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Australian Geographic
Meet our dictionary's new...
Australian Geographic
A NEW EDITION of the Australian National Dictionary has just been published. It contains 16,000 words and while the first edition (published in 1988) included about 250 words from 60 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, the latest has more ...
The Australian National Dictionary Now Includes Goon Of Fortune, Bogans and 'Do A Bradbury'Gizmodo Australia
Australian dictionary includes new wordsSky News Australia
How Tony Abbott contributed to the Aussie vocabularyNEWS.com.au
The Guardian
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Pro Bono Australia
Songs and Stories of Indigenous Incarceration
Pro Bono Australia
In Australia's first musical documentary, filmmaker Kelrick Martin enters Berrimah Prison, the Northern Territory's largest jail, which is home to 800 men and women – 80 per cent of whom are Indigenous. Through stories and songs, the inmates share ...

Hard facts desperately needed to end shambles of indigenous policy
The Australian
Without proper needs assessments and greater accountability for the delivery of services to indigenous Australia, it's impossible to know how money in the sector should be spent at all. This year's Senate committee inquiry into the Indigenous ...

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The Australian
$6bn a year fails to help Aborigines, says CIS report - The Australian
The Australian
Indigenous affairs spending worth 5.9 billion a year is not delivering results because few of the schemes being funded are properly evaluated, the assessment of ...

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The Australian
$6bn a year fails to help Aborigines, says CIS report
The Australian
It documents massive duplication of services, with Roebourne in Western Australia having 67 local service providers and more than 400 state and federal funded programs for a population of 1150; Toomelah in NSW has more than 70 service providers for a ...

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Aljazeera.com
Enterprise draws on art to help Australia's Aboriginals
Aljazeera.com
Blak Markets in Bare island is an indigenous outfit that sells the works of aboriginal artists from across the country, both online and at events. "I think it would've been difficult for me to find employment anywhere else," Little told Al Jazeera. "I ...

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The Monthly (subscription)
Indigenous players face racism: Eddie Betts
Sky News Australia
AFL aboriginal advisory Committee chair Paul Briggs said there was no debate as to the intent. 'While speculation and debate will occur around the motivation of such behaviour, it is clearly an unambiguous racist act, something most fair-minded ...
Australia, we are terrible at talking about racismThe Monthly (subscription)
Port fan who threw banana at Eddie Betts during Showdown 41 banned 'indefinitely' by Port AdelaideHerald Sun
Shaun Burgoyne calls for further education following incidentPort Adelaide
The Advertiser -TripleM Sydney
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Sky News Australia
Indigenous players face racism: Eddie Betts
Sky News Australia
'The throwing of a banana and its association with slurs on indigenous Australians and other cultural groups, which has sadly occurred in sports around the world, is deeply racist and offensive, and should be rejected by every part of our game ...
Internet says what authorities won't after banana allegedly thrown at Indigenous athleteMashable
Port Adelaide fan who threw banana at AFL star Eddie Betts agrees to cultural awareness programABC Online
Australia, we are terrible at talking about racismThe Monthly (subscription)
Huffington Post Australia -The Guardian
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Pro Bono Australia
Triggs to Act As Indigenous Social Justice Commissioner
Pro Bono Australia
Australian Human Rights Commission president Professor Gillian Triggs has been appointed as the acting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner for three months while a selection process is undertaken to replace former ...

Mashable
Banana allegedly thrown at Indigenous Australian athlete
Mashable
The Australian sporting community is reeling after a spectator allegedly threw a banana at Indigenous Australian player Eddie Betts during an Australian Football League (AFL) game in Adelaide Saturday. Betts, who plays for the Adelaide Football Club ...
Port Adelaide say fan who threw banana at Eddie Betts faces life banThe Guardian
Adelaide Crows 'disgusted' after banana thrown at Eddie Betts by Port Adelaide fan, Power to investigateABC Online
Port trying to contact AFL banana throwerSports News

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NEWS.com.au
Marree Man makes a comeback
NEWS.com.au
But South Australia's iconic Marree Man is about to be brought back from the brink. The 4km long ... The group collaborated with the Arabana Aboriginal Corporation, and compiled imaging data to ensure they were retracing the original. “Then it came to, ...
Giant Marree Man artwork in South Australia makes a comeback in ...9news.com.au
Marree Man restored as outback tourist attraction in far north SA - ABCABC Online
Marree Man makes bold desert returnThe Advertiser
The Guardian
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teleSUR English
Australia Marks 50 Years Since Historic Indigenous Walk Off
teleSUR English
On August 23 1966, a group of around 200 Gurindji men and women decided to walk off the Wave Hill cattle station in the town of Kalkarindji in the Northern Territory, in protest of the poor living and working conditions of Indigenous Australians. The ...
Wave Hill Walk Off 50th Anniversary - speech by Dave OliverACTU (press release)

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Dr Jim Green is an expert on all matters nuclear and a national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth. Here he provides us with an update on all things nuclear on this continent and worldwide. An interview on 3CR Radioactive Program 20 August 2016

Quartz
Four Corners Don Dale report: Australia needs its own Black Lives ...
Quartz
On July 25, Australian current affairs program Four Corners aired a report focusing on the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, a former maximum-security prison ...
'We Tortured Some Kids': Parody Advert Unveils the Horrors at ...AlterNet
Worthy and Unworthy Victims of Child Abuse - CounterpunchCounterPunch

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NEWS.com.au
'Do black deaths matter?'
NEWS.com.au
He says “Black Lives Matter” overseas, but Australia is “not at a point where we can fully accept that”. The Project host used Friday night's editorial to tackle the huge number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders being locked up in Australian ...

NEWS.com.au
'Do black deaths matter?'
NEWS.com.au
He says “Black Lives Matter” overseas, but Australia is “not at a point where we can fully accept that”. The Project host used Friday night's editorial to tackle the huge number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders being locked up in Australian ...

A panel of Indigenous health experts and tradition healers gathered at the University of Sydney for a discussion about the integration of Ngangkari (traditional Aboriginal healers) into traditional western practices. This forum aims to close the health gap for Indigenous Australians by raising awareness of the need for culturally appropriate medical treatments.