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Students' pilgrimage to the past
Sunraysia Daily
But for about 350 Aboriginal children from 19 schools in south-eastern Australia, including some from as far away as Sydney, the trip to Mungo has become a pilgrimage to a place deep in time, and of increasingly deep significance to Aboriginal people.

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Australia Is Again Stealing Its Indigenous Children
Truth-Out
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognized abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands ...
New project to shed light on legacy of Indigenous diggersABC Online
Aboriginal communities struggle with child suicideSBS

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Australia Is Again Stealing Its Indigenous Children
Truth-Out
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because (as an Australian Aborigine) you're guilty before you're found innocent." The child's grandmother demands to know why "the stealing of our kids is happening all over again." A welfare official says ...

Whole-community approach needed
NTNews.com.au
Mr Paech, who works as Senator Nova Peris' Central Australia adviser, said the event was important for the community to understand that there is a need to close the gap on Aboriginal disadvantage and to achieve health equality. Whole-community approach ...

Andrew Bolt isn't a racist, but ...
ABC Message Stick
The Coalition's push to make changes to the Racial Discrimination Act was in part a response to a court ruling that Andrew Bolt had breached the Act over his comments about Aboriginal Australians. Here, Chelsea Bond revisits the newspaper columnist's ...

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Andrew Bolt isn't a racist, but ...
ABC Message Stick
The Coalition's push to make changes to the Racial Discrimination Act was in part a response to a court ruling that Andrew Bolt had breached the Act over his comments about Aboriginal Australians. Here, Chelsea Bond revisits the newspaper columnist's ...

The Guardian
Latest death stats highlight killer habits
The Australian
The figures show the death rate for indigenous Australians is double that of non-indigenous Australians. The leading cause of death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was heart disease followed by diabetes. Increase Text Size · Decrease ...
Six out of ten die from cancer or cardiovascular disease, says ABSThe Guardian
Dementia deaths up as heart disease fallsPerth Now

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$1b Wallarah coal plan could be declared invalid over Darkinjung Aboriginal ...
The Daily Telegraph
“We have about 12,000 indigenous people living on the Central Coast, the fastest growing Aboriginal community in Australia, and those are the people we represent. “Darkinjung has negotiated in good faith with the Wallarah 2 proponents over a number of ...
Coalmine faces costly legal stoushBrisbane Times

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Once Again, Australia is Stealing Its Indigenous Children
CounterPunch
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognised abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands ...

Once Again, Australia is Stealing Its Indigenous Children
CounterPunch
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Australian Aborigine] you're guilty before you're found innocent.” The child's grandmother demands to know why “the stealing of our kids is happening all over again”. A welfare official says ...

No way out for the mentally impaired
The Australian
He was found too brain damaged -- reportedly from solvent abuse -- to enter a plea over the car crash that killed his 12-year-old cousin and triggered a highly charged debate about Aboriginal parenting. In Western Australia a review is under way of the ...

Equality at risk as consequences of recognition are unclear
The Australian
INDIGENOUS leader Mick Dodson reckons that if the Australian Constitution is to have any relevance to Aborigines, it has to “affirm our basic identity as human beings”. So, Aborigines are not human beings unless they are recognised in the Constitution.

Equality at risk as consequences of recognition are unclear
The Australian
So, Aborigines are not human beings unless they are recognised in the Constitution. No one else is mentioned in the Constitution, so presumably all Australians are not human beings. Such is the mind-numbing nonsense of Aboriginal recognition.

Leaders issue $2bn challenge for Abbott
The Australian
Revenue from the land account, which has a fixed capital base, provides guaranteed funding to the corporation to buy and manage land for indigenous Australians for a range of social, cultural, environmental and economic benefits. The land account and ...

City centre based group of practices - Aboriginal medicine
GP online
City Centre based practice seeking full time GP to provide a comprehensive range of primary health care services to the Aboriginal community. ... In this practice, GPs have fantastic opportunity to get their Australian career off to a great start! This ...

SBS
Indigenous Land Corporation moves to secure millions in funding
SBS
The corporation wants the Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion to introduce the bill to Parliament, just one month after the Northern Territory Senator received the report on the proposed merger of the corporation and Indigenous Business Australia.
Leaders issue $2bn challenge for AbbottThe Australian
Indigenous land body drafts bill to put funds above politicsBrisbane Times

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John Pilger: Australia stealing Indigenous children once more
Green Left Weekly
The tape is searing. There is the voice of an infant screaming as he is wrenched from his mother, who pleads, "There is nothing wrong with my baby. Why are you doing this to us? I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Australian ...

Green Left Weekly
John Pilger: Australia stealing Indigenous children once more
Green Left Weekly
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Australian Aborigine] you're guilty before you're found innocent." The child's grandmother demands to know why "the stealing of our kids is happening all over again". A welfare official says ...

Once again, Australia is stealing its indigenous children
On Line opinion
I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Australian Aborigine] you're guilty before you're found innocent.” The child's grandmother demands to know why “the stealing of our kids is happening all over again”. A welfare official says ...

Once again, Australia is stealing its indigenous children
On Line opinion
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognised abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century. Up to the 1970s, thousands ...