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SBS
Indigenous incarcerated youths are 'regular kids': Briggs
SBS
Aboriginal children in Western Australia are 53 times more likely to be imprisoned. Chief Justice Wayne Martin told ABC News in June that those living in the state were the most disadvantaged in the country. "[The statistics are] absolutely appalling ...

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SBS
Indigenous incarcerated youths are 'regular kids': Briggs
SBS
Up to 70 percent of the centre's population is Indigenous, the centre said. Briggs meets First Australian teenage men and learns about who they are. "Who do you call…When do you use the phone," he asks a teenager there. "My mum," the young man replies.
'There's potential behind this razor wire': Rapper Adam Briggs explores ...ABC Online

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Briggs meets First Australian teenage men and learns about who they are. ... Aboriginal children in Western Australia are 53 times more likely to be ...

The Guardian
Aussie rules and Aboriginal art: meet the Hermannsburg potters at work
The Guardian
Australian rules football is a big deal in remote Indigenous communities, particularly for young people who usually only see their favourite sporting stars on TV. The recent Adam Goodes controversy, in which the nation was gripped by debate over racial ...

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It's buzzing inside the studio when Guardian Australia visits. ... together the worlds of Australian rules football and remote Aboriginal community living.

Our Land is Alive will feature 20 AFL-themed pots, celebrating Aboriginal players and historic moments in the game's history. Hermannsburg, in West ...

In Queensland the discovery of the fossilised remains of a 23 million-year-old rainforest in the Gold Coast hinterland is shining light on a little understood period of geological history. The fossils were unearthed from a creek bed by a curious bushwalker who took them to the Queensland Museum for analysis.

ABC Online
'There's potential behind this razor wire': Rapper Adam Briggs explores ...
ABC Online
On average, Indigenous youth in Australia are 24 times more likely to be jailed than their non-Indigenous peers, according to a report published earlier this year by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). In New South Wales that number ...

Australasian Lawyer
Law Council announces indigenous legal professional award winner
Australasian Lawyer
Eddie Cubillo was awarded the National Indigenous Legal Professional of the Year over the weekend, along with Alison Whittaker, who took out the award for the National Indigenous Law Student of the year, at the 2015 National Indigenous Legal ...

Cubillo, who did a stint as the anti-discrimination commissioner of the Northern Territory and as chair of the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency ...

The project had serious intent - the video had been commissioned by the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA), an organisation that ...

INDIGENOUS children in Australia's remote communities are more at risk of ... She found the prevalence of the disease in remote Aboriginal child ...

Sydney Morning Herald
New Aboriginal monument to rival Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge
Sydney Morning Herald
Overseas visitors to Sydney could be forgiven for thinking Indigenous people are not a part of Australia's biggest city, according to Aboriginal elder Norma Ingram. "There are thousands and thousands of people from overseas who come here and there's ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
New Aboriginal monument to rival Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge
Sydney Morning Herald
Overseas visitors to Sydney could be forgiven for thinking Indigenous people are not a part of Australia's biggest city, according to Aboriginal elder Norma Ingram. "There are thousands and thousands of people from overseas who come here and there's ...

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Overseas visitors to Sydney could be forgiven for thinking Indigenous people are not a part of Australia's biggest city, according to Aboriginal elder ...

The Clontarf Foundation provides a football academy and mentoring program for 3700 teenage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander boys in 70 ...

In two years, Mr Abbott has put constitutional recognition of Aborigines and Torres ... As Mr Pearson says, most Australians have no idea that the main ...

Sort indigenous funding mess
The Australian
Nobody doubts Tony Abbott's commitment when he says he wants to be the Prime Minister for indigenous Australians. In two years, Mr Abbott has put constitutional recognition of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders firmly on the agenda, spent quality ...

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Sort indigenous funding mess
The Australian
Nobody doubts Tony Abbott's commitment when he says he wants to be the Prime Minister for indigenous Australians. In two years, Mr Abbott has put constitutional recognition of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders firmly on the agenda, spent quality ...

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SUNBURY painter Helen Cannon is hoping her most recent works will shine a light on the importance of Jackson's Creek to Australia's indigenous ...