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New Matilda
The Indefinite Detention Without Trial Of Aboriginal People
New Matilda
In their 2012 landmark report No End in Sight, the Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign (ADJC) documented the problem of the imprisonment and indefinite detention of Aboriginal Australians with cognitive impairments in Australia. They observed that ...

Catholic Leader
Josephite Sister praises agency serving Australia's Aboriginal
Catholic Leader
JOSEPHITE Sister Kay McPadden has walked with local Aboriginal people for most of her religious life. Recounting one unforgettable story, Sr Kay can sum up the joy of working for Murri Ministry – a Centacare Pastoral Ministry that services about 7000 ...

The Conversation AU
Can Turnbull change course in Indigenous affairs?
The Conversation AU
The mismanagement of a new competitive funding scheme, the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, and the substantial cuts to Indigenous funding in the 2014 budget, have both had a significant impact on services and communities across Australia.

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The Guardian
Introducing 'Noongarpedia' – Australia's first Indigenous Wikipedia
The Guardian
The Noongarpedia project began in 2014 by a team from the University of Western Australia led by school of Indigenous studies professor and Noongar elder Leonard Collard, with Curtin University's John Hartley and the Miles Franklin award-winning ...

News from Tulane
Major touring exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art debuts at Tulane
News from Tulane
30, is drawn from the collection of Dennis and Debra Scholl, considered the most important private holding of Aboriginal Australian contemporary art in America. A major catalogue accompanies the exhibition and features essays by leading experts in the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous media is crucial to the Australian landscape and it needs to be self-sufficient
The Guardian
Started by the luminary Gavin Jones 20 years earlier, by that time, Vibe had grown in to an important media/health/education centre-point for Indigenous Australia. There was nothing else like Vibe. If you were looking for a well-run event to deliver ...
Racist laws must not return: Dodson9news.com.au

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ABC Message Stick
Wasp nests help to unlock secrets of WA's Aboriginal rock art
ABC Message Stick
Researchers have used wasp nests that are thousands of years old to date Aboriginal paintings in Western Australia's remote north-west Kimberley region. After a three-year-long project, archaeologists have dated what they say "may be the longest, most ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Australian Indigenous MP Linda Burney: I have journeyed to a powerful place
Telegraph.co.uk
The first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the House of Representatives has told her fellow MPs that she was deeply moved to have journeyed to a "powerful place" in her maiden speech. Linda Burney slammed calls for the watering down of the Racial ...
Linda Burney, Australia's first federal female Aboriginal MP, just ...Business Insider Australia
Linda Burney gives maiden speech as first female Indigenous lower house MPThe Guardian
Australian Aboriginal MP Linda Burney vows to fight for changeBBC News
CBC.ca -NEWS.com.au
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NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal MP Linda Burney's speech 0:59
NEWS.com.au
Constitutional recognition for indigenous Australians was the next step for the parliament and country in the reconciliation journey, she said. She invited the chamber to imagine what it was like for a 13-year-old girl who was told at school her ...
Linda Burney, Australia's first federal female Aboriginal MP, just delivered her moving maiden speechBusiness Insider Australia
Australian Indigenous MP Linda Burney: I have journeyed to a powerful placeTelegraph.co.uk
Linda Burney gives maiden speech as first female Indigenous lower house MPThe Guardian
SBS -CBC.ca
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UVA Student, Director Attend Rare Aboriginal Art 'Makarrata' in Australia
University of Virginia
Sydney Collins' four years studying art history at the University of Virginia culminated in an Australian Aboriginal ceremony that few in the art world have been privileged to witness. Collins, who interned and later worked at UVA's Kluge-Ruhe ...

University of Virginia
UVA Student, Director Attend Rare Aboriginal Art 'Makarrata' in Australia
University of Virginia
Sydney Collins' four years studying art history at the University of Virginia culminated in an Australian Aboriginal ceremony that few in the art world have been privileged to witness. Collins, who interned and later worked at UVA's Kluge-Ruhe ...

Co.Exist
This Man Is Walking Across Australia To Get The Prime Minister To Acknowledge Aboriginal Rights
Co.Exist
Australia's indigenous people, including Pryor and the Noongar, are not currently recognized by the country's constitution. This is despite Aborigines having roots on the continent that date back 50,000 years; white European settlers first arrived in ...

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Co.Exist
This Man Is Walking Across Australia To Get The Prime Minister To Acknowledge Aboriginal Rights
Co.Exist
In Australia, at the end of the earth, Clinton Pryor sees the end of his people: Aborigines. Which is why he's marching into the Australian capital, Canberra, to try to get a meeting with the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Here's the tricky part: To ...

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BBC News
Aboriginal MP Linda Burney makes landmark speech
BBC News
Australia's first female Aboriginal MP has given her maiden speech in the House of Representatives and spoken about the discrimination she suffered as a child. Labor MP Linda Burney, who will represent the New South Wales seat of Barton, said she was ...

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Amnesty International
Australia: Reforms to justice system essential to protect the rights of Indigenous youth
Amnesty International
Major reforms must be undertaken by the authorities in the Australian state of Queensland to protect the rights of Indigenous children from a youth justice system that criminalizes them out of all proportion to the general population, a new Amnesty ...
Indigenous Australians in Queensland Said to Face Higher Juvenile Detention RatesNew York Times
Indigenous youth over-represented in detention: Amnesty InternationalBrisbane Times
Queensland breaching international standards on youth detention: AmnestySBS
The Guardian
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Business Insider Australia
Linda Burney, Australia's first federal female Aboriginal MP, just delivered her moving maiden speech
Business Insider Australia
Last month Linda Burney made political history once again, becoming the first Aboriginal women elected to the Australian parliament. The MP for Barton is now Labor's shadow minister for human services. Some 13 years ago, Burney became the first ...
'I will not be stereotyped': Aboriginal MPSBS
Linda Burney Says She Won't Be Stereotyped Or Pigeon-Holed In Maiden SpeechHuffington Post Australia
Australia's 45th Parliament: Meet the record breakersABC Online

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Business Insider Australia
Linda Burney, Australia's first federal female Aboriginal MP, just delivered her moving maiden speech
Business Insider Australia
Last month Linda Burney made political history once again, becoming the first Aboriginal women elected to the Australian parliament. The MP for Barton is now Labor's shadow minister for human services. Some 13 years ago, Burney became the first ...
'I will not be stereotyped': Aboriginal MPSBS
Linda Burney Says She Won't Be Stereotyped Or Pigeon-Holed In Maiden SpeechHuffington Post Australia
Australia's 45th Parliament: Meet the record breakersABC Online

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WAtoday
Far-right threatens Freo with 'rain of s--t' over Australia Day fireworks ban
WAtoday
A video has emerged of a far-right activist threatening to bring "a rain of s--t" to Fremantle unless the city's council restores Australia Day fireworks cancelled after being deemed 'culturally insensitive.' Fremantle councillors voted to scrap the ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous prisoner Jayden Bennell showed suicide risk, inquest told
The Guardian
A psychiatrist who treated Jayden Bennell for two years said he would have been “alarmed” and “greatly concerned” by the 20-year-old Indigenous man's behaviour in the months before his death, telling an inquest it showed a heightened risk of suicide.

ArtsHub (subscription)
Presenters reject Indigenous arts
ArtsHub (subscription)
Two thirds of Australian presenters did not program any Indigenous arts last year, a new Australia Council study reveals. Presenters reject Indigenous arts. Bangarra, lore. The Australia Council study reveals Indigenous artists continue to face ...