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SBS
Casey Conway bares all: being a gay Aboriginal man in professional sport
SBS
Australian sport hasn't proven itself to be a bastion of racial or social harmony, especially of late. So one can only imagine the anxiety Casey Conway felt moving from Central Queensland to Sydney to play in the National Rugby League (NRL) straight ...

SBS
Casey Conway bares all: being a gay Aboriginal man in professional sport
SBS
Australian sport hasn't proven itself to be a bastion of racial or social harmony, especially of late. So one can only imagine the anxiety Casey Conway felt moving from Central Queensland to Sydney to play in the National Rugby League (NRL) straight ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Urban Aboriginal art missing women's voices
ArtsHub (subscription)
All Aboriginal artists, regardless of gender, ​face issue in terms of power structures, number counting and inequality. But as this current wave of voices within urban Aboriginal art emerges we are seeing a new group that is not only urban and ...

VICE
Barred Calls: On the Line with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
VICE
Client Service Officers (CSOs) at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service are responsible for checking in on the wellbeing of every Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander taken into custody within Victoria and Tasmania. Established in response to ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Male voices dominate urban Aboriginal art
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Contemporary Aboriginal Art Exhibition at Bondi Pavilion in 1983 was a kind of debut for urban Aboriginal art, heralding the emergence of urban artists, quickly followed by the formation of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative established in ...
Profile: Yhonnie ScarceThe Adelaide Review

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In Western Australia the number of Aboriginal children being removed from their parents has almost doubled in the last five years. - Now Indigenous leaders are proposing that children could be looked after by elders on former missions as an alternative to foster care. - Lucy Martin reports for ABC RN 'The World Today' 22 October 2015 TRANSCRIPT: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2015/s4336740.htm

Australian researcher creates world-first Indigenous translation of ...
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
CANBERRA, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- For the first time, the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) has been translated into an Indigenous Australian language, researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) revealed on Thursday.

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The Australian
First indigenous Trauma Recovery Program 'an essential step'
The Australian
For Stolen Generations survivor and Aboriginal health specialist Debra Hocking it's been 30 years in the making, but with the launch of Australia's first indigenous Trauma Recovery Program she believes an essential step has been taken in closing the gap.

The Australian
First indigenous Trauma Recovery Program 'an essential step'
The Australian
For Stolen Generations survivor and Aboriginal health specialist Debra Hocking it's been 30 years in the making, but with the launch of Australia's first indigenous Trauma Recovery Program she believes an essential step has been taken in closing the gap.

The Guardian
Young Indigenous imprisonment in NT: 'You wouldn't believe it in a modern-day ...
The Guardian
Jail and youth detention statistics in Australia paint a wearily familiar picture of Indigenous disadvantage but in the territory they are catastrophic. Its imprisonment rate is massively disproportionate to the rest of the country – 838.3 for every ...

The Guardian
Keating was right to intervene over recognition and Indigenous Australia's ...
The Guardian
Like Paul Keating, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are big picture people. Many, although not all, of the challenges in communities today are informed by the irresolution of unfinished business. This is not a fashionable thing to say, as ...
'We Are At The Crossroads Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples ...Huffington Post Australia

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The Guardian
Keating was right to intervene over recognition and Indigenous Australia's ...
The Guardian
Like Paul Keating, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are big picture people. Many, although not all, of the challenges in communities today are informed by the irresolution of unfinished business. This is not a fashionable thing to say, as ...
'We Are At The Crossroads Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples ...Huffington Post Australia

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The Guardian
Paul Keating lets rip (again): Indigenous recognition could make Australia great
The Guardian
Indigenous dispossession and Australia's colonial shame was a theme Keating returned to often during the lively 90-minute discussion, saying his greatest “emotional commitment” was the historic Mabo legislation that he ushered in which recognised the ...

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The Guardian
Paul Keating lets rip (again): Indigenous recognition could make Australia great
The Guardian
We need an Australian republic and our own flag, but only Indigenous recognition will make us a truly great country, former prime minister Paul Keating has said during a wide-ranging discussion about his legacy. “I always hoped and believed that ...

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The Guardian
How can I feel Australian when this country has told me I don't belong?
The Guardian
As much as Australia rejects us, we reach out looking for a way in. My grandfather went to war to prove his loyalty. Indigenous people have represented this country – some have captained our sporting teams. There is a yearning for this place: it is our ...

The Guardian
How can I feel Australian when this country has told me I don't belong?
The Guardian
Yet, we were conveniently bundled together as Aborigines – our identities extinguished along with our rights to our land. It didn't end there. The Australian Law Reform Commission records 67 different definitions of Australian Indigenous people – you ...

Huffington Post Australia
'We Are At The Crossroads Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples ...
Huffington Post Australia
The impact of current government policies of forced removal and closure of communities, of deregistration of thousands of Aboriginal sites, will be absolutely catastrophic for us. It will also make Australia poorer as a nation. Traditional Owners from ...

Huffington Post Australia
'We Are At The Crossroads Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples ...
Huffington Post Australia
The impact of current government policies of forced removal and closure of communities, of deregistration of thousands of Aboriginal sites, will be absolutely catastrophic for us. It will also make Australia poorer as a nation. Traditional Owners from ...

Indigenous Procurement Policy: Are you IPP ready?
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The Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP) commenced on 1 July 2015. It seeks "to stimulate Indigenous entrepreneurship and business development, providing Indigenous Australians with more opportunities to participate in the economy." The IPP aims to ...

The Guardian
Kalgoorlie mayor singles out Aboriginal people over antisocial behaviour
The Guardian
John Bowler, a controversial former Western Australian government mining minister who was elected mayor of Kalgoorlie in last weekend's local government elections, has begun his tenure by singling out Aboriginal people coming into the town of 30,000 ...