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The Australian
Beersheba centenary: family with most to lose in Great War
The Australian
The Lovetts are Gunditjmara people from the Lake Condah district, indigenous Australians whose links to this continent go back more than 60,000 years. In the 1840s, they were known as the “fighting Gunditjmara” for their fierce determination to resist ...

Child dies from meningococcal in Darwin
SBS
Last week the 25th case of the W strain of the deadly disease was confirmed in the central Australian indigenous communities of Barkly and Katherine. All of those affected had been Aboriginal people while 19 of the recorded were kids younger than 10.

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Child dies from meningococcal in Darwin
SBS
Last week the 25th case of the W strain of the deadly disease was confirmed in the central Australian indigenous communities of Barkly and Katherine. All of those affected had been Aboriginal people while 19 of the recorded were kids younger than 10.

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Rugby.com.au
Full press conference: Indigenous mural unveil
Rugby.com.au
A mural that represents the design behind the first ever indigenous Wallabies jersey was unveiled in Brisbane today. Local council members, Classic Wallaby Tim Horan and the artists involved were on hand to commemorate the artwork. Australia takes on ...

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Eureka Street
Nobel winners amplify Aboriginal anti-nuclear stories
Eureka Street
What was shameful however, was his insulting of one of Australia's own 'nuclear survivors', the late Yankunytjatjara Elder Yami Lester. Lester, an anti-nuclear and Aboriginal rights advocate who died in July this year, was left blind following British ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
A century on, an Indigenous family rides back into its World War I history
The Sydney Morning Herald
He was one of five Lovett brothers from the Lake Condah Aboriginal Mission in western Victoria to sign up to fight in the First World War. They and other men from Lake Condah had to battle for the very right to fight for Australia, for Indigenous men ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
A century on, an Indigenous family rides back into its World War I history
The Sydney Morning Herald
He was one of five Lovett brothers from the Lake Condah Aboriginal Mission in western Victoria to sign up to fight in the First World War. They and other men from Lake Condah had to battle for the very right to fight for Australia, for Indigenous men ...

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'Buy local' purchasing plan backfires
Government News
One supplier says the new contract unfairly favours foreign-owned companies over Australian suppliers, because the only manufacturer of Australian made indigenous paper refuses to supply the only Australian owned company on the Panel. “Instead of ...

ABC Online
Darwin's prison population reaches record high as Government accused of complacency
ABC Online
The Darwin prison population reached a record high in April 2017 — a total of 1,047 prisoners, and 99.7 per cent of its total capacity — documents obtained by the ABC show. Yet the Northern Territory Government did not reveal that fact at the time ...

ABC Online
Australia's human rights record under scrutiny ahead of expected election to UN committee
ABC Online
... indefinite detention of some 2,000 asylum seekers in offshore detention centres, along with the backward trend in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, education and employment, means Australia's once highly regarded reputation is being ...
Australia's human rights record under microscope amid UN council bidSBS
Aust to gain seat on UN human rights bodyNEWS.com.au
Report on Australia's human rights record to be scrutinised by UN committeeThe Guardian
Junkee -International Business Times AU
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ABC Online
Australia's human rights record under scrutiny ahead of expected election to UN committee
ABC Online
... indefinite detention of some 2,000 asylum seekers in offshore detention centres, along with the backward trend in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, education and employment, means Australia's once highly regarded reputation is being ...
Australia's human rights record under microscope amid UN council bidSBS
Australia's Getting A Seat On The UN Human Rights Council Despite Our Many Human Rights AbusesJunkee

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The Guardian (blog)
Travel and endless talk connected me to details Chatwin's Songlines missed
The Guardian (blog)
But Chatwin's, reductive, partial take on what pioneering anthropologists had long called “Dreaming tracks” opened a window onto the other – not least here in Australia where white engagement with Indigenous culture and belief remains culpably wanting.

The Conversation AU (blog)
We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
The Conversation AU (blog)
Meanwhile, the murders of Aboriginal people in Australia have been less visible. If mentioned at all, Aboriginal deaths at the hands of the state are variously framed as “suspicious”, “unknown”, “accidental” or “inevitable”, despite the presence of ...

The Conversation AU (blog)
We just Black matter: Australia's indifference to Aboriginal lives and land
The Conversation AU (blog)
Meanwhile, the murders of Aboriginal people in Australia have been less visible. If mentioned at all, Aboriginal deaths at the hands of the state are variously framed as “suspicious”, “unknown”, “accidental” or “inevitable”, despite the presence of ...

ABC Online
Eastern quolls will soon be reintroduced to Australian mainland after being wiped out by foxes
ABC Online
The eastern quoll will be reintroduced to the Australian mainland more than 50 years after the species was wiped out by foxes. Over the next three years, 100 of the spotted, carnivorous marsupials will be released in Booderee National Park in Jervis ...

First Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography being compiled by university academics
ABC Local
Many Australians have heard of prominent Indigenous activists such as Bennelong, Eddie Mabo and Faith Bandler but know little about their background. Academics from the ANU and the University of Western Australia have begun work on the first ...

First Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography being compiled by university academics
ABC Local
Many Australians have heard of prominent Indigenous activists such as Bennelong, Eddie Mabo and Faith Bandler but know little about their background. Academics from the ANU and the University of Western Australia have begun work on the first ...

SBS
Australia's human rights record 'no hurdle' to UN council bid: Bishop
SBS
"During Australia's last review, in 2009, committee members raised concerns about the Australian government's policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' rights, its cruel treatment of people seeking asylum, its use of national security ...

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SBS
Australia's human rights record 'no hurdle' to UN council bid: Bishop
SBS
"During Australia's last review, in 2009, committee members raised concerns about the Australian government's policies on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' rights, its cruel treatment of people seeking asylum, its use of national security ...
Report on Australia's human rights record to be scrutinised by UN committeeThe Guardian

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The Advertiser
BHP's $17.5m cultural commitment
The Advertiser
It is one of the largest corporate sponsorships of artistic endeavour in Australia. “Tarnanthi is a visible celebration of the important contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people make to society,” Jacqui McGill, asset president at BHP's ...

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