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ABC Online
Heirisson Island Aboriginal protest: Police move in to clear campers
ABC Online
The site, near Perth's CBD, had been described by occupants as a "refugee camp" for people displaced by the Western Australian Government's planned closure of up to 150 of the state's 274 remote Indigenous communities. The State Government flagged ...
Heirisson Island camps removed by policePerth Now
Mounted police join effort to dismantle Heirisson Island protestThe Guardian

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The Age
Aboriginal rally brings Melbourne CBD to standstill
Herald Sun
Ms Onus said the protest was in response to WA premier Colin Barnett flagging that about 150 of the state's 274 remote indigenous communities may be shut down. The communities house more than 12,000 Aboriginal people. “Children aren't attending ...
Protesters “shut down Melbourne" to fight against closure of Aboriginal ...Bendigo Advertiser

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ABC Online
Federal Government funding cuts 'possibly an oversight': NT Indigenous group
ABC Online
A Northern Territory youth service tackling petrol sniffing in disadvantaged Indigenous communities says it hopes Federal Government funding cuts to youth programs are "an oversight". Two regional councils in Central Australia raised the alarm earlier ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's lifestyle choice remark leaves 'everyone hurting inside' in ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Not since John Howard declared that there was no need to say sorry for past injustices has a prime minister so unwittingly inflicted such hurt on indigenous Australia. Ms Cox regards Mr Abbott's assertion that "it's not the job of the taxpayer to ...
Tony Abbott: Taxpayers can't fund indigenous Australians 'lifestyle choices'NEWS.com.au
For the real story on Indigenous Australia, social beats old mediaThe Conversation AU
Indigenous Australians Still Not Thrilled About 'Lifestyle Choice' To Take ...SBS
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ABC Online
NSW 'failing' Aboriginal kids, commission
SBS
The head of one of Australia's best known child welfare agencies says NSW urgently needs to provide better services for Aboriginal children in care. Louise Voight, CEO of Barnardos for 30 years, said on Friday the lack of support for Aboriginal ...
Foster carers' register 'could make situation worse for Aboriginal children'ABC Online

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ABC Online
NSW 'failing' Aboriginal kids, commission
The Australian (blog)
THE head of one of Australia's best known child welfare agencies says NSW urgently needs to provide better services for Aboriginal children in care. LOUISE Voight, CEO of Barnardos for 30 years, said on Friday the lack of support for Aboriginal ...
Foster carers' register 'could make situation worse for Aboriginal children'ABC Online

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The Conversation AU
Who we should recognise as First Australians in the constitution
The Conversation AU
Writing in the magazine Quadrant, the historian Keith Windschuttle claimed that Indigenous Australians should not have Native Title rights because they were not the first to occupy Australia. He claimed that over most of the continent they had wiped ...

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The Conversation AU
Who we should recognise as First Australians in the constitution
The Conversation AU
Setting the question of legislating fact to one side, it's worth looking at Senator Leyonhjelm's question of who were the “first Australians” and what evidence exists to suggest they were the ancestors of modern day Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

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'Soft totalitarianism?' What Rundle gets wrong about constitutional recognition
Crikey
That's why, in 1967, more than 90% of Australians voted to remove two clauses from the constitution. Those sections excluded Aboriginal people from a federal law-making power and from being counted in the population. So complete was the exclusion of my ...

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The Age
Closing the divide between all Australians
The Age
Aboriginal people negotiate daily the terrain between the requirements of non-Indigenous Australia and the requirements of their own communities, cultures and laws. This is not a simple task, and requires respect and support of Australian governments ...
'Soft totalitarianism?' What Rundle gets wrong about constitutional recognitionCrikey
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...ABC Message Stick

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The Age
Closing the divide between all Australians
The Age
Only through meaningful engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities can governments fully understand the tensions Aboriginal Australians face in today's society. Aboriginal people negotiate daily the terrain between the ...
'Soft totalitarianism?' What Rundle gets wrong about constitutional recognitionCrikey
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this ...ABC Message Stick

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Subaru pulls TV ad deemed “highly offensive” to indigenous Australians
SmartCompany.com.au
Subaru Australia has pulled a television advertisement after the advertising watchdog found it would be likely to offend people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. The Advertising Standards Board ruled an ad promoting the company's new ...

Subaru pulls TV ad deemed “highly offensive” to indigenous Australians
SmartCompany.com.au
Subaru Australia has pulled a television advertisement after the advertising watchdog found it would be likely to offend people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. The Advertising Standards Board ruled an ad promoting the company's new ...

Abbott sparks anger on Aboriginal “lifestyle choices”
InDaily
Canberra | Senior government ministers have come to the defence of Tony Abbott after the prime minister suggested indigenous Australians were making “lifestyle choices” to live in remote communities. Abbott is resisting Opposition calls he apologise ...

Abbott sparks anger on Aboriginal “lifestyle choices”
InDaily
Canberra | Senior government ministers have come to the defence of Tony Abbott after the prime minister suggested indigenous Australians were making “lifestyle choices” to live in remote communities. Abbott is resisting Opposition calls he apologise ...

Briggs plans to widen AFL's indigenous engagement
ABC Local
... Briggs has been appointed the inaugural Chair of the AFL Indigenous Advisory Group. Briggs told ABC Goulburn Murray's Joseph Thomsen that he is honoured by the opportunity to help determine the future of indigenous engagement across Australia.

Briggs plans to widen AFL's indigenous engagement
ABC Local
... Briggs has been appointed the inaugural Chair of the AFL Indigenous Advisory Group. Briggs told ABC Goulburn Murray's Joseph Thomsen that he is honoured by the opportunity to help determine the future of indigenous engagement across Australia.

BBC News
Australia's remote indigenous communities fear closure
BBC News
Derby Aboriginal elder Lorna Hudson was a child when government authorities in the 1960s moved her people from tiny Sunday Island off the remote north-west coast of Western Australia to the mainland. For a time most of the Sunday Island "saltwater" ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Tony Abbott's lifestyle comments highlight the lack of policy in Aboriginal ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The Prime Minister's comments in Kalgoorlie on the "closing" of 150 Aboriginal communities have been rightly rejected by many. It is not just that the comments reflect Tony Abbott's worldview – which belongs in a time capsule of Australian political ...
Of three remote communities here, why are only the two Aboriginal ones under ...The Guardian
Outcry as Australia PM calls Aboriginal communities 'lifestyle choice'Yahoo7 News
Australia PM Tony Abbott Under Fire For Remarks On Aborigines 'Lifestyle Choice'International Business Times AU
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International Business Times UK
Western Australia Home Burglary Bill will put 'even more Indigenous children ...
International Business Times UK
The Western Australia (WA) state is trying to implement an anti-burglary bill that will target youths, particularly indigenous ones, Amnesty has warned. According to the rights group, indigenous young people are already 58 times more likely to go to ...