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Some Australian Indigenous languages you should know
The Conversation AU
As an ice-breaker, I often ask my linguistics students to name an Australian Indigenous language. Some are able to name Warlpiri, Yolngu Matha or Arrente, but most cannot manage the name of a single language. That is astonishing given there are 250 to ...
Exhibition: Indigenous Australia – enduring civilisationGeographical

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The number of children requiring protective services in Australia has ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders continue to be over-represented in the ...

How many Indigenous languages exist in Australia? ... Most Australians still believe that there is an Aboriginal language and have no idea about the ...

Australian soapies are among our most successful media exports. ... and said “I love this movie” and he wanted to understand Aboriginal Australia.

“The statistics in Australia are pretty dire,” Professor Davis says. ... “You cannot proceed as a nation to recognise Aboriginal culture in the Constitution ...

Warren Mundine has backed calls from indigenous leader Noel Pearson for the first Australians to rise above their traumatic history, saying Aboriginal ...

The Australian
Indigenous culture focus for Australia's first UN woman
The Australian
During the past fortnight with Professor Davis in the chair, the UNPFII has confronted a range of issues that are directly relevant to Australia. Youth suicide, constitutional recognition and the forced removal of Aboriginal people from their land have ...

Lift yourselves out of victimhood: Warren Mundine
The Australian
Mr Mundine said the call from Mr Pearson for indigenous Australia to stop blaming the wrongs of the past for today's disadvantage expressed a frustration with welfare dependency, which he shared. “I have never seen anyone pulled out of poverty by ...

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The Australian
Indigenous culture focus for Australia's first UN woman
The Australian
“It seems to have attracted huge international coverage,” Professor Davis told The Australian. “It was the subject of much concern.” The indigenous professor says there is a misconception globally that affluent developed nations such as Australia do ...

Perth Now
Barnett unveils remote plan
The Australian
The Barnett government has unveiled a radical overhaul of services and spending in the state's 274 remote communities, declaring the $4.9 billion rolled out each year on indigenous programs in Western Australia was like a “noodle nation” of duplication ...
Lift the shackles and remote communities will thriveHerald Sun
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
WA Govt to outline indigenous communities closure planNEWS.com.au
ABC Message Stick -Radio Australia
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There are about 12,000 Aboriginal people currently living in 274 communities in Western Australia, some with only one house and one family in them.

Two of Australia's top legal minds are calling for a major rethink of the ... broad “people” power to make laws specific to Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

... AFL round celebrating Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait cultures? ... designed by a player drawing inspiration from his Aboriginal forebears.

Indeed, the ongoing fight for justice among modern Aboriginal communities against crimes committed by the British over 200 years ago shows how ...

Perth Now
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous plan
Perth Now
“Imagine the situation for an Aboriginal family who must be almost every day (facing) someone knocking on their door saying `we're here to help you',” Mr Barnett said. “That is inefficient, ineffective use of public money and totally confusing for the ...
Aboriginal people to be consulted on remote community closures: WA GovernmentRadio Australia
WA backs away on “up to 150″ remote communities to close, outlines process ...Crikey (blog)
WA Premier flags changes to remote community fundingABC Message Stick
NEWS.com.au
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MARK COLVIN: The West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says the days of what he calls "pouring billions into remote Aboriginal communities for little ...

The Guardian
Remote Aboriginal communities still in limbo despite release of 'major reforms'
The Guardian
The Western Australian government has released what it is describing as a “major reform” of the state's 274 remote Aboriginal communities, but did not provide details about which communities would be affected, how many might have to close, and what ...
Barnett unveils remote planThe Australian
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
WA Premier flags changes to remote community fundingABC Message Stick
Radio Australia -NEWS.com.au
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The Western Australian government has released what it is describing as a “major reform” of the state's 274 remote Aboriginal communities, but did ...

Indigenous teen's 'trust experiment' makes global impact after beach video ...
Radio Australia
The brave teen said it was part of a larger social experiment to raise awareness about the level of distrust towards Indigenous Australians. "It was pretty confronting to learn that only 13 per cent of Australians trusted Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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Indigenous teen's 'trust experiment' makes global impact after beach video ...
Radio Australia
The brave teen said it was part of a larger social experiment to raise awareness about the level of distrust towards Indigenous Australians. "It was pretty confronting to learn that only 13 per cent of Australians trusted Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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