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The service records of an Aboriginal soldier who disappeared after returning from ... It showed he left Australia in 1917 to fight with the 2nd Light Horse ...

And if we are a multicultural society and we recognise Greek Australians and Aboriginal Australians, and my Anglo-Saxon Australians in having ...

Captain-Webb joined the Australian Army in January, 2013, and in the ... "Back in the day, because he was Aboriginal, he wouldn't have got a job ...

The Japan Times
Australian-Chinese sniper was a hero at Gallipoli in WWI
The Japan Times
Under Australia's 1909 Defence Act, “those who are not substantially of European origin or descent” were blocked from active service. But some from minority backgrounds, including indigenous Australians, still stepped forward, trying multiple times ...
Chinese-Australian sniper Billy Sing shot dead 200 during Gallipoli campaignSouth China Morning Post (subscription)

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ABC Online
ACT Government signs agreement to improve health, education services for ...
ABC Online
The ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Agreement 2015-18 also aims to reduce the incarceration rates of Indigenous people, increase school retention rates and foster better relationships between the Government, the public service and the ...

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ABC Online
ACT Government signs agreement to improve health, education services for ...
ABC Online
The ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Agreement 2015-18 also aims to reduce the incarceration rates of Indigenous people, increase school retention rates and foster better relationships between the Government, the public service and the ...

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The ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Agreement 2015-18 also aims to reduce the incarceration rates of Indigenous people, increase school ...

ABC Online
Anzac Day 2015: Australia's first Indigenous Returned Services League club set ...
ABC Online
He hoped the new club house, an old canteen donated by the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council, would not only be a hub for welfare support to veterans but a way to encourage the community's younger residents to sign up for careers in the Australian ...

ABC Online
Anzac Day 2015: Australia's first Indigenous Returned Services League club set ...
ABC Online
He hoped the new club house, an old canteen donated by the Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council, would not only be a hub for welfare support to veterans but a way to encourage the community's younger residents to sign up for careers in the Australian ...

A far north Queensland Aboriginal community has become the first in Australia to establish its own Returned Services League (RSL) club. Yarrabah ...

Sydney Morning Herald
British Museum exhibition an 'injustice' against Indigenous Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
A controversial exhibition of Indigenous Australian art and artefacts at the British Museum has been described by a critic as feeling like "yet another injustice" against Aboriginal people. The exhibition, which has an Indigenous curator, Gaye ...
Indigenous Australia exhibition at the British Museum is insider activism at ...The Conversation UK
Critic slams visitors to indigenous showThe Australian
Evicting Indigenous Australians from their homelands is a declaration of warThe Guardian
Aboriginal Art Directory News -Center for Research on Globalization -9news.com.au
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Right now, a 1972 placard from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. ... Museum of Australia in Canberra in November as part of a related show, Encounters.

A controversial exhibition of Indigenous Australian art and artefacts at the British ... by a critic as feeling like "yet another injustice" against Aboriginal people. ... Two of the most contentious items in Indigenous Australia, which are ...

The Guardian
Adventures in Australia: journeys of discovery to Indigenous Australian sites
The Guardian
What Australians call the Red Centre is both a rusty wilderness, slap-bang in the middle of the country – and much else besides. Not least in colour: the dirty green of scrub that survives on 30 days rainfall a year, the unbroken blue of an outback day ...

Sydney Morning Herald
ABC's 8MMM Aboriginal Radio pushes racism boundaries
Sydney Morning Herald
His remark echoes through the culture clashes that we witness in the wry satirical comedy Morton-Thomas has co-written, co-produced and performs in, 8MMM Aboriginal Radio. "I think Australia is a country of people who are extremely lazy when it comes ...

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Oh, the Poms love to get in a tizz about Australian art and culture! ... and, in particular, for encouraging the poor Aborigines to imitate white Australia's ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Black Diggers review: Uncompromising look at treatment of Indigenous soldiers
Sydney Morning Herald
At the outbreak of WWI, Australia was deeply racist. Aborigines were not citizens, couldn't vote, and Indigenous men were barred from enlisting in the nascent Australian Imperial Force. To join the army, they had to prove they were white enough. Still ...
World War One's forgotten Anzacs: The Indigenous ArmyBBC News
Opinion: Indigenous soldiers faced terrible discrimination after returning ...Courier Mail
Black Diggers: a forgotten historyNEWS.com.au

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NEWS.com.au
Fencing surrounding the new Darwin Correctional Precinct. Source: News Corp ...
NEWS.com.au
Even more concerning is the disproportionate rate in which indigenous communities are being jailed. Despite making up just 30 per cent of the population in the NT, indigenous Australians account for 86 per cent of the prison inmates. The problem is far ...

Source: News Corp Australia ... by dozens of Aboriginal people and organisations, lawyers, academics and others, over many, many years” she wrote.

“Australia has not done anything to recognise the service he gave under the national flag, so we will recognise it by marching under the Aboriginal flag ...