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The Guardian
Aboriginal Hepatitis C rising, prompting calls for improved services
The Guardian
As rates of the disease decrease among Australians overall, Hepatitis C is three times higher and rising in Indigenous populations, according to a 2013 study by the Kirby Institute. The worsening problem is mainly due to higher rates of unsafe drug ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal Hepatitis C rising, prompting calls for improved services
The Guardian
As rates of the disease decrease among Australians overall, Hepatitis C is three times higher and rising in Indigenous populations, according to a 2013 study by the Kirby Institute. The worsening problem is mainly due to higher rates of unsafe drug ...

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Indigenous Barngarla Australians win land claim
BBC News
Australia's indigenous Barngarla people have won a campaign, lasting nearly 20 years, for the law to recognise their right to traditional lands. The native title claim over a huge tract of land in South Australia has been mostly upheld by a federal court.

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We must look to our humanity to solve the crisis of Indigenous incarceration
The Guardian
Against this background, it is very simple to impose policies for Indigenous Australians that do not signal any sense of belief in our humanity and own capacity to rise above the challenges we are confronted by. We are also mistaken if we assume that ...
Australia Day, Survival Day or Invasion Day? Why indigenous Australians can't ...Crikey
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Tas premier slates native land hand-backs9news.com.au
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Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people 'compatible' with treaty ...
ABC Online
A prominent advocate for Indigenous reconciliation in Tasmania believes recognising Aboriginal people in Australia's constitution is compatible with negotiating a treaty. Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman is considering supporting a move to "acknowledge ...

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Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people 'compatible' with treaty ...
ABC Online
A prominent advocate for Indigenous reconciliation in Tasmania believes recognising Aboriginal people in Australia's constitution is compatible with negotiating a treaty. Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman is considering supporting a move to "acknowledge ...
Friend or foe of indigenous culture? Jessica Mauboy as Australia Day poster girlDaily Review
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Friend or foe of indigenous culture? Jessica Mauboy as Australia Day poster girl
Daily Review
One of the more insidious ways in which indigenous Australian people have been colonised is through the rewriting of history. Alongside use of the more congenial term “settlement”, the common view is that Aboriginal people maintained little resistance ...
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Friend or foe of indigenous culture? Jessica Mauboy as Australia Day poster girl
Daily Review
One of the more insidious ways in which indigenous Australian people have been colonised is through the rewriting of history. Alongside use of the more congenial term “settlement”, the common view is that Aboriginal people maintained little resistance ...
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Maza said it was time the Australian theatre sector stopped viewing the world through a lens of white privilege and power; and stopped repeating old and deeply entrenched myths about Aboriginal people. 'We all are products of our upbringing, and we ...
We must look to our humanity to solve the crisis of Indigenous incarcerationThe Guardian
Aboriginal land hand-backs on Tasmanian Government's agenda, Premier Will ...ABC Online
Australia Day, Survival Day or Invasion Day? Why indigenous Australians can't ...Crikey
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Maza said it was time the Australian theatre sector stopped viewing the world through a lens of white privilege and power; and stopped repeating old and deeply entrenched myths about Aboriginal people. 'We all are products of our upbringing, and we ...

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bottom line feels heat of visitor lull
The Australian
However, Sydney businessman David Baffsky, the former chairman of the Indigenous Land Corp-owned Ayers Rock Resort, said it was difficult to understand how, at a time when tourism generally in Australia was booming, particularly inbound tourism, some ...

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elders: we aren't part of the sham
The Australian
As well, the state is accused of riding roughshod over Aboriginal groups in opening up 4WD tracks along the Tarkine coast, despite concerns about ancient indigenous midden, burial and rock-carving sites. However, as revealed in The Australian yesterday ...
Tasmanian Premier considers recognising Indigenous people as traditional ...ABC Online

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elders: we aren't part of the sham
The Australian
However, Mr Hodgman will use his Australia Day address today to seek to address areas of friction with Aboriginal groups and advance reconciliation. Last year, Aboriginal and environmental groups united to successfully defeat attempts by the Abbott ...
Tasmanian Premier considers recognising Indigenous people as traditional ...ABC Online

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bottom line feels heat of visitor lull
The Australian
However, Sydney businessman David Baffsky, the former chairman of the Indigenous Land Corp-owned Ayers Rock Resort, said it was difficult to understand how, at a time when tourism generally in Australia was booming, particularly inbound tourism, some ...

Women choosing jail to clear their debts
The Australian
A total of 42 per cent of Western Australia's jailed fine defaulters are Aboriginal, which slightly exceeds the rate of overall Aboriginal imprisonment in the state with the highest indigenous incarceration rate. The number of Aborigines going to jail ...

WA today
Australia Day an uncomfortable reminder of colonisation
WA today
Every January 26 Aboriginal people from all around Australia come to the lawn across from the old Parliament House for an annual corroboree supporting indigenous freedom, at what is arguably one of the world's longest 'occupy' sites in the world, ...

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Brisbane Times
Australia Day an uncomfortable reminder of colonisation
Brisbane Times
Every January 26 Aboriginal people from all around Australia come to the lawn across from the old Parliament House for an annual corroboree supporting indigenous freedom, at what is arguably one of the world's longest 'occupy' sites in the world, ...

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Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith gives Australia Day address
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Ben Roberts Smith acknowledged it could be a difficult day for some Indigenous Australians. “We, particularly the National Australia Day Council, understand the sensitive nature of the 26th of January to Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander community ...

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Daily Mail
Menu errors sees takeaway offer pizza featuring baked ABORIGINES... as a ...
Daily Mail
A fast food takeaway has been forced to reprint its menu after it accidentally offered its customers Aborigines as a pizza topping on its vegetarian option. The blunder happened due to a production error when somebody mistook Aborigine for aubergine ...
Takeaway offers 'ABORIGINES' as pizza topping - do you think they might have ...Mirror.co.uk
Takeaway roasted after putting "Aborigines" on veggie pizzaHalstead Gazette

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Meat company accused of racism over Australia Day ad
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An Australia Day advertisement from Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) has caused controversy for its failure to include any Indigenous Australians. The advertisement shows former Australian cricketer Richie Benaud trying to organise an Australia Day ...