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The Australian
Pathways to indigenous empowerment
The Australian
DESPITE a decade of ever more concerted interventions across remote Aboriginal Australia, there has been little change in the landscape of the bush communities. Indigenous men and women know the truth; outsiders with clear eyes can see it as well.
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...The Guardian

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The Australian
Arthur Boyd's Bride series explores issues beyond indigenous affairs
The Australian
After all, the series is the one with which Boyd established himself as one of the handful of defining Australian painters of the postwar years, and it is one whose originality and evocative power was never surpassed and perhaps not equalled in his ...

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The Australian
Arthur Boyd's Bride series explores issues beyond indigenous affairs
The Australian
After all, the series is the one with which Boyd established himself as one of the handful of defining Australian painters of the postwar years, and it is one whose originality and evocative power was never surpassed and perhaps not equalled in his ...
Arthur Boyd's Brides paintings reunited at Melbourne's Heide MuseumBrisbane Times

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The Guardian
Recognition for Indigenous Australians is not like the republic. We need a ...
The Guardian
High profile Australians supportive of positive change have put their hand up to support the concept. Organisations such as Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (Antar), Reconciliation Australia and the National Congress of Australia's First ...

NEWS.com.au
Why we're among worst of the worst
NEWS.com.au
The government's decision to establish an indigenous advisory council while defending the Congress of Australia's First Peoples was also criticised as was the high numbers of indigenous people in jail. “While some health and socio-economic indicators ...
The reasons Australia is sharing a Human Rights Watch list with Syria, China ...9news.com.au

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The Stringer
In Australia, there is the Aboriginal rights struggle
The Stringer
In Australia there is no greater rights struggle than the Aboriginal rights struggle. It is a human rights struggle where not only the First Peoples of this continent were violently and murderously dispossessed of their lands but since the advent of ...

Australia Slammed for Human Rights Failings
Pro Bono Australia
“While Indigenous Australians account for only three per cent of Australia's population, they account for 27 per cent of Australia's prison population. In part because they are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system, Indigenous ...
Our human rights rating undermined by refugee treatmentRockhampton Morning Bulletin

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9news.com.au
The reasons Australia is sharing a Human Rights Watch list with Syria, China ...
9news.com.au
Along with the country's treatment of asylum seekers, Indigenous Australians and same-sex citizens, the strict new anti-terror laws were enough to land Australia on the list from Human Rights Watch alongside nations such as Syria, China and Cuba. The ...
Australia Slammed for Human Rights FailingsPro Bono Australia
Our shame: Why we're among worst of the worstNEWS.com.au

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Haaretz
Aboriginal leader identifies with Jewish suffering on Holocaust Day
Haaretz
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Jews from the Auschwitz death camp, the chairman of Australia's first and largest community-controlled Aboriginal health service expressed his people's identification with "the injustice ...

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The Guardian
Australia's treatment of asylum seekers 'diminishes human rights record'
The Guardian
Australia's global reputation as a defender of human rights is being undermined by its continued “harsh” treatment of asylum seekers, persistently high Indigenous incarceration rates, and “draconian” new anti-terrorism laws that restrict citizens ...

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Indigenous Australians Face Poor Housing Conditions
teleSUR English
Indigenous Australians continue to face poor housing conditions and overcrowding, according to a report released Tuesday. The latest report on housing conditions from Australia's Productivity Commission found over 34 percent of Aboriginal and Torres ...

MAJOR INDIGENOUS EXHIBITION AT BRITISH MUSEUM
Aboriginal Art Directory News
The Australian National Museum and the British Museum are joining forces to present one of the most important exhibitions of Indigenous Australian art and artefacts ever staged. 'Enduring Civilisation', as it's called, will open in London in April and ...

Holocaust anniversary acknowledged by Aboriginal community
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
The service is Australia's first and largest community-controlled Aboriginal facility of this kind. Chairman of the Aboriginal Medical Service Redfern, Sol Bellear said Aboriginal Australians have always felt strongly about the injustice wrought on the ...

The Guardian
Indigenous use of aged care services far less than that of wider population
The Guardian
Indigenous Australians typically require aged care facilities earlier due to higher rates of disability and chronic disease. Because of this, the commission collects data for Indigenous people in aged care from the age of 50, which is 15 years lower ...

Auction house owns studio and runs indigenous 'alliance'
The Australian
The company, Arthouse Auctions, has collected millions of dollars from at least 80 sales around Australia since 2011, including over $90,000 from canvases that experts allege are fakes, online records show. At least 10 Aboriginal artists are embroiled ...

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Auction house owns studio and runs indigenous 'alliance'
The Australian
The company, Arthouse Auctions, has collected millions of dollars from at least 80 sales around Australia since 2011, including over $90,000 from canvases that experts allege are fakes, online records show. At least 10 Aboriginal artists are embroiled ...

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Members of the Freedom Movement have announced they'll return to Canberra when Federal parliament resumes next month. Yesterday, hundreds of the movement's supporters marched from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy past police to stage a sit-in at Parliament House. Freedom Movement delegate Michael Anderson (pictured) says the Aboriginal rights struggle has a new lease of life. Mr Anderson says they'll commence another rally on February 9 when politicians return to the nation's capital.

Indigenous youth 24 times as likely to be locked up, research shows
The Australian (blog)
The Northern Territory was next, locking up young indigenous people at a rate of 397 per 100,000, followed by the ACT on 389, NSW on 376, South Australia on 337, then Queensland on 299. In contrast, the detention rate for Aboriginal youth in Victoria ...

Business Engagement With Indigenous Aussies Soaring
Pro Bono Australia
The Business Council of Australia's 2014 Indigenous Engagement Survey Report found that while employment remains a focus, more companies are involved in a broad range of activities, including cadetships, microfinance, and setting up joint ventures with ...

A Corporate Future for Reconciliation
Pro Bono Australia
Increasingly, Australian corporations are formalising their commitments to indigenous Australians through Reconciliation Action Plans (RAP) - public statements made by the organisation outlining the actions it will undertake, within its sphere of ...