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The Australian
Police to learn from Bowraville murders: homicide chief
The Australian
“In terms of the general way we approach indigenous homicide, my personal view is the lesson from cases like Bowraville is very important, and it's not just NSW, it's the way we respond to murders across Australia,” Mr Willing said. Police are expected ...

A former juvenile detainee says she feels relieved after speaking to the Royal Commission into Youth Detention and Child Protection in the Northern Territory. Lexi, 17, was among a small group of former juvenile inmates who attended a royal commission closed youth forum in Alice Springs this week. "It feels like a huge weight lifted off my shoulders, because telling this mob here so they can make a change to it, it makes me feel better," Lexi said. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/nt-youth-forum-hears-from-former-juvenile-detainees/7945020

Daily Mail
Aboriginal children terrorising NSW town Cowra after police shooting of accused thief
Daily Mail
Now the town is being terrorised by a mob of mostly Aboriginal children, believed to be as young as eight years old, who are raiding homes to steal jewellery, power tools and electronics, Daily Mail Australia can reveal. Handwritten notes have been ...

One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every year, say experts who estimate if the trend continues only 50 Indigenous languages will be left by the year 2050. Experts say Australia is in the midst of a national crisis as with each year elders die and take with them the knowledge of Indigenous languages. To try to capture these languages before it becomes too late, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has launched a foundation to record languages and songlines. Of more than 300 languages that existed pre-colonisation, fewer than half remain and all are considered endangered, many critically. Rachel Perkins, the president of the new foundation, said if action was not taken now the languages would be lost forever. "That would be a tragedy of enormous proportions," she said. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-19/race-to-save-indigenous-languages-as-they-fade-away/7946006?pfmredir=sm

ABC Online
WA Liberals field first lower house Indigenous candidate in a bid to take the Kimberley
ABC Online
The first Indigenous Liberal candidate for the West Australian lower house hopes to become the first Aboriginal Liberal state parliamentarian by winning the seat of Kimberley from Indigenous Labor MP Josie Farrer. Warren Greatorex is of Nyikina and ...

Huffington Post Australia
Australia's First Openly Gay, Indigenous Politician Has Some Advice For Aussies Coming Out
Huffington Post Australia
But for young indigenous and LGBTIQ Australians lacking such confidence, the newly elected member for Namatjira has some further words of consolation. He hasn't always stood so tall. "Quite often people talk about having pride and, for me, that has ...
I'm gay, I'm Indigenous, I'm proud: PaechNEWS.com.au
Australia's First Openly Gay Indigenous MP Delivered An Inspiring First Speech To NT ParliamentJunkee
First gay indigenous MP Chansey Paech gives maiden speechOUTinPerth
NewNowNext -The Australian Women's Weekly -Star Observer
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Bega District News
Light shed on history of Australia's first people
Bega District News
His book Dark Emu, which won Book of the Year at the 2016 NSW Premiers Literary Awards, argues about reconsidering the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Indigenous Australians. He said there was evidence Indigenous people across the continent were ...

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Herald Sun
Andrew Bolt on Bill Leak critics: Those supporting Charlie Hedbo free speech strangely quiet
Herald Sun
Leak is a gifted cartoonist with The Australian who in August reminded Australians of the shocking levels of child abuse in Aboriginal communities, with Aboriginal children 10 times more likely to need removing from dangerous parents. Bill Leak's ...

ABC Online
Foundation launches million-dollar plan to record Australia's songlines
ABC Online
To try to capture these languages before it becomes too late, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has launched a foundation to record languages and songlines. Of more than 300 languages that existed ...

ABC Online
Foundation launches million-dollar plan to record Australia's songlines
ABC Online
To try to capture these languages before it becomes too late, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has launched a foundation to record languages and songlines. Of more than 300 languages that existed ...

SBS
I'm gay, I'm Indigenous, I'm proud: Paech
SBS
Those were the words uttered by the newly elected member for Namatjira Chansey Paech in a stirring first speech at the opening of the new Northern Territory parliament. Australia's first openly gay, Indigenous politician said he was the face of the ...
Australia's First Openly Gay Indigenous MP Delivered An Inspiring First Speech To NT ParliamentJunkee
Australia's first openly gay Aboriginal MP delivers maiden speechStar Observer
First openly gay indigenous MP Chansey Paech gives maiden speechOUTinPerth
The Australian Women's Weekly -ABC Online -The Guardian
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Junkee
I'm gay, I'm Indigenous, I'm proud: Paech
NEWS.com.au
Those were the words uttered by the newly elected member for Namatjira Chansey Paech in a stirring first speech at the opening of the new Northern Territory parliament. Australia's first openly gay, indigenous politician said he was the face of the ...
Australia's First Openly Gay Indigenous MP Delivered An Inspiring First Speech To NT ParliamentJunkee
First gay indigenous MP Chansey Paech gives maiden speechOUTinPerth
'I am young, I am gay, I am black': First openly gay Indigenous MP delivers stirring maiden speechThe Australian Women's Weekly
Star Observer -The Guardian -ABC Online
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Star Observer
Australia's first openly gay Aboriginal MP delivers maiden speech
Star Observer
AUSTRALIA'S first openly gay Aboriginal member of parliament, Chansey Paech, has used his maiden speech to champion marriage equality and condemn homophobia in government. Speaking at the opening 13th parliament of the Northern Territory ...
I Am Young, I Am Gay, I Am Black: Australia's First Openly Gay Aboriginal Politician Enters ParliamentBuzzFeed News
'I am young, I am gay, I am black': 13th NT Parliament opens to ...ABC Online
'I am young, I am gay, I am black': 1st openly gay Indigenous MP's ...The Australian Women's Weekly
The Australian
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Golf Australia
Crawley, Fahey control Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander champs
Golf Australia
Stunning weather greeted participants of the 2016 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Championships at Nudgee Golf Club today. With the course in beautiful condition, a couple of Maroochy River Golf Club members took control of both the men's and ...

Golf Australia
Crawley, Fahey control Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander champs
Golf Australia
Stunning weather greeted participants of the 2016 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Championships at Nudgee Golf Club today. With the course in beautiful condition, a couple of Maroochy River Golf Club members took control of both the men's and ...

Junkee
Australia's First Openly Gay Indigenous MP Delivered An Inspiring ...
Junkee
Labor MP Chansey Paech has declared his pride at being Australia's first openly gay Indigenous parliamentarian. Speaking yesterday during the first sitting of ...
I'm gay, I'm Indigenous, I'm proud: PaechSBS
'I am young, I am gay, I am black': 1st openly gay Indigenous MP's ...The Australian Women's Weekly
'I am young, I am gay, I am black': 13th NT Parliament opens to ...ABC Online

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Brighton and Hove News
Australian Aboriginal remains begin long journey home
Birmingham Newsroom
A collection of Aboriginal remains discovered at the University of Birmingham and at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, were handed back to traditional custodians from Australia in a spiritual ceremony last week (14 October 2016). The ancestral remains ...
Cup made from aboriginal man's skull returned to Australia for burialBrighton and Hove News

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The Australian
Atlantic Philanthropies project to boost indigenous leadership
The Australian
The University of Melbourne last week became the lead institution for one of the biggest single philanthropic projects in Australian history. The size, scale and ambition of the $160 million, 20-year project are breathtaking. And it's pure Atlantic ...

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The Australian
Bill Leak cartoon: the war on free speech has just begun
The Australian
Free speech is always a first-order priority — because, without it, you can't truly discuss any of the others. Dalrymple's diagnosis — that political correctness is to thought as “sentimentality is to compassion” — applies surely to Australian ...
Je suis Bill Leak: where is the Left now?Herald Sun (blog)
Abbott tweets to re-open debate on 18cSky News Australia

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He was an Aboriginal stockman, turned world war two guerrilla fighter. It’s a story that reads like the plot of an action film, but it’s actually the remarkably true tale of a local from the WA Goldfields. James Brennan was an Aboriginal stockman from Laverton whose life was shaped by battles at home and abroad. He was born into battle between settlers and Aboriginal people in the northern Goldfields, and when world war two erupted, he enlisted to fight, where once again, it was a battle that defined the next chapter of his life. ABC - Full Report http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-17/james-brennan-in-uniform/7935070