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Indigenous Aussie scholar Nathan Pitt walks old road to Rome
Brisbane Times
Rome: In 1849 a young boy left a Western Australian monastery on an extraordinary journey. His mentors believed he would be the first Indigenous missionary but he died, homesick, in an ancient abbey. This week his memory has finally been honoured.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Aussie scholar Nathan Pitt walks old road to Rome
The Sydney Morning Herald
Rome: In 1849 a young boy left a Western Australian monastery on an extraordinary journey. His mentors believed he would be the first Indigenous missionary but he died, homesick, in an ancient abbey. This week his memory has finally been honoured.
Australian Indigenous student awarded first Conaci scholarshipVatican Radio

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Indigenous Aussie scholar Nathan Pitt walks old road to Rome
The Sydney Morning Herald
Two centuries ago a young indigenous boy went to Rome - at last his legacy is remembered.
Australian Indigenous student awarded first Conaci scholarship ...Vatican Radio

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ABC Online
Union launched for Indigenous people in 'racially discriminatory' work-for-the-dole scheme
ABC Online
More than 30,000 people are covered by the CDP, most of whom are Aboriginal. Australia's peak union body has established the First Nations Workers' Alliance to represent CDP participants. "We do believe that it's racially discriminatory," said Kara ...

ABC Online
Union launched for Indigenous people in 'racially discriminatory' work-for-the-dole scheme
ABC Online
More than 30,000 people are covered by the CDP, most of whom are Aboriginal. Australia's peak union body has established the First Nations Workers' Alliance to represent CDP participants. "We do believe that it's racially discriminatory," said Kara ...

The Guardian (blog)
Red dots spatter wall of 'great Australian silence' over black/white frontier violence
The Guardian (blog)
In his 1968 Boyer lecture the anthropologist William Stanner spoke about the “great Australian silence” – the failure of most books about Australia's past to substantively address Indigenous history, not least resistance and the black/white frontier ...
NAIDOC Week: Using Aboriginal words in our daily speech key to ...ABC Online
Spotify Launches 'Black Australia' Playlist For NAIDOC Week - B&TB&T
Qantas asked Aboriginal artist to work for free during NAIDOC weekSBS
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Vatican Radio
Australian Indigenous student awarded first Conaci scholarship
Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) A 19 year old Aboriginal student from Brisbane has been named as the inaugural Francis Xavier Conaci scholar, an initiative providing educational opportunities for young people from Australia's Indigenous communities. Nathan Pitt was ...

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Vatican Radio
Australian Indigenous student awarded first Conaci scholarship
Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) A 19 year old Aboriginal student from Brisbane has been named as the inaugural Francis Xavier Conaci scholar, an initiative providing educational opportunities for young people from Australia's Indigenous communities. Nathan Pitt was ...

The Times of Israel
Indigenous Australians form pro-Israel group
The Times of Israel
SYDNEY — A group called Indigenous Friends of Israel was established by indigenous Australians in what organizers said was a bid to counter growing support in the country's Labor party for recognition of a Palestinian state and to boost bipartisan ...

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Illawarra Mercury
Mapping Aboriginal massacres makes it time to recognise the colonial wars, say leading historians
Illawarra Mercury
Professor Reynolds has called the attacks on Indigenous Australians the "forgotten war of conquest that saw the expropriation of the most productive land over vast continental distances", and the transfer of sovereignty from the Aborigines to the ...
The truth behind Aboriginal massacres and the laid-back Aussie imageThe Sydney Morning Herald
New map records sites of Australia's colonial massacresReuters
Map of Indigenous Australian massacres tells of the country's bloody pastMashable

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The Sydney Morning Herald
The truth behind Aboriginal massacres and the laid-back Aussie image
The Sydney Morning Herald
In those days Australia still rode on the sheep's back; they took for granted that they were the natural aristocrats of the campus, and of the nation. We were laughing a lot that day. The conversation had turned to our old family eccentrics; we'd been ...
Digital map of Indigenous Australian massacres brings country's bloody past into the lightMashable

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The Economist
Aborigines want more than a mention in Australia's constitution
The Economist
LINDA BURNEY was ten when Australians voted in 1967 to remove the clause in the constitution that excluded aborigines from the national census. “The notion that you weren't worthy of being counted was very painful,” she recalls. Ms Burney belongs to ...

Rugby.com.au
Beale reveals Indigenous jersey
Rugby.com.au
Wallabies centre Kurtley Beale has revealed the design of Australia's first Indigenous jersey on Thursday night. Beale was a vocal advocate of the introduction of such a jersey, speaking to RUGBY.com.au last year, and his dream has come to fruition.
Wallabies to wear historic indigenous jersey against All Blacks in Brisbane in Octoberdailytelegraph.com.au

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Wallabies to wear historic indigenous jersey against All Blacks in Brisbane in October
dailytelegraph.com.au
The Wallabies' indigenous jersey — which will be worn in the third Bledisloe Cup game in Brisbane in October — is not only the first of its kind for Australian rugby, it is only the second time the Wallabies jersey has ever been changed for a one-off ...

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Wallabies to wear historic indigenous jersey against All Blacks in Brisbane in October
dailytelegraph.com.au
The Wallabies' indigenous jersey — which will be worn in the third Bledisloe Cup game in Brisbane in October — is not only the first of its kind for Australian rugby, it is only the second time the Wallabies jersey has ever been changed for a one-off ...
Beale reveals Indigenous jerseyRugby.com.au

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The Guardian
Few Indigenous inmates have finished year 12, prison reform expert says
The Guardian
Georgatos, who works closely with prisoners across Australian facilities, said in his experience close to 100% of Indigenous inmates had not finished year 12. “I visited one Perth-based prison in WA and spoke to 15 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
NAIDOC Week: Using Aboriginal words in our daily speech key to ...ABC Online
Spotify Launches 'Black Australia' Playlist For NAIDOC Week - B&TB&T
Qantas asked Aboriginal artist to work for free during NAIDOC weekSBS
PS News -Daily Mail -mySanAntonio.com
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The Sunshine Coast Daily
Opera House seen in a new light
The Sunshine Coast Daily
"There is this inherited legacy of Aboriginal culture in Australia that isn't seen, heard, or given voice,” she told CNN. There are few international art museums dedicated to Aboriginal Australian art and (it rarely) features in the arenas of global ...

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Port Macquarie News
Speaking our languages forces Australia to see us
Port Macquarie News
In her book Being Australian, sociologist Catriona Elder speaks of the 'terra nullius narrative' – a white story written in an empty space. Elder says the 'terra nullius story meant non-Indigenous peoples could imagine they were telling a story where ...

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Port Macquarie News
Speaking our languages forces Australia to see us
Port Macquarie News
Indigenous people have been framed by terra nullius, locked in the imagination of an Australia that has often throughout its history found the black presence uncomfortable or offensive, and now must prove their authenticity. Australian society sets the ...

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ABC Online
NAIDOC Week: Blind elder's crusade to reduce diabetes in Indigenous communities
ABC Online
Ms Hooker said unfortunately her family's story was common in Indigenous Australia. Thirty-seven per cent of Indigenous adults have diabetes, and 13 per cent have already lost vision, according to a 2015 report by the University of Melbourne Indigenous ...