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'Molly's Story' to be presented in Australia - LOCAL2 Sault Ste. Marie

Fri, 2014/02/28 - 1:30pm

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

Fri, 2014/02/28 - 12:55pm

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 ...

Police seek two women who attacked Indigenous man on Gold Coast bus - The Guardian

Fri, 2014/02/28 - 5:18am

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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Algoma U student to present at Indigenous Conference in Australia - SooToday.com

Fri, 2014/02/28 - 4:00am

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

Fri, 2014/02/28 - 2:51am

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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Two teenage girls have been caught on camera allegedly racially abusing and ... - The Australian

Thu, 2014/02/27 - 11:33pm

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

Thu, 2014/02/27 - 1:32pm

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 ...

Education key to Indigenous jobs - PS News

Thu, 2014/02/27 - 6:40am

PS News

Education key to Indigenous jobs
PS News
The Australian Institutes of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and Family Studies (AIFS) have published a new paper on education and employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians for the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse. The Clearinghouse is a website funded ...

Indigenous jobs in the Ord - ABC Online

Thu, 2014/02/27 - 2:05am

Indigenous jobs in the Ord
ABC Online
"They are very portable skills once you have got tickets and accreditation and experience in a construction site you can pretty much work in any construction site in Australia." The state-funded development of the Ord Stage Two has officially been ...

Truancy officers boost attendance at remote Indigenous community schools - The West Australian

Thu, 2014/02/27 - 12:32am

The West Australian

Truancy officers boost attendance at remote Indigenous community schools
The West Australian
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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John Pilger hopes to open eyes to plight of Aboriginals with Utopia - The Canberra Times

Wed, 2014/02/26 - 1:01pm

The Canberra Times

John Pilger hopes to open eyes to plight of Aboriginals with Utopia
The Canberra Times
John Pilger first got a taste of indigenous Australia in 1969 in a tour to Jay Creek in central Australia with Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins. The journalist and filmmaker likened what he saw to apartheid South Africa; "they were like prisoners of ...

Closing gap is 'not the only way' - The Australian

Tue, 2014/02/25 - 1:13pm

Closing gap is 'not the only way'
The Australian
Yesterday he met with Labor's first indigenous MP, Nova Peris, who is also the deputy chair of the committee charged with coming up with a form of words to change the Constitution to recognise indigenous Australians. But Mr Mundine has rejected a push ...

The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class - SBS

Tue, 2014/02/25 - 5:20am

SBS

The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class
SBS
The great story of recent Australian art has been the resurgence of Indigenous culture and its recognition as a major art form. But in a country increasingly divided by class and wealth, the rise of Indigenous art has had consequences undreamed of by ...

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Rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class in Australia - The Conversation

Tue, 2014/02/25 - 4:03am

Rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class in Australia
The Conversation
The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, Joanna Mendelssohn examines the links between Indigenous art and class. The great…

Mungo Man is a physical reminder of the need for Indigenous recognition - The Guardian

Tue, 2014/02/25 - 2:42am

The Guardian

Mungo Man is a physical reminder of the need for Indigenous recognition
The Guardian
As one of the two foundational burials, with Mungo Lady, he exemplifies Aboriginal Australia's proudest traditions of antiquity and cultural development on the international stage. Traditional owners have never ceased to call for the return of all ...
Geologist who unearthed Mungo Man fights for 40000-year-old remainsThe Guardian

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The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class in Australia - The Conversation

Mon, 2014/02/24 - 8:04pm

The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class in Australia
The Conversation
The great story of recent Australian art has been the resurgence of Indigenous culture and its recognition as a major art form. But in a country increasingly divided by class and wealth, the rise of Indigenous

The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class in Australia - The Conversation

Mon, 2014/02/24 - 8:04pm

The rise of Indigenous art speaks volumes about class in Australia
The Conversation
The great story of recent Australian art has been the resurgence of Indigenous culture and its recognition as a major art form. But in a country increasingly divided by class and wealth, the rise of Indigenous

Call for action to close Aboriginal disadvantage - The West Australian

Sun, 2014/02/23 - 9:47pm

Call for action to close Aboriginal disadvantage
The West Australian
Call for action to close Aboriginal disadvantage The West Australian WA Indigenous Person of the Year (2013) Ian Trust. Picture: Steve Ferrier/The West Australian. WA's indigenous person of the year, Ian Trust, says the gap between Aboriginal and ...

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Is racism affecting Australians' health? - SBS

Fri, 2014/02/21 - 9:04am

Is racism affecting Australians' health?
SBS
It's well known that Indigenous Australians have much lower life expectancy than other Australians, and have disproportionately high rates of diseases and other health problems. Could that in part be due to racism? The Social Determinants of Health ...

Theme park attraction to teach Indigenous culture - ABC Message Stick

Fri, 2014/02/21 - 2:31am

Theme park attraction to teach Indigenous culture
ABC Message Stick
"I find a lot of mainstream children don't know anything about Aboriginal culture, they don't know that we were the first Australians, the descendants of the first Australians, they don't understand there's all different clans and tribes and we've all ...

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