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dailytelegraph.com.au
Queen Emma's grave oversight
dailytelegraph.com.au
Chris Ingrey from La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council is a part of the Empowered Communities initiative. Photo: Hollie Adams / The Australian. “This Queen was no proud and haughty aristocrat with a retinue of servants to do her bidding and a ...

Independent Australia
Indigenous Australia and an Australian Republic: Moving in the same direction
Independent Australia
... to upper class Australian of privilege [cough: white] you probably would think that Australia is fine the way it is. I should start by getting my bias out in the open immediately: I am Aboriginal and an advocate for Aboriginal self-determination ...

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Independent Australia
Indigenous Australia and an Australian Republic: Working together
Independent Australia
... thus, I advocate for Treaties to be enacted with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations for not only self-governance and land rights, but the most critical part of my personal agenda is to have all Australians educated on the truthful ...

The Guardian
Alan Jones says Australia needs another stolen generation 'to protect children'
The Guardian
Alan Jones says Australia needs another stolen generation to “protect” children in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families from the drug abuse problems of their parents. The talkback radio host made the comment while complaining about players in ...
Alan Jones calls for MORE Aboriginal children to be taken from their parentsDaily Mail
Alan Jones Just Said Australia 'Needs' Stolen GenerationsHuffington Post Australia
Alan Jones says Australia needs more 'Stolen Generations'9news.com.au
Sydney Morning Herald -dailytelegraph.com.au
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Daily Mail
Alan Jones calls for MORE Aboriginal children to be taken from their parents
Daily Mail
Controversial radio shock jock Alan Jones has told listeners to his radio program that Australia needed to have another Stolen Generation to save Indigenous children from their 'drug and alcohol addicted' Aboriginal mothers and fathers. Jones made the ...
Alan Jones says Australia needs another stolen generation 'to protect children'The Guardian
2GB broadcaster Alan Jones says 'we need stolen generations'Sydney Morning Herald
We need more Stolen Generations: Jonesdailytelegraph.com.au
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Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
Address homelessness to Close the Gap: PHAA
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)
The ABC Without a Home Fact File, released in 2011, shows more than half of homeless Indigenous Australians are located in the NT and 70% in remote or very rural areas. The Fact File also shows homeless services only accommodated for 3.7% of all ...

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Gizmodo Australia
Scabies Research Breakthrough Will Help Remote Indigenous Australian Communities
Gizmodo Australia
Australian researchers have used cutting-edge genome technologies to reveal the genetic makeup of a widespread skin parasite causing serious health problems in Aboriginal communities. The research team identified the genetic 'map' of the human ...

ABC Online
The story of Australia's first Aboriginal political movement returns to Coranderrk
ABC Online
The play Coranderrk will be performed on the site of the former Aboriginal mission, an hour's drive from Melbourne, for the first time on February 21. Charles is a descendant of the people of Coranderrk, who convinced a parliamentary inquiry in 1881 ...

teleSUR English
6 Ways Gov't Has Abandoned Indigenous Australians Since Apology
teleSUR English
13, 2008, then prime minister Kevin Rudd's apology speech was seen by many Australians as the start of a new era. But how much has really changed for Indigenous Australians since then? The latest Closing the Gap report on the state of Indigenous ...
K-Rudd: Booing Adam Goodes & Claiming It's Not Racist Is "100% Bullshit"Pedestrian TV
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest WordHuffington Post Australia

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PRI
An Aboriginal comedy show in Australia finds a mainstream audience
PRI
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 ...

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PRI
An Aboriginal comedy show in Australia finds a mainstream audience
PRI
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 ...

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These chirps are gravitational waves converted to audible sounds. The faint thump matches the gravitational waves’ frequencies. The louder chirp is a higher frequency better suited to human ears. LIGO

Doubling of female imprisonment rate in Australia almost entirely due to Aboriginal women being locked up More here http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2014/s4066806.htm

The Guardian
Scabies mite genome mapped in boost for remote Indigenous health
The Guardian
Thousands of scabies mites were analysed by Australian researchers in a study that could lead to more healthy skin in people in remote Indigenous communities. The team used cutting-edge genome technologies to identify the genetic map of the human ...
Gene technology to help healthy skin in Aboriginal AustraliansEurekAlert (press release)

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Courier Mail
Moves afoot for Aussie indigenous war dance
Courier Mail
Kangaroos captain Cameron Smith met with the NRL indigenous leader and welfare manager Dean Widders last month about bringing the tribal dance to the Australian team. However, The Courier-Mail understands the idea would need to be formally ...
Push continues for Kangaroos to adopt pre-game Indigenous war danceSydney Morning Herald
Kangaroos captain Cameron Smith reveals Australian rugby league team might bring back pre-match war danceDaily Mail

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous health leaders helped give us a plan to close the gap, and we must back it
The Conversation AU
There is a stain on Australia that past generations have failed to remove. It is the entrenched divide between non-Indigenous Australians and our First Peoples, who continue to be denied the most basic human right to health equality and old age.

WA today
Review: Aboriginal artefacts make a surprising return to Australia
WA today
Australian Aborigines were seen as a "doomed" race, even by those who approached them with a keen sympathy. For many settlers they were simply a pest that had to be moved on or eliminated. Although one shouldn't confuse the barbarities of frontier ...

EurekAlert (press release)
Gene technology to help healthy skin in Aboriginal Australians
EurekAlert (press release)
Australian researchers have used cutting-edge genome technologies to reveal the genetic makeup of a widespread skin parasite causing serious health problems in Aboriginal communities. The research team identified the genetic 'map' of the human ...

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Review: Aboriginal artefacts make a surprising return to Australia
WA today
Australian Aborigines were seen as a "doomed" race, even by those who approached them with a keen sympathy. For many settlers they were simply a pest that had to be moved on or eliminated. Although one shouldn't confuse the barbarities of frontier ...

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Review: Aboriginal artefacts make a surprising return to Australia
WA today
Civilisation is a concept that has changed beyond recognition over the past century. To the pioneering ethnographers of the Victorian era, tribal cultures were merely stages on the way to the civilised state. Viewed as backward, impoverished and ...

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