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The Sydney Morning Herald
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Sydney Morning Herald
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Sydney Morning Herald
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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Herald Sun (blog)
NEW SPECCIE OUT NOW
Herald Sun (blog)
It is ironic that [Stan] Grant is drawing attention to the ultimate 'symbolic' issue in indigenous affairs – the future of statues honouring explorers, governors and settlers – at a time when the Western Australian coroner is conducting an inquiry into ...

Indigenous man walks from WA to ACT
The Australian
Clinton Pryor will descend on Canberra on Sunday morning, a year after setting out from Perth on his walk for justice. Thousands are expected to join him as he marches down Canberra's main avenue to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Old Parliament House.

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Indigenous man walks from WA to ACT
The Australian
Clinton Pryor will descend on Canberra on Sunday morning, a year after setting out from Perth on his walk for justice. Thousands are expected to join him as he marches down Canberra's main avenue to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Old Parliament House.

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Indigenous man walks from WA to ACT
SBS
He plans to raise awareness of indigenous issues during his meetings in Canberra, having met with Aboriginal elders and community leaders across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and NSW during his walk.

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SBS
'Australian film of the year' to air in London
SBS
Indigenous-Australian film making talent will be on display at the upcoming London Film Festival, with Warwick Thronton's Sweet Country in the official competition. The Melbourne-born festival director Clare Stewart told AAP the "highly-anticipated ...

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The Times
History denied is justice delayed
Green Left Weekly
If you accept that celebrating the date as Australia Day is hurtful to many Indigenous people because it marked the beginning of their violent dispossession, then it follows there are some important people who sanctioned or participated in that violence.
Australia rewrites history with campaign against colonial statuesThe Times

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The West Australian
Awards recognition for life and work
The West Australian
Ms Abdullah has worked at the Kimberley Community Legal Services for about 30 years and was honoured with an Order of Australia Medal earlier this year. She has worked with families embroiled in royal commissions and been an advocate for Aboriginal ...

Riverine Herald
Hooray for Australia Day in Echuca-Moama
Riverine Herald
Campaspe Shire mayor Adrian Weston said the issue had not been discussed and there would be no changes to the current Australia Day celebrations across the shire. ''Council has a strong relationship with local aboriginal groups across the shire,'' he said.

The Australian
National Gallery of Australia muzzled over Namatjira art treasures
The Australian
Franchesca Cubillo, the NGA's senior curator of indigenous Australian art, revealed the gallery had sought permission from Legend Press to use Namatjira's images in catalogues or promotional materials in 2010 (for an NGA book on indigenous art) and in ...

NT News
'Can't rewrite history': NT statue debate
NT News
In Australia, the national conversation began innocuously in August, when ABC's indigenous Affairs editor Stan Grant floated the idea of changing — or, in his argument, correcting — the plaque on a monument of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park.

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The Australian
Revisionist plans will die in a ditch, says Barnaby Joyce
The Australian
On Monday, the Opposition Leader said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before ...

The Australian
Revisionist plans will die in a ditch, says Barnaby Joyce
The Australian
On Monday, the Opposition Leader said an extra plaque should be placed on the statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park, which proclaims that Cook discovered Australia, to recognise that indigenous Australians inhabited the continent before ...

The Age
Historical heritage must be built up, not torn down
The Australian
The lack of memorials to Australia's distinguished indigenous heroes and high achievers should be redressed, ideally as a result of ideas from Aborigines. In Sydney, statues of indigenous leaders such as Bennelong and Pemulwuy, who were local leaders ...
There is a unifying solution to the statues stand-offThe Age

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The Australian
Coming home to Mother Earth
The Australian
Landy-Ariel is an excellent teacher, for where I can see nothing around us but modern development, she senses Mother Earth acutely. After all, indigenous Australians are the oldest culture in the world, she reminds me; their relationship to the earth ...

The Australian
Coming home to Mother Earth
The Australian
Landy-Ariel is an excellent teacher, for where I can see nothing around us but modern development, she senses Mother Earth acutely. After all, indigenous Australians are the oldest culture in the world, she reminds me; their relationship to the earth ...

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The Canberra Times
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Canberra Times
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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The Canberra Times
Benjamin Law: Australia's literacy rate is shocking - and potentially dangerous
The Canberra Times
Some years back, an OECD study surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 74 and rated them on their literacy skills. The results were shocking: 43.7 per cent had below-proficiency-level literacy. If you're young and Indigenous, the chances of you ...

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The Advertiser
Bruce Chatwin's 1980s bestseller The Songlines gets a bucketing by SA Museum anthropologist
The Advertiser
But anthropologists in Australia have been caught between welcoming the book for popularising Aboriginal culture around the world, and criticising it for its misunderstandings. Jones, who is based at the SA Museum and has an international reputation ...

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