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Sydney Morning Herald
Small-town legends
Sydney Morning Herald
In his script, Australia had become a republic and elected an Aboriginal president (this was one year before Barack Obama became President of the United States). ''Odin's grandfather was telling him the story of his family, it was from the future ...

Once again, Australia is stealing Its indigenous children
The Ecologist
Australia is still stealing Aboriginal children from their families, reports John Pilger. The 'lost generation' policies were meant to have ended in 1969, but a new wave of child thefts is under way - 2013 figures show that 13,914 Aboriginal children ...

Once again, Australia is stealing Its indigenous children
The Ecologist
Australia is still stealing Aboriginal children from their families, reports John Pilger. The 'lost generation' policies were meant to have ended in 1969, but a new wave of child thefts is under way - 2013 figures show that 13,914 Aboriginal children ...

Gold Coast: History at the heart of a proud culture
New Zealand Herald
She says that visitors from overseas and elsewhere in Australia love it but the thing which gives her most pleasure is when school groups and even groups of elderly arrive, with Aboriginal people among them. "I always say that there's no such thing as ...

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Racist fight has its Goodes and bads
Herald Sun
BLOG WITH ANDREW BOLT. Last weekend he went further, and said our Constitution — Australia's founding legal document — was “very, very racist towards indigenous people”. “In Section 25 in the Constitution, the states can ban people from voting based ...

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Racist fight has its Goodes and bads
Herald Sun
Goodes last month denounced Australia as a country with a “very dark past, a brutal history of dispossession”, attacking “Europeans, and the governments that have run our country” for having “raped, killed and stolen” from Aborigines. BLOG WITH ANDREW ...

A wealth of stories and lessons – from the Lowitja Institute's recent CQI ...
Crikey (blog)
These are a significant public health issue for Indigenous Australians, with rates of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis three times, 30 times and six times higher respectively than for non-Indigenous Australians. Associate Professor Barbara Nattabi ...

A wealth of stories and lessons – from the Lowitja Institute's recent CQI ...
Crikey (blog)
These are a significant public health issue for Indigenous Australians, with rates of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis three times, 30 times and six times higher respectively than for non-Indigenous Australians. Associate Professor Barbara Nattabi ...

Humanism, writ large at the Adelaide Biennial
The Australian
This is not an allusion to the culture of his city but to the history of Australia and the sense that there are still, within the national psyche, unhealed wounds that go back to the days of the convicts and early interaction with the Aborigines. One ...

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Racism on the rise in Australia: migrants report cultural shift
Illawarra Mercury
''I gave my first ever presentation in sociology about the Appin massacre of the D'harawal people and the discussion turned to how did I get into uni,'' he says. ''It really cut to the bone - I didn't get into university because I was Aboriginal. I ...
Racism on the rise in AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Are Australians more racist than ever?Daily Life

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SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Macedon Ranges Weekly - Sunbury Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Macedon Ranges Weekly - Sunbury Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Frankston weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Frankston weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Maribyrnong Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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SPECIAL: Unearthing indigenous fashion
Macedon Ranges Weekly - Sunbury Weekly
When Australian Indigenous Fashion Week makes its debut in Sydney this week, it will be the first event of its kind – with a familiar face flying the flag. Samantha Harris, just the second indigenous model to grace the cover of Australian Vogue since ...

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Private schools' funding increase double that of public
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
PRIVATE schools across Australia got double the funding increase public schools got between 2009 and 2012, an analysis of MySchool data by the education union has found. The analysis by the Australian Education Union showed state and ... "We know that ...

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Daily Star
Kate Middleton and William to try for baby number two on Australia and New ...
Daily Star
Owner James Bailie refused to comment. But royal sources confirmed they are spending a “private evening” at Uluru – sparking speculation they could try for another baby. Karena Noble of Voyages Indigenous Tourism which runs another resort nearby, said ...

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Daily Life
Are Australians more racist than ever?
Daily Life
The government has sought to water down the act after conservative commentator Andrew Bolt was found to have broken the law in an article about ''fair-skinned Aboriginals''. When Attorney-General George Brandis defended the proposed changes by ...

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Aboriginal Artist Beautifies the Australian Bush Country
Ketchum Keystone -- An e-newspaper for the greater Ketchum Idaho community
Cumpston studied fine arts, specializing in photography, at the University of South Australia. She has worked as a photographic lecturer at Tauondi Aboriginal Community College, Port Adelaide, as well as at the University of South Australia. She wrote ...