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Pro Bono Australia
Relationships, Respect and Trust Key to Engagement with Indigenous Employees
Pro Bono Australia
For some Indigenous Australians, the decision to share their heritage to employers and colleagues has been, and continues to be, a difficult one, as we heard at the recent launch of Diversity Council Australia's new Building Workplace Capability for ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Relationships, Respect and Trust Key to Engagement with Indigenous Employees
Pro Bono Australia
A lot can be done to build workplaces that make the most of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent, writes Diversity Council Australia CEO Lisa Annese. Have you ever really considered the implications of ticking yes to the question, “Are you ...

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cricket.com.au
CA, CommBank make landmark investment
cricket.com.au
Women's cricket, Australia's Indigenous players and players with a disability are the big winners after Cricket Australia and Commonwealth Bank announced a record investment today in Sydney. The landmark deal is the single largest investment in women's ...

The Australian
Use of section 18C is out of hand, says Tony Abbott
The Australian
Mr Abbott's comments came as indigenous adviser Warren Mundine yesterday criticised a complaint against Leak and The Australian under section 18C. The complaint to the Human Rights Commission was prompted by a cartoon that portrayed a crisis in ...
Bill Leak Faces Allegations Of Racial Discrimination Over *That* CartoonPedestrian TV

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The Australian
Use of section 18C is out of hand, says Tony Abbott
The Australian
Anthony Dillon, a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Catholic University whose father, Collin Dillon, was Australia's first Aboriginal police officer, also said he did not believe 18C should exist in its current form. “Any law that is premised on ...
Je suis Bill Leak: where is the Left now?Herald Sun (blog)

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ABC Online
Warlpiri people unite under desert skies for epic Indigenous dance performance
ABC Online
Hundreds of Warlpiri people came together for an epic cultural dance performance under the stars on the North Tanami Desert in Central Australia, on Saturday night. The biennial event, known as Milpirri, started in 2005 in Lajamanu and was born out of ...

The Guardian
Mike Baird's government to return Goat Island to Indigenous owners
The Guardian
The New South Wales government is taking steps to return Goat Island, known by the traditional owners as Me-mel, to the Aboriginal people, and has established a working group to establish how management of the island can be handed over. Aboriginal ...

The Guardian
Mike Baird's government to return Goat Island to Indigenous owners
The Guardian
The New South Wales government is taking steps to return Goat Island, known by the traditional owners as Me-mel, to the Aboriginal people, and has established a working group to establish how management of the island can be handed over. Aboriginal ...

Independent Australia
Aboriginal suicide at crisis levels and the nation should weep
Independent Australia
These are the words of a six-year-old Noongar child. Australia remains hostage to its racism, imperiously denying the grim reality. This racism plays out in an oppressor/oppressed dichotomy ruthlessly holding people hostage to "assimilate or perish ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The limits of sport's influence
The Sydney Morning Herald
Outside football, non-Aboriginal Australians – and by that I specifically mean non-Aboriginal Australians of all races, colours and creeds – display little active interest in Aboriginal Australia. We all know this to be true – it's our secret shame ...

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ABC Online
Perth entrepreneurs left frustrated by Indigenous business agency ...
ABC Online
A Federal Government agency set up to help Indigenous businesses grow comes under fire from the sector it was meant to support.

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ABC Online
Perth entrepreneurs left frustrated by Indigenous business agency
ABC Online
Two West Australian companies say their plans to expand in Australia and overseas are in jeopardy because Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) will not provide them with financial support. Two years ago entrepreneur Dwayne Rowland took a gamble and ...

The Guardian (blog)
Why Australia Day and Anzac Day helped create a national 'cult of forgetfulness'
The Guardian (blog)
I've written before about how governor Lachlan Macquarie (monstrous in his treatment of Indigenous people) was responsible for creating the cult of white imperial/colonial self-congratulation that evolved from his “foundation day” into Australia Day ...

Herald Sun
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Herald Sun
Ms Lees, 43, met with Aboriginal elders in the central Australian town of Ti Tree in August to discuss plans for what she calls a “Keeping Travellers Safe” memorial to Mr Falconio, who was executed on the Stuart Highway by Bradley Murdoch on July 14, 2001.
Joanne Lees 'secretly' returns to Australia to raise money for Peter Falconio's memorialYahoo7 News
Joanne Lees 'back in Australia to raise money for memorial to murdered boyfriend Peter Falconio'The Sun
Joanne Lees 'secretly returned to Australia to honour Peter Falconio with memorial'Daily Mail
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The Age
The limits of sport's influence
The Age
Outside football, non-Aboriginal Australians – and by that I specifically mean non-Aboriginal Australians of all races, colours and creeds – display little active interest in Aboriginal Australia. We all know this to be true – it's our secret shame ...

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The limits of sport's influence
Brisbane Times
Outside football, non-Aboriginal Australians – and by that I specifically mean non-Aboriginal Australians of all races, colours and creeds – display little active interest in Aboriginal Australia. We all know this to be true – it's our secret shame ...

The Hindu
Joining the dots
The Hindu
Symbolism, manifest in Aboriginal paintings, plays an important role in illustrating the Anangu's (Aboriginal people from the western and central deserts of Australia) connectedness to the land and the life it supports. The bold patterned artworks tell ...

The remains of 13 Indigenous people were handed back to Aboriginal leaders at a ceremony at Australia House in London overnight. Cambridge University and the University of Birmingham were among the institutions that returned remains as part of a repatriation process. However, some institutions like the British Museum continue to defy the wishes of indigenous people by refusing to return ancestral remains.

ABC Online
Nuclear waste dump protesters bring the fight from outback South Australia to the city
ABC Online
Traditional landowners from South Australia's outback have brought their fight against proposed nuclear storage facilities to the steps of Parliament House. About 3,000 people rallied against proposed nuclear waste dumps, with Aboriginal families ...
Hundreds march against nuclear dumping in South Australia9news.com.au
Anti-nuclear protesters to gather in SASky News Australia

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Sky News Australia
Aboriginal remains to return from UK
Sky News Australia
A traditional smoking ceremony has been held in London to mark the return of the remains of 13 Aboriginal ancestors to Australia from British museums and universities. Friday's ceremony at Australia House involved the signing over of 11 skulls from ...
WA Aboriginal remains to return from UKThe West Australian
Remains of 13 Aboriginals will be returned to AustraliaThe Australian
Virtual reality tells Indigenous story in London as bones set to return ...The Sydney Morning Herald
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