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Moreland Council to vote on Australia Day move months after rejecting date change
Warrnambool Standard
Moreland City Council will vote on the matter on Wednesday following decisions by Yarra and Darebin councils to move their citizenship ceremonies away from Australia Day. "We see the pain it causes them (Aboriginal people) and they talk about the ...

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Moreland Council to vote on Australia Day move months after rejecting date change
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Moreland City Council will vote on the matter on Wednesday following decisions by Yarra and Darebin councils to move their citizenship ceremonies away from Australia Day. "We see the pain it causes them (Aboriginal people) and they talk about the ...

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A Third VIC Council Is Set To Vote On Dropping Australia Day Celebrations
Pedestrian TV
Councillor Samantha Ratnam says the motion put forward recognises that 26 January is a “day of mourning for our Aboriginal community” and “seeks that Moreland Council support the campaign to change the date of Australia Day to a more inclusive date ...

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The healing power of poetry
The Advertiser
In 2014 she was invited to take part in a three-month residency at the famed University of Iowa's International Writers' Program, the first Aboriginal Australian writer to do so. Next week Cobby Eckermann will travel to Yale University in the US with ...

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Work-for-the-dole scheme alternative launched by Aboriginal organisations
ABC Online
The APONT alliance includes the Northern and Central Land Councils, Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance NT. The group's proposed Remote Development ...
Indigenous groups say work for the dole scheme racially discriminatoryThe Guardian

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WA budget 2017: Aboriginal community wanted a water park but was given a $7 million pool
ABC Online
Safety issues around staffing and maintaining a swimming pool at one of Australia's most remote communities of 500 mostly Aboriginal residents made a water park a better option, said Kalumburu Aboriginal Corporation's business manager Melissa Taylor.

SBS
Building resilient ecosystems for threatened animals
SBS
'European scientists like to use the word 'discovered' to explain their first sight of an animal known and protected by Australian Aboriginal people for 100,000 years. It is an indication that Europeans have no respect for any knowledge but their own ...

Herald Sun
Third Vic council plans Australia Day move
SBS
A third Melbourne council will vote on whether to move Australia Day away from January 26 out of respect for Aboriginal people. Moreland City Council will vote next Wednesday on whether to dump the date following decisions by Yarra and Darebin councils ...
Casey mayor Sam Aziz says it will be a 'cold day in hell' before council moves Australia Day celebrationsHerald Sun

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Financial Times
Aboriginal 'spirit walker' seeks audience with Queen
Financial Times
Clinton Pryor walked 6,000km on a quest for aboriginal justice. But after failing to persuade Australia's prime minister to formalise a treaty with indigenous elders, the 27-year-old “spirit walker” is seeking an audience with the head of state, Queen ...

UNSW Newsroom
Justice and the political future for Indigenous Australians
UNSW Newsroom
Professor Davis, UNSW Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous), was a member of the Referendum Council and a key player in dialogues with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia that culminated in the First Nations National ...

SBS
Thornton's 'Sweet Country' receives standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival
SBS
Sweet Country features an impressive cast including Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Bryan Brown (Cocktail, Australia), Hamilton Morris (8MMM Aboriginal Radio) and introducing twins Tremayne and Trevon Doolan who play one of the leads, Philomac. It tells the ...
Outback western Sweet Country wins over VeniceInDaily

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ABC Online
WA budget slugs gold miners, big business in state budget
NEWS.com.au
Mr Wyatt, Australia's first Aboriginal treasurer, said he was determined to meet the surplus target, but noted the mining royalty-dependent and GST-deprived state was vulnerable to dramatic revenue stream changes. He said he expected WA's credit rating ...
WA budget winners and losers: How it affects youABC Online

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Herald Sun
Casey mayor Sam Aziz says it will be a 'cold day in hell' before council moves Australia Day celebrations
Herald Sun
Cr Susan Serey said residents had contacted her asking about Casey's position on Australia Day following the decision by the Yarra City Council and the City of Darebin to move their citizenship ceremonies to a different date to pay respect to ...
Third Vic council plans Australia Day moveSBS

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ABC Online
Treaty: Why do Victoria's Aboriginal people want one and what difference will it make?
ABC Online
Why do Aboriginal people in Victoria want one? Mr Harding said when young people don't understand their background, they can become disenfranchised. He said a treaty would offer them hope. "Young people will know who they are from the outset. They'll ...

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Northern Star
Australia Day motion amended after federal govt threat
Northern Star
In the letter Cr Ekins proposed to pen to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull from council to change the date of Australia Day, she also sought to request the Australian citizenship test be amended "to include a lesson about Aboriginal history”. The ...

Inside Film
SA outback thriller Sweet Country gets huge applause at Venice Film Festival
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AUDIENCES at the prestigious Venice Film Festival stood and clapped for five minutes after watching Warwick Thornton's South Australian-backed indigenous thriller set in the MacDonnell Ranges near Alice Springs. Warwick was deeply moved by the ...
Warwick Thornton's 'Sweet Country' hailed as a milestone for Indigenous cinemaInside Film
Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country premieres to raves in Venice & releases first trailerDaily Review
Venice Film Review: 'Sweet Country'Variety
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The Australian
Stephen Hagan calls out judicial 'bias' behind indigenous prison rates
The Australian
Judges and magistrates have been accused of systemic bias and bigotry that has fuelled an explosion in the number of indigenous inmates within Australia's prison population. After five years of research, Aboriginal academic Stephen Hagan says there is ...
Judges must overcome inherent bias, says respected authorNational Indigenous Times
Rangers at home keeping eye on the northPS News

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Herald Sun
Senior minister criticises councils for dumping Australia Day celebrations without proper consultation
Herald Sun
And Local Government and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Natalie Hutchins said a treaty was far more important for indigenous groups than changing the date of Australia Day. The City of Moreland is set to become the third Melbourne council to consider ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous dictionary may save the Miriwoong language from extinction
ABC Online
The Aboriginal language Miriwoong is one of the oldest languages on Earth, but fewer than 10 people speak it fluently. Miriwoong is considered critically endangered — on the brink of completely disappearing — but a group in the remote Kimberley is ...

Inside Film
Warwick Thornton's 'Sweet Country' hailed as a milestone for Indigenous cinema
Inside Film
Screen Daily's Lee Marshall lauded the film as a milestone for Australian Indigenous cinema, which he expects will travel extensively after the Venice premiere. Marshall saw echoes of The Searchers in Thornton's ravishingly shot, resonant Indigenous ...
Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country premieres to raves in Venice & releases first trailerDaily Review
Venice Film Review: 'Sweet Country'Variety
'Sweet Country': a look back to Australia's futureGuardian (blog)
Dark Horizons -Junkee
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