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Pridham donates $5m to UniSA
The Australian
Investment banker and Sydney Swans chair Andrew Pridham will today donate $5 million to his alma mater, the University of South Australia, to help with major building works and provide scholarships to indigenous students and elite international athletes.

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'Separatism' through indigenous recognition an irrational fear
The Australian
Last Saturday, Inquirer ran an extract from Keith Windschuttle's new book, The Break-Up of Australia: The Real Agenda Behind Aboriginal Recognition, which contends that indigenous activists seek constitutional recognition because it will lead to ...

The story of colonial Australia is as much a story of dispossession as it is of settlement, and dispossession often went hand in hand with terrible brutality. As a result, a great many regions of Australia have massacres of Indigenous peoples woven into their story—some are widely acknowledged, some will never be fully known, and others are sources of historical argument. And so today we’re looking at a violent incident that occurred in Western Australia 178 years ago, in which 21 Nyoongar people were killed in a raid by mounted troops. The place was Pinjarra, about an hour’s drive south of Perth—and the event is variously known as the ‘Battle of Pinjarra’ or the 'Pinjarra Massacre’. And this is the point, because language and labels are powerful, and an event’s meaning in history can be summed up in a single name. Only in the last 15 to 20 years have the circumstances of the killings in 1834 been scrutinised and the evidence makes the conventional white story look very shaky. It’s the basis of a website and of a stage production called Bindjareb Pinjarra which is now on a national tour of Australia.

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Listen or lose it: Indigenous community threatens to close Uluru | NITV
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A remote Indigenous community near Uluru has threatened to "close the rock" if their voices aren't heard and people continue to live in poverty.

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Turnbull calls Australia's domestic violence 'a disgrace'
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$25 million for services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians experiencing family violence. $15 million to improve and expand national domestic and family violence services. This includes developing innovative and collaborative service ...
Malcolm Turnbull declares: Bill Leak is not a racistThe Guardian
Domestic violence action plan to focus on indigenous women, kidsThe Australian
Quit the sexist jokes: TurnbullThe Australian Financial Review
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PM calls Australia's domestic violence "a disgrace"
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$25 million for services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians experiencing family violence. $15 million to improve and expand national domestic and family violence services. This includes developing innovative and collaborative service ...
Domestic violence action plan to focus on indigenous women, kidsThe Australian
Quit the sexist jokes: TurnbullThe Australian Financial Review
Malcolm Turnbull puts family violence talks with states back on agendaThe Guardian

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Call for nationwide Indigenous Hepatitis B vaccinations
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are at significant increased risk of Hepatitis B, according to a new World Health Organisation report. Its authors say that with the higher rate of Hepatitis B for Indigenous Australians - 3.6 cases per ...

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Stan Grant to join ABC as editor of Indigenous Affairs
ABC Online
Stan Grant, one of Australia's best known and most respected journalists, is joining ABC News as an editor of Indigenous Affairs coverage. Starting in December, Grant will lead and drive ABC News's coverage of Indigenous Affairs, overseeing planning ...
ABC axes Friday edition of 7.30 programThe Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC axes Friday edition of 7.30 program
The Sydney Morning Herald
Grant – a media veteran with experience domestically and internationally, including roles at CNN, NITV, Sky News and Guardian Australia – has forged a reputation for his powerful writing and speeches on discrimination against Aboriginal Australians.

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Overhaul crisis-hit NT jail system: report
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A scathing report on the Northern Territory's correctional system calls for a complete overhaul to address a "devastating" crisis unfolding for Indigenous Australians. NT attorney-general and justice minister Natasha Fyles released the executive ...
'Gross over-representation' of Indigenous people in NT jails a 'crisis of devastating proportions': Hamburger reportABC Online

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A 'Trojan Horse' adventure film: Motorkite Dreaming heads to Dungog
Inside Film
But underlying all the chutzpah, froth and bubble was a story about Aboriginal Australia," said Hill-Smith. “The Trojan Horse narrative thing is that it look walks, flies and quacks like an adventure duck, but it's actually a cross-cultural film.” The ...

Aboriginal artist competes on race day
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Sims is the chairman of the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, based in Yuendumu, Central Australia. He's been practising art since the early 1990s and wants to set an example for the next generation. "I want to teach young indigenous people ...

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Aboriginal artist competes on race day
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Indigenous artist Otto Sims thought his first foray into fashion would be a tuxedo for himself, but now he's betting his Melbourne Cup design will be the dress that stops a nation. With the help of Australian designers Amanda McMillan and Brigida ...

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Aboriginal and non-indigenous relationship has deteriorated: Pat Dodson
The West Australian
WA Senator Pat Dodson says relations between Aboriginal and non-indigenous Australians have deteriorated and could soon rival the conditions that prompted the Deaths in Custody Royal Commission of 1987. “Before the Royal Commission, there was ...
Indigenous incarceration a 'national tragedy': George Brandis ... - ABCABC Online
Aboriginal jail rates a tragedy: BrandisSBS
Warren Mundine slams 'joke' inquiry into Indigenous incarcerationThe Sydney Morning Herald
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Top 20 names for Indigenous babies 2016
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With our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population making up such a small percentage of overall Australia, the most common or 'trending' names in Indigenous communities are submerged into the culture of the wider Australia only. Although an ...

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When Australian cricket was a relief from Indigenous misery - The Age
The Age
Across the dreaming grasslands of western Victoria, in the shadow of the mountain range named by homesick Scottish settlers The Grampians and Gariwerd by ...

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When Australian cricket was a relief from Indigenous misery
The Age
It has taken 150 years, but Cricket Australia and the Melbourne Cricket Club are finally honouring that near-forgotten period. The 1868 Aboriginal cricket team that toured England. Tom Wills is in the back row, centre, in the white jacket. Photo ...

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Threats to make Uluru off-limits to tourists
NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal suicides are at record levels in remote Australia, and the Territory has the highest youth suicide rates in the world. On Thursday, federal Attorney-General George Brandis announced an Australia-wide inquiry to examine the “national tragedy ...

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Threats to make Uluru off-limits to tourists
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The Australian Law Reform Commission will be asked to examine the factors leading to the over-representation of indigenous Australians in the country's prison system. Residents filled a whiteboard with ideas to help the community, and the first ...
Threats to close Uluru to touristsPerth Now

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Daily Mail
Kalgoorlie Mayor says each Aboriginal generation 'gets worse and worse'
Daily Mail
A local mayor from a regional town in Western Australia has claimed each generation of Aboriginal people 'gets a little worse than the one before'. Kalgoorlie Mayor, John Bowler, defended the small town's lack of drop-in centre for young people while ...

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