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The surgical blitzes started in the 1970s, when an Australian Army field ... at each site, carrying out sight-restoring eye surgery on about 100 Aborigines. ... Surgical blitzes may be justified in developing countries, but Australia has ...

The Australian
Artefacts help us plot future course by learning from past
The Australian
In the Indigenous Australia — Enduring Civilisation exhibition, opened by Prince Charles at London's British Museum on Thursday, there is a shield that once belonged to a Gweagal traditional owner, who held it at the time of the first encounter ...
Aboriginal art unfit for Western eyesTelegraph.co.uk

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a sixfold greater rate of ... The doctors say Australia should be leading the way in showing how to ...

In the Indigenous Australia — Enduring Civilisation exhibition, opened by ... But to move forward and advance the interests of Aboriginal and Torres ...

The charge rate for Aborigines in Menindee is significantly less than in ... born in Australia is an Aboriginal of this country - the original inhabitants and ...

We had the chairman of Western Australia's Aboriginal Health Council applaud Senator Jacqui Lambie's call for reserved seats for Aborigines, ...

Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protestors stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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Brisbane Times
300 indigenous protestors stage Brisbane City Hall sit-in
Brisbane Times
Around 300 people stormed into Brisbane's City Hall on Saturday night and staged an old-fashioned sit-in to protest the forced closure of indigenous communities in Western and Southern Australia. The surprise action followed a rally in King George ...
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City HallThe Guardian

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... City Hall to object to the closure of remote Aboriginal communities. ... Some of the actions have been supported by the Australian Council of Trade ...

The Guardian
Indigenous incarceration at record levels as Queensland's prison population soars
The Guardian
Figures obtained by Guardian Australia from Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) show Indigenous people, who make up less than 4% of the state's population, remain grossly overrepresented in prisons, where they account for almost a third of inmates.

Figures obtained by Guardian Australia from Queensland Corrective Services ... The numbers of prisoners from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander ...

''In a community in central Australia I visited, the health worker was baffled by a ... ''The average Aboriginal child, more so in the bush than the city, has ...

The Guardian
Brisbane protest over Indigenous community closures occupies City Hall
The Guardian
“We wanted to make a point to the state and federal government in Queensland that what affects Western Australia, their Indigenous communities, once they do that there, they're going to come to Queensland, they're going to close down communities like ...

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy spokesman Paul Spearim said ... A police spokeswoman told Guardian Australia there were no injuries or ...

A small group of the Wangan and Jagalingou tribe, one of the indigenous people or the Aborigines of Australia, is pitted against the powerful Adani ...

Australian Education Union slams Wilson Review of Northern Territory ...
ABC Online
A review of Indigenous education in the Northern Territory has been labelled a "sham" by the NT's education union. But NT Education Minister Peter Chandler has strongly rejected the claims and said he would "not apologise for spending money on a ...

But the Indigenous Australia show is also the most culturally sensitive ... the story of Aboriginal Australia but also for the reason that it is essential for us ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Aboriginal art unfit for Western eyes
Telegraph.co.uk
"I have heard a number of people who visited here say, 'This is fantastic, not just because we are being exposed for the first time to the story of Aboriginal Australia but also because it is important for us as English people to reflect on our own ...

But the Indigenous Australia show is also the most culturally sensitive ... to secure the approval of the Aboriginal people whose stories it seeks to tell.

The Victorian Aborigines Advancement League is the oldest Aboriginal organisation in Australia. Now, the remarkable history of its activism has now come to light. Historian Richard Broome has gathered stories from former and current members and compiled them in a book called 'Fighting Hard'. He joins Patricia Karvelas in The Drawing Room along with actor and director Rachel Maza, who has a personal connection with the League. Image: Gladys Nicholls Hostel for girls, Thornbury, 1958. (Courtesy A & M Jackomos collection.)