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Refugees in their own land: How Indigenous people are still homeless in modern Australia
SBS
Without anywhere that is home, Indigenous people have been without a physical space to reinvent themselves and their culture in modern Australia. Since colonisation, Aboriginal people have been internally displaced from their country. The doctrine of ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson denies insulting Queensland Education Minister Kate Jones
The Australian
He said any financial anomalies were the responsibility of the department. Aurukun's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy was shut down and teachers were evacuated in late May after increasing unrest, including the carjacking of its principal twice ...
Noel Pearson denies abusing Education Minister Kate JonesBrisbane Times

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Brisbane Times
Noel Pearson denies abusing Education Minister Kate Jones
Brisbane Times
Aurukun's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy was shut down and teachers were evacuated in late May after increasing unrest, including the car-jacking of its principal twice in a fortnight. The unrest sparked a review of the school's performance, ...
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ABC Online
How my family's lives were changed by Australia's wartime internment camps
ABC Online
Almost 300 Indigenous Australians were interned because they lived on a Cape York mission run by a German pastor. After the war the Aboriginal internees that hadn't perished were divided up: some were returned to the mission, now called Hopevale, and ...

ABC Online
Bingo! How transforming kids' first years sets them up for success
ABC Online
The centre has steadily grown to become the longest-running study of Indigenous mothers and their babies ever undertaken, not just in Australia but globally. Gomeroi gaaynggal now tracks the health of about 250 mothers and their children. But, in its ...

ABC Online
FASD: Record indigenous incarceration rates could be avoided with early clinical assessment: experts
ABC Online
Leading experts in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) believe Australia's record rates of Indigenous incarceration could be dramatically reduced if children were clinically assessed when their troubled behaviour first emerged in the classroom or at ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson seeks a meeting with ABC
The Australian
Supporting Mr Pearson's comments, the Prime Minister's indigenous Advisory Council chair Nyunggai Warren Mundine said the ABC's news and current affairs division had ignored economic development stories and was “trying to keep Aboriginal people in a ...

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The Australian
Fairytale on ice for prospective first indigenous Winter Olympian
The Australian
In this case, an indigenous boy from Sydney's Rooty Hill meets a Russian girl from Moscow and they form a figure-skating pair that wins a major junior international competition within a year. They are now on track for the next Winter Olympics, in South ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson seeks a meeting with ABC
The Australian
Asked if the ABC was reviewing its coverage in the wake of Mr Pearson's statement the broadcaster focused on “misery and bleeding tragedy”, the spokesman told The Australian: “The ABC reviews all of its content on a regular basis, including indigenous ...

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The Australian
Liquor trader yet to share millions with indigenous owners
The Australian
A company lobbying to wind back landmark alcohol restrictions in the troubled West Australian town of Fitzroy Crossing has failed to distribute millions of dollars in profits to its Aboriginal shareholders since it formed almost 30 years ago with ...

New Matilda
Fremantle To Cooktown: If You Thought Australia Day Was Offensive, You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
New Matilda
The Aboriginal actors featured in the video are from the nearby community of Hopevale, one of the poorest and most disadvantaged towns in the country. They're slipped a few bucks to participate (while the broader Aboriginal community overwhelmingly ...

NEWS.com.au
WA Australian of the Year Andrew Forrest, with wife Nicola and goddaughter Violet Bodney. Picture: Sharon Smith
NEWS.com.au
I work on prevention ... and I need Australian and WA society to come with me on a belief that vulnerable Australians, indigenous and non-indigenous, need guidance to make the right choices.” Mr Forrest was adamant all races had to respect that any ...

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ABC Online
WA Premier Colin Barnett calls Fremantle 'disloyal' for axing Australia Day celebrations
ABC Online
"Everyone understands the history and the debate about Australia Day but Australia Day is our national day, most Aboriginal groups accept it and history is put to one side. "Australia Day is now a day for all Australians — whatever their background ...

ABC Online
Sweet Country: Filmmaker Warwick Thornton returns to desert to share tale of rough justice in 1920s Australia
ABC Online
Thornton says the film is about a turning point in Australian history, and tells the story of a young boy, Philomac (played by twins Tremayne and Trevon Doolan), who witnesses an Aboriginal stockman, Sam Kelly (Hamilton Morris) kill a white station ...

Daily Mail
Natalie Imbruglia talks about meeting Indigenous Australians for the first time... after admitting she'd never ...
Daily Mail
Natalie Imbruglia admitted she'd never spoken to an Indigenous Australian before filming SBS documentary First Contact. But the Torn singer has revealed her experience on the controversial program has changed her thinking on the stolen generation.

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ABC Online
Stars, Aboriginal elders to watch over tiny farming community
ABC Online
Internationally renowned street artist Adnate, famous for this work with Aboriginal communities across Australia, is the man behind the artwork. "I grew up right in the city of Melbourne, and skateboarding and graffiti and all that was my childhood and ...

ABC Online
Stars, Aboriginal elders to watch over tiny farming community
ABC Online
Internationally renowned street artist Adnate, famous for this work with Aboriginal communities across Australia, is the man behind the artwork. "I grew up right in the city of Melbourne, and skateboarding and graffiti and all that was my childhood and ...

Perth Now
Twiggy wants 'measurable change'
Perth Now
The humble but big-thinking billionaire's agenda as West Australian of the Year is to ensure there is “measurable change” achieved in the next year to reduce indigenous disparity as well as to increase global fury against modern slavery. The new West ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Natalie Imbruglia returns to Australian television for First Contact
dailytelegraph.com.au
The 41-year-old, along with ex-One Nation politician David Oldfield, TV judge Ian “Dicko” Dickson, comedian Tom Ballard, former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris and actor Nicki Wendt visit remote Aboriginal communities decimated by drug and alcohol ...

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Brisbane Times
Proposed Indigenous cultural centre for Brisbane gathers support
Brisbane Times
It was first proposed three decades ago but Brisbane is still the only capital city in Australia without an Indigenous cultural centre. A group of inspired people, including a former Brisbane lord mayor, has now joined forces to develop the Meeanjin ...

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