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2 Broke Girls season 4 under fire for racist joke about Aboriginal Australians
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian fans of the American comedy show 2 Broke Girls responded in uproar over the racist joke about Indigenous Australians, which aired on Tuesday evening. During the season four episode, titled And the Fun Factory, a male character is shown ...
'WTF is with the racial slur?': Viewers take aim at popular US sitcom Two ...Daily Mail

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The Guardian
Colin Barnett turned down invitation to meet Aboriginal land councils
The Guardian
The Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, turned down an invitation to meet Aboriginal land councils about a government proposal to close up to 150 of the state's remote communities, one day before telling parliament he would consult Aboriginal ...

The West Australian
Abolish key Aboriginal body: Wyatt
The West Australian
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs should be abolished because it cannot properly advocate for Aboriginal West Australians, shadow Aboriginal affairs minister Ben Wyatt says. Mr Wyatt said the department should be replaced by a special advocate for ...

Aboriginal groups launch firm
The Australian
KRED legal director Wayne Bergmann said there was an urgent need for an Australia-wide Aboriginal-owned legal entity. “Across Australia, we're seeing pressure on traditional owners from proponents and companies wishing to access, explore and develop ...

Caitlyn Gribbin ABC AM 18 February 2015 MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: There are fears in some of the most remote parts of the country that a government plan to shut Aboriginal communities is already driving people out of them. The West Australian Government last year announced as many as 150 of the state's 274 communities will be closed in the next three years because of a funding shortfall. No decisions have been made on which communities will shut, but Aboriginal leaders say the announcement is already causing fear. Caitlyn Gribbin reports. CAITLYN GRIBBIN: The remote Aboriginal community of Mulan is home to about 100 people and sits at the top of the Tanami Desert. Mobiles don't work and phones at the local post office are used to communicate with the rest of the world. But it hasn't taken long for word to spread to locals like Steven Kopp that some Aboriginal communities may be closed. STEVEN KOPP: The stories I'm getting back from the Government is just frightening, you know, really. Don't know what to do. CAITLYN GRIBBIN: The chairman of Mulan says some people are so worried about the community's future that up to 20 have already moved away. STEVEN KOPP: It makes me sad too, that's all my family too, you know, all moving away from their country. You know, they're gone, they've just taken off. People are just looking for another place to move on to because they're just frightened. CAITLYN GRIBBIN: They're frightened that the community may be closed, are they? STEVEN KOPP: Yep. CAITLYN GRIBBIN: Western Australia's Aboriginal Affairs Minister Peter Collier stresses no decision has been made on which communities will close. In a statement, Mr Collier says the absence of the economic and social opportunities that other West Australians take for granted may be cause for people to leave communities. But according to the Aboriginal Legal Service's Dennis Eggington it's the uncertainty that's driving people away. DENNIS EGGINGTON: People are panicking, they're really getting quite upset. And there's a lot of anxiety among our mobs out there. CAITLYN GRIBBIN: Why would some people from these communities think it's a good idea to just leave now before any announcement is made? DENNIS EGGINGTON: I think people are just preparing themselves for what the inevitable is. And that is the history of this country, that's the experience of Aboriginal people; that if government has said they're going to come and move you, then they're going to come and move you. CAITLYN GRIBBIN: The West Australian Government says it will consult with Aboriginal people, particularly those in remote communities. Dennis Eggington says they're still waiting for that to happen. DENNIS EGGINGTON: I find it really distasteful that the inability for government to get down and talk to our communities about this particular issue is causing so much distress. People are not just feeling let down, but feeling like they're not viable, they're not worthy, they're worthless. It's a terrible situation to make people feel like that. CAITLYN GRIBBIN: Back in Mulan, Steven Kopp says he'll continue fighting to keep his community open. He says moving people to bigger towns isn't always a good idea. STEVEN KOPP: When they go to town they just drink and live anywhere, on the street, yeah, they just camp out anywhere. It's really just making me sad really because they grew up here all their life, you know, and now they don't really know what to do. MICHAEL BRISSENDEN: Steven Kopp from the community of Mulan ending Caitlyn Gribbin's report.

Fulbright scholar plans to shine a light on indigenous entrepreneurship
StartupSmart
A PhD student at the University of Technology, Sydney has been awarded the 2015 Fulbright Indigenous Postgraduate Scholarship to advance his research into the socio-economic and cultural impacts of indigenous entrepreneurship and social enterprise.

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Gulag Territory: NT's shameful incarceration of Aboriginal Australians
Crikey
In mid-November last year, the Australian Productivity Commission released the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report, which described Australia's ongoing failings in dealing with the problems that continue to afflict Australia's Aboriginal ...

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Crikey (blog)
Gulag Territory – how the NT leads the world in indigenous incarceration
Crikey (blog)
One week later, the Australian Productivity Commission released its report, “Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage.” The findings described Australia's ongoing failings in dealing with the problems which continue to afflict Australia's Aboriginal population.

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Crikey (blog)
Gulag Territory – how the NT leads the world in indigenous incarceration
Crikey (blog)
One week later, the Australian Productivity Commission released its report, “Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage.” The findings described Australia's ongoing failings in dealing with the problems which continue to afflict Australia's Aboriginal population.

ABC Online
Indigenous ranger training program kicks off for Ngadju nation in Western ...
ABC Online
After four years of planning, 19 indigenous rangers from the Ngadju nation in Western Australia have begun their first ever training program to help conserve country. The course is part of a Gondwana link, Rangeland NRM and Ngadju conservation land ...

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Fishing the old way: moves to save the Aboriginal fish traps of Western ...
The Guardian
With several Menang fish traps spread across the Albany region of Western Australia, Harley Coyne is spearheading work to have the sites preserved for visitors and locals alike. The cultural heritage officer of the state's department of Aboriginal ...

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Opportunity to Grow Indigenous Employment in Australia
Rigzone (registration)
Indigenous employment programs in Australia's oil and gas industry have an opportunity to develop significantly in the coming years as growth continues around the country, according to Derek Flucker, chairman of the Aboriginal Enterprises in Mining, ...

The Australian
Property red tape 'stifles Aborigines': Tim Wilson
The Australian
“We can't complain about the cost of welfare programs for Australia's first citizens when we concurrently deny them the freedom to use the primary asset they own to escape dependency. It is not our place to tell Aboriginal Australia how to use their ...
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...The Conversation AU
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au

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The Australian
Property red tape 'stifles Aborigines': Tim Wilson
The Australian
“We can't complain about the cost of welfare programs for Australia's first citizens when we concurrently deny them the freedom to use the primary asset they own to escape dependency. It is not our place to tell Aboriginal Australia how to use their ...
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...The Conversation AU
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au
A quiet death by a thousand cutsThe Daily Telegraph

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The Guardian
LGBTI Indigenous people offered a rainbow to follow
The Guardian
“We don't have a clear picture of what the figures are in Australia because the research doesn't exist. As someone who is Aboriginal and working in suicide research, I realised that I had also become complacent to the fact that there is no health ...

The Guardian
LGBTI Indigenous people offered a rainbow to follow
The Guardian
Nearly 30 years later, much of the health information aimed at gay Indigenous Australians is still centred around HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, Bonson, a suicide prevention worker in the Kimberley, says. It is what prompted him to found Black ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal Australians are being denied the freedom to exercise their property rights under native title, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has said. Wilson said that, in meeting Indigenous leaders from Broome to Cairns, he had found “an appetite ...
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians should get more from native title: Human Rights ...
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal Australians are being denied the freedom to exercise their property rights under native title, Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson has said. Wilson said that, in meeting Indigenous leaders from Broome to Cairns, he had found “an appetite ...
Native title reforms to escape dependency9news.com.au

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ABC Online
Fiftieth anniversary re-enactment of freedom ride goes north to fight ...
Sydney Morning Herald
What the students uncovered across rural NSW was a shock to them and to many Australians. "We did not know before we got there that a number of local government councils had formal resolutions on the books prohibiting Indigenous Australians from ...
University students recreate 1965 Freedom Ride across NSWABC Online
Freedom Ride sets off 50 years after original civil rights protestThe Australian
Freedom Ride's 50th anniversary marked at Sydney UniversitySBS
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Sydney Morning Herald
Fiftieth anniversary re-enactment of freedom ride goes north to fight ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian students headed to the deep north, with the goal to "expose segregation and the shameful treatment of Aboriginal people." The original freedom ride was led by Sydney University student Charles Perkins, who was to make history the year ...
Freedom Ride sets off 50 years after original civil rights protestThe Australian
Freedom Riders Ann Curthoys and Brian Aarons reflect on NSW Ride 50 years onABC Online
Freedom Ride's 50th anniversary a celebration and a reminderBrisbane Times
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