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The Guardian
Aboriginal sci-fi Neomad wins Australia's top comic book award
The Guardian
For Australian comic artists, winning the Gold Ledger is like winning best picture at the Oscars. And on Friday it was picked up by the Aboriginal sci-fi comic book Neomad, created with the input of more than 30 young people in the Western Australian ...

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Aboriginal Australian Man Shares Racist Messages He Regularly Receives On Grindr
Queerty
Dustin Mangatjay McGregor is a 23-year-old Yolngu man. The Yolngu is group of Aboriginal people who originally inhabited north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Because of his ethnic origin, McGregor says he regularly receives ...

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Aboriginal Australian Man Shares Racist Messages He Regularly Receives On Grindr
Queerty
Dustin Mangatjay McGregor is a 23-year-old Yolngu man. The Yolngu is group of Aboriginal people who originally inhabited north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Because of his ethnic origin, McGregor says he regularly receives ...

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End Aboriginal cult of victimhood
The Australian
Take the recent stories generated by the 25th anniversary of the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. We've seen stories and heard speeches all centring on the theme of “25 years later, Aboriginal people still die in custody”.

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Members of an Aboriginal community affected by the nuclear bomb tests at Maralinga in the 1950s are connecting with nuclear bomb survivors in Japan. A group of artists from Yalata in South Australia are flying to Nagasaki today to unveil a sculpture for its peace park - it will be the first Australian sculpture in the memorial. The exchange is also allowing the two groups to exchange stories and discuss their experiences. Natalie Whiting from ABC Radio 'AM' reported this story on Thursday, April 14 See Transcript: http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/aboriginal-people-affected-maralinga-nuclear-tests-take-peace-sculpture-japan

The Guardian
How do you buy Indigenous Australian art ethically?
The Guardian
These practices were “rampant” in Alice Springs some years ago, says Philip Watkins, who is head of Desart, an association of central Australian Aboriginal art and craft centres. A Senate inquiry into the matter was held in 2007 and from that a ...
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shameSydney Morning Herald
Public Service ApprenticeshipsPro Bono Australia
Not Content With Wrecking The Environment, Greg Hunt Is Now Desecrating Sacred SitesNew Matilda

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The Guardian
How do you buy Indigenous Australian art ethically?
The Guardian
These practices were “rampant” in Alice Springs some years ago, says Philip Watkins, who is head of Desart, an association of central Australian Aboriginal art and craft centres. A Senate inquiry into the matter was held in 2007 and from that a ...
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shameSydney Morning Herald
Not Content With Wrecking The Environment, Greg Hunt Is Now Desecrating Sacred SitesNew Matilda
Public Service ApprenticeshipsPro Bono Australia

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Sydney Morning Herald
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shame
Sydney Morning Herald
It's now been 24 years since was called Australia's unutterable shame, the legacy of dispossession, degradation and devastation of Indigenous people, in the High Court's reversal of the legal fallacy that this was an empty continent. Since Mabo, we ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shame
Sydney Morning Herald
It's now been 24 years since was called Australia's unutterable shame, the legacy of dispossession, degradation and devastation of Indigenous people, in the High Court's reversal of the legal fallacy that this was an empty continent. Since Mabo, we ...

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The Age
Pat Dodson must keep on highlighting Australia's continuing shame
The Age
It's now been 24 years since was called Australia's unutterable shame, the legacy of dispossession, degradation and devastation of Indigenous people, in the High Court's reversal of the legal fallacy that this was an empty continent. Since Mabo, we ...
How do you buy Indigenous Australian art ethically?The Guardian

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ABC Online
Sydney massacre of Aboriginal people at Appin remembered by thousands
ABC Online
Officially, 14 people were killed, but Aboriginal historians believe the number was much higher. On Sunday, descendants of the Dharawl tribe mixed NSW Governor David Hurley and thousands of others in memoriam. Ivan Wellington, a descendent of the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous community lets tourists in on newly won Australian homeland
The Guardian
An Indigenous group who won a huge land title claim is partnering with a commercial tourism operator to bring visitors to its region – a remote and seldom visited part of Australia. Intrepid Travel, a global company known for taking tourists on ...

The Guardian
Indigenous community lets tourists in on newly won Australian homeland
The Guardian
An Indigenous group who won a huge land title claim is partnering with a commercial tourism operator to bring visitors to its region – a remote and seldom visited part of Australia. Intrepid Travel, a global company known for taking tourists on ...

The Guardian
Acrimony and legal threat as Indigenous group approves Adani mine
The Guardian
More than 300 people attended the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) meeting on Saturday where Adani said members “voted overwhelmingly” to authorise an Indigenous land use agreement (ILUA) with the miners for the construction and operation of the ...
Traditional owners shrug off Adani's land use pact in AustraliaLivemint
Adani's $21.7-billion coal mine project in Australia gets traditional land owners' authorisationDaily News & Analysis
Adani $12 billion Carmichael coal project faces fresh legal challengeMINING.com

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Huffington Post Australia
Stan Grant 'Positive' About Recognising Indigenous Australians In The Constitution
Huffington Post Australia
Popular broadcaster and Referendum Council member Stan Grant has conceded it will to be difficult to achieve Indigenous recognition in the constitution but says it must be done to preserve Aboriginal rights and unite Australia. Grant this week replaced ...
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognitionThe Guardian
Stan Grant to advise Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant lands important new jobNEWS.com.au
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Anadolu Agency
Australia slammed for indigenous incarceration rates
Anadolu Agency
On the 25th anniversary of what was heralded as a game-changing report on Aboriginal deaths in Australian prisons, an indigenous rights campaigner says the government's success claims are based on skewed facts. Amnesty International's Julian Cleary ...
'Vicious cycle' as Australia indigenous prison rates soarYahoo7 News
Aboriginal deaths in custody: 25 years on, the vicious cycle remainsThe Guardian
New Thinking Needed to Reduce Indigenous Imprisonment RatesPro Bono Australia
Sky News Australia -Gizmodo Australia (blog) -World Policy Institute (blog)
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The Guardian
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
Grant said he was determined that constitutional recognition should not be simply about “rewriting history or inserting some poetic words about Aboriginal people”. “Recognition needs to be something that improves the governance and good policy-making ...
Stan Grant lands important new jobNEWS.com.au
Stan Grant appointed special adviser to PM on Indigenous recognitionSBS
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum CouncilThe Australian

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The Guardian
Stan Grant appointed to Referendum Council on Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
There is not only no Indigenous recognition in the constitution, but clauses that have been used to work against the better interests of Indigenous people.” Grant said he was determined that constitutional recognition should not be simply about ...
Stan Grant to advise Malcolm Turnbull on Indigenous recognitionSydney Morning Herald
Stan Grant lands important new jobNEWS.com.au
Stan Grant appointed special adviser to PM on Indigenous recognitionSBS
The Australian
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Bombala Times
Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Bombala Times
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Illawarra Mercury
Indigenous children account for 6 per cent of Australia's total youth population, but amount for more than half of those children across Australia who are locked up. In the Northern Territory, they represent more than 90 per cent of those children in ...

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