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The Conversation AU
The call that might save your life this Christmas – and how Lifeline saved mine
The Conversation AU
Earlier this month, the latest Children's Rights Report was released, showing that one in 12 Australian men and women had experienced physical abuse by a family member, and one in 28 experienced sexual abuse by a family member, before the age of 15.

The Mercury
With architecture as the narrator
The Mercury
Seeds from France planted at the bay created the first European garden in Australia, and cordial contact was achieved between the French and Tasmanian Aborigines, who feasted, played games and sang. Louise Girardin, a woman disguised as a male ...

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Indigenous activist holds out against Carmichael mine
The Australian
A spokeswoman for the state Minister for State Development, Natural Resources and Mines, Anthony Lynham, last night said he could not issue the mining lease for Australia's largest proposed coal mine until Mr Burragubba's case was resolved. The case ...

Cabbage Tree Island is a large, flat, teardrop of sugar cane land on a reach of the Richmond River on the New South Wales far north coast. - It is also home to the Njangbal clan of the Bundjalung people, and it is 'country' for former Jali Local Aboriginal Land Council chairwoman Sandra Bolt. - In the 1950s and 60s, Mrs Bolt's mother was assiduous in making sure the house was spick and span, and all 13 of her children were spotless ahead of the monthly inspection by the mission manager's wife — one of the few things her mother could do to stop her children being targeted by 'the welfare'. "We were all as a family kept together because my mother protected us from being taken away by the welfare, and then my little brother was drowned on Cabbage Tree Island," Mrs Bolt recalled sadly. - "That was when my family moved to Sydney, and my sister and I worked as domestics at Vaucluse." AUDIO 12:55 Bundjalung woman Sandra Bolt speaks about her family ABC NEWS The sisters met men and settled down. Mrs Bolt's sister Irene and her partner found a silver lining in a dark cloud after a workplace accident left them with enough compensation to buy a house in Balmain and a new car. - Then one day in the early 1970s, Government officers swooped and removed the youngest five of her six children, to be fostered in separate homes in different parts of the state. - The eldest child removed was just six years old.

ABC Online
Artists and authors pick the PM's summer reading list
ABC Online
I think dear old Malcolm has gone a bit overboard on the positive thinking route—the whole 'it's never been a more exciting time to be an Australian! Everything for the best, and the best of all possible worlds, all we need is to be agile and ...

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NEWS.com.au
Floatopia event cancelled following outbursts and insults online
NEWS.com.au
Anyone who publicly celebrated on Australia Day should be conscious of the insensitivity given Aboriginal communities continue to name it Invasion Day. “Not only are individuals being insensitive to the true meaning of this day but they are also ...

Australian Geographic
Vale Harry Butler AO CBE
Australian Geographic
... on the sustainable exploitation of first oil and later gas on Barrow Island off the WA coast. Harry was the 1979 Australian of the Year, an honour he shared with Neville Bonner, the first Aboriginal person to become a member of the Australian ...

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SBS
A year in the spotlight for Indigenous challenges
SBS
And Australia was once again reminded of the tragedy of Indigenous people dying in custody. There was heckling of West Australian premier Colin Barnett over the death of a young Aboriginal woman, known as Ms Dhu for cultural reasons. She died days ...

SBS
A year in the spotlight for Indigenous challenges
SBS
The challenges facing Australia's Indigenous peoples were put in the spotlight like never before in 2015. And a change in government meant a handover of a number of those issues, including constitutional recognition. Rachael Hocking takes a look back ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal man found dead in custody four hours after routine court appearance
The Guardian
The father of an Aboriginal man who died while waiting for someone to sign his bail paperwork in Broome, Western Australia, was notified of his death by staff at a prison 2,189km away – but it took them two phone calls to tell him which of his sons had ...

NT News
MLA raises questions over care unit
NT News
“The Central Australia Palliative Care Association and myself as Minister for Health worked collaboratively to get this much needed service off the ground in Alice Springs,” Mrs Lambley said. “Over the last 12 months there has ... “We just feel that ...

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ABC Online
Gulf of Carpentaria communities prepare for potential cyclone
ABC Online
However, forecasters said the chance of a cyclone forming today or tomorrow north of Australia was becoming less likely, due to a low pressure system located over part of the Northern Territory developing more slowly than expected. The Bureau of ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Want real parity for Indigenous Australia? Here's what it looks like
The Australian Financial Review
Six Indigenous doctors graduated from UNSW Medicine in 2014 but many more are needed to achieve parity with non-Indigenous Australia. UNSW. by Nyunggai Warren Mundine. It was Jesus who said "the poor will always be with you". Theologians discuss ...

The Stringer
Western Australia doesn't get it; they think jailing the poor is just fine
The Stringer
Western Australia jails the poorest at a higher rate than the rest of the nation. Western Australia jails those who cannot afford to pay fines. Western Australia jails Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people at abominable rates, the highest in ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Christmas: Mark Olive's recipe for a traditional Australian feast
The Guardian
Muntrie berries are a native fruit that grow in south-east Australia and around the Coorong and Eyre Peninsula region in South Australia. Also known as emu apple, they have the flavour of apple and cinnamon. If you haven't yet (and I'm going to sound ...

ABC Online
Welfare debit card mooted for WA Goldfields
ABC Online
Communities in Western Australia's northern Goldfields could become the next trial sites for the Federal Government's welfare debit card. A bill to set up three trial sites for the welfare card, which will hold 80 per cent of fortnightly payments and ...

The Sunshine Coast Daily
The good, the bad and the expensive: Aussie politics in 2015
The Sunshine Coast Daily
He equivocated on Constitutional recognition and spent one week espousing his apparent "credentials" on Cape York, at the same time turning a tin ear to the real concerns of Aboriginal Australia. The government's ear was, however, receptive to the ...

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Crikey (registration) (blog)
Will the proposed s116A prohibit or entrench racial discrimination in the ...
Crikey (registration) (blog)
Stan Grant, for example, recently noted that the Australian Law Reform Commission records 67 different definitions of Australian Indigenous people. But he didn't take it a step further: a definition of Aboriginal or Indigenous arises because we make ...

The Age
We should shout about the historic achievement of adding Indigenous languages ...
The Age
Studies consistently point to the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who learn their own languages are more engaged with their school life and education overall. Research from Australia and Canada is also beginning to show that ...
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Bush tucker trend: Indigenous custodians call for protections on native foodsSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
We should shout about the historic achievement of adding Indigenous languages ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Studies consistently point to the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who learn their own languages are more engaged with their school life and education overall. Research from Australia and Canada is also beginning to show that ...
More focus on Indigenous talentcricket.com.au

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