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ABC Online
Dennis Jensen says 'noble savages' in Indigenous communities don't need funding
ABC Online
Mr Jensen, a West Australian MP, said he endorsed that position and did not think there should be specific policies singling out Indigenous Australians. "In essence, if the 'noble savage' lifestyle, à la Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the same one often ...
Liberal MP Dennis Jensen called remote Indigenous communities 'noble savages'Daily Mail
Dennis Jensen's Speech: The Full Transcript, In All Its Ranting GloryNew Matilda

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New Matilda
Liberal MP Concedes 'British Australia Invaded', Then Demands End To Funding Black 'Lifestyle Choices'
New Matilda
“I put it to the members of this place that the taxpayers of Australia should not be funding lifestyle choices. Yes, I agree with the former Prime Minister, the member for Warringah, when he refers to Indigenous Australians' choice to live in remote ...
Turnbull under pressure to condemn MP over 'noble savage' speech on Indigenous communitiesABC Online
Liberal MP Dennis Jensen called remote Indigenous communities 'noble savages'Daily Mail

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New Matilda
Liberal MP Concedes 'British Australia Invaded', Then Demands End To Funding Black 'Lifestyle Choices'
New Matilda
“I put it to the members of this place that the taxpayers of Australia should not be funding lifestyle choices. Yes, I agree with the former Prime Minister, the member for Warringah, when he refers to Indigenous Australians' choice to live in remote ...

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Liberal MP revives Tony Abbott's Indigenous "lifestyle choices" debate – politics live
The Guardian
I put it to the members of this place that the taxpayers of Australia should not be funding lifestyle choices. Yes, I agree with the former prime minister, the member for Warringah, when he refers to Indigenous Australians' choice to live in remote ...

Glen Yearwood (Storyteller) is a former London based communication expert who is traveling the globe to listen to the voice of the First Nations Peoples. Currently living in Alice Springs, Storyteller says has never seen or sensed the seething that he has experienced since arriving in Australia last year.. and that he believes there is a massive cavity in the relationship between white and black Australians. He told CAAMA that as a nation, Australia has a fundamental responsibility to teach children in schools the real history of their country.

Sydney Morning Herald
One Billion Beats reveals how Australian cinema treats Aboriginal people
Sydney Morning Herald
In a darkened theatre at Campbelltown Arts Centre, a water trough filled with meaning sits on the stage. Behind the trough, a film shows a group of Aboriginal people drinking from a water trough that is later used by cattle. A scene from the movie ...

Sydney Morning Herald
One Billion Beats reveals how Australian cinema treats Aboriginal people
Sydney Morning Herald
In a darkened theatre at Campbelltown Arts Centre, a water trough filled with meaning sits on the stage. Behind the trough, a film shows a group of Aboriginal people drinking from a water trough that is later used by cattle. A scene from the movie ...

ABC Online
Indigenous academic Bronwyn Carson explores complexities of being Aboriginal and the politics of identity
ABC Online
Her experience growing up with the understanding that she and her siblings "weren't white, but not Aboriginal either" inspired her recently published PhD, in which she explores the complexities of being an Aboriginal Australian. "I see people from uni ...

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Australian Geographic
Did Aboriginal Australians hold the answer to our bushfire problem?
Australian Geographic
So rapid was the socio-ecological disruption of southern Australia that researchers have had to rely on historical sources, such as colonial texts and images, and tree rings, pollen and charcoal in lake sediments, to piece together how Aboriginal ...

ABC Online
Calls for new WA heritage laws to protect both Aboriginal and European cultural sites
ABC Online
"But there are elements obviously within the Government that are still caught up in an 'old-world view of Aboriginal Australia'." Dr Veth and Dr Ouzman also do not support the legislation. They have added their voices to calls by other local ...

The Conversation AU
Aboriginal fire management – part of the solution to destructive bushfires
The Conversation AU
So rapid was the socio-ecological disruption of southern Australia that researchers have had to rely on historical sources, such as colonial texts and images, and tree rings, pollen and charcoal in lake sediments, to piece together how Aboriginal ...

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The West Australian
WA Liberal MP slams 'noble savage' ideal - The West Australian
The West Australian
A Liberal Federal MP has lashed out at indigenous welfare programs, saying taxpayers shouldn't fund “noble savage“ lifestyle choices of remote communities. Tangney MP Dennis Jensen believes the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous outcomes ...

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Sky News Australia
Leyonhjelm slams indigenous 'fairy tales'
Sky News Australia
Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm has lashed out at special treatment given to indigenous Australians, arguing "fairy tales" are encouraging them to consider themselves special. In a speech in the Senate on Monday, Senator Leyonhjelm responded to the ...
Senator Leyonhjelm slams 'special' treatment of Indigenous AustraliansSBS

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Global Voices Online
An Aboriginal Comedy Show in Australia Finds a Mainstream Audience
Global Voices Online
But “Black Comedy” became an instant hit and just started its second season. Lui says the show has something for everyone and it also taps into white guilt over Australia's original sin: colonizing Australia's indigenous people. “We have some very ...

Global Voices Online
An Aboriginal Comedy Show in Australia Finds a Mainstream Audience
Global Voices Online
An example: Lui wrote and starred in a satirical advertisement for a cosmetic line, Pretty for an Aboriginal. Lui is light-skinned. Her mother is an Aboriginal from the Gamilaroi Nation in interior Australia. Her father is a Torres Strait Islander ...

The Stringer
Racial inequality in the Australian criminal system – 1 in 6 Black people go to prison
The Stringer
The incarceration rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is an abomination – moral, political and otherwise and bespeaks of diabolical racism unfettered. In Western Australia, the mother of jailers, one in 13 of Aboriginal adult males is ...

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SBS
Senator Leyonhjelm slams 'special' treatment of Indigenous Australians
SBS
Affirmative action programs, including targets for government employment of Indigenous Australians, encouraged indigenous people to get ahead through "special pleading" and non-Indigenous Australians to view them as charity cases, he said.
Leyonhjelm slams indigenous 'fairy tales'9news.com.au

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Australia Network News
Indigenous Journalist Stan Grant Could Commence a Political Career
Australia Network News
It is believed that the Labour party is pushing him to run in the Western Sydney seat of Reid, according to The Australian Financial Review. While speaking at the National Press Club, Grant stressed on the importance of senior indigenous voices in ...
Stan Grant pens emotional takedown of the Australian dream9news.com.au
Stan Grant applauded over his evocative National Press Club addressNEWS.com.au
Why Stan Grant could be our next indigenous politicianThe New Daily
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ArtsHub (subscription)
Indigenous writing: it's not just politics
ArtsHub (subscription)
The responsibility to tell their stories is a powerful motivator for Indigenous writers. Playwright Tammy Anderson, memoirist Kate Howarth and multi-genre writer Anita Heiss ​all spoke of responsibility ​in their session on building a career as a 'Blak ...

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The Guardian
Death in custody: Aboriginal woman Maureen Mandijarra lay in cell for hours
The Guardian
The inquest into her death began in the tourist town 2,240km north of Perth on Western Australia's north-west coast on Monday. In the small courthouse, across a red dirt stained road from the Broome police station, Toby Bishop, the counsel assisting ...

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