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Football Federation Australia focused on 'embracing' Indigenous communities
ABC Online
Football Federation Australia (FFA) is beginning a major push to tap into the sporting talent in Australia's Indigenous communities. Historically, the AFL and NRL have been the codes that attract the majority of Indigenous players but FFA chief ...
Inaugural National Indigenous Football Championships LaunchedFootball Australia (press release)

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Daily Mail
Change starts with flag and anthem: Mundine
Sky News Australia
Speaking with reporters in Sydney Mundine says for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians to move forward together the national flag and and anthem need to be re-evaluated. The former rugby league star turned boxer shared a video via social media ...
Sydney Swans' Lance Franklin labels Anthony Mundine's grand final boycott idea 'stupid'The Sydney Morning Herald
Anthony Mundine's anthem call blasted by Malcolm TurnbullThe Australian
Karl Stefanovic slams Anthony Mundine's boycott on Australian national anthemsDaily Mail
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Swans' Lance Franklin labels Anthony Mundine's grand final boycott idea 'stupid'
The Sydney Morning Herald
... Lance Franklin has slammed Anthony Mundine's idea for players to boycott the national anthem at this weekend's AFL and NRL grand finals as "stupid". Mundine made the call on Thursday to raise the awareness of the treatment of indigenous Australians ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Swans' Lance Franklin labels Anthony Mundine's grand final boycott idea 'stupid'
The Sydney Morning Herald
... Lance Franklin has slammed Anthony Mundine's idea for players to boycott the national anthem at this weekend's AFL and NRL grand finals as "stupid". Mundine made the call on Thursday to raise the awareness of the treatment of indigenous Australians ...

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Football Australia (press release)
Inaugural National Indigenous Football Championships Launched
Football Australia (press release)
The first fully national event will bring together Indigenous teams from across Australia and New Zealand to compete for the coveted prize of national soccer champions. “Today marks a special milestone in Australian Football,” said David Gallop, FFA CEO.

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The Australian
Anthony Mundine's anthem call blasted by Malcolm Turnbull
The Australian
“The anthem was written in late 1700s where blackfullas were considered fauna (animals) Advance Australia Fair as in white not fair as in fair go ... All players aboriginal & non aboriginal should boycott the anthem & start changing Australia's ...
Change starts with flag and anthem: MundineSky News Australia
Sydney Swans' Lance Franklin labels Anthony Mundine's grand final boycott idea 'stupid'The Sydney Morning Herald
Mundine's calls for GF slammed as 'ridiculous'Wide World of Sports
The Age
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Will my baby daughter become another object of fear for White Australia?
The Sydney Morning Herald
Hanson's recycling of "we are in danger of being swamped" to now refer to Muslims instead of Asians demonstrated with crystal clear clarity how white Australia has always treated its racial villains like chameleons, adaptive and changeable. Indigenous ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Mundine backs national anthem boycott at weekend finals
The Sydney Morning Herald
A campaign to boycott the anthems at both matches has been launched by Australian pop culture website Junkee and Mundine used social media on Thursday to promote the campaign and raise awareness of the treatment of indigenous Australians.
Mundine calls for GF anthem boycottYahoo7 Sport
Mundine tells players to boycott anthemInside Sport
Rugby star urges Australia anthem protestSky News
Junkee -SkySports
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SkySports
Mundine backs anthem boycott at Australian finals
SBS
Goodes upset conservatives with his vocal campaigning for indigenous Australians, who lag the mainstream in basic human indicators, and was constantly booed during his last season in 2015, though fellow players, clubs and the AFL publicly supported his ...
Mundine tells players to boycott anthemInside Sport
Mundine calls for GF anthem boycottWide World of Sports
Anthony Mundine backs anthem boycott at Australian grand finalsSkySports
Sporting News -Junkee
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Two emerging Indigenous filmmakers to attend AIMC
Inside Film
A new initiative from the National Association of Cinema Operators (NACO) and the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA) will give two emerging Indigenous filmmakers the opportunity to attend AIMC 2016. Darlene Johnson is a ...

Google News

Australian gallery owner remembered in US
NEWS.com.au
About 100 people, including his American wife Kari and some of Mr Reid's family members who flew from Australia, crowded into his Australian Aboriginal Art Gallery in Savannah, Georgia, on Wednesday for a memorial. The Savannah Chatham Metropolitan ...

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Australian Ageing Agenda
Leading consumer rights advocate to highlight issues facing Aboriginal people with disability
Australian Ageing Agenda
... contributor to support other social issues, such as employment in Aboriginal communities is the catalyst of a social change movement that we at FPDN have advocated for to improve the capacity of individuals and communities across Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
Australia leading world in hepatitis C treatment; but disease more prevalent in Aboriginal people
ABC Online
More people are on track to be cured of hepatitis C in Australia this year than over the past two decades combined, new research has shown. A University of New South Wales Kirby Institute report shows about 230,000 people were living with hepatitis C ...

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ABC Online
Australia leading world in hepatitis C treatment; but disease more prevalent in Aboriginal people
ABC Online
More people are on track to be cured of hepatitis C in Australia this year than over the past two decades combined, new research has shown. A University of New South Wales Kirby Institute report shows about 230,000 people were living with hepatitis C ...

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The world's first Aboriginal Australian language video game has put smiles on the faces of Indigenous children who never thought they'd see their culture reflected in a game. Lizzie Marrkilyi Ellis and Dr Inge Kral, research fellows with The Australian National University (ANU) School of Literature Languages & Linguistics have worked with the ANU School of Art, and the Research School of Computer Science 'TechLauncher' initiative to develop the game 'Tjinari', which is spoken in the Western Desert language Ngaanyatjarra. The pair spoke to Adam Shirley on 666 ABC Canberra.

ABC Online
Residents worried Cowra police shooting could spark racial tensions
ABC Online
"There's been tension between the police and the Aboriginal community in this town for years," he said. "There's been steps to break down those walls and those barriers but when things like this happen it's not doing nothing for the reconciliation in ...
'We're not in America': anger over Cowra police shootingThe Australian
Cowra NSW man shot by police in bum after he was found with a gunDaily Mail

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ABC Online
Residents worried Cowra police shooting could spark racial tensions
ABC Online
Dennis Doolan's cousin Joshua Simpson said he is worried the shooting will create tension between police and the local Indigenous community. "There's been tension between the police and the Aboriginal community in this town for years," he said. "There ...
Police shoot Indigenous man in Cowra during 'confrontation'The Guardian
'We're not in America': anger over Cowra police shootingThe Australian
Cowra NSW man shot by police in bum after he was found with a gunDaily Mail

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finder.com.au
Smoking shunned by students: report
Sky News Australia
However that fall was about half the drop recorded for non-indigenous adults. 'Despite the fact that indigenous smoking rates are improving, they are not improving at the same rate as non-indigenous Australians, so the gap is widening across a number ...
Smoking rates at 'all-time lows' as number of daily smokers almost halves over 20 yearsABC Online
How quickly are Australians quitting smoking?finder.com.au

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Brisbane Times
Troubled public service agency Aboriginal Hostels calls in federal police
Brisbane Times
During the past financial year, it provided more than 500,000 nights' accommodation to Indigenous Australians, including students finishing high school, patients receiving renal dialysis, mothers accessing pre or postnatal care, and job seekers. But ...

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The Canberra Times
Troubled public service agency Aboriginal Hostels calls in federal police
The Canberra Times
During the past financial year, it provided more than 500,000 nights' accommodation to Indigenous Australians, including students finishing high school, patients receiving renal dialysis, mothers accessing pre or postnatal care, and job seekers. But ...

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