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Australia: Ten years since Aboriginal youth TJ Hickey killed in police chase
World Socialist Web Site
Aborigines remain the most oppressed layer of the Australian working class, and indigenous youth remain subjected to police violence and harassment, unemployment, poverty, and official neglect. TJ Hickey's short life was representative of an entire ...
Supporters of Aboriginal teen march in Australia's SydneyPress TV
Ugly scenes during TJ Hickey marchSky News Australia
Thomas 'TJ' Hickey rally in Redfern, Sydney, could be last after brawls lead ...ABC Online
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Supporters of Aboriginal teen march in Australia's Sydney
Press TV
Hundred of Australian protesters have staged a rally in Sydney marking the 10th anniversary of the death of Aboriginal teen Thomas "T.J." Hickey. The protesters rallied outside Parliament House in the afternoon, demanding a government apology over the ...
Ugly scenes during TJ Hickey marchSky News Australia
Thomas 'TJ' Hickey rally in Redfern, Sydney, could be last after brawls lead ...ABC Local
'I want justice': TJ Hickey's mother 10 years after his deathABC Message Stick

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When maths and culture collide
The Australian
“Traditional Aboriginal society in Western Australia did not use the decimal (base 10) 'two hand' number system,” it says. “Instead, it used a base five or 'one hand' number system.” Many of the elaborations appear tokenistic in teaching other cultures ...

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Tokenism does not add up
The Australian (blog)
That is why many will suspect the suggestion of “investigating biodiversity changes in Australia since European occupation” under the “sustainability” cross-curriculum priority for Year 10 might be more than a straightforward exercise in statistical ...

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Indigenous people urged to engage with Royal Commission
SBS
NITV spoke to Royal Commission CEO Janette Dines earlier today and asked whether many Indigenous Australians had come forward to share their stories so far. "We've done a lot of work with local groups in the community and community leaders. We've ...

Sky News Australia
Inquiry to probe indigenous alcohol harm
Sky News Australia
The lower house's standing committee on indigenous affairs will look into what factors contribute to harmful drinking across indigenous communities and ways to minimise alcohol-related harm. The committee's chair, Liberal MP Sharman Stone, said the ...
Inquiry to examine the harmful use of alcohol in indigenous communitiesThe Australian
Glaring pay gap in Abbott's departmentIllawarra Mercury
Chair of alcohol inquiry defends Indigenous focusABC Message Stick

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Alcohol inquiry: chairwoman Sharman Stone defends Indigenous focus
ABC Online
Committee chairwoman Dr Sharman Stone says the effects of alcohol abuse are far more damaging in Aboriginal communities than elsewhere in Australia. "The fact is there are probably more teetotal, or non-drinker, Indigenous than non-indigenous people," ...
Inquiry to examine the harmful use of alcohol in indigenous communitiesThe Australian
Inquiry to probe indigenous alcohol harmSky News Australia
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...ABC Message Stick

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Sky News Australia
Alcohol inquiry: chairwoman Sharman Stone defends Indigenous focus
ABC Online
Committee chairwoman Dr Sharman Stone says the effects of alcohol abuse are far more damaging in Aboriginal communities than elsewhere in Australia. "The fact is there are probably more teetotal, or non-drinker, Indigenous than non-indigenous people," ...
Inquiry to examine the harmful use of alcohol in indigenous communitiesThe Australian
Inquiry to probe indigenous alcohol harmSky News Australia
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...ABC Message Stick

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Sky News Australia
Inquiry to examine the harmful use of alcohol in indigenous communities
The Australian
Dr Stone said while there was no doubt that alcohol abuse had a significant impact on families and communities across Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were between four and five times more likely to be hospitalised, and between five ...
Alcohol inquiry: chairwoman Sharman Stone defends Indigenous focusABC Online
Inquiry to probe indigenous alcohol harmSky News Australia
Glaring pay gap as Aboriginal bureaucrats brought into Prime Minister's ...Sydney Morning Herald

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Sky News Australia
Inquiry to examine the harmful use of alcohol in indigenous communities
The Australian
Dr Stone said while there was no doubt that alcohol abuse had a significant impact on families and communities across Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were between four and five times more likely to be hospitalised, and between five ...
Glaring pay gap in PM&C pay ratesThe Canberra Times
Inquiry to probe indigenous alcohol harmSky News Australia
Chair of alcohol inquiry defends Indigenous focusABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Indigenous workers on Inpex project given falsified certificates, say trainees
The Guardian
Three current or former trainees working on the construction of the Blaydin Point liquid natural gas processing facility have told Guardian Australia they enrolled in an Indigenous training program and were asked to sign off on practical experience ...

Aboriginal languages and stories to be preserved in recordings
ABC Online
Some of Western Australia's threatened Aboriginal languages are to be recorded as part of a program to preserve Indigenous stories for future generations. The WA Film and Television Institute said since 2008 the Indigenous Community Stories initiative ...

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Aboriginal languages and stories to be preserved in recordings
ABC Local
Some of Western Australia's threatened Aboriginal languages are to be recorded as part of a program to preserve Indigenous stories for future generations. The WA Film and Television Institute said since 2008 the Indigenous Community Stories initiative ...

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Keynote speaker to address Aboriginal land management
Cowra Guardian
Cowra Breakout Association's Lawrance Ryan said the dinner is a unique opportunity for locals to see one of Australia's leading historians discuss Aboriginal management of Australia and its relevance to contemporary agriculture. "To me, Bill Gammage is ...

Discrimination in Australia cuts both ways
Gippsland Times
If the first to arrive, Indigenous Australians, are to have special constitutional provision for their advancement then my mob, who arrived around 200 years ago, demand special constitutional provision for their advancement over those who arrived more ...

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Discrimination in Australia cuts both ways
Gippsland Times
If the first to arrive, Indigenous Australians, are to have special constitutional provision for their advancement then my mob, who arrived around 200 years ago, demand special constitutional provision for their advancement over those who arrived more ...

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Lexington Herald Leader
Australian Circus Oz comes to Danville, bring indigenous culture with it
Lexington Herald Leader
Sheppard is one of two indigenous Australian performers traveling with the world-renowned circus show, which comes to Centre College's Norton Center for the Arts in Danville for two shows this weekend. Indigenous Australians, or Aboriginals, inhabited ...

Underage marriage in remote areas rife
The Australian
Eight of the top 10 locations for under-age marriage in Australia included areas with major indigenous communities — the Northern Territory's West Arnhem, Barkly, MacDonnell, Roper Gulf, East Arhhem, Central Desert and Victoria Daly Shires, and South ...

Personal indigenous challenge
The Australian (blog)
“Closing the Gap should not be an achievement that belongs to a Coalition government or a Labor one,” the Opposition Leader told parliament, “but indeed be a monument to the decency, compassion and imagination of the modern Australia.” Truth be told ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Karl O'Callaghan's approach to indigenous offenders makes sense
Sydney Morning Herald
The populist approach of successive WA governments in introducing tougher sentencing laws and imprisoning record numbers of convicted criminals, has resulted in overcrowding in our jails, with a majority of prison inmates being Indigenous Australians.
Finding a job the hardest work of all for indigenous menWarrnambool Standard
The Gap Is Still Too Wide In Indigenous Disadvantage But At Least We're TalkingBusiness Insider Australia
Closing the Gap won't work without human reconciliationEureka Street
My Sunshine Coast (press release) -SBS
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