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Save The Children Australia
Family Matters. Let's keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids in culture.
Save The Children Australia
In 2008, when Kevin Rudd made his historic apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous Australians, he envisaged 'a future where this parliament resolves that the injustices of the past must never, never happen again.' It is happening again, and it ...

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Yahoo7 News
'Revenge porn' on 'mass scale' in Australia: survey
Yahoo7 News
Academics at Monash University and RMIT University found that men and women were equally likely to be targetted, while 50 percent of those from minority groups, like Aboriginal Australians and those with disabilities, reported some form of abuse. About ...

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Independent Australia
Australia needs a civil rights movement to end mass Indigenous ...
Independent Australia
THE MASS INCARCERATION of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be a civil rights issue, one of the pressing issues of our generation.
Recognition: indigenous leaders rail at 'beads and trinkets'The Australian

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Independent Australia
Australia needs a civil rights movement to end mass Indigenous ...
Independent Australia
THE MASS INCARCERATION of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders should be a civil rights issue, one of the pressing issues of our generation.
Recognition: indigenous leaders rail at 'beads and trinkets'The Australian

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National Geographic Australia
The Last Indigenous Tasmanian
National Geographic Australia
In 1835, nearly all the indigenous Australians agreed to move to the Wybalenna settlement on Flinders Island. They trusted this would be their temporary home but the island turned into a prison. Many died from sickness. Truganini saw that her people ...

Broadsheet
Little J & Big Cuz: Australia's First Animated Show for Indigenous Kids
Broadsheet
“Never before has an Australian animated show targeted an audience of four- to six-year-olds from the Indigenous community. As an Indigenous person this seemed wrong,” says director and designer Tony Thorne. “It should've happened 10 years ago.”.

Broadsheet
Little J & Big Cuz: Australia's First Animated Show for Indigenous Kids
Broadsheet
“Never before has an Australian animated show targeted an audience of four- to six-year-olds from the Indigenous community. As an Indigenous person this seemed wrong,” says director and designer Tony Thorne. “It should've happened 10 years ago.”.

Inquiry into WA Aboriginal trust
The Australian
Australia needs Macron policies · Australia needs Macron policies Robert Gottliebsen. If we strip away the political rhetoric, the French president-elect has a set of policies that would transform Australia.

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Gizmodo Australia
One In Five Australians Have Been Victims Of 'Revenge Porn'
Gizmodo Australia
It showed Women (22 per cent) and men (23 per cent) were equally likely to be victimised, 56 per cent of people with a disability and 50 per cent of Indigenous Australians had been victims of image-based abuse, people who identified as lesbian, gay or ...
One in five fall prey to 'revenge porn'The Australian
One in five has experienced image based abuse, research findsABC Online
The picture of who is affected by 'revenge porn' is more complex than we first thoughtThe Conversation AU
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The West Australian
A-G orders Aboriginal trust probe
The West Australian
The WA Attorney-General has taken the unusual step of ordering a wide-ranging inquiry into the management of an Aboriginal trust with claims to large areas of mineral rich land in the Pilbara. John Quigley has appointed Deputy State Counsel Alan Sefton ...

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The West Australian
A-G orders Aboriginal trust probe
The West Australian
The WA Attorney-General has taken the unusual step of ordering a wide-ranging inquiry into the management of an Aboriginal trust with claims to large areas of mineral rich land in the Pilbara. John Quigley has appointed Deputy State Counsel Alan Sefton ...
Inquiry into WA Aboriginal trustThe Australian

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The Australian
APY child protection jobs unfilled after nine years
The Australian
“There is no greater need anywhere in South Australia yet critical child protection positions remain unfilled for years on end. This abysmal situation needs to rectified as a matter of urgency,'' she said. The Australian reported last September that ...

Recognition: indigenous leaders rail at 'beads and trinkets'
The Australian
Indigenous Australia is on course for a showdown with Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten over constitutional recognition, with the final of 12 regional meetings on reform concluding yesterday that it would only be satisfied with a substantive outcome ...

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Esperance Express
Anthem update should occur regularly, says Bowman MP
Esperance Express
Mr Laming said the anthem's first verse could focus on Australia's natural attributes while the second could be on values. While indigenous people needed to be recognised, no particular race of people who had come to Australia dominated. Mr Laming's ...

The Guardian (blog)
Sovereignty never ceded: how two Indigenous elders changed Canberra's big day
The Guardian (blog)
That, of course, gives us a window on to the white stereotyping of Indigenous people at a time when Australia believed it was – due to massacres, disease and assimilationism – witnessing the “vanishment of the race”. And it is instructive, almost 90 ...

The Guardian (blog)
Sovereignty never ceded: how two Indigenous elders changed Canberra's big day
The Guardian (blog)
That, of course, gives us a window on to the white stereotyping of Indigenous people at a time when Australia believed it was – due to massacres, disease and assimilationism – witnessing the “vanishment of the race”. And it is instructive, almost 90 ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Deborah Mailman stars in first animation to feature Indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
Offspring actress Deborah Mailman is lending her voice to Australia's first animation to feature Indigenous Australians and their culture. The NITV cartoon, Little J and Big Cuz, follows the adventures of two Indigenous children who live with their ...

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Deborah Mailman stars in first animation to feature Indigenous Australians
The Age
Offspring actress Deborah Mailman is lending her voice to Australia's first animation to feature Indigenous Australians and their culture. The NITV cartoon, Little J and Big Cuz, follows the adventures of two Indigenous children who live with their ...

The Advertiser
Artist brings the past alive
The Advertiser
His parents broke up when he was only one and his Chinese grandparents moved to Australia to help raise him with his father. “Basically, my Chinese grandparents had a big role in raising me for 13 years,” he says. Which is not to say his indigenous ...

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Artist brings the past alive
The Mercury
His parents broke up when he was only one and his Chinese grandparents moved to Australia to help raise him with his father. “Basically, my Chinese grandparents had a big role in raising me for 13 years,” he says. Which is not to say his indigenous ...