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Catholic Leader
Central Australia's Arrernte people can now read the Bible in their own language
Catholic Leader
ABOUT 5000 central Australian Aborigines are now able to read the Bible in their own Arrernte language. “It's a project that has taken more than twenty-five years,” Divine Word Missionaries Father Prakash Menezes, who is assistant priest at Our Lady of ...

Catholic Leader
Central Australia's Arrernte people can now read the Bible in their own language
Catholic Leader
The project is the result of a long-term collaboration between indigenous elders in Alice Springs and Santa Teresa community, and linguists from the Lutheran community and Australian Society for Indigenous Languages (AuSIL). They have translated the ...

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pharmacy Scholarships announced
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
The Rural and Indigenous Workforce team at the Pharmacy Guild of Australia are interested in talking with students who are thinking about or are currently studying their Bachelor or Master of Pharmacy and may wish to examine this opportunity ...
Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic paroleThe Guardian
Aboriginal Communities Continue Treaty Calls Following Referendum Council ReportBuzzFeed News

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The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic parole
The Guardian
All states and territories should end the practice of jailing for fines, introduce a statutory custody notification system and introduce automatic parole in an effort to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates, the Australian Law Reform Commission says.
Aboriginal Communities Continue Treaty Calls Following Referendum Council ReportBuzzFeed News

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The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration: push to end jailing for fines and introduce automatic parole
The Guardian
All states and territories should end the practice of jailing for fines, introduce a statutory custody notification system and introduce automatic parole in an effort to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates, the Australian Law Reform Commission says.
Aboriginal Communities Continue Treaty Calls Following Referendum Council ReportBuzzFeed News

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Copyright Agency distributes $1.3 million
ArtsHub (subscription)
Additional funding is committed to the Eleanor Dark Foundation Fellowships for Indigenous Writers. Three Artist in Residence programs – in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria – have also been supported. The residencies will enable artists to ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Copyright Agency distributes $1.3 million
ArtsHub (subscription)
Additional funding is committed to the Eleanor Dark Foundation Fellowships for Indigenous Writers. Three Artist in Residence programs – in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria – have also been supported. The residencies will enable artists to ...

Inside Film
First Contact to return to SBS in November
Inside Film
Reconciliation Australia has found that six out of 10 Australians have had little or no contact with the nation's first people. The first season of First Contact generated headlines and debate in 2014 when Martin took six Australians into Aboriginal ...

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Saveur
The Steward of Australia's Original Food
Saveur
A writer whose work is based on that legacy, Pascoe has lately turned to the subject of indigenous food. Australia has only recently come to recognize the debt owed to its First Peoples, after nearly two and a half centuries of abuses and land seizures.

Community Newspaper Group
Cockburn Lakes Amateur FC to auction off jumpers to raise money for Outback Academy Australia
Community Newspaper Group
This year's recipient was established to support employment opportunities and the well-being of Aboriginal Australians. The jersey design is a mix between Cockburn's usual jersey and that used by wheelchair basketball side, the Red Dust Heelers, who ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Constitutional convention would offer a way forward on Aboriginal recognition
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal people have held a convention, and so too should the community at large. A constitutional convention representing all Australians will provide a platform to argue why an Indigenous advisory body is the right change. It will fill in the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Call for people's body to push recognition
The Australian
(Tony) Abbott came in promising to sweat blood for indigenous Australia but never set up a proposal — we've had campaigning and we've had processes but we're not set up for a referendum, so my view is we need a convention as a way of focusing the ...
Constitutional convention would offer a way forward on Aboriginal recognitionThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Indigenous recognition steps outside Constitution
The Australian
“This declaration might be indigenous Australia's version of America's Declaration of Independence, celebrating the indigenous, British and multicultural aspects to our unified national identity,” said Mr Pearson. The idea was aimed at mollifying the ...

Indigenous recognition steps outside Constitution
The Australian
“This declaration might be indigenous Australia's version of America's Declaration of Independence, celebrating the indigenous, British and multicultural aspects to our unified national identity,” said Mr Pearson. The idea was aimed at mollifying the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Constitutional convention would offer a way forward on Aboriginal recognition
The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal people have held a convention, and so too should the community at large. A constitutional convention representing all Australians will provide a platform to argue why an Indigenous advisory body is the right change. It will fill in the ...

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Courier Mail
Culture Club: Queensland arts, theatre and music news
Courier Mail
Moon flew to WA to select the pieces for this show which is quite a coup for QAGOMA and director Chris Saines says it's an important one that “offers audiences a unique opportunity to access works by a seminal group of indigenous Australian artists ...

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Inside Film
SBS launches interactive Indigenous doco My Grandmother's Lingo
Inside Film
SBS has launched an online interactive documentary, My Grandmother's Lingo, which highlights the endangered status of Indigenous languages in Australia. My Grandmother's Lingo tells the personal story of Angelina Joshua, a young Aboriginal woman ...

Big names to judge awards
The West Australian
Beetson's work includes all sorts of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and public art, and explores her identity as an indigenous Australian. City of Karratha Mayor Peter Long said the awards continued to attract ...

ABC Online
NSW Government considers cashless welfare card rollout across state
ABC Online
Billionaire founder of Fortescue Metals Group, Andrew Forrest has met with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to push for a cashless welfare card to be rolled out across New South Wales. Created by Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation, the income ...

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ABC Online
NSW Government considers cashless welfare card rollout across state
ABC Online
Billionaire founder of Fortescue Metals Group, Andrew Forrest has met with NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian to push for a cashless welfare card to be rolled out across New South Wales. Created by Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation, the income ...

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