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Sydney Morning Herald
Political editor, The Age
Sydney Morning Herald
If this was a modest, but welcome, sign of progress, the landmark Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report released on Wednesday is a sobering reality check on a bipartisan project that began more than a decade ago. It started with a move to obtain ...
More indigenous Australians at workNEWS.com.au
Self-harm in indigenous Australians has increased almost 50% in the past 10 ...Daily Mail
Overcoming Disadvantage Report shows disadvantage not overcomeThe Stringer

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Big business encourages smallfirms to forge indigenous links
The Australian
THE biggest businesses in Australia are putting pressure on their smaller counterparts to buy or contract from indigenous enterprises in a bid to dramatically increase the economic prospects of the nation's first people, a new survey from the Business ...

NEWS.com.au
More indigenous Australians at work
NEWS.com.au
A landmark Productivity Commission report on overcoming indigenous disadvantage, to be released today, will deliver a mixed report card on efforts to close the gap between the health, education, justice and employment outcomes of indigenous Australians ...
Australian indigenous disadvantage reportThe Age
Indigenous disadvantage report is a wake-up call for AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous affairs minister taking little comfort in report card on disadvantageThe Guardian

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Sydney Morning Herald
First Contact's Sandy sparks Twitter fury with racist comments
Sydney Morning Herald
The show's producers chose six white Australians who had articulated strong opinions about Aboriginal Australians without meeting any, and placed them into Aboriginal communities. Following in the footsteps of three-part documentary Go Back to Where ...
Sandy talks about her time on SBS First Contact and why she leftCourier Mail

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There are fears that a West Australian Government decision to scrap funding for an interpreting service could deny justice to some Aboriginal people in the Kimberley. - The Kimberley Interpreting Service helps Aboriginal people navigate the technical English of police interviews and the courts. And the state's chief justice says Government should be increasing funding for Indigenous interpreters, not cutting it. - From Perth, Anna Vidot reports on ABC RADIO PM

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Aboriginal leader Kwementyaye Stuart, whose life sparked royal commission ...
Yahoo!7 News
Kwementyaye Stuart went from being convicted of murder to one of Australia's most respected Aboriginal leaders. A Central Australian identity, sentenced to death for a crime that sparked a royal commission, has died of lung disease at his home at an ...
Aboriginal leader Kwementyaye Stuart diesABC Message Stick
Land rights fighter diesNEWS.com.au

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Courier Mail
Sandy talks about her time on SBS First Contact and why she left
Courier Mail
In the program hosted by Ray Martin, Aussies with little or no experience of indigenous communities had their views — mostly negative — challenged. Sandy had been vocal in sharing her opinions from the start. FIRST CONTACT: Six Australians experience ...
First Contact's Sandy sparks Twitter fury with racist commentsSydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
WA plan to close 100 remote and Indigenous communities 'devastating'
The Guardian
Plans by the West Australian government to close more than 100 remote and primarily Indigenous communities is the “biggest threat to our people since the shocking events of the 1960s”, traditional owners and native title holders of the Fitzroy Valley ...
Terra nullius never went awayThe Guardian (Australia)

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The Guardian
WA plan to close 100 remote and Indigenous communities 'devastating'
The Guardian
Plans by the West Australian government to close more than 100 remote and primarily Indigenous communities is the “biggest threat to our people since the shocking events of the 1960s”, traditional owners and native title holders of the Fitzroy Valley ...
Terra nullius never went awayThe Guardian (Australia)

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SBS
SBS premieres First Contact
SBS
"It all came from the starting point of the Reconciliation Australia (finding of) six out of 10 -- six out of 10 Australians have had little or no contact with Aboriginal people. So I think what we're hoping to achieve is starting a new discussion. I ...

The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the dead
The Conversation AU
Beliefs and ceremonies associated with death in Indigenous Australia are diverse. Death and the deceased are sacred to Indigenous Australians and ceremonies differ between communities. They may involve lengthy ceremonies lasting several days with ...
'Petrol sniffers, layabouts, spending their dole cheques on booze': Six ...Daily Mail
PM's “Nothing but bush” & threats from WA and SA to close down remote ...Crikey (blog)

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the dead
The Conversation AU
Beliefs and ceremonies associated with death in Indigenous Australia are diverse. Death and the deceased are sacred to Indigenous Australians and ceremonies differ between communities. They may involve lengthy ceremonies lasting several days with ...
“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.NEWS.com.au
Indigenous voices showcased on SBS TwitterSBS
First Contact Is One Of The Most Important Australian TV Shows Of The YearJunkee
Daily Mail -FoxFM (blog) -Courier Mail
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The Conversation AU
Indigenous Australia's diverse memorialisation of the dead
The Conversation AU
Beliefs and ceremonies associated with death in Indigenous Australia are diverse. Death and the deceased are sacred to Indigenous Australians and ceremonies differ between communities. They may involve lengthy ceremonies lasting several days with ...
“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.NEWS.com.au
Indigenous voices showcased on SBS TwitterSBS
First Contact Is One Of The Most Important Australian TV Shows Of The YearJunkee
Daily Mail -FoxFM (blog)
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New book gives insight into early Aboriginal culture in Newcastle
ABC Online
"For me as an Aboriginal boy, there was nothing on Aboriginal history or culture in the school curriculum in those days," he said. "We were written out, we were erased, we were forgotten, and Aboriginal place wasn't required in the Australian history ...

Daily Mail
Setting foot on sacred land! Kim Kardashian gets special permission from ...
Daily Mail
The woman with the most famous derrière in the world, spent from dawn until dusk on Monday in front of the camera for a high-fashion Vogue Australia shoot on Hole in the Wall Beach in Jervis Bay, which is part of Aboriginal territory. Before the 34 ...

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NEWS.com.au
“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.
NEWS.com.au
Mr Giles, who admitted he broke down several times during filming, said ultimately finding himself behind bars showed him how bad things truly were for Aboriginal Australians. “When I was stripsearched and processed, it was a real challenge for me ...
First Contact Is One Of The Most Important Australian TV Shows Of The YearJunkee
'Petrol sniffers, layabouts, spending their dole cheques on booze': Six ...Daily Mail

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NEWS.com.au
“If you think that's racist, I don't f***ing care,” she said.
NEWS.com.au
Mr Giles, who admitted he broke down several times during filming, said ultimately finding himself behind bars showed him how bad things truly were for Aboriginal Australians. “When I was stripsearched and processed, it was a real challenge for me ...
'Petrol sniffers, layabouts, spending their dole cheques on booze': Six ...Daily Mail
First Contact Is One Of The Most Important Australian TV Shows Of The YearJunkee

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Indigenous leaders' mentor mourned
The Australian
INDIGENOUS people in central Australia are mourning the death of a man whose struggle against his conviction — many say wrongful — in 1959 for murdering a young girl highlighted problems with the death penalty and helped shape Rupert Murdoch's ...

The Guardian
Indigenous suicide: 'prevention should focus on cultural reconnection'
The Guardian
“We have seen a problem that was close to nonexistent a generation ago explode into an epidemic that is devastating families and communities right across the top end of Australia,” wrote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner ...
“Get out of the way” & Aboriginal suicide rates will dropThe Stringer
State of the Aboriginal artsThe Australian
G20 Brisbane: Taking the Torres Strait Islander story to the world stageABC Online
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The Guardian
Indigenous suicide: 'prevention should focus on cultural reconnection'
The Guardian
“We have seen a problem that was close to nonexistent a generation ago explode into an epidemic that is devastating families and communities right across the top end of Australia,” wrote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner ...
G20 Brisbane: Taking the Torres Strait Islander story to the world stageABC Online

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