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Sydney Morning Herald
Rise of Aboriginal PhDs heralds a change in culture
Sydney Morning Herald
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students completing doctoral degrees has quadrupled in the past two decades and a new generation is preparing to influence the institutions of knowledge in Australia. Dr Sana Mary Nakata, 30, whose ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
There are doctors in the house
The Age
Just 55 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students were awarded PhDs in Australia from 1990 to 2000, but 219 students earned PhDs in the 11 years to 2011, a fourfold increase, according to the Department of Education. A remarkable 143 PhDs were ...
Major conferences put the spotlight on improving Indigenous health and ...Crikey (blog)
Indigenous higher education gathers momentumSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
There are doctors in the house
The Age
Just 55 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students were awarded PhDs in Australia from 1990 to 2000, but 219 students earned PhDs in the 11 years to 2011, a fourfold increase, according to the Department of Education. A remarkable 143 PhDs were ...
Indigenous higher education gathers momentumSydney Morning Herald
Major conferences put the spotlight on improving Indigenous health and ...Crikey (blog)
Canberra's Elected Body report reveals jail rates are as bad there as anywhereNational Indigenous Times

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Pilbara's Yaburara People remember one of Australia's largest massacres
National Indigenous Times
In the west-Pilbara at the site of the world famous Burrup peninsula, in the midst of the world's largest collection of rock art, and across the nation people gathered last Sunday to remember one of Australia's worst massacres when more than 150 ...
Major conferences put the spotlight on improving Indigenous health and ...Crikey (blog)

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SBS (blog)
Why our kids should learn Aboriginal history
SBS (blog)
... but what does this mean for the Aboriginal past? There are currently conflicting voices about the relative weighting given to different aspects of Australia's past, but the last 50,000 years of Aboriginal history needs to be the start of the ...

Film Review: “Utopia” By John Pilger Exposes Genocidal Maltreatment Of ...
CounterCurrents.org
The important movie “Utopia” by the outstanding expatriate Australian humanitarian journalist John Pilger exposes the horrendous circumstances of the Indigenous (Aboriginal) Australians. The following review summarizes the main points raised in “Utopia ...

Sky News Australia
Indigenous concern about Cape York plan
Sky News Australia
Traditional owners on Queensland's Cape York say they need more time to consider the government's 20-year plan for the peninsula. About 10 indigenous groups say they want the March 25 deadline for submissions on the Cape York regional plan extended ...

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Strategy cuts indigenous school truancy
The West Australian
He's joined by Giovanni, 4, Thomasina, 12, and Eli, 15, all of whom have been picked up by School Attendance Officers, part of the Commonwealth's strategy to boost attendance in remote indigenous communities around Australia. Xavier College in ...

SBS
Mundine says he's 'not a supporter of Aboriginal English'
SBS
In January the Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne launched a review into the National Curriculum, with a focus on Australia's place in Asia, Indigenous Australia and sustainability. Mr Mundine has echoed Mr Pyne's questioning of whether those ...
Linda Burney attacks Warren Mundine on mathsThe Australian

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Why our kids should learn Aboriginal history
The Conversation
The national history curriculum implemented across Australia from 2011 provides the opportunity for educators to comprehensively tackle for the first time 50,000 years of Australia's history. The future…

Australia: How the Aboriginal people managed 'the biggest estate on Earth'
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
March 13, 2014 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- This is an extraordinary book, one that will increase your appreciation of the country's first people, as we begin to understand their amazing knowledge and sheer genius in the way ...

Australian surfing magazine sorry for calling indigenous surfer 'apeish'
Washington Times
An Australian surfing magazine is receiving a wave of criticism after a journalist described an indigenous surfer he was interviewing as “apeish.” Surfing Life writer Nathan Myers was working on a story about Otis Carey, a 23-year-old free surfer from ...
Magazine Apologizes For Racist ArticleHuffington Post

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Australian Times
Where are the Indigenous Australians on our screens?
Australian Times
As someone who has taken a keen interest in Australian films and TV series over the years I feel that Indigenous Australians are under-represented in Australian media, as they are in so many other aspects of Aussie life. One 2006 study found that while ...
First roll call of nation's Indigenous servicePS News
Indigenous issues in SA electionSBS

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Australian Times
Where are the Indigenous Australians on our screens?
Australian Times
It is incredible that Australia, which has one of the highest standards of living in the world, has treated its indigenous people so badly. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the life expectancy of an Aboriginal Australian is ...
Indigenous issues in SA electionSBS
First roll call of nation's Indigenous servicePS News

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The Guardian
NT called to act over mentally impaired Indigenous woman 'ignored' in WA jail
The Guardian
Fulton has spent the past 18 months in a West Australian prison after she crashed a stolen car and was charged with driving offences. Born with foetal alcohol syndrome, Fulton, 24, was ruled by a magistrate to be unfit to plead or face trial. Rejected ...

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SBS
Indigenous issues in SA election
SBS
A candidate for Saturday's state election in South Australia says if elected, he'll push for a designated place in Parliament for an indigenous representative. By. Karen Ashford. Source. World News Radio. UPDATED 52 MINS AGO. (Transcript from World ...

SBS
Indigenous issues in SA election
SBS
A candidate for Saturday's state election in South Australia says if elected, he'll push for a designated place in Parliament for an indigenous representative. By. Karen Ashford. Source. World News Radio. UPDATED 52 MINS AGO. (Transcript from World ...

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 62 events ...
Sydney Indymedia
WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 62 events from 13 March 2014. Thu 13 Mar 2014. By WGAR - Working ... ACT · Adelaide · Brisbane · Canberra · Darwin · Cairns · Melbourne · New South Wales · Australia · Northern Territory ...

The Guardian (blog)
James Luna: "For Indigenous people, humour is a survival skill"
The Guardian (blog)
It takes its title and concept from the terrible 1995 portmanteau film set in four hotel bedrooms; but the Indigenous artists in the show use the quartet of different spaces to explore Australia and the world in a far deeper and more intriguing fashion ...

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The West Australian
Aboriginal woman's jailing highlights plight of intellectually impaired ...
The West Australian
"At the moment this outcome is almost entirely reserved for Aboriginal, Indigenous Australians," he said. The Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign says there are at least 30 Indigenous people in a similar situation around the country. Western ...