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The Guardian
Indigenous prisoners in police custody get 24-hour counselling hotline
The Guardian
The Western Australian government has expanded a scheme to provide support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners to cover people held in police custody, but death in custody campaigners say the new scheme is not what was promised.

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The Guardian
Indigenous prisoners in police custody get 24-hour counselling hotline
The Guardian
From Thursday, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people held in prisons or police lock-ups in Western Australia will be able to request access to a 24-hour hotline that will connect them with the Aboriginal Visitors Scheme (AVS), a support and ...

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The Australian (subscription)
Denial won't save Aboriginal kids
The Australian (subscription)
With section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act rearing its head once again, many Australians may fear accusations of racism if they point out that too many Aboriginal children live in disgraceful conditions from which non-Aboriginal children would ...

The Australian (subscription)
Alan Jones isn't racist, he wants Aboriginal kids to be safe
The Australian (subscription)
The fear of being labelled racist has driven too many of us to remain silent about abuse in Aboriginal Australia. That silence has condemned too many indigenous kids to undergo and witness things children simply should never see. In late 1993 while I ...

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The Australian (subscription)
Denial won't save Aboriginal kids
The Australian (subscription)
With section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act rearing its head once again, many Australians may fear accusations of racism if they point out that too many Aboriginal children live in disgraceful conditions from which non-Aboriginal children would ...

The Australian (subscription)
Alan Jones isn't racist, he wants Aboriginal kids to be safe
The Australian (subscription)
The fear of being labelled racist has driven too many of us to remain silent about abuse in Aboriginal Australia. That silence has condemned too many indigenous kids to undergo and witness things children simply should never see. In late 1993 while I ...

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Australia's “Closing the Gap” fraud: Indigenous conditions worsen
World Socialist Web Site
Delivering the Australian government's annual “Closing the Gap” report on indigenous disadvantage to parliament last week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull turned the world on its head. He extolled the report as an “exciting opportunity, to empower the ...
OPINION: Working together is the only way forwardThe Sunshine Coast Daily
Women in This Country Are Going to Jail to Escape Domestic ViolenceTakePart

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Australia's “Closing the Gap” fraud: Indigenous conditions worsen
World Socialist Web Site
Delivering the Australian government's annual “Closing the Gap” report on indigenous disadvantage to parliament last week, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull turned the world on its head. He extolled the report as an “exciting opportunity, to empower the ...
OPINION: Working together is the only way forwardThe Sunshine Coast Daily
Women in This Country Are Going to Jail to Escape Domestic ViolenceTakePart

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The Guardian
Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliament
The Guardian
“Warlpiri is one of the first languages for the first people of Australia, and Warlpiri to me is the easiest language for me to express myself in,” Price told the ABC. “I believe our languages should be acknowledged and we are forever and a day having ...
Aboriginal minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT ParliamentABC Online
Indigenous tongues deserve recognition as official languagesThe Australian (subscription)
Australian Politician Fights for Indigenous Languages in ParliamentteleSUR English
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The Guardian
Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliament
The Guardian
“Warlpiri is one of the first languages for the first people of Australia, and Warlpiri to me is the easiest language for me to express myself in,” Price told the ABC. “I believe our languages should be acknowledged and we are forever and a day having ...
Aboriginal minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT ParliamentABC Online
Indigenous tongues deserve recognition as official languagesThe Australian (subscription)

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The Guardian
With 80% Indigenous cast Cleverman becomes first Australian show at Berlinale
The Guardian
It's another busy morning in Potsdamer Platz: black-clad people stream into the lobby of the Grand Hyatt, hurriedly grabbing coffees from street-trucks before the first deals of the day. By 10am script pitches can be heard at tables as numbers are ...

The Guardian
Indigenous writer Bruce Pascoe: Australian literature needs to be better at telling Indigenous stories
The Guardian
When Bruce Pascoe released his non-fiction book Dark Emu: Black Seeds, Agriculture or Accident? – which drew evidence of precolonial Aboriginal Australia food production from diaries of early explorers, challenging their categorisation as hunter ...

The Guardian
Indigenous writer Bruce Pascoe: Australian literature needs to be better at telling Indigenous stories
The Guardian
When Bruce Pascoe released his non-fiction book Dark Emu: Black Seeds, Agriculture or Accident? – which drew evidence of precolonial Aboriginal Australia food production from diaries of early explorers, challenging their categorisation as hunter ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT Parliament
ABC Online
The failed request from Local Government Minister Bess Nungarrayi Price came after the central Australian MP was warned over disorderly conduct after she interjected in a parliamentary debate in Warlpiri, prompting NT Speaker Kezia Purick to declare ...
Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliamentThe Guardian

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ABC Online
Aboriginal minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT Parliament
ABC Online
The failed request from Local Government Minister Bess Nungarrayi Price came after the central Australian MP was warned over disorderly conduct after she interjected in a parliamentary debate in Warlpiri, prompting NT Speaker Kezia Purick to declare ...
Indigenous MP ruled disorderly for speaking Warlpiri language in parliamentThe Guardian

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The Guardian
Self-declared sovereign Indigenous nation recognised by Australian minister
The Guardian
The Yidindji cabinet is composed of the foreign affairs and trade minister, Murrumu Walubara Yidindji – a former National Indigenous Television Canberra press gallery journalist who renounced his Australian citizenship to live under tribal law in 2014 ...

ABC Online
Warlpiri minister Bess Price denied request to speak Indigenous language in NT Parliament
ABC Online
The failed request from Local Government Minister Bess Nungarrayi Price came after the central Australian MP was warned over disorderly conduct after she interjected in a parliamentary debate in Warlpiri, prompting NT Speaker Kezia Purick to declare ...

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Harvard Magazine
At the Harvard Art Museums, Indigenous Australian Art and Thought on Display
Harvard Magazine
Composed of 70 artworks—many of which had never left their native land before now—the exhibition Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia opened on February 5. The project was some five years in the making for visiting curator ...

Harvard Magazine
At the Harvard Art Museums, Indigenous Australian Art and Thought on Display
Harvard Magazine
Australian anthropologist William Stanner coined the term “everywhen” in the 1960s as a way to translate the Aboriginal experience of past and future as unified and overlapping: time is cyclical and circular, rather than unidirectional and linear, and ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Aboriginal women 'committing crimes to go to jail and avoid abusive partners'
Telegraph.co.uk
Government figures show Aborigines in Australia make up about three per cent of the population but comprise almost a third of the prison population. A report last week found imprisonment for Aboriginal adults increased by 77 per cent between 2000 and ...

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