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The Conversation AU
Non-Indigenous Australians have to reconcile their needs
The Conversation AU
Non-Indigenous people currently make up 22.8 million (97%) of Australia's 23.5 million residents. That means any major change to the laws or to national culture must find acceptance with this bloc. Any claim to a national process of Aboriginal ...
Why coal is not good for humanityEureka Street

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The Conversation AU
Non-Indigenous Australians have to reconcile their needs
The Conversation AU
I'm part of a research team that's adapting a successful project in Canada, where – as with Kevin Rudd's apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples – the prime minister, Stephen Harper, said sorry to the survivors of Canada's Indian Residential Schools ...
Why coal is not good for humanityEureka Street

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The Age
Banker Kyle Zandipour charged with murdering indigenous student Joshua ...
The Australian
Mr Hardy, who grew up in Darwin before moving to Melbourne for his final years of high school and university, volunteered as a mentor for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience while studying. Melbourne University and Trinity College said in a ...
McDonald's attack Tell kids you love them: bash victim's dadHerald Sun
'Sensitive and generous' Joshua Hardy was full of promise, say relativesSydney Morning Herald

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CBC.ca
Indigenous perspectives from Winnipeg to Sydney
CBC.ca
I was making comparisons with everything I learned about Australian aboriginal people to my people in Canada. I was in Australia on a journalism exchange made possible by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. I spent two weeks working with ...

New Matilda
Black Leaders Condemn Barry Spurr's Assault On Aboriginal People And Culture
New Matilda
He refers to award-winning Aboriginal musician Gurrumul Yunupingu as “well known Aboriginal singer, Wingabanga Gumberumbul”. He also takes aim at “bogans” “fatsoes”, “Mussies” and “Chinky-Poos”, and laments the reality that Australia is less white ...

Making a difference in indigenous education
The Australian (blog)
In other words, not only are indigenous students in remote Northern Territory communities years behind non-indigenous students, they are also years behind indigenous students in other remote parts of Australia. And in very remote parts of the Territory ...

Phys.Org
Australian rock art is threatened by a lack of conservation (w/ Video)
Phys.Org
But now, impending changes to the Aboriginal Heritage Act by the Western Australian government means Aboriginal heritage will be worse off than ever before. This is because one person, possibly without relevant expertise, will be given the power to say ...

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The Conversation AU
Australian rock art is threatened by a lack of conservation
The Conversation AU
Australian rock art is extremely significant for Indigenous peoples of Australia, with its preservation important for Indigenous well-being. But it also should be a part of Australian national identity and World Heritage pride. The earliest Australian ...

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The Conversation AU
Australian rock art is threatened by a lack of conservation
The Conversation AU
Australian rock art is extremely significant for Indigenous peoples of Australia, with its preservation important for Indigenous well-being. But it also should be a part of Australian national identity and World Heritage pride. The earliest Australian ...

There are calls for the man who reviewed the national English curriculum to lose his University of Sydney job over emails he sent to colleagues that are considered racist and misogynistic. The university is investigating whether Professor Barry Spurr's emails are a breach of the school's code of conduct. The Opposition wants the Education Minister Christopher Pyne to explain whether the curriculum review is now irrevocably tainted.

Sovereignty Union Founder Ghillar Michael Anderson speaks about many things relating to First Nations Sovereignty, past plans, present and the future. - Source: Sovereign Voices Broadcaster Shane Mortimer on 2XX FM Canberra - 10 October 2014

Sovereignty Union Founder Ghillar Michael Anderson speaks about many things relating to First Nations Sovereignty, past plans, present and the future. - Source: Sovereign Voices Broadcaster Shane Mortimer on 2XX FM Canberra - 10 October 2014

The Guardian
Australia's defining moments: a great conversation-starter for our entire nation
The Guardian
Abbott's timing coincided with his government's faltering resolve to prosecute the case this parliamentary term to incorporate Indigenous Australians into the Constitution, and with a national curriculum review that would restore weight to the legacy ...

Programs closes the gap on indigenous breast cancer screening
The Australian
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer experienced by indigenous women yet their participation in BreastScreen Australia remains lower (37 per cent in 2011-12) than the general population (55 per cent) and the national participation target of ...

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Programs closes the gap on indigenous breast cancer screening
The Australian
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer experienced by indigenous women yet their participation in BreastScreen Australia remains lower (37 per cent in 2011-12) than the general population (55 per cent) and the national participation target of ...

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Programs closes the gap on indigenous breast cancer screening
The Australian
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer experienced by indigenous women yet their participation in BreastScreen Australia remains lower (37 per cent in 2011-12) than the general population (55 per cent) and the national participation target of ...

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First Nations people from across Western Australia will travel to Rottnest Island, or Wadjemup, to remember their ancestors who were brought there in chains. - The island's former prison, 19 kilometres from the Perth coastline, incarcerated thousands of people from as far as the Kimberley, Pilbara, Western Desert and across Nyungah lands. - It's believed at least 370 and possibly up to 700 men and boys are buried in unmarked graves on the island, which is now a tourist destination. - Friday marks 175 years since the first prisoners were brought there and remembrance co-organiser Iva Hayward-Jackson says the event will become annual.

Indigenous enrolments on the rise at CSU amongst the highest in Australia
Central Western Daily
Head of campus Heather Robinson said the university had always been dedicated to reaching parity with the 2.5 per cent of Indigenous people who make up the Australian population. “The number of indigenous students have steadily increased over the past ...

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The Conversation AU
Why Australia's outback is globally important
The Conversation AU
But there are also opportunities — global recognition, and the rapid expansion of land managed and protected by Indigenous Australians. This place, and its coherence is important to us, but it is also internationally significant, as one of the world's ...

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Gary Foley 'in a past life' was a well known throughout Australia and beyond as an Aboriginal activist that didn't mince his words. Dr Gary Foley is now an academic, writer and actor. - In a lead up to his 2014 Melbourne University lecture, 'Tangled up in black' he speaks with Jonathan Green from ABC's Radio National.