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Jessica Mauboy to sing indigenous version of national anthem on Australia Day
dailytelegraph.com.au
And she will do so while standing atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the Aboriginal and Australian flags are raised at 7.50am on Tuesday. Her singing will come at the end of a long process to translate the anthem, which saw event organisers work closely ...
Aboriginal boy, 11, 'bashed' by guards in youth detention centre, say familyThe Guardian
8 alternative days to celebrate Australia Day that are not January 26SBS
Australia's day for secrets, flags and cowardsIndependent Australia

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Indigenous Journalist Stan Grant's Extraordinary Speech On Racism In Australia Is Compulsory Viewing
Junkee
In July last year, when the relentless booing of Adam Goodes by AFL fans prompted nationwide debate, heated arguments about racism in Australian society, and Goodes' eventual retirement from the sport he had dominated for so long, one of the most ...

ABC Online
West Australian Indigenous cancer survivor's Tamworth rodeo success
ABC Online
An Indigenous rodeo rider from north-west WA has proven her worth on the national rodeo circuit, taking out a top five placing in Australia's biggest rodeo in Tamworth. Eighteen-year-old Janine Mongoo from Meekatharra is having the time of her life, ...

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SBS
University after high school: a road less travelled by Indigenous Australians
SBS
School leavers across Australia are getting ready for life as adults, and many are going to university - but it's likely a different story if you identify as Indigenous. Indigenous Australians aged 18-29 years old are much less likely to attend ...

SBS
Aboriginal-inspired smugglers land just in time for Survival Day
SBS
“Budgy Smugglers is an international brand so the impact will be huge. It might even help close the gap of inequality in Australia,” said Mr McGrie. He hopes the swimwear will start a national conversation about Australia's Indigenous history in the ...

SBS
Australia Day celebrations leave a bad taste for Indigenous Australians
SBS
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country, Australia Day embodies a variety of meanings. For some, it's a celebration of culture. For others it's a day of mourning. While many see it as a time to pay tribute to the survival ...
John Pilger: Australia's Day For Secrets, Flags And CowardsNew Matilda
Aboriginal boy, 11, 'bashed' by guards in youth detention centre, say familyThe Guardian
Australians invited to commemorate Survival Day at Indigenous eventsThe Guardian
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SBS
Australia Day celebrations leave a bad taste for Indigenous Australians
SBS
For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country, Australia Day embodies a variety of meanings. For some, it's a celebration of culture. For others it's a day of mourning. While many see it as a time to pay tribute to the survival ...
John Pilger: Australia's Day For Secrets, Flags And CowardsNew Matilda
Aboriginal boy, 11, 'bashed' by guards in youth detention centre, say familyThe Guardian
Sam Watson: 'Our mob are ready to struggle'Green Left Weekly

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ABC Online
Aboriginality test changes will 'swamp the community with white people', Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre fears
ABC Online
"It's not as if there's a whole lot of money around for being Aboriginal, but Aboriginal people do have entitlements as original owners and by diluting those entitlements, by swamping with people who aren't really Aboriginal, there's going to be big ...

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John Pilger: Australia's Day For Secrets, Flags And Cowards
New Matilda
On Australia Day 2016 – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people prefer Invasion Day or Survival Day – there will be no acknowledgement that Australia's uniqueness is its first people, along with an ingrained colonial mentality that ought to be an ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day 2016: What's on across Sydney
Sydney Morning Herald
Hornsby: In Hornsby Park, watch the wise-cracking acrobatic comedy of The Crackup Sisters, Aboriginal dance, and get up close with native Australian fauna with the Australian Wildlife Talk (11am-3pm). Ku-ring-gai: Families are welcomed to Bicentennial ...

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ABC Online
National heritage body unhappy at deregistration of Aboriginal sites along Roe 8 route
ABC Online
A national body which advises UNESCO on world heritage sites will raise its concerns with the WA Government about the deregistration of Aboriginal sites along the route of the controversial Roe 8 project. The WA representative of Australia ICOMOS ...

The Guardian
Alice Springs camps services contract 'should stay in Aboriginal hands'
The Guardian
Little Sisters Aboriginal town camp on the fringe of Alice Springs. The camps that surround the central Australian town were leased to the federal government in 2009 in return for $150m in social services and public housing. Photograph: Terry Trewin/AAP.

The Guardian
Alice Springs camps services contract 'should stay in Aboriginal hands'
The Guardian
Little Sisters Aboriginal town camp on the fringe of Alice Springs. The camps that surround the central Australian town were leased to the federal government in 2009 in return for $150m in social services and public housing. Photograph: Terry Trewin/AAP.

Center for Research on Globalization
Australia's Day for Secrets, Flags and Cowards
Center for Research on Globalization
In my lifetime, non-indigenous Australia has changed from an Anglo-Irish society to one of the most ethnically diverse on earth. Those we used to call “New Australians” often choose 26 January, ”Australia Day”, to be sworn in as citizens. The ...

ABC Online
Tasmanian Aboriginality test changes proposed by Premier Will Hodgman
ABC Online
Twelve months since promising to "reset the relationship" with Tasmania's Aboriginal community, Premier Will Hodgman vowed to take on the long divisive and contentious issue of Aboriginal identity. The Premier used his address ahead of Australia Day to ...
Tasmania to axe Aboriginal eligibility rulesSky News Australia

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Courier Mail
Australia's indigenous housing failure
Courier Mail
It found the 40-year-old indigenous Home Ownership Program (IHOP) — intended as a leg up for Aboriginal people on low incomes — gave 96 per cent of its loans to middle or high income earners. But Federal indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion ...

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Courier Mail
Australia's indigenous housing failure
Courier Mail
But Federal indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion appears reluctant to radically change the IHOP, despite agreeing with the “thrust” of the audit. The review focused on Indigenous Business Australia's (IBA) management of the IHOP since 2005 ...

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ABC Online
National Indigenous Times acquired by Wayne Bergmann's 'pro-business' syndicate
ABC Online
A syndicate described as "pro-business", that includes former Kimberley Land Council CEO Wayne Bergmann and West Australian journalist Tony Barrass, have acquired ownership of the financially troubled Indigenous newspaper. The successful acquisition ...

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ABC Online
National Indigenous Times acquired by Wayne Bergmann's 'pro-business' syndicate
ABC Online
A syndicate described as "pro-business", that includes former Kimberley Land Council CEO Wayne Bergmann and West Australian journalist Tony Barrass, have acquired ownership of the financially troubled Indigenous newspaper. The successful acquisition ...

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Tas to scrap Aboriginal eligibility rules
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Tasmania will move to align the state's rules on Aboriginal eligibility with the commonwealth, to allow more Australians to identify as indigenous. Premier Will Hodgman, who also wears the hat of Aboriginal affairs minister, wants to scrap Tasmania's ...

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