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Funding cut signals the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia
Eureka Street (satire) (registration)
The Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion is presiding over the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia. Last week he faced an angry protest by Indigenous organisations in Alice Springs over funding cuts. In last year's Budget, the Federal ...

Funding cut signals the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia
Eureka Street (satire) (registration)
The Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion is presiding over the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia. Last week he faced an angry protest by Indigenous organisations in Alice Springs over funding cuts. In last year's Budget, the Federal ...

The Conversation AU
Fire in the sky: The southern lights in Indigenous oral traditions
The Conversation AU
Aurorae are significant in Australian Indigenous astronomical traditions. Aboriginal people associate aurorae with fire, death, blood, and omens, sharing many similarities with Native American communities. They are quite different from Inuit traditions ...

Radio Australia
Ice addiction overtaking alcohol as biggest problem facing Indigenous ...
Radio Australia
Ice addiction overtaking alcohol as biggest problem facing Indigenous Australians, rehab expert says. Updated 1 April 2015, 20:00 AEDT. By Adam Harvey and Jeanavive McGregor. Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Ice addiction overtaking alcohol as biggest problem facing Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous populations, the head of a rehabilitation centre specialising in treatment for Aboriginal people says. Joe Coyte is CEO of The Glen, on the New South Wales Central Coast ...

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ABC Online
Ice addiction overtaking alcohol as biggest problem facing Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Ice addiction is overtaking alcohol as the biggest problem facing Indigenous populations, the head of a rehabilitation centre specialising in treatment for Aboriginal people says. Joe Coyte is CEO of The Glen, on the New South Wales Central Coast ...

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The Guardian
Indigenous leaders take 'empowered communities' overhaul to the people
The Guardian
Eight regions in Australia have opted in to the “empowered communities” reforms, which aim to close the gap by returning control of funding and services to Indigenous communities and focusing on investing in measures that lead to economic self-sufficiency.
Indigenous MP Linda Burney condemns WA closuresSBS

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Indigenous MP Linda Burney condemns WA closures
SBS
The Canterbury MP says closing Indigenous communities is reminiscent of Australia's past annihilation policies of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the 1961 Policy of Assimilation adopted by federal and state governments which intended Indigenous people to ...
Indigenous leaders take 'empowered communities' overhaul to the peopleThe Guardian

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SBS
Indigenous MP Linda Burney condemns WA remote community closures
SBS
The Canterbury MP says closing Indigenous communities is reminiscent of Australia's past annihilation policies of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the 1961 Policy of Assimilation adopted by federal and state governments which intended Indigenous people to ...
Indigenous leaders take 'empowered communities' overhaul to the peopleThe Guardian

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Top Indigenous politician condemns closures first time
SBS
The Wiradjuri woman says closing Indigenous communities is reminiscent of Australia's past annihilation policies of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the 1961 Policy of Assimilation adopted by federal and state governments which intended Indigenous people ...

The Guardian
#SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA: stop the forced closure of Aboriginal communities ...
The Guardian
'I was a part of a strong group of individuals who left a marker on history through the campaign to “Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia” and through the social media platforms created as #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA.' Photograph: ...

50 Aboriginal soldiers fought on Gallipoli
SBS
Perhaps 50 Aboriginal soldiers fought on Gallipoli in an era when they weren't recognised as Australian citizens and enlistment was technically forbidden. No-one really knows for sure, not even the Australian War Memorial which has sought to catalogue ...

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50 Aboriginal soldiers fought on Gallipoli
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Perhaps 50 Aboriginal soldiers fought on Gallipoli in an era when they weren't recognised as Australian citizens and enlistment was technically forbidden. No-one really knows for sure, not even the Australian War Memorial which has sought to catalogue ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Australia's Aboriginal war heroes 'finally' recognised by memorial sculpture
Telegraph.co.uk
Aboriginal groups have long campaigned for proper recognition of their service. “One way to get this recognition was to advocate for a memorial and the bullets are a great idea,” Ray Minniecon, from the Coloured Diggers movement, told Sydney's Daily ...
Aboriginal war heroes remembered with new Anzac memorial in Hyde ParkThe Daily Telegraph
Public artwork honours contribution of Indigenous soldiersSBS
Tony Albert's 'confronting' tribute to Indigenous Diggers unveiled in Sydney's ...Sydney Morning Herald
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Emergency summit held over SA Aboriginal community closures
SBS
Leaders from remote Aboriginal communities in South Australia have held an emergency summit to try to stop funding cuts that could force the closure of their communities - a move they've labelled cultural genocide. Representatives from every regional ...
Police Commissioner backs push to close remote WA Aboriginal communities ...ABC Online
Reality of Aboriginal child abuse far worseThe West Australian
West Australian police commissioner backs closure of remote communitiesThe Guardian

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SBS
Lambie calls for dedicated Indigenous seats in parliament
SBS
"You tell me 'why we can't have Constitutional recognition [of Indigenous Australians] and why we can't have dedicated Indigenous seats in this country,' and you'd better give me a damn good reason why we can't have both," Ms Lambie told NITV News.

The Guardian
Palaszczuk has been honest about Billy Gordon. But it's still a sad day for ...
The Guardian
Gordon's election, together with Leanne Enoch, was celebrated Australia wide as two Aboriginal MPs took their place in a state parliament. Like female leaders, the novelty of Aboriginal MPs means the spotlight and the onus to act as a role model is ...

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The Guardian
Nigel Scullion denies claims Indigenous funding strategy is chaotic
The Guardian
In the days following the announcement of $860m in grant offers, Guardian Australia spoke to numerous organisations that had been denied funding for programs, or had been offered a grant smaller than their previous budget in return for expanded ...

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Aboriginal war heroes remembered with new Anzac memorial in Hyde Park
The Daily Telegraph
Yininmadyemi (pronounced yinn-in-madj-amee) — Thou didst let fall, by Aboriginal artist Tony Albert, features four seven-metre tall, 1.5-tonne bullets and three fallen shells to represent the diggers who returned to Australia and the ones who lost ...

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Free Speech Radio News
Protests follow Australia's moves to cut services in remote indigenous communities
Free Speech Radio News
In Australia, a growing protest movement led by indigenous activists and elders is demanding that the conservative government rethink its plans to cut services to more than half of the remote indigenous communities in the largest state of Western ...
More bang needed for the indigenous buck says Noel PearsonThe Australian
Empowered Communities a chance to close the gapBrisbane Times
Interview: Noel Pearson from Empowered CommunitiesABC Message Stick

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