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Northern Star
'Hurtful and racist': Aussie top model targets Instagram trolls
Northern Star
"I would love to see more diversity on the catwalks and in campaigns because Australia itself is such a multicultural country, why don't we celebrate that," Harris told AAP. "Indigenous Fashion Week happened last year,' she said in an interview with ...

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Northern Star
'Hurtful and racist': Aussie top model targets Instagram trolls
Northern Star
"I would love to see more diversity on the catwalks and in campaigns because Australia itself is such a multicultural country, why don't we celebrate that," Harris told AAP. "Indigenous Fashion Week happened last year,' she said in an interview with ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Warwick Thornton thrilled as outback western Sweet Country given standing ovation
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sound recordist David Tranter, a friend since they grew up together on the same street in Alice Springs then both trained at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association, told him on set one day that he had a story for a film. "I occasionally ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Warwick Thornton thrilled as outback western Sweet Country given standing ovation
The Sydney Morning Herald
Warm reviews called it "majestic" (Variety), "a drama of imposing breadth and emotional depth" (The Hollywood Reporter) and "a milestone for Australian Indigenous cinema" (Screen Daily). Then came more acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Productivity Commission GST review tipped to move against states that won't mine gas
The Sydney Morning Herald
At present the Territory gets five times the GST distribution that it would on the basis of population, in part because of its large Indigenous population. Western Australia gets less less than one third of what it would on the basis of population, in ...

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The Age
Productivity Commission GST review tipped to move against states that won't mine gas
The Age
At present the Territory gets five times the GST distribution that it would on the basis of population, in part because of its large Indigenous population. Western Australia gets less less than one third of what it would on the basis of population, in ...

ABC Online
'Burrmalala': Indigenous cyclone knowledge shared in Arnhem Land film
ABC Online
A film about Yolngu knowledge of cyclones, or Burrmalala, has been launched in Arnhem Land in preparation for the coming cyclone season. In Wata Burrmalala — Cyclone Culture, residents from Ramingining and Milingimbi communities talk about how ...

ABC Online
'Burrmalala': Indigenous cyclone knowledge shared in Arnhem Land film
ABC Online
A film about Yolngu knowledge of cyclones, or Burrmalala, has been launched in Arnhem Land in preparation for the coming cyclone season. In Wata Burrmalala — Cyclone Culture, residents from Ramingining and Milingimbi communities talk about how ...

ABC Online
Indigenous language: One of the last songmen of Kowanyama is without an apprentice
ABC Online
The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation's Professor Tom Calma said the situation in Kowanyama was happening in many Indigenous communities. "Language is vital to be able to pass on the songlines and stories to our future generations," he said ...

ABC Online
NT Indigenous leaders tell Prime Minister to back off over fracking
ABC Online
At a rally in Elliot's main street, Indigenous residents from Elliot, Tennant Creek, Yuendumu, Katherine and Borroloola called on the Territory Government to ban fracking permanently. "Do we want to drink contaminated water? No! This will affect us ...

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The Queensland Times
Breeding ground for success
The Queensland Times
Ron Richards was an indigenous Australian professional middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1930s and 1940s who won the Queensland State (Australia) heavyweight title, Australian middleweight title, Australian heavyweight title, Australian light ...

The Canberra Times
'Dramatic' Aboriginal apprehension numbers require urgent action
The Canberra Times
Mr Stanhope, an adviser at the Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Centre, also called on the government to reintroduce an Aboriginal justice centre. "I think it stunning [...] that Canberra, the most prosperous city in Australia, has currently the ...

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Courier Mail
Kathleen Noonan: Why Australia needs the taxpayer-funded ABC more than ever
Courier Mail
Since when are climate change and indigenous issues fashionable causes? He wrote in The Australian back in April that “the stark reality is that today's case for taxpayer-funded media is thin and getting thinner”. I disagree. The stark reality is that ...

ABC Online
Indigenous anti-nuclear activist tells of her personal work with Nobel Prize-winning ICAN
ABC Online
He was 75 and had spent a lifetime raising awareness of the dangers of nuclear weapons, having been blinded during British weapons testing in Maralinga in South Australia in the 1950s. "I think he'd be really pleased and very proud to know but also ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous anti-nuclear activist tells of her personal work with Nobel Prize-winning ICAN
ABC Online
"It's not a happy story, it's quite a sad and tragic story, but ICAN has certainly been a wonderful platform for us Anangu and Aboriginal people of Australia to really talk up strongly about what happened to us back in those days," she said. When she ...

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Westfield Matildas star joins City for W-League season
Matildas (press release)
Melbourne City have pulled off a massive coup ahead of the Westfield W-League 2017/18 Season after signing Westfield Matildas forward Kyah Simon. The 26-year-old joins City on a one-year-deal and arrived in Melbourne this week to commence ...

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ABC Online
How teen-mum-turned-lawyer Haley Allan turned her life around and helped hundreds do the same
ABC Online
... often overwhelmed support services in the region. The Kimberley has some of the most appalling statistics around family violence in Australia, with Aboriginal women the most likely to endure years of abuse and most likely to be murdered by their ...

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The Queensland Times
Series will show indigenous stars are not just footballers
The Queensland Times
KYLE Anderson is hoping Queensland's International Pro Darts Showdown Series will show that indigenous sports stars are not just footballers or basketballers. Anderson, the first Aboriginal to hit a nine-dart finish at the PDC World Darts Championships ...

ABC Online
Fracking in the NT: Indigenous community 'pushed' to consider benefits because industry 'not going away'
ABC Online
Consultants working for the Northern Territory's independent fracking inquiry have been accused of suggesting Indigenous communities exploit the opportunity and ask for benefits, because a gas-extraction industry is inevitable.

The Saturday Paper
Andrew Forrest's good intentions
The Saturday Paper
If the Minderoo Foundation's website is to be believed, the billionaire is on the way to ending “the disparity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians”, world slavery and cancer. He resembles his fellow Australian mining magnates less than he ...