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ABC Online
Darwin artist Harold Thomas wins National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
ABC Online
Tribal Abductions, a large-scale acrylic piece, depicts the removal by white authorities of Aboriginal children from a mother who is fighting to keep them. Mr Thomas, a Luritja and Wambai man who is also known for his 1971 design of the Australian ...
Activist roots inform Telstra winThe West Australian
Harold Thomas wins $50000 Indigenous art award with stolen generations paintingThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation UK
Refugees in their own land: how Indigenous people are still homeless in modern Australia
The Conversation UK
Without anywhere that is home, Indigenous 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 ...

The Guardian
NT has not dropped legal action against Aboriginal boys teargassed ...
The Guardian
Chief minister Adam Giles said the government would drop suit for $360000 in damages, but it has not done so.
How the Northern Territory failed | The Saturday PaperThe Saturday Paper (subscription)

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The Australian
Noel Pearson speech on The Australian's 50th anniversary
The Australian
IN 1968, the country's greatest ethnographer, WEH Stanner, delivered his famous Boyer lecture, taking as its theme the Great Australian Silence about its indigenous peoples: the pitiful history, parlous present and precarious future. As true as Stanner ...
Homicide and suicide rates higher within indigenous communitiesReporter-Times

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The journey from childhood disadvantage, to juvenile detention, to adult prison, is the life story for so many. And it was Noongar man Mervyn Eades' story too, until his 30s. Then Eades set about devising a training program to help prisoners find work upon their release, and to help stop Aboriginal youth from entering the prison system. The success of his Perth-based program, called Ngalla Maya, offers a model for others to follow.

Territorians are scheduled to go to the polls on August 27 and a MediaReach poll commissioned by the NT News suggests a majority of them have lost confidence in the Giles Government's ability to manage youth detention A week after the Prime Minister announced a Royal Commission into the Northern Territory juvenile detention system, the poll suggests the Territory's Chief Minister Adam Giles could be facing electoral defeat Chris Walsh is Political Reporter with the NT News ABC NewsRadio's Glen Bartholomew asked him what the Giles Government's chances were of being re-elected...before footage of mistreatment in the NT's Don Dale Detention Centre went to air - ABC News Radio

ABC Online
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' cartoon published in The Australian
ABC Online
The Australian editor-in-chief Paul Whittaker defended the cartoon, citing comments made by Indigenous leaders this week, including Noel Pearson on Lateline who said: "Blackfellas have got to take charge and take responsibility for their own children.
'Racist' cartoon stokes debate over treatment of Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' Bill Leak cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous dads respond to 'racist' cartoon in AustraliaBBC News
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The Conversation AU
Why are so many Indigenous kids in detention in the NT in the first place?
The Conversation AU
Across Australia, governments regard locking up vulnerable Indigenous children as a legitimate exercise of state power. This practice has quickly descended into the legalisation of physical restraints, spit-hoods and ongoing isolation of young people ...

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ABC Online
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people, Indigenous leader says
ABC Online
A political cartoon portraying an Aboriginal man with a beer can and not remembering his son's name is an "attack" on Indigenous Australians, a community leader says. The cartoon by Bill Leak was published by The Australian newspaper on Thursday, ...
The Australian defends Bill Leak's 'racist' cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Outcry, complaints over 'ugly', 'insulting' cartoon in The Australian.SBS
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognitionThe Australian
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ABC Online
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people ...
ABC Online
A cartoon published by The Australian newspaper portraying an Aboriginal man with a beer can and not remembering his son's name is an attack on Indigenous ...
The Australian defends Bill Leak's 'racist' cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognitionThe Australian
Indigenous advocate: 'Jail is part of our life and part of being institutionalised'The Guardian
Starts at 60 -Policy Forum -MuMbrella
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ABC Online
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people, Indigenous leader says
ABC Online
The cartoon by Bill Leak was published by The Australian newspaper on Thursday, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day. Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency chief executive Muriel Bamblett said it depicted Aboriginal people as "not ...
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' Bill Leak cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Australia paper criticised for 'racist' Aboriginal cartoonTelegraph.co.uk
Outcry, complaints over 'ugly', 'insulting' cartoon in The Australian.SBS
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The Australian
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognition
The Australian
The expert panel of the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples recommended the insertion of a new section recognising “the continent and its islands now known as Australia” were “first ...

The Australian
Australia 'will be divided on race' by referendum on constitutional recognition
The Australian
“The proposed referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in the constitution will divide the citizens of this nation into categories on the basis of race,” he said. “Every Australian who values our free and fair democracy, in which all people are ...

the AU review (blog)
Lynette Wallworth's VR experience Collisions to tell an Indigenous Australian story at ACMI
the AU review (blog)
Exploring the collision of science and spirit, this is Wallworth's first work using virtual reality technology. It is also the first to document an Indigenous Australian story. Collisions explores the homeland of Indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the ...

Independent Australia
Suicide of 15 year old Aboriginal boy in Don Dale a result of NT punitive culture
Independent Australia
AT DON Dale juvenile detention centre, a 15-year-old orphaned Aboriginal boy took his life only days after being locked up for committing $90 worth of “crimes”. How many Australians know about Johnny Warramarrba? Johnny's mother died when he was a ...
UN blasts Australia over NT detention abuseNEWS.com.au
NT Detention Center Update: UN Slams Australia Over Mistreating ChildrenAussie Network News

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The Guardian
Indigenous advocate: 'jail is part of our life and part of being institutionalised'
The Guardian
“It's hard to think of a population group on the planet that is as incarcerated as Aboriginal men in Western Australia,” the chief justice of the WA supreme court, Wayne Martin, told Guardian Australia. WA Police is conducting an internal investigation ...

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Teargassing of Indigenous Youth in Australian Detention System Reeks of Colonialism
Truth-Out
Activists display a sign decrying the murders of Aboriginal Australians in prison at an Invasion Day march and rally in Brisbane, Australia, on January 26, 2007. (Photo: David Jackmanson). Last week, shocking footage depicting security personnel in a ...

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The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull battles Liberal dissent over Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull is facing a fresh outbreak of internal dissent over the proposal to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution before talks about the referendum on Thursday with the Labor leader, Bill Shorten. The South Australian Liberal ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Scullion says treaty could be considered
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says Parliament should consider a treaty with Indigenous Australians if it is recommended by the recognition referendum council, breaking ranks with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on the controversial issue.
Protesters confront Nigel Scullion over Don Dale response as Tom Calma calls for his resignationABC Online

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The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has blasted the NSW government over its refusal to fund the Custody Notification Service. In December the Commonwealth committed $1.8 million dollars to fund the hotline for another three years, but Senator Scullion argues the state government should be fronting the cost. The CNS is delivered through the Aboriginal Legal Service and provides 24 hour legal advice and mental health checks for First Nation’s people if they are taken into police custody CEO of the Aboriginal Legal Service Gary Oliver said the hotline is a NSW government regulation, but has never been funded by the state since its establishment in 2000.