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The Canberra Times
Troubled public service agency Aboriginal Hostels calls in federal police
The Canberra Times
Aboriginal Hostels Limited provides accommodation at 47 sites nationwide for Indigenous Australians from rural and remote communities. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has been aware since February that "allegations of criminal behaviour, bad ...

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Study shows Indigenous people lose 2.3 healthy years
SBS
Dr Al-Yaman says the burden of premature mortality plus the burden of living with ill-health means Indigenous Australians lose 2.3 healthy years compared with other Australians. "Basically, we've seen a 5 per cent reduction in the disease burden, and ...

Australian Geographic
Why old theories on Indigenous...
Australian Geographic
MY AUSTRALIAN-EDUCATED FRIENDS tell me they were taught at school that all Aboriginal people only counted one, two, three, four and many. While it might be the case for some communities, there is also abundant evidence in others of complex ...
Scientists Name Aboriginal Australians Oldest Civilization on EarthSputnik International

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Sputnik International
Scientists Name Aboriginal Australians Oldest Civilization on Earth
Sputnik International
The study involved DNA sampling of 83 Aboriginal Australians and 25 Highland Papuans from Papua New Guinea. Research revealed that the ancestors of modern Aboriginal Australians departed from the African continent some 75,000 years ago, when ...
Why old theories on Indigenous...Australian Geographic

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull's art selection showcases Indigenous and female artists
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mr and Mrs Turnbull's choices from the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and Parliament House include works by Archibald Prize winners, a range of leading Indigenous artists and some of the biggest names of Australian art. Picking ...

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Daily Review
Blacks in the back, c***s in the front — how white Australia 'remembers' Aboriginal Australia
Daily Review
This is the show-opening speech by Northern Territory artist Therese Ritchie for her recent show of new work Blacks in the back, cunts in the front held at the Outstation Gallery in Darwin last month. She writes that the show's title is “a perfect ...
Scientists Name Aboriginal Australians Oldest Civilization on EarthSputnik International
Why old theories on Indigenous...Australian Geographic

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Daily Review
Blacks in the back, c***s in the front — how white Australia 'remembers' Aboriginal Australia
Daily Review
This is the show-opening speech by Northern Territory artist Therese Ritchie for her recent show of new work Blacks in the back, cunts in the front held at the Outstation Gallery in Darwin last month. She writes that the show's title is “a perfect ...

ABC Online
rare Indigenous 'library of rock art' under threat by gold mine, traditional owners say
ABC Online
The ABC can reveal the Queensland Government has granted an environmental authority for the mine which would involve the excavation of the Laura River, near the world-renowned Quinkan Aboriginal rock art galleries. "This is all sandstone escarpments ...

Plan to tackle crisis for Aboriginal kids
The Australian
Child Protection Minister Andrea Mitchell said the over-representation of Aboriginal children in care in Western Australia was unacceptable. Of 4658 children living in out-of-home care in June, 53 per cent were Aboriginal children, yet they make up ...

Vatican Radio
Aboriginal scholarship launched at Vatican Museums
Vatican Radio
Francis Xavier Conaci was encouraged by a local Spanish Benedictine abbot, Rosendo Salvado, to become a trailblazer for Christianity in Indigenous Australia. Fr Salvado spent over 50 years working alongside Aboriginal communities in Western Australia ...

HeritageDaily
Unprecedented study of Aboriginal Australians points to one shared Out of Africa migration for modern humans
HeritageDaily
Researchers sequenced the complete genetic information of 83 Aboriginal Australians, as well as 25 Papuans from New Guinea, to produce a host of significant new findings about the origins of modern human populations. Their work is published alongside ...

Pedestrian TV
Louis Theroux Drops More Hints On Long-Awaited Indigenous Australia Doco
Pedestrian TV
He's in Australia and he's doing all manner of things: wandering Perth incognito, finding his doppelgänger in Melbourne and doing us the delightful favour of giving a whole dang bunch of interviews.
Louis Theroux: the condition of Australia's Indigenous people is 'massively fascinating'The Guardian
Louis Theroux on Donald Trump, Brexit and making an Australian ...ABC Online

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A national touring exhibition has opened in Sydney to mark the 60th anniversary of the first atomic test at Maralinga. In total, seven nuclear bomb blasts were detonated between 1956 and 1967 in the southern part of the Great Victoria Desert in South Australia followed by more than 600 'minor tests' Source ABC RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly

ABC Online
WA Aboriginal heritage law amendments to be deferred as Government faces time constraints
ABC Online
Contentious changes to Western Australia's Aboriginal heritage laws have been put on the backburner, with the Government admitting they would not make it through State Parliament prior to next year's election. But Aboriginal Affairs Minister Peter ...
[ September 27, 2016 ] WA could face class action over 'slavery' claims NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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The Guardian
Support for Indigenous constitutional recognition drops below 60% – poll
The Guardian
Support for recognition of Indigenous Australians in the constitution has dropped below 60%, according to an Essential poll released on Tuesday. The poll of 1,006 respondents found 58% said they would vote yes in a referendum to recognise Aboriginal ...
Support for indigenous recognition in the constitution struggling: EssentialCrikey (registration)

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Australian Geographic
How oral cultures memorise so much information
Australian Geographic
Aboriginal elders explained to her how they encode knowledge in song, dance, story and place. This led to a theory that may revolutionise archaeology. It has long been known that the human brain has evolved to associate memory with place, referred to ...

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Crikey (registration)
The space between the boxes: how white Australia 'remembers' Aboriginal Australia
Crikey (registration)
The space between the boxes: how white Australia 'remembers' Aboriginal Australia. Every now and then, the real experiences of indigenous Australians disrupts our idea of things, but not nearly often enough, writes NT artist Therese Ritchie.

Crikey (registration)
The space between the boxes: how white Australia 'remembers' Aboriginal Australia
Crikey (registration)
The space between the boxes: how white Australia 'remembers' Aboriginal Australia. Every now and then, the real experiences of indigenous Australians disrupts our idea of things, but not nearly often enough, writes NT artist Therese Ritchie.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Oxfam report highlights native title woes in Western Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Native title rights are being undermined in the Kimberley region and the demand for land development is forcing Indigenous communities from their homeland, a detailed global Oxfam report has found. The report is critical of state government policies ...
[ September 27, 2016 ] Report slams 'undermining' of native title rights in WA NATIVE TITLENational Indigenous Times
Oxfam report notes WA native title woesNEWS.com.au

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Oxfam report highlights native title woes in Western Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
Oxfam Australia Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Program manager Justin McCaul said the Kimberley was the only region in a highly-developed nation represented in the report. He said Australia was in many ways less supportive of Indigenous ...
[ September 27, 2016 ] Report slams 'undermining' of native title rights in WA NATIVE TITLENational Indigenous Times

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