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Section 18C: a bad law that finds racism where there is none
The Australian
The Racial Discrimination Act's 18C treats us Aboriginal Australians as infants who can't speak or stand up for ourselves. It treats non-Aboriginal people as if they have no right to hold an opinion about anything that relates to us, especially the ...

WAtoday
Highest indigenous prisoner rates in WA
WAtoday
WA has the highest indigenous imprisonment rate in Australia. Photo: Andrew Meares. It also shows that WA has the highest percentage of female prisoners - 22.3 per cent compared to the national rate of 18.3 per cent. Six people died from apparent ...

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ABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull dissolves Indigenous Advisory Council, but 'commitment remains'
ABC Online
The Aboriginal leader has had a rocky relationship with Mr Turnbull, previously slamming the setting up of an Aboriginal incarceration inquiry. Mr Mundine questioned which "dickhead" had thought up the Australian Law Reform Commission's inquiry into ...

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ABC Online
Malcolm Turnbull dissolves Indigenous Advisory Council, but 'commitment remains'
ABC Online
The Aboriginal leader has had a rocky relationship with Mr Turnbull, previously slamming the setting up of an Aboriginal incarceration inquiry. Mr Mundine questioned which "dickhead" had thought up the Australian Law Reform Commission's inquiry into ...

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Courier Mail
Mundine wants to divide our country. Not unite it
dailytelegraph.com.au
Granted, there's no specific recognition of indigenous people in the lyrics — that could and should be addressed. But let's not junk the anthems just because of lines like “in history's page let every stage, Advance Australia Fair” or “for those who ...
'I'm trying to better Australia': MundineCourier Mail
Anthony Mundine won t stand for national anthem, Danny Green responds - Yahoo7Yahoo7 News
Anthony Mundine won't stand for Australia national anthemDaily Mail
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Central Western Daily
Standing up for unity in Australia
Central Western Daily
Mr Mundine has called the anthem “racist” and a theme song for the White Australia Policy. The decision has attracted many different opinions from both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. Orange Aboriginal Medical Service chief executive officer ...

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Catholic Leader
Religious sister named Senior Australian of the Year full of joy
Catholic Leader
IN accepting her award as 2017 Senior Australian of the Year, Sr Anne Gardiner did so “on behalf of all Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, who have lived and ministered among Australia's indigenous people for more than a century”. “I am most ...

ABC Online
Hip hop engages Indigenous teenagers in social change
ABC Online
Indigenous teenagers from across Australia are using hip hop and social media to bring attention to social issues affecting their communities. The B-Town Warriors, from Bourke High School in north-western New South Wales, have had their song People of ...

Architecture AU
Remote Indigenous settlements – more than tiny dots on a map
Architecture AU
Some communities have disintegrated into troubled social localities, but in this hidden part of Indigenous Australia, there are also many quiet achievers who have initiated projects that sustain residents, invigorate remote regions and drive the ...

Architecture AU
Remote Indigenous settlements – more than tiny dots on a map
Architecture AU
Australia has over one thousand discrete Indigenous settlements distributed over the continent and on its surrounding islands. Public debate over plans to cut government support to remote communities in Western Australia and the Northern Territory ...

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SBS
Where are our Aboriginal actors? - Indigenous cast removed from ...
SBS
Aboriginal stories may be told overseas, but the people telling them are hidden.
Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal AustraliaABC Online

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SBS
Where are our Aboriginal actors? - Indigenous cast removed from ...
SBS
Aboriginal stories may be told overseas, but the people telling them are hidden.
Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal AustraliaABC Online
'Skinny-ankled Noongar kid' takes charge of Health ACHIEVEMENTNational Indigenous Times

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National Indigenous Times
Top Indigenous players sweep into Broome SPORT
National Indigenous Times
A who's who of Indigenous footy stars will be in Broome for a four-day camp beginning today (February 1). Fifty-five players from clubs around Australia are gathering in the northern West Australian town to bond in player-led cultural development ...

SBS
Parrot pie and possum curry – how colonial Australians embraced native food
SBS
The relationship between European settlers and native Australian foodstuffs during the 19th century was a complex one. While the taste for native ingredients waxed and waned for the first century of European settlement, there's ample evidence to ...

Swinburne University of Technology
Funding restricts support for homeless Indigenous Australians
Swinburne University of Technology
Indigenous Australians experience homelessness at a rate 14 times higher than non-Indigenous Australians, yet current funding arrangements are making it difficult for support services to provide Indigenous people with the most appropriate assistance, ...

ABC Online
Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal Australia
ABC Online
There is now a higher proportion of Indigenous characters on Australian television than in the Australian population, and Aboriginal actor Mark Coles Smith can see the difference it is having on young people. Growing up in Broome in the far north-west ...

ABC Online
Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal Australia
ABC Online
A 2016 Screen Australia study found that while non-Anglo-Celtic characters were under-represented on Australian television, a significant exception was that Indigenous characters had come from nowhere to make up 5 per cent of on-screen characters, ...

A lawyer representing victims of child sexual abuse is calling on the Federal government to extend the term of the national royal commission. The final public hearing is due to start next week, when consultations will also begin on a national redress scheme. Jason Parkinson from Porters Lawyers told The World Today's Emily Bourke that he also has grave concerns that the scheme could compromise the common law rights of child abuse victims.

Townsville Bulletin
Indigenous elder turns 110
Townsville Bulletin
“His mum was an aboriginal woman named Minnie from the Kukatj tribe and his dad was a white book keeper at Magoura station where he was born. “The kind station manager would tell his dad when he knew the police were coming and Dad was allowed to ...

Townsville Bulletin
Indigenous elder turns 110
Townsville Bulletin
The former stockman known for his easygoing nature, celebrated his 110th birthday with family at his Kirwan home this week. He is the oldest living member of the Kukatj tribe of the Normanton area where he grew up mustering cattle with the early ...