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Aboriginal man Daniel Love takes Federal Government to High Court for wrongful detention - ABC Local

Mon, 2018/10/15 - 7:39am

ABC Local

Aboriginal man Daniel Love takes Federal Government to High Court for wrongful detention
ABC Local
An Aboriginal man who was detained by Australian immigration authorities and faced deportation to Papua New Guinea (PNG) is suing the Commonwealth for $200,000 in damages for false imprisonment.

'OK to be white': Australian government senators condemn 'anti-white racism' - The Guardian

Mon, 2018/10/15 - 7:31am

The Guardian

'OK to be white': Australian government senators condemn 'anti-white racism'
The Guardian
Di Natale argued that the “privileged white Anglo community” occupies positions of power – including in the Senate – while Aboriginal Australians are “more likely to die younger, to be locked up” and African people are “more likely to experience racism”.

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Here's what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are doing during their Australian tour - Business Insider Australia

Mon, 2018/10/15 - 6:13am

Business Insider Australia

Here's what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are doing during their Australian tour
Business Insider Australia
On Thursday October 18, they're in Melbourne to visit a social enterprise café offering training programs for young Aboriginal people, as well as a primary school to meet students involved in sustainability programs. Then they'll take a tram down to ...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are Going Down Under. Here's What to Know About Britain's Tangled Role in the ...TIME
Here's Every Single Place Harry And Meghan Will Visit In Australiaten daily
Prince Harry pays Australia another visitNEWS.com.au

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Australia is still dealing with the legacy of the UK's nuclear bomb tests, 65 years on - 9news.com.au

Mon, 2018/10/15 - 4:53am

9news.com.au

Australia is still dealing with the legacy of the UK's nuclear bomb tests, 65 years on
9news.com.au
A tiny speck in the vast South Australian outback, the area around Walatinna was regarded as "depressingly inhospitable to Europeans" by early colonizers, few of whom settled there. But Indigenous people had a long history in the region, including ...

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Film Festival review: She Who Must Be Loved - InDaily

Sun, 2018/10/14 - 11:13pm

InDaily

Film Festival review: She Who Must Be Loved
InDaily
Glynn has had a tremendous life: she was a photographer and media pioneer who co-founded the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA), and many of her children (including directors Erica Glynn, who wrote and directed this documentary, ...

Deadly Queens - ABC Local

Sun, 2018/10/14 - 7:33pm

ABC Local

Deadly Queens
ABC Local
Seven performers have arrived in the city to compete in Miss First Nation, a week-long pageant described by one contestant as Miss Universe for Indigenous drag queens. Most have crowdfunded their way there. They will pose, model, lip sync and vogue.

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Deadly Queens - ABC News

Sun, 2018/10/14 - 7:30pm

ABC News

Deadly Queens
ABC News
Seven performers have arrived in the city to compete in Miss First Nation, a week-long pageant described by one contestant as Miss Universe for Indigenous drag queens. Most have crowdfunded their way there. They will pose, model, lip sync and vogue.

Revealed: The State Government's KPIs for Police Commissioner Chris Dawson - The West Australian

Sun, 2018/10/14 - 6:01pm

The West Australian

Revealed: The State Government's KPIs for Police Commissioner Chris Dawson
The West Australian
The State Government has directed Police Commissioner Chris Dawson to review road rules and fines and make Aboriginal crime and incarceration rates the “key priorities” of his five-year contract. The edict is in a long list ... A full list of the KPIs ...

'Nana Freda' is honoured as a pioneer of Indigenous film and TV - The Sydney Morning Herald

Sun, 2018/10/14 - 1:00pm

The Sydney Morning Herald

'Nana Freda' is honoured as a pioneer of Indigenous film and TV
The Sydney Morning Herald
In the 1980s, she co-founded two organisations that helped launch Indigenous film and television in this country, the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) and Imparja Television. Launched to distribute audio cassettes of Indigenous ...

Police investigating spate of thefts from country SA museums and RSLs - ABC News

Sat, 2018/10/13 - 11:43pm

ABC News

Police investigating spate of thefts from country SA museums and RSLs
ABC News
Police are investigating thefts of war memorabilia, including a rifle, from two country South Australian RSLs and a museum over the past month. Boer War and Vietnam War medals and a World War I-era locket were stolen from stolen from the Melrose ...

Prince Harry pays Australia another visit - NEWS.com.au

Sat, 2018/10/13 - 9:03pm

NEWS.com.au

Prince Harry pays Australia another visit
NEWS.com.au
He also surprised the residents of a small Aboriginal outback town by rocking up unannounced in military uniform. 2017: INVICTUS GAMES PREPARATION. * Harry flew into Sydney for a whirlwind visit to cast his eye over preparations for the 2018 Games.

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After the Apology is must-see TV – and an urgent jolt to consciousness - The Guardian

Sat, 2018/10/13 - 7:00pm

The Guardian

After the Apology is must-see TV – and an urgent jolt to consciousness
The Guardian
On 13 February 2008, Australia's prime minister Kevin Rudd issued a national apology to the stolen generations of Indigenous Australians who suffered forced removals from their families, as part of racist commonwealth, state and territory laws and ...

Peter Goers: Reconcile our past and advance Australia fairer - The Advertiser

Sat, 2018/10/13 - 8:27am

The Advertiser

Peter Goers: Reconcile our past and advance Australia fairer
The Advertiser
Australia Day celebrates only the British claim to Sydney and the east coast. It's a recent concoction which insults Aboriginal people whose own boundless plains were stolen without negotiation because it was “good for them”. Then when we couldn't kill ...

Crocodile that killed Aboriginal ranger in remote Northern Territory could still be on the loose - ABC News

Sat, 2018/10/13 - 3:35am

ABC News

Crocodile that killed Aboriginal ranger in remote Northern Territory could still be on the loose
ABC News
A crocodile that killed an Aboriginal woman could still be on the loose, despite being speared in the head by rangers following the attack. Yesterday, NT Police wrongly reported the animal had been destroyed after the attack about 10:30am in the remote ...
Woman's body found after Australian crocodile attackThe Straits Times
Body of park ranger recovered after crocodile attack in Australian OutbackXinhua
Woman killed by croc in Northern TerritoryOtago Daily Times

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How remote education is coping after a decade of political instability - ABC Local

Fri, 2018/10/12 - 9:50pm

ABC Local

How remote education is coping after a decade of political instability
ABC Local
As the head of the school for Indigenous Australian studies at Charles Sturt University, Jay Phillips has seen policies come and go with governments of the day. She said political instability had seen successive governments caught in a bureaucratic ...

NT remote Aboriginal communities left behind by the NDIS - NEWS.com.au

Fri, 2018/10/12 - 2:31pm

NEWS.com.au

NT remote Aboriginal communities left behind by the NDIS
NEWS.com.au
Avery, a deaf Aboriginal researcher with a background in health, has put together the national narrative which brings to light a world in which people are exposed to social inequality and injustices that most other Australians would never have to endure.

North, inland 'need their own political bloc' - The Australian

Fri, 2018/10/12 - 1:01pm

The Australian

North, inland 'need their own political bloc'
The Australian
“The key to this is forming strategic alliances to support northern development — and that includes, importantly, Aboriginal Australians.” Mr Mills, who rebuilt the Country Liberal Party from two MPs, won government in the NT from Labor in 2012 but ...

Morrison government to push ahead with changes to indigenous remote work for the dole scheme - The Australian

Fri, 2018/10/12 - 11:35am

The Australian

Morrison government to push ahead with changes to indigenous remote work for the dole scheme
The Australian
... Government will push ahead with controversial changes to the indigenous remote work for the dole scheme despite extensive evidence given to a senate committee that they are punitive and unfairly target Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.
Remote work-for-the-dole changes to go ahead despite strong oppositionThe Guardian

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New history of South Australia book challenges assumptions about our state's past - The Advertiser

Fri, 2018/10/12 - 10:31am

The Advertiser

New history of South Australia book challenges assumptions about our state's past
The Advertiser
And, most contentiously, they focus on indigenous history and the treatment of the first “South Australians”. Coverage of human history before white settlement was part of the brief from Cambridge University Press that included 40,000 years in 90,000 ...

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Body of Indigenous ranger found after crocodile attack in Northern Territory - The Guardian

Fri, 2018/10/12 - 9:11am

The Guardian

Body of Indigenous ranger found after crocodile attack in Northern Territory
The Guardian
The woman worked as an Aboriginal ranger in the local Laynhapuy Indigenous Protected Area. Police from Lake Evella and Nhulunbuy, about three hours' away, travelled to the scene by car and boat to help local rangers and the community to search ...
Police recover body of Aboriginal ranger taken by crocodile in ... - ABCABC News
Aboriginal ranger 'taken by crocodile' in AustraliaBBC News
Crocodile attack Northern Territory: Female ranger takenNEWS.com.au
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