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Charles Darwin University
Indigenous visionary to deliver Lingiari lecture
Charles Darwin University
A nationally acclaimed Indigenous educator encouraging students to break negative stereotypes will deliver the 13th annual Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture at Charles Darwin University next week. Stronger Smarter Institute Executive Director, Dr Chris ...

Gooda backs racial vilification law push
The Australian
... lateral violence have a profound impact not only on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples families, “communities, organisations and other decision making practices, but also on culturally and linguistically diverse communities throughout ...
Don't weaken discrimination laws: National CongressSBS

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Changing landscape of Aboriginal and green politics
ABC Message Stick
Since James Price Point, just north of Broome in northern Western Australia, was selected as the State Government's preferred location for a gas precinct, environmentalists have waged war on behalf of threatened species, dinosaur footprints and ...

Women gather for Coota Girls Home anniversary
ABC Online
Indigenous women and their families from across Australia have started arriving in the New South Wales Riverina for the centenary of the Cootamundra Girls Home. Hundreds of girls were forcibly taken from their families and placed at the Cootamundra ...

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Industry icons to mentor Indigenous chefs
Australian Hospitality Magazine
Some of Sydney's culinary greats have joined forces to create the new National Indigenous Culinary Institute, including Neil Perry, Guillaume Brahimi and Catalina's Michael McMahon. Strengthened by the support of Barry McDonald of Fratelli Fresh, as ...

Women gather for Coota Girls Home anniversary
ABC Local
Indigenous women and their families from across Australia have started arriving in the Riverina for the centenary of the Cootamundra Girls Home. Hundreds of girls were forcibly taken from their families and placed at the Cootamundra Domestic Training ...

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Swamp of politics is no place for a toad
WA today (blog)
Peter Collier, Western Australian Minister for Education, Energy and Indigenous Affairs. A cane toad replies: Dear Mr Collier, It has come to my notice that you have likened my and my fellow toads' credibility to that of the Prime Minister of this country.

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Swamp of politics is no place for a toad
Sydney Morning Herald (blog)
Peter Collier, Western Australian Minister for Education, Energy and Indigenous Affairs. A cane toad replies: Dear Mr Collier, It has come to my notice that you have likened my and my fellow toads' credibility to that of the Prime Minister of this country.

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National Post
Facebook in breach of local laws, says rights watchdog
The Australian
Typical of content posted on the original site were pictures of indigenous Australians bearing racist and denigrating captions. "Car Robbery It rhymes with our word for celebration (corroborree)" read one. Another carried the words: "My land Liquorland ...
'Aboriginal Memes' Facebook Page Deemed Racist In Australia; Social Network ...Huffington Post
Will Facebook kill anti-Aboriginal pages? NoCNET
Facebook racial hate page 'taken down'SBS
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Sydney Morning Herald
Abbott call on racial slur blasted
Sydney Morning Herald
AN indigenous leader has called for racial vilification to be a criminal offence under federal law. Les Malezer, the co-chairman of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, also accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of ''exploiting ...

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Eureka Street
MOVIE REVIEW: The Sapphires
Newcastle Herald
Based loosely on fact, the script by Briggs and Keith Thompson centres on Australia's first indigenous girl group – three sisters and a cousin from the Cummeragunja Mission – who get their big break when they're invited to entertain American troops ...
Sapphire in the rough gets away from IT crowdSydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal voices silence Vietnamese war storiesEureka Street
All eyes on little Aussie sparklerThe Age

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National Post
Facebook takes down controversial page that mocked Australian Aborigines
National Post
CANBERRA, Australia — Facebook took down a page that insults Australian Aborigines after the government accused the social networking company of using its U.S. base to avoid Australian anti-discrimination laws. The Aboriginal Memes Facebook page ...

Too many indigenous in juvenile justice
Ninemsn
A new study by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) said the figures meant that on an average day in 2010-11, indigenous people aged 10-17 were 24 times more likely to be in detention than non-indigenous people in the same age group.

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Too many indigenous in juvenile justice
Ninemsn
A new study by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) said the figures meant that on an average day in 2010-11, indigenous people aged 10-17 were 24 times more likely to be in detention than non-indigenous people in the same age group.

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Telegraph.co.uk
Facebook row over page depicting Aborigines as drunks and welfare cheats
Telegraph.co.uk
The "Aboriginal Memes" Facebook page has created a furor in Australia this week with its depictions of indigenous Australians as drunks and welfare cheats. Australia's media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, is investigating ...

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Facebook pressured to remove page deemed racist
The Associated Press
The Aboriginal Memes Facebook page has created a furor in Australia this week with its depictions of indigenous Australians as drunks and welfare cheats. Australia's media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, is investigating ...

The Age
Abbott call on racial slur blasted
The Age
AN indigenous leader has called for racial vilification to be a criminal offence under federal law. Les Malezer, the co-chairman of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, also accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of ''exploiting ...

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Facebook faces calls to remove page
The Press Association
The government has accused the social networking company of using its US base to avoid Australian anti-discrimination laws. The Aboriginal Memes Facebook page has created a furore in Australia this week with its depictions of indigenous Australians as ...

Activists do no favours for Aboriginal community
The Australian
ONLY an Aborigine with the standing of Bess Price could expose the do-gooders and activists who now surround and suffocate Aboriginal advancement in Australia ("Amnesty a racist organisation: Price", 9/8). As she clearly shows, Aborigines are well able ...

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In a white rage at black distress
The Australian
Yet in the universities and television studios of the coastal cities, Aboriginal activists have focused on their own feelings. Last year, nine "fair-skinned Aboriginal people" successfully brought a class action against News Limited (publisher of The ...