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Cosgrove praises NT Aboriginal WWII hero
Courier Mail
Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove has recognised the efforts of indigenous people in defending the nation when Japanese planes bombed Darwin during WWII. He said the Tiwi Islands community, north of Darwin, has enormous significance in Australian ...

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COMMENT: Racism in Australia: The stats are clear
SBS
In 1984, for 289 SA non-Indigenous high schoolers, over 50% endorsed every negative stereotype of Aboriginal Australians that was listed. 84.2% thought Aboriginal people drink too much. 82.2% said Aboriginal people are often in trouble with the police.
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COMMENT: Racism in Australia: The stats are clear
SBS
Recent debates on racism in Australia too often centre on personal opinions of non-Indigenous people, selective citations of public figures, anecdotes and glorified self-reflections, and isolated events that often contribute to the 'I'm not racist but ...
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Cosgrove praises NT Aboriginal WWII hero - News.com.au
NEWS.com.au
The first prisoner of war captured on Australian soil wasn't apprehended by a soldier, but a young Aboriginal man on a remote Northern Territory island.

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Cosgrove praises NT Aboriginal WWII hero
The Australian
Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove has recognised the efforts of indigenous people in defending the nation when Japanese planes bombed Darwin during WWII. He said the Tiwi Islands community, north of Darwin, has enormous significance in Australian ...

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The Guardian
More meaningful actions needed
Shepparton News
There is increasing frustration that previous landmark reports such as the Royal Commission in to Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Bringing Them Home Report and Reconciliation: Australia's Challenge: the final report of the Council for Aboriginal ...
Indigenous incarceration: turning the tide on colonisation's cruel third actThe Guardian
Pemulwuy Project takes big strides forwardPRWire (press release)

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Cosgrove praises NT Aboriginal WWII hero
9news.com.au
The first prisoner of war captured on Australian soil wasn't apprehended by a soldier, but a young Aboriginal man on a remote Northern Territory island. Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove has recognised the efforts of indigenous people in defending ...

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Local Aborigines Back SA Windfarm
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Despite massive controversy in Canberra about the benefits of renewable energy and its effect on statewide blackouts in South Australia, the irony has emerged that Parliament House's lights are actually going to be powered in future by the wind blowing ...

The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration: turning the tide on colonisation's cruel third act
The Guardian
These twin events prompted both national outrage and a reconsideration of what could be done to prevent Indigenous people, especially children and young people, from ending up in the criminal justice system in the first place. Guardian Australia in a ...
Prison to wellbeing to education and work – transforming livesThe Stringer
More meaningful actions neededShepparton News

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The Australian
Memorial for Aboriginal tracker Tommy Windich unveiled in Esperance, WA
The Australian
Today [Monday] in the West Australian coastal town, a memorial to Windich will be unveiled to restore the Aboriginal man's place in history. He was revered by John Forrest, the state's future first premier who included Windich in formal expedition ...

The Stringer
Prison to wellbeing to education and work – transforming lives
The Stringer
However the narrative of human misery and suffering is worst in Western Australia where Aboriginal adults are incarcerated at close to the world's highest incarceration rate – 2nd highest at 3,745 per 100,000. Western Australia enjoys the nation's ...

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The Stringer
Prison to wellbeing to education and work – transforming lives
The Stringer
However the narrative of human misery and suffering is worst in Western Australia where Aboriginal adults are incarcerated at close to the world's highest incarceration rate – 2nd highest at 3,745 per 100,000. Western Australia enjoys the nation's ...

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My art. My culture. Our country.
SBS
From sound healing with didgeridoo to art therapy for disabled people, Aboriginal art is proving a powerful tool for helping Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians heal from disease and trauma. Here are four incredible ways Aboriginal art is being ...
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Otago Daily Times
Australia's aboriginal policies
Otago Daily Times
Only the "civilised" aboriginals — that is, those within the borders of civilisation — who are estimated to number 13,000, come under the supervision of the "protectors", as the Government officials who have charge of this work are called. There is ...

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ANKA services Indigenous artists and supports 50 Aboriginal owned community Art Centres located across its one million square kilometer regions in Northern Australia. ANKA works on behalf of its members to promote, resource, educate and protect the ...

The Advertiser
Aboriginal dance performance Our Corka Bubs just for babies
The Advertiser
Its creator, renowned South Australian Aboriginal choreographer Gina Rings, said Our Corka Bubs, drew its inspiration from Ngarrindjeri storytelling, by incorporating traditional instruments including the didgeridoo, as well as the Ngarrindjeri language.

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Australia: Legislative fix for McGlade native title decision to confirm ILUAs due this week
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The Commonwealth Government is moving to confirm the validity of more than 120 Indigenous land use agreements (ILUAs) that were registered despite not all members of the registered native title claimant having executed the agreement.

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SBS
Giving kids a fighting chance in rural Australia
SBS
The men secured a $5000 grant from the NSW Police Aboriginal Unit enabling them to buy boxing gloves, focus pads and wrist tape and to launch the program in the rural NSW town of Tingha, 100km north of Armidale. The program has had overwhelming ...

SBS
Giving kids a fighting chance in rural Australia
SBS
It all turned around when he met boxing coach Darren Finn, the first Indigenous athlete to win an Australian title in four different styles of martial arts. Mr Finn introduced the teenager to a new program turning young lives around by teaching them ...

CBC.ca
Australia: Stopping the fake indigenous art flood – when does cultural appropriation become theft?
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
Head into any souvenir shop and chances are you'll be able to pick yourself up a nice piece of rip-off indigenous art. The 'Aboriginal Style' souvenir was probably mass-produced in China. Is this a problem? Australia's indigenous art community says yes.
Indigenous school attendance could be the most important gapThe Australian
'It's exploiting culture': Australia mulls bill to ban sale of fake Indigenous artCBC.ca

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