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NSW leads the way to protecting Aboriginal languages
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NSW Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Leslie Williams says this is the first act of its kind in Australia and that NSW is paving the way for the future. "Aboriginal people who speak their language are healthier, Aboriginal children learning an ...
NSW to become first state to pass laws protecting Indigenous languagesThe Border Mail
Aboriginal languages in NSW to be protected by legislation, Minister saysABC Online

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The Age
Refugee advocate Paris Aristotle named 2017 Victorian Australian of the Year
The Age
Meanwhile indigenous educator Lois Peeler, 72, was named Victorian Senior Australian of the Year. Ms Peeler was a member of wartime pop group the Sapphires, which inspired the movie hit of the same name. An elder of the Yorta Yorta people, she's also ...

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The Age
Refugee advocate Paris Aristotle named 2017 Victorian Australian of the Year
The Age
Paris Aristotle, who has spent decades advocating for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, has been named 2017 Victorian Australian of the Year at a ceremony at Melbourne's Government House. In 1988 Mr Aristotle was a community development ...
Refugee advocate Paris Aristotle named Victoria's 2017 Australian of the YearSBS

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Perth Now
Australia ignorant on Aboriginals: Barnett
Perth Now
WA Premier Colin Barnett says most of Australia is ignorant about a social crisis in which more Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children live in state care despite indigenous people representing well under seven per cent of the population. New figures ...

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Perth Now
Australia ignorant on Aboriginals: Barnett
Perth Now
I don't think the rest of Australia understands the severity of some of the issues faced not exclusively in Aboriginal communities but predominantly and increasingly Aboriginal children." A 12-year-old Perth indigenous boy, who was 11 when arrested ...
It's time to invest in carbon farming on Aboriginal lands | Rowan FoleyThe Guardian

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Sky News Australia
Australia ignorant on Indigenous: Barnett
Sky News Australia
WA Premier Colin Barnett says most of Australia is ignorant about a social crisis in which more Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children live in state care despite indigenous people representing well under seven per cent of the population. New figures ...
It's time to invest in carbon farming on Aboriginal lands | Rowan FoleyThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Australia ignorant on Aboriginals: Barnett
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I don't think the rest of Australia understands the severity of some of the issues faced not exclusively in Aboriginal communities but predominantly and increasingly Aboriginal children," Mr Barnett said. A 12-year-old Perth indigenous boy, who was 11 ...
It's time to invest in carbon farming on Aboriginal lands | Rowan ...The Guardian

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The Guardian
Australia ignorant on Aboriginals: Barnett
The Australian
WA Premier Colin Barnett says most of Australia is ignorant about a social crisis in which more Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children live in state care despite indigenous people representing well under seven per cent of the population. New figures ...
It's time to invest in carbon farming on Aboriginal lands | Rowan FoleyThe Guardian

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Australia ignorant on Aboriginals: Barnett
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WA Premier Colin Barnett says most of Australia is ignorant about a social crisis in which more Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children live in state care despite indigenous people representing well under seven per cent of the population. New figures ...

The Guardian
Australia ignorant on Aboriginals: Barnett
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WA Premier Colin Barnett says most of Australia is ignorant about a social crisis in which more Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children live in state care despite indigenous people representing well under seven per cent of the population. New figures ...
It's time to invest in carbon farming on Aboriginal lands | Rowan FoleyThe Guardian

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Australian Aboriginal culture is widely recognised as the oldest living culture in the world, but have you ever wondered what it was like for Aboriginal Australians to live by the stars? The latest study in Aboriginal astronomy has found a site that could be older than Stonehenge, and even pre-date the Great Pyramids of Giza. We talk to Dr Duane Hamacher from Monash University, and Jesse Fleay, PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University. Speaking Out with Larissa Behrendt ABC RN

Yahoo7 News
Cigarettes favoured over fruit in outback
Yahoo7 News
Customers spent 4.4 times more on cigarettes than fruit and vegetables in 2015/16. Lung cancer is the highest-ranked cancer type among indigenous people, but the fourth-ranked for non-indigenous Australians. An incentive program to improve community ...

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Cigarettes favoured over fruit in outback
The West Australian
Customers spent 4.4 times more on cigarettes than fruit and vegetables in 2015/16. Lung cancer is the highest-ranked cancer type among indigenous people, but the fourth-ranked for non-indigenous Australians. An incentive program to improve community ...

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ABC Online
“I felt degraded, humiliated”: meet the woman who took Bill Leak's cartoon to the Human Rights Commission
ABC Online
Meanwhile, 25-year-old Indigenous Australian student Melissa Dinnison was reeling when she saw Bill Leak's cartoon. “I felt pretty degraded and humiliated, it deeply affected me to be honest. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep. I wanted to quit my degree ...
Chipping away at freedom of speech harms democracyThe Australian
In defence of Bill LeakSBS

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ABC Online
“I felt degraded, humiliated”: meet the woman who took Bill Leak's cartoon to the Human Rights Commission
ABC Online
Meanwhile, 25-year-old Indigenous Australian student Melissa Dinnison was reeling when she saw Bill Leak's cartoon. “I felt pretty degraded and humiliated, it deeply affected me to be honest. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep. I wanted to quit my degree ...

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Brisbane Times
Queensland no longer Australia's fattest state, report finds
Brisbane Times
... warned the state couldn't simply keep adding more beds to solve the problem. The report also showed a narrowing gap between non-indigenous and indigenous health outcomes, but pregnant indigenous women were over-represented in smoking rates.
Qld indigenous life expectancy improvingNEWS.com.au

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ABC Online
Aboriginal languages in NSW to be protected by legislation, Minister says
ABC Online
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Leslie Williams said Indigenous languages were a "unique and valuable part of our heritage" and legislation could benefit the community. "We know that the Aboriginal Protection Board removed Aboriginal children from their ...
NSW to become first state to pass laws protecting Indigenous languagesIllawarra Mercury

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SBS
The many worlds of Australian Indigenous children's literature
SBS
Children's stories by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and illustrators are funny, sad, thoughtful, silly, profound, and joyous. As an Aboriginal author and illustrator, people so often ask me where they can find out more about Indigenous ...

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The many worlds of Australian Indigenous children's literature | SBS ...
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Enter into our worlds on our terms, and listen to our voices speaking of our realities.”
Former Miss Universe Australia defends 'ignorant' comments about Indigenous peopleMashable
It's time to invest in carbon farming on Aboriginal lands | Rowan ...The Guardian

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Independent Australia
Australia has lost its cultural identity
Independent Australia
Aboriginal Australians also worked in a wide range of occupations: as interpreters, concubines, trackers, troopers, servants, nursemaids, labourers, stock workers and pearl divers. What is also overlooked is that they are the oldest living culture on ...