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Brisbane Times
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
Brisbane Times
We travelled across Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory, treating Aboriginal men, women and children for trachoma and other eye diseases, problems which still plague remote Aboriginal communities today. The Australia I saw in ...
Hostility to John Pilger's film a denial of nation's brutal pastThe Canberra Times

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Brisbane Times
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
Brisbane Times
But for me, Pilger's interview with the former indigenous health minister, Warren Snowdon, and the responses of white people on Australia Day who were asked why they thought Aboriginal people didn't celebrate January 26, were the real nuggets in the film.

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The Age
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
The Age
But for me, Pilger's interview with the former indigenous health minister, Warren Snowdon, and the responses of white people on Australia Day who were asked why they thought Aboriginal people didn't celebrate January 26, were the real nuggets in the film.
Adam Goodes decries muted response to John Pilger film UtopiaThe Guardian
Why you have to watch this filmWA today

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The Age
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
The Age
Fortunately, there's a simple way in – an opportunity to get a "punter's guide" to the truth about the treatment of Aboriginal Australians. John Pilger's latest film, Utopia - a 110-minute feature length documentary more than two years in the making ...
Hostility to John Pilger's film a denial of nation's brutal pastWA today

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Sydney Morning Herald
Pilger's message to white Australia cannot be dismissed
Sydney Morning Herald
It's the new mantra in Aboriginal affairs: get your kids to school. Prime Ministers Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd were fond of saying it. So too is Prime Minister Tony Abbott. While I don't accept that education alone, or rather a lack of access to it ...

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BBC News
How Aborigines could solve Australia's bushfire problem
BBC News
Strong winds and soaring temperatures have led to dozens of bushfires in southern Australia. Could Aboriginal "gardening" techniques be used to control them in future? I am only an hour into visiting a retired couple just north of Sydney when I realise ...

Indigenous mentor system pours $38m into economy
The Australian
The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience program is now so big and successful that an independent KPMG report due to be released today has concluded it contributed $38 million to the economy in 2012. The Weekend Australian can reveal that ...

Indigenous mentor system pours $38m into economy
The Australian
The Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience program is now so big and successful that an independent KPMG report due to be released today has concluded it contributed $38 million to the economy in 2012. The Weekend Australian can reveal that ...

LOCAL2 Sault Ste. Marie
'Molly's Story' to be presented in Australia
LOCAL2 Sault Ste. Marie
Bernadette Pizzey, a fourth-year Social Work student at Algoma University, will be making the trek to Cairns, Australia to present at the 2014 National Indigenous Women Conference from the 13-15 of October, 2014. Pizzey, a mature student of Algoma ...

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Two young women have been caught on camera racially abusing and assaulting ...
The Australian
... Brian Swan said police believed they had identified the women, and it was with the help of a slew of public tip-offs. Police are expected to charge the two young women who bashed and racially vilified a partially blind indigenous man on a Gold ...

Two young women have been caught on camera racially abusing and assaulting ...
The Australian
... Brian Swan said police believed they had identified the women, and it was with the help of a slew of public tip-offs. Police are expected to charge the two young women who bashed and racially vilified a partially blind indigenous man on a Gold ...

The Guardian
Woman turns herself in over Gold Coast bus attack on elderly man
The Guardian
“The victim actually doesn't identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander,” he said. “However it is concerning that the alleged [attackers] perceived that he was.” Dr Tim Soutphommasane, race discrimination commissioner at the Australian Human ...
Women in racist attack on old manManawatu Standard
Gold Coast bus attack: two women leave elderly man 'upset and shaken'Brisbane Times

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Daily Mail
Caught on camera: Disturbing footage reveals two women punching, kicking and ...
Daily Mail
Two women have been caught on camera viciously attacking a blind, elderly Australian Aboriginal man while he was sitting down in the disabled seat of a bus. The video, which was filmed on a mobile phone by a 13-year-old girl travelling on the bus on ...

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The Guardian
Police seek two women who attacked Indigenous man on Gold Coast bus
The Guardian
A spokesman for Surfside Buslines told Guardian Australia the bus was travelling through a “known traffic hotspot” and the driver pulled over as soon as he found a safe place to do so. “The fastest way to mitigate [a situation] ... is to first and ...
Racist attackers likely to be chargedThe Australian
Police identify women who attacked aged, blind man on busThe Sunshine Coast Daily
Women filmed attacking elderly man on Gold Coast busBrisbane Times
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SooToday.com
Algoma U student to present at Indigenous Conference in Australia
SooToday.com
MARIE - Bernadette Pizzey (pictured), a fourth-year Social Work student at Algoma University, will be making the trek to Cairns, Australia to present at the 2014 National Indigenous Women Conference from the 13-15 of October, 2014. Pizzey, a mature ...

Truancy officers boost attendance at remote Indigenous community schools
ABC Online
Figures show an additional 604 students have shown up to class at Indigenous community schools across the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland since the start of the school year. Across 17 schools in the Northern Territory, attendance ...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights Advocacy Lead
Pro Bono Australia
If Australia is the lucky country, why do Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a lower life expectancy than other Australians – and many people in the developing world? Every Australian deserves equal access to income, employment, health ...

Two teenage girls have been caught on camera allegedly racially abusing and ...
The Australian
EARLIER: SOCIAL media has exploded with repulse at two teenage girls who punched, kicked and spat on an elderly indigenous man in a horrific assault on a bus in Kirra. Footage of the incident where two drunk teenagers assaulted and racially abused a ...

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Two teenage girls have been caught on camera allegedly racially abusing and ...
The Australian
EARLIER: SOCIAL media has exploded with repulse at two teenage girls who punched, kicked and spat on an elderly indigenous man in a horrific assault on a bus in Kirra. Footage of the incident where two drunk teenagers assaulted and racially abused a ...

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Alexander Dennis from Walgett, northwest NSW, with Joanna Barton, manager ...
The Australian
“What that man has done for indigenous people is amazing.” Jaki Adams-Barton, manager of the Fred Hollows Indigenous Australia Program, said the pilot was being used to assess different service models. She said having a lot of people come in at one ...