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Curtain And The Case For Freedom: How Many Indigenous Prisoners In Australia Are Innocent? - New Matilda

Thu, 2017/01/12 - 12:34am

New Matilda

Curtain And The Case For Freedom: How Many Indigenous Prisoners In Australia Are Innocent?
New Matilda
Amy McQuire has been investigating the jailing of an Aboriginal man in Queensland for over a year. Here she details at the case, and the broader reality of wrongful convictions in Australia. In 1991, an Aboriginal woman named Lynda tragically lost her ...

How Donald Trump sent the Australian dollar soaring - The Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2017/01/12 - 12:14am

The Sydney Morning Herald

How Donald Trump sent the Australian dollar soaring
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian dollar surged around one US cent amid renewed uncertainty about Donald Trump's policies following his first press conference as US President-elect. After trading around 73.75 US cents before Trump spoke, the dollar soared to as high as ...

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MLA shirks Australia Day, tackles Invasion Day controversy - AdNews

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 10:12pm

AdNews

MLA shirks Australia Day, tackles Invasion Day controversy
AdNews
It went onto say that The Monkeys had found it difficult to cast Aboriginal characters due to Indigenous actors “feeling like the commercial trivialises the violent British settlement of Australia”. MLA and The Monkeys haven't shied away from ...

Strong wet season boosting yields for Indigenous gubinge harvest - ABC Online

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 9:51pm

ABC Online

Strong wet season boosting yields for Indigenous gubinge harvest
ABC Online
The bush tucker, which is also known as Kakadu plum, is found across northern Australia and regarded as having more vitamin C than any other fruit. Lenny O'Meara from Kimberley Wild Gubinge said after big rains in December, there was an abundance of ...

Giving the less fortunate a hand up - dailytelegraph.com.au

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 7:02pm

dailytelegraph.com.au

Giving the less fortunate a hand up
dailytelegraph.com.au
“Including awful examples of forced labour in the very supply chains of my company, Fortescue Metals Group,” he says. “That's what really tipped me over the edge to adding modern slavery to ending the indigenous disparity in Australia as my lifetime ...

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Snake on a plane leads to flight cancellation - The New Daily

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 11:43am

The New Daily

Snake on a plane leads to flight cancellation
The New Daily
The MLA's two-and-a-half-minute spot features a diverse cast including European settlers, a wave of immigrants, vegans and LGBT Australians atop a Mardi Gras float who arrive in waves to join a beach barbecue started by three indigenous Australians.
Political expenses: Julie Bishop charged taxpayers for Portsea Polo trip, Mathias Cormann claimed for AFL finalABC Online

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Fate of AAMU and its Collection - Aboriginal Art Directory News

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 4:59am

Aboriginal Art Directory News

Fate of AAMU and its Collection
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Georges: It was founded by a private collector of Indigenous Australian art whose passion led to its creation. It is the same person who has supported the Museum to date. We have had some funding from other sources, the equivalent of the Australia ...

Time to clean up Western Australia's democratic act - Policy Forum

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 4:07am

Policy Forum

Time to clean up Western Australia's democratic act
Policy Forum
However, those special problems cannot be an excuse for vote rigging. Such special issues do warrant special administrative arrangements and funding allocations. The history of appalling treatment of the state's most remote citizens, Indigenous ...

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Management Accountant (Research Agreements, Grants And Contracts) - The Conversation AU

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 12:06am

Management Accountant (Research Agreements, Grants And Contracts)
The Conversation AU
The Melbourne School of Engineering ('The School') is one of Australia's leading Engineering Schools and aims to be the school of choice for the highest performing students and research staff in Australia and rank within the top twenty Schools of ...

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Meet the sisters dubbed 'Australia's Kardashians' - InDaily

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 11:43pm

InDaily

Meet the sisters dubbed 'Australia's Kardashians'
InDaily
I'm not sure who first referred to the Rule family, the subject of their own new reality show on National Indigenous Television, as Australia's Kardashians. I can't figure out if the phrase first appeared in some NITV publicity material, or whether a ...

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More work needed on human rights - Lawyers Weekly

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 11:05pm

Lawyers Weekly

More work needed on human rights
Lawyers Weekly
“Indeed, this year we have seen serious human rights violations in respect of the treatment of people seeking asylum, unprecedented national security measures, an ongoing crisis in protecting the rights of Indigenous Australians, a failure to realise ...

Anahata Offers 35% Discounts for Indigenous Australian Businesses - IT Business Net

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 7:40pm

Anahata Offers 35% Discounts for Indigenous Australian Businesses
IT Business Net
Anahata has come up with this special offering, keeping in mind that businesses working directly in Indigenous cultural industries have higher SROI ratios than businesses working in mainstream industries. Also the Indigenous businesses employ more than ...

Google News

Indigenous people and miners need each others' help - The Australian Financial Review

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 5:18pm

The Australian Financial Review

Indigenous people and miners need each others' help
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous people aren't going anywhere either and our population is also getting bigger. Minerals extraction means engaging with Indigenous people. Indigenous Australians have ownership or other rights over 20 per cent of the continent, including most ...

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Anahata Offers 35% Discounts for Indigenous Australian Businesses - IT Business Net

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 9:04am

Anahata Offers 35% Discounts for Indigenous Australian Businesses
IT Business Net
Anahata has come up with this special offering, keeping in mind that businesses working directly in Indigenous cultural industries have higher SROI ratios than businesses working in mainstream industries. Also the Indigenous businesses employ more than ...

Family Rules S1 E1 review: 'Indigenous Kardashians' outshine Real Housewives - The Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 9:00am

The Sydney Morning Herald

Family Rules S1 E1 review: 'Indigenous Kardashians' outshine Real Housewives
The Sydney Morning Herald
Even though they have been dubbed Australia's "Indigenous Kardashians", NITV's reality show on the Rule family has more of the feel of MTV's Teen Mom than the fame-hungry Kardashian family. But if you have to draw a reality show comparison it is a ...

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The Indigenous Jazz Singer Using Music To Heal Stolen Generation Wounds - Huffington Post Australia

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 4:37am

The Indigenous Jazz Singer Using Music To Heal Stolen Generation Wounds
Huffington Post Australia
In 1963 a 15-year-old Indigenous woman in Roebourne, Western Australia had her 8-month-old baby taken away from her. This baby -- Brenda -- was just one more child to add to the Stolen Generation. She was given the name Lois and adopted into the ...

The Cat Empire's Felix Riebl New Song Focuses On Ms Dhu's Death In Custody - Huffington Post Australia

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 4:01am

Huffington Post Australia

The Cat Empire's Felix Riebl New Song Focuses On Ms Dhu's Death In Custody
Huffington Post Australia
Riebl wants the song to not only provide greater awareness over what happened to Ms Dhu but also shed light on the treatment of Indigenous Australians by the legal system. "We are deliberately bringing out this song in 2017 to put the tragedy of Ms Dhu ...
Cat Empire's Felix Riebl on his song for Ms Dhu: a 'devastating' storyThe Guardian
Ms Dhu prison death triggers stark video from The Cat Empire singerBrisbane Times

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Australia's 'Indigenous Kardashians' reality series kicks off - Daily Review

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 3:35am

Daily Review

Australia's 'Indigenous Kardashians' reality series kicks off
Daily Review
I'm not sure who first referred to the Rule family, the subject of their own new reality show on National Indigenous Television, as Australia's Kardashians. I can't figure out if the phrase first appeared in some NITV publicity material, or whether a ...

Indigenous baby may have survived if admitted by hospital, inquest hears - The Guardian

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 1:55am

The Guardian

Indigenous baby may have survived if admitted by hospital, inquest hears
The Guardian
The 36-day-old girl, Masaly Mosby, was found unresponsive by her mother in their home in the Kennedy Hill or Mallingbarr Aboriginal community, a collection of houses in the centre of Broome, Western Australia, at 7.30am on 6 October 2011. She was taken ...

Psychologists issue official apology to Aboriginal people - Goondiwindi Argus

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 12:36am

Goondiwindi Argus

Psychologists issue official apology to Aboriginal people
Goondiwindi Argus
Professor Patricia Dudgeon, who was Australia's first Indigenous psychologist, said the science of psychology relied on a Western, individualistic understanding of "self", which was fundamentally different to the communal sense of self experienced by ...

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