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Aboriginal woman's jailing highlights plight of intellectually impaired ...
ABC Online
"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. The vast ...
Petition lodged to help impaired Indigenous NT womanSBS
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SBS
Aboriginal woman's jailing highlights plight of intellectually impaired ...
ABC Online
"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. The vast ...
Jailed without convictionABC Message Stick
Petition lodged to help impaired Indigenous NT womanSBS

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Rosie Ann Fulton: one of dozens of intellectually disabled Aboriginal people ...
Yahoo!7 News
"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 ...
Jailed without convictionABC Message Stick

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Yahoo!7 News
Rosie Ann Fulton: one of dozens of intellectually disabled Aboriginal people ...
Yahoo!7 News
"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 ...
Jailed without convictionABC Message Stick

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A bullet to the myths of Aboriginal sacrifice
The Australian
TONY Albert wants Australia's national symbols and stories to better recognise indigenous people, and laments how some public images have been made symbols of division. The Southern Cross, for instance, "has almost become this swastika". "It was used ...

A bullet to the myths of Aboriginal sacrifice
The Australian
TONY Albert wants Australia's national symbols and stories to better recognise indigenous people, and laments how some public images have been made symbols of division. The Southern Cross, for instance, "has almost become this swastika". "It was used ...

Aboriginal health election priorities in SA
ABC Online
Some Indigenous groups say they've had difficulty meeting with politicians during the South Australian election campaign to explain what they'd like to see funded. South Australians heads to the polls on Saturday. Aboriginal Health Council of South ...

The Guardian
Magazine sorry for 'racially offensive' description of Indigenous surfer
The Guardian
Editor Wade Davis, who has African and Indigenous Australian heritage, is “devastated that a thoughtless misread could have allowed an insensitive and damaging term to have slipped through to publication”, said the statement. “Unfortunately, none of ...

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Extra flights to Uluru 'to contribute to indigenous jobs growth'
The Australian
The additional flights announcement comes after the management of Australia's premier indigenous tourism resort - a showcase for Aboriginal job creation - has been thrown into turmoil by a boardroom purge that sparked the managing director's ...

Extra flights to Uluru 'to contribute to indigenous jobs growth'
The Australian
The additional flights announcement comes after the management of Australia's premier indigenous tourism resort - a showcase for Aboriginal job creation - has been thrown into turmoil by a boardroom purge that sparked the managing director's ...

The Guardian
Art from the 'Dark Heart' of Australia
The Guardian
There are posters that state "Let's be polite about Aboriginal art" and reproductions of Warhol's soap boxes that substitute Brillo for a contemporaneous Australian brand, Nulla Nulla. The latter's packaging features an Aboriginal woman in a ...

Setting record straight on anthropologists' Aboriginal motives
The Australian
As to my discussion of the entanglement of science in colonialist ambitions, McAllister accuses me of misquoting Hermann Klaatsch, the early 20th-century German anatomist, to make it seem he believed “indigenous Australians were incapable of learning ...

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Setting record straight on anthropologists' Aboriginal motives
The Australian
As to my discussion of the entanglement of science in colonialist ambitions, McAllister accuses me of misquoting Hermann Klaatsch, the early 20th-century German anatomist, to make it seem he believed “indigenous Australians were incapable of learning ...

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Australian Child Protection Accused of Repeating Sins of 'Stolen Generations'
TIME
Members of Grandmothers Against Removals protesting against indigenous over-representation in child protection on the steps of the Parliament House of New South Wales in Sydney on Feb. 13, 2014. Ian Lloyd Neubauer ...

Australian Child Protection Accused of Repeating Sins of 'Stolen Generations'
TIME
In 2008, then Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made history when he issued a formal apology to the Stolen Generations — Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children forcefully removed from their families for placement in institutions and homes ...

Indigenous album gives language new life
artsHub Australia (subscription)
The album is performed by singer Gina Williams and guitarist Guy Ghouse, who were named the Indigenous Act of the year in 2013 by the Western Australia Music Industry (WAMI). Williams and Ghouse aim to revive the Noongar language, which is spoken ...

Indigenous Advocate Emerges as Top NFP Leader
Pro Bono Australia
Towart is the CEO of indigenous owned and controlled Not for Profit education provider, Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre (AILC) and has secured more than $10 million in funding for indigenous education for the NFP. The win follows other recent ...

SBS
Bid to boost cataract surgery for Indigenous people
SBS
And while Australia's developed health system often ensures prompt treatment for those affected, this isn't always the case, especially for Indigenous Australians. Peggy Giakoumelos reports. (Click on audio tab above to listen to this item). The Fred ...

The Guardian
Historian shines a light on the dark heart of Australia's nationhood
The Guardian
“Tasmania was a bit different in that there was an awareness of the Black Line [the farcical attempt to round-up the Aboriginal Australians in 1830] and the settlement [where they were later sent to be “christianised”] on Flinders Island. But if you ...

New STI figures highlight Indigenous health disparity
ABC Online
Fresh Health Department statistics show a disparity in the number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) between Indigenous Western Australians and non-Indigenous residents. The cases of gonorrhoea from July to September declined by a quarter in the ...

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