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Plan for indigenous people to watch cops
The Australian
Sixteen Aboriginal communities in NSW's central west will put their hand up for Copwatch if it gets off the ground. "The community shouldn't be the ones monitoring the police behaviour but we have to because of ongoing abuse," Murdi Paaki chair Des ...

Plan for indigenous people to watch cops
The Australian
The Copwatch project will provide human rights lawyers and journalists to teach indigenous communities how to film and share interactions with police and authority figures. Sydney-based National Justice Project is developing the program as a response ...

SBS
Australia nearly a shoo-in for UN Human Rights Council seat as France drops out of race
SBS
Australia has made a series of “pledges” to the United Nations as part of its HRC bid. It promised to hold a referendum to recognise Indigenous people in the Constitution, campaign to end violence against women and girls, and advocate for the ...

Australia's Indigenous artefact repatriation program has a long way to go
ABC Science Online
In 1948, a team of Americans and Australians travelled throughout the Northern Territory, collecting data and artefacts. But on a visit to one remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land, the scientific mission they also robbed graves. The bones were ...

Australia's Indigenous artefact repatriation program has a long way to go
ABC Science Online
In 1948, a team of Americans and Australians travelled throughout the Northern Territory, collecting data and artefacts. But on a visit to one remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land, the scientific mission they also robbed graves. The bones were ...

EducationHQ Australia
New scholarship, ancient culture
EducationHQ Australia
The Francis Xavier Conaci Scholarship recognises the life of an extraordinary Indigenous seminarian and enables an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander student to study at the Rome Centre. The scholarship commemorates the story of Francis ...

The Guardian
The Kimberley: 'We want people to appreciate how long Aboriginal people have been here'
The Guardian
Angela Bell expected her two-week tour of the outback Kimberley region in Western Australia would give her a rich cultural experience, given Aboriginal history in the region dates back at least 40,000 years. The 28-year-old communications manager paid ...

National Indigenous Times
Racism puts Aboriginal kids at abuse risk
The Australian
"(It) contributes to the heightened risk of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children being abused in those settings by separating them from the protections of strong Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures," the report released on ...
NAIDOC Week rich with colour, ceremonyNational Indigenous Times

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Racism puts Aboriginal kids at abuse risk
The Australian
"We have highlighted the racist social attitudes that dehumanised, denigrated and sexualised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and empowered perpetrators by providing legal and social sanction to high levels of sexual and other violence ...
NAIDOC Week rich with colour, ceremonyNational Indigenous Times

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Funding boost for indigenous aged care services
Australian Ageing Agenda
The grants come under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program in response to funding applications and have been provided to aged care services in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Funding boost for indigenous aged care services
Australian Ageing Agenda
The grants come under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program in response to funding applications and have been provided to aged care services in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western ...

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Fresh qualifications empower trailblazers
National Indigenous Times
Four men from remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia have become the first people to complete a unique new national apprenticeship with WA electricity provider Horizon Power to improve outcomes in remote communities. Keith Hunter, of ...

Fresh qualifications empower trailblazers
National Indigenous Times
Four men from remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia have become the first people to complete a unique new national apprenticeship with WA electricity provider Horizon Power to improve outcomes in remote communities. Keith Hunter, of ...

ABC Online
Fact check: Has trachoma among Indigenous kids fallen from 20pc to 4pc?
ABC Online
The 2009-10 federal budget papers spell out $58.4 million in funding over four years for "improving eye and ear health services for Indigenous Australians". According to the National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit, in 2009 the Government ...

Shepparton News
Inspiring, thought-provoking works to visit
Shepparton News
A travelling indigenous photomedia exhibition, produced by the National Gallery of Australia, will come to Shepparton next month. Resolution: new Indigenous photomedia celebrates some of the most significant work made by indigenous photographers, ...

National Indigenous Times
Exhibition explores Referendum through art
National Indigenous Times
The exhibition examines the 1967 Referendum, which saw two references in the Australian Constitution that discriminated against Indigenous people removed. “In modern Australian history, the 1967 Referendum was considered a watershed moment – in the ...

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Why non-Indigenous Australians should read First Nations writing
ArtsHub (subscription)
Torok and Holper have distilled the many recommendations of the ACOLA reports into an eminently readable and persuasive form. How to get your manuscript published (locked). Your writing hasn't been in vain; research indicates an upswing in book sales ...

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Why non-Indigenous Australians should read First Nations writing
ArtsHub (subscription)
Do you read Australia's First Nations (Indigenous) writers? If not, why not? People read for many reasons: information, entertainment, escape, to contemplate in company, to be moved. Reading can also be a political act, an act of solidarity, an ...

National Indigenous Times
NAIDOC Week rich with colour, ceremony
National Indigenous Times
Mr Mills was just one of the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievers recognised during NAIDOC Week, which ended on Sunday amid celebrations and awards ceremonies held across Australia. Mr Mills' father Benny collected his son's award on ...

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National Indigenous Times
NAIDOC Week rich with colour, ceremony
National Indigenous Times
Mr Mills was just one of the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievers recognised during NAIDOC Week, which ended on Sunday amid celebrations and awards ceremonies held across Australia. Mr Mills' father Benny collected his son's award on ...
Racism puts Aboriginal kids at abuse riskThe Australian

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