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Eighty-year backlog in Aboriginal heritage assessments across Western Australia
ABC Message Stick
Western Australia's Department of Aboriginal Affairs has conceded the state's Aboriginal heritage assessment process has become so backlogged it could take up to 80 years to clear. Under the state's Aboriginal heritage laws, sacred and significant ...

ABC Local
Catwalk competition hopes to boost confidence of Aboriginal youth
ABC Local
Ms Townsend said she hoped the contest would showcase the diversity and beauty of Aboriginal Australians. "I hope for international coverage — even seeing some of my Aboriginal talent go overseas to different countries just to show the world the ...

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Daily Life
Magnolia Maymuru wasn't the only Aboriginal finalist of Miss World ...
Daily Life
Two other finalists of Miss World Australia this year were Aboriginal. Celeste Liddle has a theory on why we didn't hear about them.

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Daily Life
Magnolia Maymuru wasn't the only Aboriginal finalist of Miss World ...
Daily Life
Two other finalists of Miss World Australia this year were Aboriginal. Celeste Liddle has a theory on why we didn't hear about them.

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ABC Online
Australia has a thriving imported heritage of nursery rhymes, fables, American Halloween celebrations and even the ...
ABC Online
Inspired by the art exhibition Boo! Aboriginal Ghost Stories and Other Scary Matter, that took place at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide earlier this year, producer Fiona Croall explores the many different spirits located ...

Student Edge (blog)
The #BlackLivesMatter Movement Reaches Australia, Seeking Equality For Indigenous Aussies
Student Edge (blog)
While the American Black Lives Matter movement is the largest and loudest, the campaign has gained traction in Australia, addressing issues of Indigenous rights and injustice. Protest marches were held in Melbourne and Sydney last weekend, and while ...

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ABC Online
'She's created a conversation': Magnolia Maymuru ends Miss World Australia finals with chants of Arnhem Land
ABC Online
An Indigenous teenage model whose beauty pageant selection made international headlines has ended her Miss World Australia journey with chants of "Arnhem Land". Maminydjama Magnolia Maymuru's story was widely shared after she was selected as ...

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ABC Online
HSC: Changes to English, maths scaling, greater focus on Indigenous Australia
ABC Online
The Board of Studies is overhauling the curriculum for Higher School Certificate (HSC) students in NSW, placing a greater focus on Australia and Aboriginal leaders in history, and significantly changing maths and English courses.
Pemulwuy and other Indigenous heroes now in HSC mixSBS

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Pro Bono Australia
New Guidelines Assist Financial Inclusion for Indigenous Australians
Pro Bono Australia
The organisations said that for more than two years they had sought improvements to guidelines from the federal government's financial intelligence agency, AUSTRAC to allow financial institutions to better identify and engage with Indigenous Australians.
Most voters support Indigenous treaty and constitutional recognition: surveyThe Guardian

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Pro Bono Australia
New Guidelines Assist Financial Inclusion for Indigenous Australians
Pro Bono Australia
The organisations said that for more than two years they had sought improvements to guidelines from the federal government's financial intelligence agency, AUSTRAC to allow financial institutions to better identify and engage with Indigenous Australians.
Most voters support Indigenous treaty and constitutional recognition: surveyThe Guardian

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Sky News Australia
Indigenous Affairs Minister: Hanson 'changed'
Sky News Australia
Ms Hanson and her party are opposed to the constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians. When the Queensland Senator-Elect last entered Parliament almost twenty years ago, she used her maiden speech to attacked the so-called privileges enjoyed ...
Pauline Hanson publicly derided as 'racist redneck' by Indigenous activistThe Guardian
Pauline Hanson fields attack from Aboriginal leader Murrandoo Yanner while visiting CairnsABC Online

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ABC Online
Black Lives Matter movement striking a chord with Indigenous Australians, says visiting US activist
ABC Online
The Black Lives Matter movement has arrived in Australia and is striking a chord with the Indigenous population, says a prominent US activist who is visiting the country. Tory Russell grew up in Ferguson, Missouri, and is a founder of Hands Up United, ...
No, we won't get over it: Black Lives Matter protestersThe Age

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CBC Radio - Canada Indigenous elders often say that memory is in the blood and bone, that our stories are passed not just verbally but through a kind of genetic memory. Well, it turns out that may not be far from the truth. Amy Bombay is Anishinaabe from Rainy River First Nation in Ontario. Amy Bombay and family Amy Bombay with her family. (courtesy Amy Bombay) She's an assistant professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and has been studying the impact of trauma and how it reverberates through generations. She was drawn to this field of study, specifically related to residential schools, because of its effect on her own family. "Both my grandparents on my father's side attended, and most of my aunts and uncles on that side as well," she explained. When she started her research 10 years ago, Bombay said she began by focusing on mental health outcomes, exploring why Indigenous Peoples in Canada and elsewhere suffer from higher levels of psychological distress. "What we found was that ... those who had a parent or grandparent who went to residential school seemed to be at increased risk for psychological distress, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and this is in both adults and youth," she said. Though our bodies are designed to deal with stress, Bombay said when the stress becomes chronic, our bodies are no longer able to keep up. That's when problems happen. Bombay said in addition to the psychological and social pathways, there is evidence epigenetic pathways are involved in the transmission of trauma. That evidence has been studied in the children of Holocaust survivors, in regard to changes in the expression of DNA, not changes to underlying DNA. "We now know that experiences and the environment can turn on or off genes, so the function of those genes is changed," Bombay explained. "In terms of how that is transmitted generationally, we know that if those changes happen to be in the germ line, so in the egg or the sperm, they have the potential to be transmitted across generations." Though Bombay said you cannot draw exact correlations between the children of Holocaust and Residential School survivors, there are clear similarities between the two groups. "We conducted our own research in relation to the residential school system and found a lot of the same issues like this conspiracy of silence around talking about this issue. And this research is consistent with populations that have undergone collective and historical trauma around the world," she said. "So not only in relation to the Holocaust, but we know these big historical and collective traumas are associated with a number of negative outcomes. Which are expected." Bombay has seen this research play a role in the process of reconciliation. And said taking the data out into communities and explaining it, has broken the silence. "A lot of people didn't know why their parents had so many problems, or they didn't know why their parents acted the way they do," she said. "Learning about these intergenerational effects really helped a lot of people heal and elicited forgiveness within families and communities."

The Sydney Morning Herald
Malcolm Turnbull should listen to Indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Australian have long been trustees, and storytellers as they hand down wisdom to generations to follow. NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee. It was fitting that this year's NAIDOC celebrations focused ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Malcolm Turnbull should listen to Indigenous Australians
The Sydney Morning Herald
After acting like a sook on election night, Malcolm Turnbull re-emerged this past week as something more akin to a statesman or Indigenous elder. He said he was touched when Bill Shorten rang to concede. Turnbull was carrying his young granddaughter on ...

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The Roar
Magnificant seven: Indigenous Australian athletes at Rio Olympics
The Roar
The Australian Olympic Committee is working with organisations such as Cathy Freeman Foundation, Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy, the Remote School Attendance program and Robert De Castella's Indigenous Marathon Project to promote ...

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Magnificant seven: Indigenous Australian athletes at Rio Olympics
The Roar
The Australian Rio Olympics Team of 410 includes seven Indigenous athletes, with five making their Olympic debut. Australian Indigenous representation starts from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics with boxers Adrian Blair and Francis Roberts along with ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Adam Goodes and Michael O'Loughlin kick goals for Indigenous education
The Australian Financial Review
You don't have to spend much time with the founders and figureheads of the GO Foundation to realise how much their history and culture mean to them, and how committed they are when it comes to making sure Indigenous Australians will be able to achieve ...

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It's Our Country: Indigenous Arguments for Recognition and Reform
The Australian
The book is edited by Megan Davis, director of the University of NSW law school, and Marcia Langton, foundation chair of Australian indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne. It's closely argued, well written and often graphic (“the airtight ...

Aljazeera.com
Australia artefact find divides Aboriginal clans
Aljazeera.com
Sydney, Australia - The deep blue Botany Bay lies ahead of Assen Timbery as he walks past rows of homes in a predominantly Aboriginal community in the Sydney suburb of La Perouse. Across the waters lie the neat lawns at Kurnell, where Captain Cook ...

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