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Push for Aboriginal cell death probe in NSW
Sky News Australia
There are calls for a separate investigation into the death of an Aboriginal woman in custody last month, with NSW Police being accused of failing to alert specialist lawyers about her arrest before she died. The head of the Aboriginal Legal Service ...
Indigenous woman died in police custody after notification service not usedThe Guardian
Indigenous woman dies in custody after police fail to inform support serviceSBS

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Papermag
Marina Abramović Calls Aboriginal Australians "Terrible"-Looking "Dinosaurs," Spawns #TheRacistIsPresent Tag
Papermag
Performance artist Marina Abramović has come under fire for a passage from her new memoir Walk Through Walls, where she calls Aboriginal people "terrible"-looking "dinosaurs." Reminiscing on a 1979 trip to Australia, she takes her first meeting with an ...
Marina Abramović Writes Disparagingly About Aboriginal Australians #TheRacistIsPresentHyperallergic
Marina Abramovic calls Aboriginals 'dinosaurs' in book: claimsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Marina Abramović Shockingly Compares Aborigines to Dinosaurs People are now tweeting #theracistispresent.artnet News
The Atlantic -Daily Mail -New York Magazine
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Hyperallergic
Marina Abramović Writes Disparagingly About Aboriginal Australians #TheRacistIsPresent
Hyperallergic
Where to begin with such a passage? Do we criticize the comparison of the indigenous inhabitants of Australia with dinosaurs? The callous description of a community that doesn't fit the “Western” beauty aesthetic? Honestly, there's no good place, but ...
Marina Abramovic calls Aboriginals 'dinosaurs' in book: claimsThe Sydney Morning Herald
Artist's offensive description of indigenous Australians9news.com.au
Marina Abramović Shockingly Compares Aborigines to Dinosaurs People are now tweeting #theracistispresent.artnet News
Daily Mail -The Atlantic -Junkee
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Marina Abramovic calls Aboriginals 'dinosaurs' in book: claims
The Sydney Morning Herald
A purported excerpt from the memoirs of renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic has been slammed for describing Australian Aboriginals as "dinosaurs" and "terrible" looking. A New York-based art critic called Rachel Wetzler posted a photograph of ...
Marina Abramovic and the White Artist's GazeThe Atlantic
Artist Marina Abramovic calls indigenous Australians dinosaurs in memoir passageDaily Mail
Marina Abramović Continues Unfortunate Trend of Performance Artists Saying Racist ThingsW Magazine
Junkee -New York Magazine
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Artist Marina Abramovic calls indigenous Australians dinosaurs in memoir passage
Daily Mail
Abramovic has previously spent time in the Northern Territory, praising the experience to The Australian during an exhibition of hers last year. 'Australia is so much a part of me. It's the beginning of all my best work. You know it was your Australian ...

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Independent Australia
Our History, Our future. Speech by ACTU Indigenous Officer Kara Keys To the ACTU Executive
ACTU (press release)
And the founding layer – the bedrock and the thing that is most unique about Australia among the nations of the world – is the long story of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage. This story stretches back through tens of thousands of ...
Government policy and Indigenous incarceration ratesIndependent Australia
From an Aboriginal mission to the UN: shifting perceptions on self-determinationThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Indigenous woman died in police custody after notification service not used
The Guardian
The reported circumstances are similar to the 2012 death of Maureen Mandijarra, who was arrested in Broome, Western Australia, for being intoxicated in public and lay unmoving in a police cell for at least six hours before police realised she was dead.

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The Guardian
Greens urge government to revive Indigenous work program CDEP
The Guardian
Oliver said the income support program, which operates only in remote Australia, was discriminatory and deprived its participants, more than 80% of whom are Indigenous, of basic workers' rights. “The government should be putting in place policies that ...

ABC Online
Beef boom creating plenty of job and investment opportunities for Indigenous Land Corporation, says new CEO John ...
ABC Online
"The way I look at it is, there's two ways of increasing employment opportunities for Indigenous Australians. "One is to increase the percentage of jobs that Indigenous Australians fulfil in the assets you have at the moment. "And the second way is to ...

The Stringer
Western Australia and Northern Territory worst for the poorest and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
The Stringer
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the national incarceration rate rests at 191 Australian adults per 100,000 adults. However Western Australia's incarceration rate of Aboriginal adult males is 3,686 per 100,000, the world's 2nd highest ...

Pro Bono Australia
Eight Ways we Can Improve Indigenous Employment
Pro Bono Australia
Non-standard recruitment agencies, more education and ongoing mentoring and support are key to improving the number of Indigenous people in the workforce write Nicholas Biddle, Australian National University fellow, Boyd Hunter, ANU Senior fellow, ...

Google News

Indigenous Leaders Call For Post Election Summit
Pro Bono Australia
The Canberra forum supported continued discussions regarding suitable amendments to the Australian Constitution for recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the establishment of a national First Nations representative structure, a ...

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Courier Mail
New bridge honours indigenous pioneer
Courier Mail
“As Australia's first Aboriginal person in federal Parliament, Senator Bonner worked to ensure Aboriginal people retained their cultural identity, while acquiring the economic, educational and social opportunities that non-indigenous Australians took ...
Neville Bonner bridge to be part of Queens Wharf developmentBrisbane Times

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Green Left Weekly
Refugees in their own land: how Aboriginal people are still homeless in modern Australia
Green Left Weekly
Without anywhere that is home, Aboriginal people have been without a physical space to reinvent themselves and their culture in modern Australia. Since colonisation, Aboriginal people have been internally displaced from their country. The doctrine of ...

ABC Online
Why 'recognition' of Indigenous Australians isn't enough
ABC Online
Australia is crawling toward recognising the nation's first people in the constitution, but even if it makes it, will the country have achieved anything meaningful? Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens and Megan Davis explain why the concept of 'recognition' in ...

NEWS.com.au
'Australia needs to grow a spine'
NEWS.com.au
But the Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion disagreed. A spokesman for the Minister said Australia has a strong track record of delivering land grants and native title determinations. “More than 70 per cent of Australia's land mass is either ...

NEWS.com.au
'Australia needs to grow a spine'
NEWS.com.au
Central Land Council director David Ross said it was time for stronger laws in Australia. “It should be a source of great shame for Australia that both the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NT) 1976 and the Native Title Act have been diluted and hollowed out ...

The Guardian
'How could this happen?': Indigenous health tragedies spark search for answers
The Guardian
Jane's case is one of several being examined by the National Justice Project as part of their Aboriginal Health Matters initiative, which is dedicated to using the law to highlight cases of medical mistreatment of Indigenous Australians based on ...

ABC Online
Suicide rate for young Indigenous men highest in world, Australian report finds
ABC Online
The rate of suicide among young Indigenous men is the highest in the world, according to a new report highlighting the challenges facing young Australians. The first ever Australian Youth Development Index (YDI) was compiled as part of International ...
Australian Youths Are More Politically Engaged But Aren't As HealthyHuffington Post Australia

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ABC Online
Suicide rate for young Indigenous men highest in world, Australian report finds
ABC Online
The rate of suicide among young Indigenous men is the highest in the world, according to a new report highlighting the challenges facing young Australians. The first ever Australian Youth Development Index (YDI) was compiled as part of International ...
State of our youthThe Advertiser

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