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Pro Bono Australia
Facts to Close the Gap
Pro Bono Australia
Oxfam Australia national manager of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's program Justin McCaul told Pro Bono News that National Close the Gap Day was “necessary” to shine a light on the issue. “It has become a day in which tens of ...

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New Matilda
Amy McQuire On Bill Leak: Respecting The Dead Doesn't Mean You Have To Ignore Their Racist Legacy
New Matilda
The reason Leak's cartoons were so hurtful to Aboriginal Australia is because they were not isolated. They were not genius. They were tired, and the latest incarnation of a racist legacy which has portrayed Aboriginal men and women in the same way ...

TeenVogue.com
New Details Emerge in Aboriginal Australian Teen Mark Haines's Murder
TeenVogue.com
In 1988, 17-year-old Mark Haines was found dead in New South Wales, a state in Australia. His body was found on train tracks in the town of Tamworth, and it was reported that he died due to head trauma. While the case remained open, police didn't have ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Call for the Aboriginal flag to fly atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge is growing
dailytelegraph.com.au
Cheree Toka, a 26-year-old Kamilaroy woman, is calling on the state government to erect the traditional Aboriginal flag at the peak of the bridge on an ongoing basis, rather than just on ceremonial occasions. Currently, only the NSW and Australian ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Call for the Aboriginal flag to fly atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge is growing
dailytelegraph.com.au
Cheree Toka, a 26-year-old Kamilaroy woman, is calling on the state government to erect the traditional Aboriginal flag at the peak of the bridge on an ongoing basis, rather than just on ceremonial occasions. Currently, only the NSW and Australian ...

ABC Online
'Rushed' native title changes exclude indigenous Australians, critics say
ABC Online
The Federal Government is rushing to amend native title law after a Federal Court decision cast land use agreements into doubt, but critics say the changes are being rushed through without consulting indigenous people. As the Minerals Council and ...

ABC Online
'Rushed' native title changes exclude indigenous Australians, critics say
ABC Online
The Federal Government is rushing to amend native title law after a Federal Court decision cast land use agreements into doubt, but critics say the changes are being rushed through without consulting indigenous people. As the Minerals Council and ...

ABC Online
DNA confirms Aboriginal people have a long-lasting connection to country
ABC Online
The discovery is based on analysis of mitochondrial DNA found in hair samples taken from Aboriginal people during expeditions run between 1928 and the 1970s. The DNA analysis, published today in Nature, again confirms modern Aboriginal Australians ...

Port Adelaide
Nathan Krakouer designs Port Adelaide's 2017 Aboriginal guernsey
Port Adelaide
The guernsey, designed by Nathan Krakouer, who is a a member of the Minang language group of Western Australia, again tells a story about the journey of the Power's Aboriginal players. It will be worn in two games - the AFL's official indigenous round ...

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Australia: When families disagree over a loved one's burial
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Mr Darcy was born in Gulargambone, in north-west New South Wales and was part of the Aboriginal Weilwan tribe. However, Mr Darcy had lived on and off with Ms Duckett since 2000 at Bowraville on the New South Wales north coast. Ms Duckett and their ...

The Stringer
The numbers count because the numbers are people
The Stringer
Western Australia has the nation's highest median wage but also the second highest jailing rate, the second highest suicide rate. When we disaggregate we find that Western Australia has the nation's highest suicide rate for Aboriginal peoples, the ...

Queensland rejects Custody Notification Service, WA promises to implement & SA is implementing the CNS
The Stringer
56) WA Labor will; a) ensure that Aboriginal Australians have equitable access to legal representation and interpreters; b) ensure full implementation of all the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody; c) implement ...

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The Conversation AU
How to cut Australia's $48 billion crime bill
The Conversation AU
This would improve accommodation support and employment opportunities for ex-prisoners, and ameliorate the debilitating effect that mental ill health has on the ability of ex-prisoners, especially Aboriginal offenders, to rejoin society successfully ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
INDIGENOUS STORIES IN CLAY
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Missing, sadly, is Queensland's Yarrabah where the exciting Michelle Yeatman lays claim to the mantle of the great Thancoupie, Aboriginal Australia's most significant potter. But, as this exhibition picks up its skirts and tours from later this year ...

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ABC Online
Q&A: Bill Leak racism debate prompts protest, claim Australia lagging behind in dealing with race
ABC Online
The panellists condemned what an audience member described as some sections of the left wing celebrating Leak's death on Friday, but they also criticised his infamous 2016 cartoon depicting an Indigenous man with a beer can who could not remember his ...
'Of course I'm glad he's dead': The 'champions of tolerance' react to Bill Leak's deathdailytelegraph.com.au
Q&A: protesters interrupt debate on Bill Leak, accusing cartoonist of racismThe Guardian
Q&A: Audience member interrupts panel, calls Bill Leak 'racist'The Australian
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ABC Online
Q&A: Bill Leak racism debate prompts protest, claim Australia lagging behind in dealing with race
ABC Online
The panellists condemned what an audience member described as some sections of the left wing celebrating Leak's death on Friday, but they also criticised his infamous 2016 cartoon depicting an Indigenous man with a beer can who could not remember his ...
Q&A: Audience member interrupts panel, calls Bill Leak 'racist'The Australian
'Of course I'm glad he's dead': The 'champions of tolerance' react to Bill Leak's deathdailytelegraph.com.au
Q & A recap: Protesters invade set during discussion about late cartoonist Bill LeakNEWS.com.au
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The Australian
Indigenous leaders back change to land-use law
The Australian
The committee is hearing views on amendments rushed through federal parliament following last month's “McGlade'' decision in the Federal Court, regarding a claim in Western Australia. The full bench decision effectively invalidated a tranche of ...
Miners support urgent native title changes9news.com.au
Minister-turned-lobbyist Ian Macfarlane says mines need protection from native titleThe Guardian

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Community Newspaper Group
Australia Day heat on City of Cockburn: group asks council to ditch celebrations
Community Newspaper Group
Cockburn will be called on to follow Fremantle's lead and change the date of its Australia Day celebrations. Cockburn Aboriginal Reference Group chairwoman Sally-Anne Gamble spoke to the Gazette on Thursday after City councillors had voted to allocate ...

Goondiwindi Argus
Australia Post worker allegedly told 'black people should be shot'
Goondiwindi Argus
But when they were played the audio tape they allegedly told the shocked Aboriginal employee that he could not use the recording in court. It is also understood they also said they did not know the complainant was Aboriginal. Australia Post did not ...

Sydney conference calls for treaty talks 'at all levels of government'
The Australian
Minimalist indigenous constitutional recognition has been dealt a new blow, with a Sydney conference calling for treaty negotiations at all levels of government and a federal parliamentary body that would give indigenous Australians a say in laws that ...