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Should we celebrate Australia Day? Debate over backlash builds
The New Daily
The Fremantle controversy has reignited debate on the appropriateness of Australia Day celebrations, a subject that attracted international headlines back in 1988. On that occasion, Australian Bicentenary Day, revered Indigenous figure Burnum Burnum ...
The Federal Government Is Threatening Fremantle Over Its Australia Day Ceremony Date ChangeJunkee
Federal Government in major stoush over Australia DayStarts at 60

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Between the 1790's to the 1870's, many shipwreck survivors and convict escapees managed to survive after being taken in by Australia's Indigenous communities. Living with the Locals tells the stories of some of these men, women and children. Authors John Maynard and Victoria Haskins join Patricia Karvelas in The Drawing Room. John Maynard is the Director at the Wollotuka Institute of Aboriginal Studies, University of Newcastle and Chair of Indigenous History Victoria Haskins is an Historian at the University of Newcastle ABC RN 'The Drawing Room', Producer Barbara Heggen IMAGE: 'William Buckley introduces himself to Batman's party' (State Library of Victoria) - Image touched up - to view the image in its origibal state see: - http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/image/8075534-3x2-700x467.jpg Source link: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drawingroom/living-with-the-locals/8075512

Indigenous Fire Management in Savannah
ABC Online (blog)
At a recent symposium conducted by the Institute of Foresters in Mount Gambier two women presented a paper on indigenous management of fire in savannah grasslands, particularly in the Tiwi islands. Dr Hilary Smith and PhD candidate Michelle Freeman ...

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Green Left Weekly
New study shows how Aboriginal people view white Australians
Green Left Weekly
As someone who lives in Darwin, surrounded by Aboriginal people speaking their own languages and inevitably confronted almost daily by the racist attitudes that abound in towns with high populations of Aboriginal people, reading the report is ...

Sky News Australia
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim - Sky News
Sky News Australia
A man deported to New Zealand over links to biker gangs now believes he has Aboriginal heritage.
AFL player Dustin Martin's bikie dad wants to return to Australia ...Daily Mail
Racism banned, except the legal kindHerald Sun (blog)

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Sky News Australia
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim
Sky News Australia
One of the most high-profile people deported under section 501 of the Immigration Act says he should be allowed back into Australia because he is of Aboriginal descent. Shane Martin, born in New Zealand, had his visa cancelled in March this year over ...

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The Federal Government's remote work-for-the-dole scheme is devastating Indigenous communities, with financial penalties causing insurmountable debt and social division, a report has found. Media player: "Space" to play, "M" to mute, "left" and "right" to seek. 00:00 00:00 AUDIO: Remote work-for-the-dole scheme failing Indigenous communities: report (PM) The Australian National University researchers described Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion's Community Development Programme (CDP) as a "policy disaster". ANU researcher and co-author Dr Kirrily Jordan said financial penalties were being applied unfairly and an example of this could be found in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in Western Australia. "The rental arrears across the whole lands, across 12 communities, have gone up from $50,000 to $350,000, in the short space of time since CDP's been introduced," she said. ANU researcher Dr Inge Kral said she had spent 30 years working in remote communities and the latest scheme had left people struggling to feed themselves. "People with no money in families, there's no money for food, there's certainly no money for clothes — people are starving, people are begging," she said. "The whole infrastructure around stores is collapsing because there isn't the reliable secure income coming in." More: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-02/remote-work-for-the-dole-scheme-failling-indigenous-communities/8089004

Sky News Australia
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim
Sky News Australia
One of the most high-profile people deported under section 501 of the Immigration Act says he should be allowed back into Australia because he is of Aboriginal descent. Shane Martin, born in New Zealand, had his visa cancelled in March this year over ...

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Sky News Australia
Deported man makes Aboriginal descent claim
Sky News Australia
One of the most high-profile people deported under section 501 of the Immigration Act says he should be allowed back into Australia because he is of Aboriginal descent. Shane Martin, born in New Zealand, had his visa cancelled in March this year over ...

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NT News
Hey Dave, please piss off home
NT News
His views on Aboriginal Australia were as shocking as the fact that he's still deemed relevant enough to be invited on a reality TV program to begin with. I guess Hotdogs from Big Brother wasn't available. Here's one of his more disgusting comments ...

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The Guardian
Lack of progress on Aboriginal deaths in custody 'unforgivable'
The Guardian
... put into the commission, which ran from 1987 to 1991. “It's really unforgivable, I think, that we have seen the failure to commit to implementing the recommendations of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody,” she told Guardian ...

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AB Original's 'Reclaim Australia'
The Saturday Paper (subscription)
Reclaim Australia by A. B. Original is the most exciting record released by an Australian artist this year. An incendiary album of agit-prop hip-hop, the beats slam hard and the raps slam even harder. This aggressive, uncompromising and brutally honest ...

ABC Local
Reviving Australia's Indigenous Languages
ABC Local
While most of Australia speaks English today, there was a time when hundreds of different languages were spoken across the continent. Only around 20 indigenous languages are still spoken in Australia but teachers and linguists around the country are ...

The Australian
Windschuttle takes detour on Constitutional recognition for Aborigines
The Australian
Windschuttle's main thrust in The Break-Up of Australia is that the call for a reconciliation with the indigenous people through a national treaty and recognition of them in an amendment to the Constitution would be so difficult and risk so many bad ...

The Australian
Newsmen honoured for indigenous deaths stories
The Australian
Three journalists from The Australian have been recognised as the country's best in their fields, winning Walkley Awards for a radio podcast and series of newspaper articles about the unsolved murders of three indigenous children in Bowraville, NSW.

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The Australian
Stan Grant's Quarterly Essay tackles the definition of Aboriginal Australia
The Australian
In his recent memoir Talking to My Country, indigenous journalist Stan Grant let fly with a barely contained fury, an anguished, laser-sharp attack on the forcible silencing of his people: names, languages, whole nations disappeared in a relatively ...

The Australian
Stan Grant's Quarterly Essay tackles the definition of Aboriginal Australia
The Australian
That address, in which he levelled the simple charge that the Australian Dream was “rooted in racism”, resonated so deeply with both black and white Australia, it became a “weight” for him to bear. Many indigenous people felt that in telling his family ...

The Australian
Credits where credit's due for frequent fires program
The Australian
Qantas's business relationship with the Dambimangari and three other indigenous groups across the Kimberley is part of a bigger trend monitored by the Business Council of Australia. While new data from the council's latest survey on indigenous ...

Perth Now
Is this free speech or hate speech?
Perth Now
His views on Aboriginal Australia were as shocking as the fact that he's still deemed relevant enough to be invited a reality TV program to begin with. Here's one of his more disgusting comments: “Frankly it (Aboriginal Australia) should have died out ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)
Is this free speech or hate speech?
dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)
His views on Aboriginal Australia were as shocking as the fact that he's still deemed relevant enough to be invited a reality TV program to begin with. Here's one of his more disgusting comments: “Frankly it (Aboriginal Australia) should have died out ...

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