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Global solidarity over Aboriginal rights - Radio New Zealand

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 6:23pm

Radio New Zealand

Global solidarity over Aboriginal rights
Radio New Zealand
The Western Australian (WA) Government says a one-off $90 million payment by the Federal Government to look after the remote settlements is unsustainable. Protests against its plans to close the communities have been organised by Aboriginal rights ...
Colin Barnett pulls back on indigenous community closuresThe Australian
Family harnesses power of social media to drive protests against forced ...Radio Australia
Wellington rally to support Aboriginal peoples of AustraliaVoxy
ABC Message Stick -Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
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Colin Barnett pulls back on indigenous community closures - The Australian

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 2:04pm

The Australian

Colin Barnett pulls back on indigenous community closures
The Australian
Colin Barnett has stepped away from his controversial rhetoric that up to 150 remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia will be closed down, revealing plans for a “hub and orbit” strategy that will leave some communities bigger and better ...
Family harnesses power of social media to drive protests against forced ...Radio Australia
Global solidarity over Aboriginal rightsRadio New Zealand
Julian Lennon Speaks Out Against The Closure Of Remote Aboriginal ...TripleM Sydney
SBS -Voxy
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Museum beholds indigenous journey - The Australian

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 2:02pm

The Australian

Museum beholds indigenous journey
The Australian
Museum director Neil MacGregor says he plans to discuss with a visiting delegation of indigenous Australians “how they would like to see the narrative of indigenous Australia presented among the other narratives of the world here ... how they would ...
UK exhibition start of repatriation talksNEWS.com.au

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The Australian children 24 times more likely to face jail than their peers - Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 10:03am

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The Australian children 24 times more likely to face jail than their peers
Sydney Morning Herald
University of Western Australia criminologist Harry Blagg said Australia needed to reduce Aboriginal distrust of the justice system. "The reason they [youth justice diversion programs] haven't worked for Indigenous youth is that our system is still too ...
Ananguku Arts: shaping Indigenous artistsArtsHub (subscription)
Australia: The secret country again wages war on its own peopleAsia Times Online
Australia Wages War On Its Own PeopleFair Observer
ABC Online -Pharmacy News -The Guardian
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Family harnesses power of social media to drive protests against forced ... - Radio Australia

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 8:31am

The Australian

Family harnesses power of social media to drive protests against forced ...
Radio Australia
Pressure is growing across Australia against plans by West Australian Premier Colin Barnett to close scores of remote Aboriginal communities. A call to protest has spread across social media with rallies expected in capital cities across the country ...
Colin Barnett pulls back on indigenous community closuresThe Australian
Global solidarity over Aboriginal rightsRadio New Zealand
Wellington rally to support Aboriginal peoples of AustraliaVoxy
ABC Message Stick
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Family harnesses power of social media to drive protests against forced ... - ABC Online

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 8:09am

Māori Television

Family harnesses power of social media to drive protests against forced ...
ABC Online
Pressure is growing across Australia against plans by West Australian Premier Colin Barnett to close scores of remote Aboriginal communities. A call to protest has spread across social media with rallies expected in capital cities across the country ...
Wellington rally to support Aboriginal peoples of AustraliaVoxy
Rockhampton group hosts protests against forced closuresRockhampton Morning Bulletin
Supporters prepare for 2nd Call to Action Against closure of Aboriginal ...Māori Television

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Ananguku Arts: shaping Indigenous artists - ArtsHub (subscription)

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 5:52am

ArtsHub (subscription)

Ananguku Arts: shaping Indigenous artists
ArtsHub (subscription)
Ananguku Arts and Cultural Aboriginal Corporation (Ku Arts) a South Australian Aboriginal artists' organization, is looking forward to supporting TARNANTHI, the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, opening at ...
Indigenous children 24 times more likely to be imprisonedSydney Morning Herald
Australia: The secret country again wages war on its own peopleAsia Times Online
Australia Wages War On Its Own PeopleFair Observer
ABC Online -The Guardian -Pharmacy News
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Desert Mob: a snapshot of Aboriginal art and culture from Central Australia - ArtsHub (subscription)

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 4:38am

ArtsHub (subscription)

Desert Mob: a snapshot of Aboriginal art and culture from Central Australia
ArtsHub (subscription)
'The ownership that Aboriginal artists have over the event is significant and a factor that makes it unique. It's very much driven by the artists and their art centres. The art centres select which works they exhibit in the exhibition. Artworks can ...
Australia: The secret country again wages war on its own peopleAsia Times Online
Australia Wages War On Its Own PeopleFair Observer
Change the Record campaign aims to cut Indigenous jail rates in a generationThe Guardian
Pharmacy News -Lawyers Weekly -ABC Online
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Arrests as police remove tents at Perth's Heirisson Island Aboriginal protest - ABC Online

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 4:21am

ABC Online

Arrests as police remove tents at Perth's Heirisson Island Aboriginal protest
ABC Online
... but if you look at school attendance, health, education achievements and particularly opportunities for employment, they are very limited and sometimes nonexistent in many Aboriginal communities. "There are 274 remote communities in Western ...
Arrests as Indigenous protests continue on Heirisson IslandWA today
Three arrested as Heirisson camp dismantledPerth Now

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More Aboriginal children vaccinated in SA - Sky News Australia

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 1:47am

Sky News Australia

More Aboriginal children vaccinated in SA
Sky News Australia
Young Aboriginal children in South Australia are now more likely to be vaccinated than other children. The latest figures show 91.8 per cent of year-old Aboriginal children are fully immunised compared to 90.8 per cent for non-Aboriginal children ...

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More Aboriginal children vaccinated in SA - 9news.com.au

Thu, 2015/04/30 - 1:14am

More Aboriginal children vaccinated in SA
9news.com.au
Young Aboriginal children in South Australia are now more likely to be vaccinated than other children. The latest figures show 91.8 per cent of year-old Aboriginal children are fully immunised compared to 90.8 per cent for non-Aboriginal children ...

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Australia: The secret country again wages war on its own people - Asia Times Online

Wed, 2015/04/29 - 5:39pm

Fair Observer

Australia: The secret country again wages war on its own people
Asia Times Online
Australia has again declared war on its indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that brought universal condemnation on apartheid South Africa. Aboriginal people are to be driven from homelands where their communities have lived for thousands of ...
Australia Wages War On Its Own PeopleFair Observer

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Vaccination program helping to close gap between Aboriginal and non ... - ABC Online

Wed, 2015/04/29 - 11:31am

ABC Online

Vaccination program helping to close gap between Aboriginal and non ...
ABC Online
Attempts to close a gap in immunisation rates between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children in South Australia have made significant inroads in the past three years. The number of Aboriginal children being vaccinated on time has jumped by 20 per cent, ...

'Finest known' Aboriginal shield the big draw at Pinto art auction - The Australian Financial Review

Wed, 2015/04/29 - 4:24am

The Australian Financial Review

'Finest known' Aboriginal shield the big draw at Pinto art auction
The Australian Financial Review
Outstanding Aboriginal shields and unusual Oceanic artifacts from a private West Australian collection are expected to fetch lofty prices when offered at auction in Melbourne next month. The collection has been formed over many years by Marc and Elena ...

Bringing great Australian indigenous works of art into the light at British Museum - The Australian Financial Review

Wed, 2015/04/29 - 3:57am

The Australian Financial Review

Bringing great Australian indigenous works of art into the light at British Museum
The Australian Financial Review
Mask in the form of a human face and a bonito fish. Attributed to Kuduma, Muralag. Collected Nagir, Torres Strait, Queensland, before 1888. 'Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation' runs at the British Museum, London WC1, from 23 April to 2 August ...

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The indigenous elephants in the room - WA today

Wed, 2015/04/29 - 12:57am

The indigenous elephants in the room
WA today
Whether the insult was justified is neither here nor there, but it does underline how what one says about Aboriginal Australians tells as much about the speakers as about the objects of their attention. I gave a talk more than 20 years ago about more ...

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The indigenous elephants in the room - Brisbane Times

Tue, 2015/04/28 - 11:11pm

The indigenous elephants in the room
Brisbane Times
Whether the insult was justified is neither here nor there, but it does underline how what one says about Aboriginal Australians tells as much about the speakers as about the objects of their attention. I gave a talk more than 20 years ago about more ...

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Forced evictions are Australia's latest racist assault on Aboriginal People - The Ecologist

Tue, 2015/04/28 - 11:43am

The Ecologist

Forced evictions are Australia's latest racist assault on Aboriginal People
The Ecologist
Australia's deliberate and calculated attacks on its indigenous population carry many of the hallmarks of genocide, writes John Pilger. And things are getting worse, not better, as states that have grown rich by exploiting Aboriginal land evict and ...
Australia plans 'flout' international lawRadio New Zealand

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Aboriginal human rights campaigner Ray Jackson shone a light on deaths in ... - Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 2015/04/28 - 6:12am

Aboriginal human rights campaigner Ray Jackson shone a light on deaths in ...
Sydney Morning Herald
On April 23, an Aboriginal man who dedicated his life to fighting against the deaths of his people in Australian police and prison cells succumbed quietly to his own death in his small flat in Waterloo. Ray Jackson, a Wiradjuri warrior for human rights ...

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Closing 'communities' undermines the humanity of Aboriginal lives - The Conversation AU

Mon, 2015/04/27 - 8:15pm

The Conversation AU

Closing 'communities' undermines the humanity of Aboriginal lives
The Conversation AU
Now deceased and greatly missed by loved ones, the sentiment, emphasis and longing evident in the seeming simplicity of her words are not uncommon among countless Indigenous Australians whose homes lie in locations vastly distant in time, knowledge ...

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