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Inquiry can't overlook NT housing 'crisis'
9news.com.au
North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chief executive Priscilla Collins says governments can't turn a blind eye to the abysmal state of housing in the Territory. "Homelessness and overcrowding places additional pressure on relationships and makes ...

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Bulk bone metabarcoding to uncover early eating habits
Science Network Western Australia
Curtin PhD student Frederik Seersholm is planning to use a revolutionary approach called “Bulk Bone Metabarcoding” to analyse the eating habits of aboriginal people first arriving in Western Australia from East Asia and Africa around 50,000 years ago.

Scullion honours Indigenous diggers
Yahoo7 News
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has paid tribute to Aboriginal diggers who gave their lives for their country in overseas wars, despite not having the right to vote at home. Australians have gathered at Remembrance Day services across the ...

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Scullion honours Indigenous diggers
SBS
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has paid tribute to Aboriginal diggers who gave their lives for their country in overseas wars, despite not having the right to vote at home. Australians have gathered at Remembrance Day services across the ...

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Scullion honours Indigenous diggers
SBS
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has paid tribute to Aboriginal diggers who gave their lives for their country in overseas wars, despite not having the right to vote at home. Australians have gathered at Remembrance Day services across the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
The world game needs an Indigenous boost
The Sydney Morning Herald
Hopefully, they'll pick up the thread left by Football Federation Australia's decision to axe North Queensland Fury from the A-League five years ago – a knee-jerk move which took a hugely promising Indigenous program with it. Jade North was meant to be ...

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The Age
The world game needs an Indigenous boost
The Age
Hopefully, they'll pick up the thread left by Football Federation Australia's decision to axe North Queensland Fury from the A-League five years ago – a knee-jerk move which took a hugely promising Indigenous program with it. Jade North was meant to be ...

ABC Online
NoongarPedia created as first Wikipedia site in Aboriginal language
ABC Online
In Noongar country, in the south-west of Western Australia, researchers are building the first Wikipedia site in an Aboriginal Australian language. The Noongar people spoke their language for thousands of years — until, last century, it started to fade.

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ABC Online
NoongarPedia created as first Wikipedia site in Aboriginal language
ABC Online
In Noongar country, in the south-west of Western Australia, researchers are building the first Wikipedia site in an Aboriginal Australian language. The Noongar people spoke their language for thousands of years — until, last century, it started to fade.
'Noongarpedia' bringing a vanishing language to the webABC Technology and Games

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The Cairns Post
Pearson pulls support for Aurukun school
The Cairns Post
Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy Aurukun Campus. CYAAA led by Noel Pearson, is a program which aims to provided numeracy and literacy and to support Cape York's children's bicultural identity The school program incorporates the 5Cs in the ...

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Gizmodo Australia
Alice Springs Satellite Gets A Deadly Makeover
Gizmodo Australia
"We've built a very strong relationship with Geoscience Australia and I think what this project can show to the rest of Australia is that professional, locally-based Aboriginal organisations are capable and you can get these outcomes," Peter Renehan said.

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Alice Springs Satellite Gets A Deadly Makeover
Gizmodo Australia
In a world first, Geoscience Australia has painted an Indigenous artwork on its satellite antenna as part of a major upgrade – making the Alice Springs antenna unique in more ways than one. The upgraded Alice Springs antenna was commissioned today in a ...

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ABC Online
Remembrance Day: Private Miller Mack's 'spirit' to return home a century after he left for the Great War
ABC Online
Almost a century after he was buried in an unmarked, common grave in South Australia, the remains of an Aboriginal digger who fought in the Great War will be returned to his home. Private Miller Mack was buried in Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetery in ...

The New Daily
Possible 'first encounter' Aboriginal shield uncovered in Berlin
The New Daily
Aboriginal shield boomerang Berlin The boomerang found at the Berlin museum, believed to have been stolen by James Cook on April 29 1770. Photo: ABC/Dylan Wood. Mark Wilson, an Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools organisation involved in 'high risk' business practices ...
ABC Online
Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools Australia organisation has been involved in "high risk" business practices potentially leaving the schools open to possible fraud and official misconduct, according to a confidential government ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson withdraws support for troubled Aurukun school
ABC Online
Mr Pearson wrote to the Queensland Government today advising that the non-profit association he founded, Good to Great Schools Australia [GGSA], will cease "all negotiations in relation to Aurukun and any further provision of support to the school ...

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ABC Online
ASIC targets traders exploiting Aboriginal communities through dodgy credit practices
ABC Online
The court found that the owner of Nobby's Mintabie General Store in South Australia's APY Lands engaged in unconscionable and unlicensed conduct. 'Book up' is an informal credit used in many remote Aboriginal communities, that allows people to buy ...

ABC Online
ASIC targets traders exploiting Aboriginal communities through dodgy credit practices
ABC Online
The court found that the owner of Nobby's Mintabie General Store in South Australia's APY Lands engaged in unconscionable and unlicensed conduct. 'Book up' is an informal credit used in many remote Aboriginal communities, that allows people to buy ...

ABC Online
APY Lands shame: Shop took $1 million from Aborigines
The Advertiser
In a statement, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission said store owner Lindsay Gordon Kobelt's practices were “exploitative”, that he used the credit system to control his customers and what they bought, and to bind them to him and his ...
ASIC targets traders exploiting Aboriginal communities through dodgy credit practicesABC Online
Court lashes Mintabie store's unlicensed 'book-up' loansThe Australian

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New Matilda
South Australian Citizens' Jury Rejects International Nuclear Waste Dump Plan
New Matilda
Friends of the Earth Australia said: “The Premier said he will respect the views of Aboriginal Traditional Owners and it is clear that an overwhelming majority of Traditional Owners are opposed to the high-level nuclear waste dump plan. The Citizens ...

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