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Gizmodo Australia (blog)
Cleverman Is An ABC TV Series About An Aboriginal Superhero
Gizmodo Australia (blog)
“Cleverman marks a new era for Australia's production sector, inviting audiences to experience a bold new story-world where Aboriginal storytelling meets high concept genre drama,” said Sally Riley, Head of Indigenous, ABC TV. “With an 80 per cent ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Deaths in custody: Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Sydney Morning Herald
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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Sydney Morning Herald
Deaths in custody: Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be locked up
Sydney Morning Herald
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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The Australian
Jail rates send indigenous people to 'broken, bleak future'
The Australian
Mr Dodson said indigenous people had lost trust in the legal system. “It is a feared and despised processing plant that propels the most vulnerable and disabled of our people towards a broken, bleak future,” he said. Advocating a “justice reinvestment” ...
Patrick Dodson says Indigenous incarceration rate an 'utter disgrace'The Guardian
[ April 13, 2016 ] Justice system “sucking us up like waste”, says Dodson NEWSNational Indigenous Times
Patrick Dodson makes impassioned plea for 'a smarter form of justice'Sydney Morning Herald
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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous prison rate is a national crisis, and our international shame
Sydney Morning Herald
Unpaid fines or drinking in public should never be a death sentence. Yet, for Indigenous people, this is still the case, a generation on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Twenty-five years ago, the royal commission laid out a ...
Aboriginal public servants on their own on pay, says govtThe Canberra Times
Call for overhaulThe Guardian (Australia)

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The Canberra Times
Aboriginal public servants on their own on pay, says govt
The Canberra Times
Aboriginal Hostels Limited has offered its 486 workers, 70 per cent of whom are Aborigine or Torres Strait Islanders, pay rises worth just 1 per cent a year while most Australian Public Service workers have been offered 2 per cent as part of the bitter ...
Indigenous prison rate is a national crisis, and our international shameSydney Morning Herald
Call for overhaulThe Guardian (Australia)

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The Age
Actor and Aboriginal elder Uncle Jack Charles refused taxi in Melbourne, again
The Age
Aboriginal elder and renowned actor Jack Charles has again been refused a cab in Melbourne because of what he calls systemic racial discrimination against Indigenous Australians by taxi drivers. The 72-year-old was with two artists visiting from Turkey ...

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SBS
How ancient Aboriginal star maps have shaped Australia's highway network
SBS
The next time you're driving down a country road in outback Australia, consider there's a good chance that very route was originally mapped out by Aboriginal people perhaps thousands of years before Europeans came to Australia. And like today, they ...

The Guardian
Patrick Dodson says Indigenous incarceration rate an 'utter disgrace'
The Guardian
Dodson addressed the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, lamenting the fact that the number of Indigenous people in jail has doubled since the release of the findings of a landmark royal commission into deaths in custody 25 years ago.
Aboriginal people caught in vicious cycle of justice system, Patrick Dodson saysThe Australian
[ April 13, 2016 ] Justice system “sucking us up like waste”, says Dodson NEWSNational Indigenous Times
Patrick Dodson makes impassioned plea for 'a smarter form of justice'Sydney Morning Herald

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Too many indigenous Australians in jail, trends show  Catholic Leader

Mashable
Indigenous Australian pens invite to Jamie Oliver to visit and cook with her remote community
Mashable
As Jamie Oliver has become known for his fight for healthy eating around the world, an Indigenous Australian woman has invited him to do the same in her backyard. Julie Bangun, who lives in the Aboriginal community of Wadeye in the Northern Territory, ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Reduce Indigenous incarceration rates? Not so fast
dailytelegraph.com.au
In the push to lower Indigenous incarceration rates the real victims are often forgotten — people who are assaulted or even killed by their family members, like the woman whose partner set fire to her genitalia because she “looked at another man the ...

The Australian
Aboriginal people caught in vicious cycle of justice system, Patrick Dodson says
The Australian
Taking aim at the country's legislators for the worsening rates of imprisonment since the 1991 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, Mr Dodson said the “vicious cycle” that saw indigenous Australians overrepresented in jail remained. “By ...
Patrick Dodson makes emotional plea for action on Aboriginal incarcerationSydney Morning Herald
[ April 13, 2016 ] Justice system “sucking us up like waste”, says Dodson NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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The Australian
Aboriginal people caught in vicious cycle of justice system, Patrick Dodson says
The Australian
Taking aim at the country's legislators for the worsening rates of imprisonment since the 1991 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, Mr Dodson said the “vicious cycle” that saw indigenous Australians overrepresented in jail remained. “By ...
Patrick Dodson makes emotional plea for action on Aboriginal incarcerationSydney Morning Herald
[ April 13, 2016 ] Justice system “sucking us up like waste”, says Dodson NEWSNational Indigenous Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson makes emotional plea for action on Aboriginal incarceration
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's legal system has become a "feared and despised processing plant" for most Aboriginal people, propelling the most vulnerable and disadvantaged toward a "broken, bleak future", according to Patrick Dodson. Lamenting that the situation has ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Patrick Dodson makes emotional plea for action on Aboriginal incarceration
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's legal system has become a "feared and despised processing plant" for most Aboriginal people, propelling the most vulnerable and disadvantaged toward a "broken, bleak future", according to Patrick Dodson. Lamenting that the situation has ...

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SBS
Australia facing the same suicide crisis as Canada's native communities, says mental health expert
SBS
Media attention is quite often the only call to action on Indigenous suicide said Ms Cox, who described similarities between Canada and Australia. “Aboriginal Suicide in Australia has been like an epidemic and Nigel Scullion championing change also ...
The Canadian First Nation suicide epidemic has been generations in the makingThe Guardian
'Rolling Nightmare' of Suicide Attempts Prompts First Nation Community to Declare State of EmergencyTruthdig

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The Ecologist (blog)
Starvation in Australia: Utopia's dirty secret
The Ecologist (blog)
Australian governments have long waged a one-sided war on the continent's Aboriginal peoples, writes John Pilger. And now a new weapon has come into play: the starvation of the most remote, culturally intact communities. It's all part of a multi ...

The Ecologist (blog)
Starvation in Australia: Utopia's dirty secret
The Ecologist (blog)
Australian governments have long waged a one-sided war on the continent's Aboriginal peoples, writes John Pilger. And now a new weapon has come into play: the starvation of the most remote, culturally intact communities. It's all part of a multi ...

The Australian
Push to end passive indigenous welfare delivers results
The Australian
The review was funded by the federal government and the Commonwealth Bank. The old model of indigenous affairs was one that “never interacted with anybody that made money or worked in an enterprise that made money”, Mr Pearson told The Australian.