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Times Higher Education (THE)
Indigenous students up in Australia but concerns remain
Times Higher Education (THE)
A rise in Indigenous student enrolments in Australia should not obscure the need for “culturally appropriate and continuous support” to improve low completion rates, one academic has cautioned. Recent federal government figures showed that Aboriginal ...

Australia Network News
University Alters National Anthem with Indigenous Twist
Australia Network News
The real twist was the emphasis given to Australia's indigenous heritage in the lyrics. The new lyrics had assertions like “honouring the Dreaming” and “combine our ancient history and cultures everywhere.” Bleijie rebuffed the university's contention ...

South China Morning Post (subscription)
Boy in murder charge highlights the plight of Aboriginal citizens in modern day Australia
South China Morning Post (subscription)
An 11-year-old boy charged with murder has come to epitomize Australia's great shame: the plight of its Aboriginal citizens. The boy is one of the youngest people to be charged with murder in Australia. He was part of a gang of seven or eight boys ...
In Australian state, aboriginal kids 53 times more likely to be in jail than othersWashington Post

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Sydney Morning Herald
Call for national day of remembrance for Australian frontier wars
Sydney Morning Herald
A Ngunnawal elder believes the true reconciliation cannot be achieved in Australia until the government recognises the existence of the frontier wars between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is calling on the ...
Talking to my Country – The book that every Australian should readThe Stringer

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Sydney Morning Herald
Call for national day of remembrance for Australian frontier wars
Sydney Morning Herald
A Ngunnawal elder believes the true reconciliation cannot be achieved in Australia until the government recognises the existence of the frontier wars between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is calling on the ...
Talking to my Country – The book that every Australian should readThe Stringer

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Sydney Morning Herald
Calls for a permanent Aboriginal medical service in western Sydney as another one goes under
Sydney Morning Herald
NSW opposition health spokesman Walt Secord has called for an independent inquiry into a permanent medical service for Aboriginal people in western Sydney. He said he would support any moves by the NSW government to provide the service with ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Lily Shearer honoured by Australia Council for work with Indigenous theatre
Sydney Morning Herald
For her three decades as a leader in Aboriginal cultural development, arts management and theatre making in Sydney and regional NSW, Lily Shearer has been awarded one of the eight Australia Council Awards for outstanding achievement in the arts.

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Mashable
This app teaches Australia about its 500 Indigenous first nations
Mashable
When Kevin Rudd was prime minister of Australia, Ngarluma man Tyson Mowarin was struck that the Mandarin-speaking leader could say hello at the foot of the Great Wall of China, but could not say hello in the local indigenous language at the foot of Uluru.

Mashable
This app teaches Australia about its 500 Indigenous first nations
Mashable
When Kevin Rudd was prime minister of Australia, Ngarluma man Tyson Mowarin was struck that the Mandarin-speaking leader could say hello at the foot of the Great Wall of China, but could not say hello in the local indigenous language at the foot of Uluru.

The Guardian
Murrumu: one man's mission to create a sovereign Indigenous country inside Australia
The Guardian
But also article 36 of the United Nations declaration of rights of indigenous peoples says that indigenous people have the right to travel overseas for religious, economic or political reasons and the state must assist in that process.” Even though the ...

The Guardian
Murrumu: one man's mission to create a sovereign Indigenous country inside Australia
The Guardian
But also article 36 of the United Nations declaration of rights of indigenous peoples says that indigenous people have the right to travel overseas for religious, economic or political reasons and the state must assist in that process.” Even though the ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal leaders push to make Davenport community alcohol-free zone
ABC Online
Leaders in an Aboriginal community north of Adelaide are pushing to make the area a dry zone in a bid to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence. About 100 people live in Davenport, just outside Port Augusta, but its population swells during summer. So too ...

Stuff.co.nz
In Australian state, aboriginal kids 53 times more likely to be in jail than others
Stuff.co.nz
Aboriginal children in Western Australia are 53 times more likely to be jailed than other Australians, according to the Change the Record Coalition, which is trying to reduce incarceration rates for Aborigines. Eighty percent of children in state ...

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Washington Post
In Australian state, aboriginal kids 53 times more likely to be in jail than others
Washington Post
SYDNEY — An 11-year-old boy charged with murder has come to epitomize Australia's great shame: the plight of its Aboriginal citizens, who may be the most jailed people in the Western world. The boy is one of the youngest people to be charged with ...

Daily Mail
'In a few decades half of Australia will be Aboriginal'
Daily Mail
An Aboriginal land council says people are falsely claiming to be indigenous to cheat the system. The Sydney-based Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council says as many as one in 15 people - or more - claim to be Aboriginal when they aren't, in a bid ...

Daily Mail
'In a few decades half of Australia will be Aboriginal'
Daily Mail
An Aboriginal land council says people are falsely claiming to be indigenous to cheat the system. The Sydney-based Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council says as many as one in 15 people - or more - claim to be Aboriginal when they aren't, in a bid ...

New Matilda
Treaty, Yeah! The Undeniable Case For A National Settlement With Australia's First Peoples
New Matilda
Treaty, yeah! Treaty now! Liam McLoughlin makes the case for supporting a treaty with the mob. In 1832, Governor of Van Diemen's Land, George Arthur, said it was a “fatal error… that a treaty was not entered into” with Aboriginal people. In 2016 ...

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New Matilda
Treaty, Yeah! The Undeniable Case For A National Settlement With Australia's First Peoples
New Matilda
Treaty, yeah! Treaty now! Liam McLoughlin makes the case for supporting a treaty with the mob. In 1832, Governor of Van Diemen's Land, George Arthur, said it was a “fatal error… that a treaty was not entered into” with Aboriginal people. In 2016 ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal elder Pat Dodson: portrait of the senator as a young man
Sydney Morning Herald
Born in Broome to an Irish-Australian father, Snowy Dodson, and an Indigenous mother, Patricia, his family had fled across state borders to Katherine, in the Northern Territory, when Pat was a two-year-old baby. The hounding laws of Western Australia ...

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The Australian (subscription)
An Australian Indigenous Museum? That's a dream to lift the nation
The Australian (subscription)
An Australian Indigenous Museum with an area housing repatriated objects would be a visionary achievement for any federal government, as defining as Kevin Rudd's Stolen Generations apology. Even, perhaps, if it had a local branch of the British Museum ...