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SBS
Shadow Trackers: Hunting monsters in the unexplored Australia
SBS
But one question that isn't asked often enough is how truly Australian this fear is. In watching Shadow Trackers, a new SBS documentary series focusing on two Indigenous myth and monster hunters, you quickly come to realise that our First Peoples have ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal communities struggle with world's highest rheumatic heart disease rates
ABC Online
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is completely preventable, but children in Australian Aboriginal communities still have the highest rate in the world. Six years ago, 12-year-old Paddy Cahill told his parents he did not want to go to school because his ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal communities struggle with world's highest rheumatic heart disease rates
ABC Online
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is completely preventable, but children in Australian Aboriginal communities still have the highest rate in the world. Six years ago, 12-year-old Paddy Cahill told his parents he did not want to go to school because his ...

Manila Bulletin
Discovering the past: Australian Embassy holds exhibit showcasing Indigenous Australians of Filipino descent
Manila Bulletin
Aside from marking the 70th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Philippines and Australia, the exhibit aims to raise awareness that there is a deep historical Australian indigenous connection between the two countries, even before they ...

TheBull.com.au
Australian Ethical members help choose recipients for $260K in community grants
TheBull.com.au
Founder and CEO of ELP, Laura Egan, said; “We're thrilled to have the Ethical Super community join us in fostering grassroots enterprise in remote Australia! The Aboriginal communities we partner with are bursting to share their stories and their ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
On the move: latest appointments and resignations
ArtsHub (subscription)
Six architects have been shortlisted to deliver a new Masterplan for Boyd's iconic south coast property at Bundanon. Indigenous remains returned to Australia. The UK is relinquishing the remains of 13 Aboriginal Australians which will be handed over in ...

Community Newspaper Group
Reigning Miss NAIDOC out to change perceptions about media coverage of indigenous Australians
Community Newspaper Group
FRUSTRATED with the overwhelmingly negative media coverage surrounding indigenous Australians, Applecross resident, Noongar and reigning Miss NAIDOC Shelley Cable set out to change perceptions. After joining forces with friend Mikayla King ...

Australia's status as a bastion of free speech is in peril
The Australian
Returning to Australia from Malaysia some years ago shortly after being threatened with a charge of sedition over my reporting as a foreign correspondent, I felt a sense of relief that I was back in a county where freedom of the press prevailed. But it ...

Courier Mail
Cartoon persecution is just not funny
Courier Mail
He sent it off to The Australian. The next day, Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, who earns around 300 grand, got up, saw the cartoon, and posted it on Facebook, urging Aboriginal Australians to complain to the Human Rights ...

New Matilda
The Silver Lining When Bill Leak Wins His Racial Discrimination Case
New Matilda
You win some, you lose some. And New Matilda editor Chris Graham thinks Aboriginal Australia is about to lose small, but ultimately win big. In case you've been living under a rock, cartoonist for The Australian newspaper, Bill Leak is being taken to ...

FOOD Magazine - Australia
Revealing the science of Aboriginal fermentation
FOOD Magazine - Australia
Wine researchers at the University of Adelaide are investigating the traditional practices of Australian Aboriginal people in producing fermented beverages and foods. Although referred to in early European texts, little is known about the processes ...

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WAtoday
Celebrations mark 400 years since Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed in WA
WAtoday
White settlement and the declaration of Terra Nullus followed and effectively erased Aboriginal history in Australia from the public consciousness, until recent years when movements to revise and widen understanding of the nation's heritage began. Ms ...

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The Australian
Separation, not integration, will result from recognition
The Australian
Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders see themselves as “first peoples” whose ancestral status gives them ownership and jurisdiction over Aboriginal land. They do not regard the existing Australian nation as their true country. They describe the ...

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Herald Sun
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre applauds Kingborough Council's Australia Day date shift bid
Herald Sun
Flinders Island Council has celebrated Australia Day on an alternative date for several years. “This issue is not going to go away,” Ms Sculthorpe said. “To have an official change will require the Commonwealth to do it, but they are not in a hurry to ...

The Mercury
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre applauds Kingborough Council's Australia Day date shift bid
The Mercury
Flinders Island Council has celebrated Australia Day on an alternative date for several years. “This issue is not going to go away,” Ms Sculthorpe said. “To have an official change will require the Commonwealth to do it, but they are not in a hurry to ...

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The Mercury
Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre applauds Kingborough Council's Australia Day date shift bid
The Mercury
She said Australia Day celebrated the invasion of one people's land by another people and ignored the previous 40,000 years of indigenous culture. “There has been no treaty to mark the end of hostilities, there's been no negotiation of the terms on ...

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The Guardian
Business must help with social reform: Ken Henry
The Australian
Dr Henry, the board's latest recruit, said he wanted to help new indigenous businesses on Cape York manage risk and become financially resilient. Since bowing out as Treasury secretary in 2012 he has been appointed to head the board of National ...
Noel Pearson hits out at political parties for 'welfare reform failure'The Guardian

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The Australian
18C debate: Media needs freedom to cover all indigenous affairs
The Australian
Even worse, Cronin admits that for a time the impact of section 18C meant he considered having West Australian Newspapers abandon its coverage of Aboriginal affairs. Cronin's view has been informed by his struggle to defend a cartoon by Paul Zanetti ...

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The Australian
18C debate: Media needs freedom to cover all indigenous affairs
The Australian
Even worse, Cronin admits that for a time the impact of section 18C meant he considered having West Australian Newspapers abandon its coverage of Aboriginal affairs. Cronin's view has been informed by his struggle to defend a cartoon by Paul Zanetti ...

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A former employee of the Northern Territory Department of Children and Families says that senior people within the department often fail to act in the best interest of Aboriginal children caught up in the system. Kimberley Hunter a Nygina man from the Kimberley region of Western Australia told the Royal Commission's Alice Springs community consultation into the Protection and Detention of Children that although he has spent 30 years trying to help his people while working alongside the justice system ....it was his time working with Children and Families that left him the most concerned. Speaking on CAAMA radio Mr Hunter says the process of bringing children into the department set alarm bells ringing ... but despite expressing his thoughts on a range of issues ... the numbers continued to grow.