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Model receives 'death threats' for doco
Perth Now
First Contact documents the journey of six Australian celebrities as they immerse themselves in “Aboriginal Australia” for 28 days. Former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris in First Contact. Renae Ayris with Natalie Imbruglia on SBS series First Contact.
Model's death threats over documentaryCourier Mail
Natalie Imbruglia: Why lie about my age?dailytelegraph.com.au

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Courier Mail
Model's death threats over documentary
Courier Mail
First Contact documents the journey of six Australian celebrities as they immerse themselves in “Aboriginal Australia” for 28 days. Ms Ayris, 26, said she felt “humiliated” when she watched her pre-show interview at the end of the series, as her views ...
Natalie Imbruglia: Why lie about my age?dailytelegraph.com.au

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Natalie Imbruglia: Why would I lie about my age?
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I don't think social media has been very helpful with that. My advice would be to love who you are and not compare yourself with other people. The SBS documentary series First Contact took you and five other celebrities on a journey into Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal Australians moving 'beyond the chains of history', says Stan Grant
ABC Online
He has written a Quarterly Essay, titled The Australian Dream, in which he describes the "largely untold" story of an emerging Indigenous middle-class in Australia. "It's something that's crept up on us, but we are now into the second or perhaps even ...
Increasing disadvantage for Indigenous Australians: key reportSBS
Interview: Stan Grant, ABC Indigenous Affairs editorABC Message Stick
Lack of account in $5.9bn indigenous spend 'beggars belief'The Australian
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ABC Online
Aboriginal Australians moving 'beyond the chains of history', says Stan Grant
ABC Online
He has written a Quarterly Essay, titled The Australian Dream, in which he describes the "largely untold" story of an emerging Indigenous middle-class in Australia. "It's something that's crept up on us, but we are now into the second or perhaps even ...
Stop silencing Aboriginal voices: BurneyNEWS.com.au
Aboriginal Australians' welfare 'stagnating or worsening'Medical Xpress
'Can an Aborigine be a Smiths fan? I can be whatever I damn like'The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Australian
Pilbara Big hART indigenous theatre project unites Roebourne community
The Australian
Rankin says such responses ignore deeper causes and novel solutions. Of juvenile detainees in Australia, 52 per cent are indigenous; for some deprived kids, he argues, jail time has become a rite of passage that includes the comfort of airconditioning ...

SBS
New push to rename McMillan over massacre history
SBS
Edinburgh-based author Cal Flynn discovered she was related to Angus McMillan when she began researching her family history. But she had no idea he had been implicated in the deaths of Aboriginal Australians. "It was after finding out that I had this ...

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SBS
Stop silencing Aboriginal voices: Linda Burney
SBS
Australia's first female Aboriginal MP Linda Burney has slammed the Turnbull government's "paternalistic" approach towards Indigenous people and demanded decision-making power be delivered back to the bush. "Inflicting policy decisions on Aboriginal ...

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SBS
Stop silencing Aboriginal voices: Linda Burney | SBS News
SBS
Labor frontbencher Linda Burney slams "paternalistic" government policy she says is aimed at silencing Aboriginal leaders.
Linda Burney: funding cuts delayed reporting of Don Dale abuses ...The Guardian

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ABC Online
Stop silencing Aboriginal voices: Burney
NEWS.com.au
"For all the talk of "Prime Ministers for Indigenous Affairs" and a bipartisan commitment to closing the gap, we are yet to see the progress we need," she said. Life expectancy for Aboriginal Australians is almost a decade shorter than the rest of the ...
Indigenous Australians' wellbeing 'stagnating or worsening', Productivity Commission report revealsABC Online
Aboriginal Australians' welfare 'stagnating or worsening'Medical Xpress
'Can an Aborigine be a Smiths fan? I can be whatever I damn like'The Sydney Morning Herald
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Bendigo Advertiser
First Contact review: Thank God for David Oldfield
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Before starting out on their 28-day immersion in Aboriginal Australia, each of the six "well-known" (SBS doesn't do celebrity) participants records an interview in which they lay out their preconceptions of the Aboriginal people and culture they have ...

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The Australian
The very
The Australian
The second moment of clarity required her to drop out of studies at the University of NSW for a time, disillusioned at her prospects, and go to work at the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board, first as a secretary and ...

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SBS
Government announces Indigenous-led review into remote housing
SBS
The Federal Government has announced an independent review into housing in Indigenous communities. "Overcrowding, homelessness and poor housing conditions in remote Australia remain unacceptably high," Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion ...

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SBS
Dutton Shocked To Discover All Non-Indigenous Citizens Are Immigrants
SBS
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton was reportedly shocked to receive a briefing today that classified all non-Indigenous citizens of Australia as technically immigrants. Mr Dutton was busy preparing for a press conference during which he aimed to expand ...

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Business Insider Australia
Australia's oldest piece of indigenous jewellery has been found in the Kimberleys
Business Insider Australia
Archaeologists have found Australia's oldest piece of indigenous jewellery, a pointed kangaroo bone worn through the nose, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The ornament has been dated at more than 46,000 years old and debunks a theory that ...

Indigenous-led review into remote housing
The West Australian
"Overcrowding, homelessness and poor housing conditions in remote Australia remain unacceptably high," Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said. Senator Scullion said the review would consult with indigenous communities and businesses, housing ...

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WAtoday
Inquiry into Aboriginal youth suicide says government is failing to act
WAtoday
Now an inquiry into Aboriginal youth suicide has found the Australian government is not implementing many of recommendations made to it in the past 15 years to cut the death rate. Released on Thursday by the Education and Health Standing Committee, ...

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Servant or Slave: documentary shines a light on chapter of Australia's modern history
ABC Online
The producers of a new documentary are hoping to shine a light on a little-known part of Australia's history. The film, 'Servant or Slave;, follows the lives of five Aboriginal women who were taken away from their families as children and trained to be ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal trackers in NSW given 'long overdue' recognition for law enforcement work
ABC Online
The contribution of Aboriginal trackers to the history of New South Wales is being recognised by NSW Police at a commemorative display in Goulburn, south-west of Sydney. The first recorded work of Aboriginal trackers in Australia was in 1834 near ...

The Australian Women's Weekly
Vinka Barunga will be the first Aboriginal doctor in her hometown
The Australian Women's Weekly
Last year, NITV's Living Black spent a week with Vinka, who hails from the small town of Derby, which sits at the gateway to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Derby has never had a full-time Aboriginal doctor, so the locals were understandably ...