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Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on sacred land - The Guam Daily Post (press release) (registration)

Tue, 2016/08/23 - 3:00am

The Guam Daily Post (press release) (registration)

Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on sacred land
The Guam Daily Post (press release) (registration)
It's this above-ground dump for domestic waste that affects the Flinders, known for its haunting landscapes and home to the Adnyamathanha people, one of several hundred indigenous groups in Australia. For the first time, the government says it has ...

Australian dictionary releases new edition with more Indigenous words - SBS

Tue, 2016/08/23 - 1:50am

Australian dictionary releases new edition with more Indigenous words
SBS
Australians can learn more about the country's Indigenous cultures with the Australian National Dictionary releasing a new addition on Tuesday containing words such as 'Tjukurpa', meaning 'the Dreaming', which forms a part of Indigenous Australian ...

Meet our dictionary's new... - Australian Geographic

Tue, 2016/08/23 - 12:51am

Australian Geographic

Meet our dictionary's new...
Australian Geographic
A NEW EDITION of the Australian National Dictionary has just been published. It contains 16,000 words and while the first edition (published in 1988) included about 250 words from 60 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, the latest has more ...
The Australian National Dictionary Now Includes Goon Of Fortune, Bogans and 'Do A Bradbury'Gizmodo Australia
Australian dictionary includes new wordsSky News Australia
How Tony Abbott contributed to the Aussie vocabularyNEWS.com.au
The Guardian
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Songs and Stories of Indigenous Incarceration - Pro Bono Australia

Tue, 2016/08/23 - 12:39am

Pro Bono Australia

Songs and Stories of Indigenous Incarceration
Pro Bono Australia
In Australia's first musical documentary, filmmaker Kelrick Martin enters Berrimah Prison, the Northern Territory's largest jail, which is home to 800 men and women – 80 per cent of whom are Indigenous. Through stories and songs, the inmates share ...

Hard facts desperately needed to end shambles of indigenous policy - The Australian

Mon, 2016/08/22 - 2:03pm

Hard facts desperately needed to end shambles of indigenous policy
The Australian
Without proper needs assessments and greater accountability for the delivery of services to indigenous Australia, it's impossible to know how money in the sector should be spent at all. This year's Senate committee inquiry into the Indigenous ...

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$6bn a year fails to help Aborigines, says CIS report - The Australian - The Australian

Mon, 2016/08/22 - 2:02pm

The Australian

$6bn a year fails to help Aborigines, says CIS report - The Australian
The Australian
Indigenous affairs spending worth 5.9 billion a year is not delivering results because few of the schemes being funded are properly evaluated, the assessment of ...

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Indigenous players face racism: Eddie Betts - Sky News Australia

Mon, 2016/08/22 - 8:18am

Sky News Australia

Indigenous players face racism: Eddie Betts
Sky News Australia
'The throwing of a banana and its association with slurs on indigenous Australians and other cultural groups, which has sadly occurred in sports around the world, is deeply racist and offensive, and should be rejected by every part of our game ...
Internet says what authorities won't after banana allegedly thrown at Indigenous athleteMashable
Port Adelaide fan who threw banana at AFL star Eddie Betts agrees to cultural awareness programABC Online
Australia, we are terrible at talking about racismThe Monthly (subscription)
Huffington Post Australia -The Guardian
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Triggs to Act As Indigenous Social Justice Commissioner - Pro Bono Australia

Mon, 2016/08/22 - 2:17am

Pro Bono Australia

Triggs to Act As Indigenous Social Justice Commissioner
Pro Bono Australia
Australian Human Rights Commission president Professor Gillian Triggs has been appointed as the acting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner for three months while a selection process is undertaken to replace former ...

Banana allegedly thrown at Indigenous Australian athlete - Mashable

Sun, 2016/08/21 - 5:38am

Mashable

Banana allegedly thrown at Indigenous Australian athlete
Mashable
The Australian sporting community is reeling after a spectator allegedly threw a banana at Indigenous Australian player Eddie Betts during an Australian Football League (AFL) game in Adelaide Saturday. Betts, who plays for the Adelaide Football Club ...
Port Adelaide say fan who threw banana at Eddie Betts faces life banThe Guardian
Adelaide Crows 'disgusted' after banana thrown at Eddie Betts by Port Adelaide fan, Power to investigateABC Online
Port trying to contact AFL banana throwerSports News

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Australia Marks 50 Years Since Historic Indigenous Walk Off - teleSUR English

Sat, 2016/08/20 - 7:42am

teleSUR English

Australia Marks 50 Years Since Historic Indigenous Walk Off
teleSUR English
On August 23 1966, a group of around 200 Gurindji men and women decided to walk off the Wave Hill cattle station in the town of Kalkarindji in the Northern Territory, in protest of the poor living and working conditions of Indigenous Australians. The ...
Wave Hill Walk Off 50th Anniversary - speech by Dave OliverACTU (press release)

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Four Corners Don Dale report: Australia needs its own Black Lives ... - Quartz

Fri, 2016/08/19 - 12:15pm

Quartz

Four Corners Don Dale report: Australia needs its own Black Lives ...
Quartz
On July 25, Australian current affairs program Four Corners aired a report focusing on the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre, a former maximum-security prison ...
'We Tortured Some Kids': Parody Advert Unveils the Horrors at ...AlterNet
Worthy and Unworthy Victims of Child Abuse - CounterpunchCounterPunch

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'Do black deaths matter?' - NEWS.com.au

Fri, 2016/08/19 - 9:56am

NEWS.com.au

'Do black deaths matter?'
NEWS.com.au
He says “Black Lives Matter” overseas, but Australia is “not at a point where we can fully accept that”. The Project host used Friday night's editorial to tackle the huge number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders being locked up in Australian ...

Indigenous Australians Fight Planned Nuclear Dump On Sacred Lands - Huffington Post

Thu, 2016/08/18 - 7:11pm

Huffington Post

Indigenous Australians Fight Planned Nuclear Dump On Sacred Lands
Huffington Post
It's this above-ground dump for domestic waste that affects the Flinders, known for its haunting landscapes and home to the Adnyamathanha people, one of several hundred indigenous groups in Australia. For the first time, the government says it has ...

Australia Revisits Samples from Indigenous Australians - GenomeWeb

Thu, 2016/08/18 - 4:55pm

Australia Revisits Samples from Indigenous Australians
GenomeWeb
Australia has a cache of blood samples collected from indigenous Australians in the 1960 and 1970s that could be used to reconnect families and help treat disease, but the samples are tinged with a legacy of racism and exploitation, the Guardian reports.

Ever-present scandal surrounding the incarceration of indigenous Australians - Equal Times

Thu, 2016/08/18 - 9:27am

Ever-present scandal surrounding the incarceration of indigenous Australians
Equal Times
The images have been seen around the world and have shaken Australia: teenager Dylan Voller hooded and to strapped a chair in the Don Dale juvenile detention centre near Darwin, in the north of the country. It is an image, along with others recorded ...

Indigenous rangers receive commonwealth funding commitment to 2020 - The Guardian

Thu, 2016/08/18 - 7:55am

The Guardian

Indigenous rangers receive commonwealth funding commitment to 2020
The Guardian
Nigel Scullion has committed funding for the Indigenous ranger program to 2020, two years beyond the current federal government commitment, and will look at increasing it further. Speaking to a joint meeting of the Central and Northern Land Councils at ...

Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on 'sacred land' - Reuters UK

Thu, 2016/08/18 - 7:35am

Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on 'sacred land'
Reuters UK
HAWKER, Australia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of "poison stuff" that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s spread fallout across swathes of South Australia. Now a new kind of ...

Meet the Australian entrepreneur using technology to preserve Indigenous culture who inspired Malcolm Turnbull - StartupSmart

Thu, 2016/08/18 - 12:41am

StartupSmart

Meet the Australian entrepreneur using technology to preserve Indigenous culture who inspired Malcolm Turnbull
StartupSmart
An Australian entrepreneur is set to launch a new app to help preserve the culture of Indigenous Australians through technology. Northern Territory-based founder Mikaela Jade will launch the Digital Rangers app next month at the IUCN World Conservation ...

Indigenous DNA at centre of ethical furore could help reconnect stolen generations - The Guardian

Wed, 2016/08/17 - 9:21pm

The Guardian

Indigenous DNA at centre of ethical furore could help reconnect stolen generations
The Guardian
Historic blood samples collected from Indigenous Australians could connect members of the stolen generations to their families and improve healthcare for chronic diseases, but not without confronting a troubled legacy of scientific exploitation and ...

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Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on 'sacred land' - Reuters

Wed, 2016/08/17 - 5:12pm

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indigenous Australians fight nuclear dump plan on 'sacred land'
Reuters
HAWKER, Australia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Enice Marsh remembers the black clouds of "poison stuff" that billowed from the northwest after British atomic bomb tests in the 1950s spread fallout across swathes of South Australia. Now a new kind of ...
Fight over Australia nuclear dump shows clash of world viewsThomson Reuters Foundation

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