 65,000 years ago with successive waves of immigration from south and southeast Asia. Archaeologists continue to revise the date of early ...

NT News
The Yolngu: Mining their own business
NT News
One of the 12 signatories of the petitions — Australia's first formal assertion of native title — was Gumatj clan leader Munggurraway Yunupingu. His son Galurrwuy, then just 15, played a key role in drafting the documents. Fifty-four years later, the ...

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NT News
Coles to open Palmerston supermarket with record number of indigenous employees
NT News
Out of the 120 who will work at the store, 42 will be indigenous. Of those 15 have come through the Coles' first steps program targeted at those who have been out of the workforce for sometime. Coles managing director John Durkan said the 30 per cent ...

Australian students beguiled by allure of the cultural left
The Australian
In addition to strongly supporting “the cultural traditions and languages of indigenous cultures”, the ACARA report notes that students believe “immigrants should be encouraged to keep their cultural traditions and languages”, plus “all Australians ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Councillor could have citizenship ceremony powers revoked after comments
The Sydney Morning Herald
It has also become known as Invasion Day among many Indigenous Australians. In a reply letter sent to Mr Hawke this week, Cr Sri said he was "deeply concerned". "It is bizarre and troubling that your government would attempt to censor and restrict ...

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The Advertiser
Drop in youth crime rates not reflected in Aboriginal arrests
The Advertiser
The figures, compiled by the Attorney-General's Department using SAPOL data, show that in 2016 police apprehended 3404 non-Aboriginal youths compared with 5988 in 2011. In 2016 police apprehended 1979 Aboriginal youths, compared with 2270 in 2011 ...

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Courier Mail
Ice epidemic Queensland: Indigenous towns hit by scourge
Courier Mail
“What we should be thinking of is what's in the best interests of the child; not taking it from its mother and giving it to another mother who's in the same family when all the same people are around that child.” Nearly 44 per cent of all children put ...

Courier Mail
Ice epidemic Queensland: Indigenous towns hit by scourge
Courier Mail
Murweh Shire Mayor Annie Liston said the programs were opening up new opportunities and avenues for teenagers, with some having joined the Australian Defence Force after participating in the camps. “It's all about getting those kids interested and ...

The Age
Aboriginal treaty is about shared pride, not your backyard, commissioner says
The Age
Jill Gallagher has been named Victorian Treaty Advancement Commissioner. Photo: Jason South. And she has an early memory, painful still, of her mother being asked to leave the whites-only Warrnambool hotel. It was Australia in the early 1960s, before ...

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ArtsHub
Applause: recent winners
ArtsHub
To engage with difference is to both recognise that it exists and accommodate it on its own terms, rather than on the terms of the majority. Enter now for the 35th Telstra NATSIAA. Join a list of acclaimed artists in 2018 by entering the most ...

ABC Online
Video captures attack on teenager at Port Augusta as father and son arrested
ABC Online
A graphic video has appeared online showing a boy being attacked, allegedly by a father and son, in the South Australian regional city of Port Augusta. The boy is approached by two people, allegedly a 45-year-old man and his 14-year-old son, before ...

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Ballarat Courier
'President Johnson was in tears': remembering Harold Holt
Ballarat Courier
It was an important step towards Indigenous rights at a time when state laws meant many Aboriginal Australians could not move, own property or marry freely. It was a resounding success, with more than 90 per cent of Australians voting in favour. He ...

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Illawarra Mercury
'President Johnson was in tears': remembering Harold Holt
Illawarra Mercury
It was an important step towards Indigenous rights at a time when state laws meant many Aboriginal Australians could not move, own property or marry freely. It was a resounding success, with more than 90 per cent of Australians voting in favour. He ...

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