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Aldi pulls 'Australia Est. 1788' shirts
Sydney Morning Herald
The shirts sparked an online backlash over recent days with people taking to social media to label the range as racist and culturally insensitive to Australia's indigenous people, who inhabited the continent for tens of thousands of years before the ...
Aldi removes 'inflammatory' shirts after backlashNEWS.com.au
Aldi removes 'racist' Australia Day T-shirt3AW (blog)
Aldi recalls 'racist' Australia Day shirt after social media outcryABC Message Stick
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John Pilger: Utopia is one of the most urgent films I have made
The Guardian
Journalist and film maker John Pilger has been making films on Indigenous Australia for nearly thirty years. His new film, Utopia, revisits many of the locations and people he has been visiting throughout that time and provides a “grim and powerful” ...

Sky News Australia
MP takes aim at PM's indigenous adviser
Sky News Australia
A senior indigenous parliamentarian has taken the prime minister's key adviser to task for failing to criticise government funding cuts to Aboriginal legal aid. Ben Wyatt, a state Labor frontbencher in Western Australia, says Warren Mundine is using ...
John Pilger: Utopia is one of the most urgent films I have madeThe Guardian

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MP takes aim at PM's indigenous adviser
The Australian
Ben Wyatt, a state Labor frontbencher in Western Australia, says Warren Mundine is using his position as chairman of Tony Abbott's indigenous advisory council to defend the government. Mr Mundine argues it is unrealistic to expect indigenous affairs ...

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Mundine's view not ideal
The Australian
The original policy decision to support Aboriginal legal services was in response to the disproportionate rates of indigenous imprisonment that were internationally shameful for Australia. On that score, little has changed. To cut funding in this vital ...
MP takes aim at PM's indigenous adviserCourier Mail

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Mundine's view not ideal
The Australian
The original policy decision to support Aboriginal legal services was in response to the disproportionate rates of indigenous imprisonment that were internationally shameful for Australia. On that score, little has changed. To cut funding in this vital ...

Short films to deliver health messages in remote Indigenous communities
ABC Message Stick
Rates of diabetes and rheumatic heart disease are much higher among Australia's Indigenous population. The need for regular medical check-ups and anti-smoking messages are also featured in the films. Those involved in the project hope to get the films ...

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Indigenous Australians vulnerable to new flu strains
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians and Alaskans may be particularly vulnerable to a new Chinese flu virus, according to Melbourne researchers. The H7N9 virus emerged in China in February last year and infected 137 people, killing 45. Health officials believe ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's beauty industry is far from a picture of racial representation
Sydney Morning Herald
Cleo magazine editor Sharri Markson surveyed major Australian modelling agencies and the statistics speak for themselves: of 1100 models, only seven were indigenous and 16 Chinese. Such statistics hardly reflect the country's diversity: Multicall ...

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SBS
Indigenous recognition plan revived
SBS
After allocating $10-million to promote the concept, the former Labor government shelved plans for a referendum on recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution. The Labor government argued there was no point in pursuing the matter because ...

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SBS
Indigenous recognition plan revived
SBS
After allocating $10-million to promote the concept, the former Labor government shelved plans for a referendum on recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution. The Labor government argued there was no point in pursuing the matter because ...

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Mundine warns of budget pain
The Australian
In an exclusive interview and writing in The Australian today, the indigenous leader said that, although he actively opposed the cuts to Aboriginal legal aid announced last month, his opposition was not ideological and he wanted spending to be ...

SBS
Constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians urged
Radio Australia
The Australian Prime Minister's chief adviser on indigenous policy has urged him to take a "cautious" but proactive approach to constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians. In his New Year's Day message, Tony Abbott vowed to use this year to ...
Indigenous recognition vote likelyThe West Australian
Abbott to revive Indigenous recognition pushSBS
Have a go in 2014, Abbott urges AustraliansThe Australian
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Indigenous recognition vote likely
The West Australian
A referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution could be held within this term of Parliament, according to the chairman of the committee Tony Abbott has entrusted to push the case for change. WA Liberal MP Ken Wyatt welcomed the ...

Indigenous recognition vote likely
The West Australian
A referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in the Constitution could be held within this term of Parliament, according to the chairman of the committee Tony Abbott has entrusted to push the case for change. WA Liberal MP Ken Wyatt welcomed the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
John Pilger's damning new film about indigenous Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
"It's so degrading," says Noongar elder Noel Nannup in John Pilger's latest film about indigenous disadvantage in Australia. The Aboriginal man is standing in a $240-a-night hotel room on Rottnest Island which used to be divided into three prison cells ...

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PM Tony Abbott to start 'conversation' on Indigenous recognition in 2014
ABC Online
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he will use 2014 to start a "conversation" about recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution. The former Labor government shelved plans for a referendum on the issue because it argued there was not enough ...
Have a go in 2014, Abbott urges AustraliansThe Australian
Abbott Seeks to Recognize Aborigines in Australia's ConstitutionBusinessweek
Tony Abbott calls for optimism in first new year messageSydney Morning Herald
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SBS
Abbott to revive Indigenous recognition push
SBS
Australians should enter 2014 full of optimism and willing to have a go to better their country, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says. He says the strength of the country is in its people's willingness to better their lives. "This is the year I hope more of ...
Have a go in 2014, Abbott urges AustraliansThe Australian
Abbott Seeks to Recognize Aborigines in Australia's ConstitutionBusinessweek
Tony Abbott, Bill Shorten give their 2014 New Year's messagesThe Daily Telegraph
Brisbane Times
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The West Australian
Hawke govt launched Aboriginal death probe
The West Australian
With Australia's bicentenary approaching, the government led by Bob Hawke decided something must be done about a rising tide of complaints that indigenous people were dying in suspicious circumstances in police cells. Cabinet papers for 1987, released ...
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: The struggle for indigenous land rightsSydney Morning Herald
Secret Hawke era cabinet papers releasedSBS

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Sydney Morning Herald
Cabinet Papers 1986-87: The struggle for indigenous land rights
Sydney Morning Herald
The Hawke government continued to grapple with the sensitive issue of indigenous land rights. In March 1986 Aboriginal Affairs Minister Clyde Holding told cabinet that NSW, Queensland and South Australia had enacted legislation and Victoria was ...
Hawke govt launched Aboriginal death probeNEWS.com.au

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