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| UpdatedThe State Government and some Aboriginal groups reject a push for a separate Upper House electorate for Tasmania's Indigenous community.
Topics: government-and-politics, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, launceston-7250, tas
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The trust that operates Sydney's sprawling Botany Cemetery negotiates a deal that will allow the park to expand onto land significant to Aboriginal people.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, botany-2019, nsw
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory's Assistant Minister for Remote Housing declines to join his colleagues in a press conference promoting government spending on housing in the bush.
Topics: housing, aboriginal, hermannsburg-0872, nt
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| UpdatedManingrida is a remote community living with heartbreak and shame, as the Department of Territory Families continues to remove Aboriginal children at a rate almost 10 times higher than non-Indigenous children.
Topics: community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, stolen-generations, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, maningrida-0822
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Playing basketball might be the key to more Indigenous students obtaining their Certificate of Education, with a South Australian school establishing a sports program which is enticing students to come to class.
Topics: education, secondary, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, woodville-5011, adelaide-5000, sa
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The push for Tasmania's own Aboriginal reconciliation council is welcomed as a step towards "black and white coming together", but not all see the move as necessary.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, indigenous-protocols, indigenous-culture, government-and-politics, tas
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| UpdatedThe "crisis of violence in Aboriginal families" must stop with the current teenage generation, says a judge who has sentenced a young man for murdering his girlfriend.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, port-augusta-5700, yalata-5690, sa, australia
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The Opposition demands to know what led to an error that has caused construction on the Western Highway duplication in the state's west to halt.
Topics: road-transport, environmental-impact, environmental-management, aboriginal, ballarat-3350, buangor-3375, ararat-3377
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A South Australian woman who was taken away from her Indigenous family as a child and moved between foster care homes hopes to establish a refuge for youth that embraces Aboriginal culture.
Topics: aboriginal, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, adelaide-5000, sa
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Ngadjuri and Nukunu Traditional Owners speaking at the unveiling of the world's first wind towers featuring indigenous art at Hornsdale Wind Farm.
Topics: wind-energy, aboriginal, jamestown-5491
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| UpdatedThe Hornsdale wind farm has murals on two towers that tell of the connection the land has to the indigenous people of the region.
Topics: wind-energy, aboriginal, community-development, jamestown-5491
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| UpdatedThe Indigenous Aurukun primary school run in partnership with Noel Pearson's Good to Great Schools organisation routinely overstated enrolments because there was a misunderstanding of policy, netting up to $815,000 in extra payments, a report finds.
Topics: education, access-to-education, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, aboriginal, activism-and-lobbying, schools, public-sector, aurukun-4871, qld, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000
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Linguist Professor Nicholas Evans, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, spoke to Zara Margolis about the program.
Topics: aboriginal, aboriginal-language, gununa-4871
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| UpdatedA unique partnership between a linguist, an app designer and a remote Aboriginal community is helping to ensure the survival of a rare Indigenous language.
Topics: aboriginal, aboriginal-language, internet-culture, information-and-communication, languages, university-and-further-education, research, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, gununa-4871
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory Government is failing to follow its own laws that recommend at-risk Indigenous children be placed within their families and communities as a priority, Yingiya Mark Guyula says.
Topics: aboriginal, child-abuse, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nt
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Building places of healing and setting up new community programs could be the next wave of support for the Stolen Generations in South Australia, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher says.
Topics: stolen-generations, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, adelaide-5000, sa
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Emergency accommodation is being erected in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for about 80 residents from the remote Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjara who have been stranded due to widespread flooding.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, emergency-incidents, floods, weather, housing, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, community-and-society, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432