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Herald Sun
Community pays financial and emotional costs for increased imprisonment
Herald Sun
Those studies proved that the common factor for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians was entrenched disadvantage, leading to social alienation, crime and imprisonment. Of course, individuals make decisions about their own lives and should be ...

Bellingen Courier Sun
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bellingen Courier Sun
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Bunbury Mail
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bunbury Mail
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Bendigo Advertiser
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bendigo Advertiser
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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ABC Online
Mining millions to lift traditional Aboriginal landowners out of 'poverty', says Ngadju elder
ABC Online
Twenty-five years since the High Court's landmark Mabo decision, traditional landowners in one of Western Australia's biggest mining regions are finally starting to see the benefits of native title. The resources wealth of WA's Goldfields, which ...

ABC Online
Mining millions to lift traditional Aboriginal landowners out of 'poverty', says Ngadju elder
ABC Online
Twenty-five years since the High Court's landmark Mabo decision, traditional landowners in one of Western Australia's biggest mining regions are finally starting to see the benefits of native title. The resources wealth of WA's Goldfields, which ...

InDaily
Millions of Australians frozen out of the justice system
InDaily
Regional, remote and rural (RRR) Australia is home to a broad cross-section of people, from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote communities, to farmers and primary producers, to the other diverse and significant regional populations ...

Teacher Magazine
Better education outcomes for Indigenous students
Teacher Magazine
So it is worth studying this in more detail, which we at the OECD have just done, analysing education outcomes of Indigenous students in Canada, New Zealand and Queensland, Australia. What struck us most is that pockets of excellence and promising ...

The Conversation AU
A nation of convict cussers? Time for Australian law to embrace our potty mouths
The Conversation AU
A mere 2% of adults contested their charges by entering a “not guilty” plea. Indigenous Australians comprised 27% of those proceeded against for offensive language, despite comprising 3% of the NSW population. Australia may have a reputation for robust ...

Ballarat Courier
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Ballarat Courier
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Illawarra Mercury
Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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The Australian
Government names companies to manage its portfolio
The Australian
The company's property arm will deliver services to 37 different Australian government entities. Broadspectrum Property, head of corporate real estate, Emma Forster-Mitrovski, said the group would work with Colliers International as a key subcontractor.

The Australian
Pilbara-wide ban on full-strength alcohol sales in the offing
The Australian
Non-Aboriginal people are big drinkers in the Pilbara, too — The Australian saw dozens of white residents loading multiple cartons of full-strength beer, cider and pre-mixed drinks into their four-wheel drives. The irony that Roebourne is poised to ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au

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The Australian
Pilbara-wide ban on full-strength alcohol sales in the offing
The Australian
Last week, The Australian spoke to several indigenous men who have been drinking hard since those days. Some were incoherent as they hitched or even drove to Wickham, 15 minutes down the road from Roebourne, where one of the state's busiest bottle ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au

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Herald Sun
Self-loathing Left is playing with fire over Australia Day
Herald Sun
She explained: “What happened to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from that date was a holocaust.” It beggars belief that a city councillor could seriously liken the Nazis' efforts to physically wipe out all Jews — slaughtering six ...

SBS
Australian Citizenship Day: Thousands welcomed in ceremonies around the country
SBS
Last week a third Melbourne council voted to drop all references of January 26 as Australia Day out of respect for Aboriginal people. Moreland City Council will continue to hold its official citizenship ceremony on January 26, and says the government ...

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NEWS.com.au
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rate
NEWS.com.au
The Pilbara, with vast mining resources and sparsely populated Aboriginal towns, covers 500,000 square kilometres stretching from the Indian Ocean to Central Australia. Roebourne, where the streets are lined with brick and stone colonial buildings, has ...

The Australian
Bushfire alert for WA Aboriginal community
The Australian
A bushfire is threatening a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia. “You are in danger and need to act immediately to survive. There is a threat to lives and homes,” Emergency WA has advised residents of the Egret Aboriginal community in ...
Bushfire emergency warning issued as blaze threatens Kimberley Aboriginal communityABC Online
Bushfire emergency alert for WA Aboriginal communityWAtoday

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ABC Online
Australians 'just starting to wake up' to historical South Sea Islander slavery: Jeff McMullen
ABC Online
The majority of these indentured labourers were brought to Australia to work on Queensland's sugarcane plantations. "It's very similar to the amnesia we have about the early period of Aboriginal history that happened after European settlement," the ...

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Indigenous fashion winning international and local fans as artists push for proper payment
ABC Online
The bright, bold and distinctly Australian designs of Indigenous fashion have always captured attention, but they are now proving to be a lucrative industry — with record sales and major fashion houses looking to collaborate on luxury collections ...