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Faces of Indigenous heroes celebrated in new photo exhibition

Photographer Sunny Brar decided to embark on a self-funded project to capture ‘the face of Australia’ in order to find his own identity. The starting point? First...
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New program boosts Indigenous army recruits

Education is a huge barrier to Indigenous Australian soldiers moving up the ranks, but a successful NT program is boosting numbers.
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Plan for Indigenous people to watch cops

A program designed to teach Indigenous communities to film and share potential police misconduct is almost halfway to its fundraising goal.
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Department apologises for document calling people 'monkeys'

The Queensland housing department has apologised over an inappropriate training manual titled "Monkey Management", with the minister saying it was insensitive.
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NT youth justice system's ‘recipe for failure’: BushMob closes as Don Dale detainees in high security rises

The same week the NT's only remote youth detention alternative BushMob shuts down citing government inaction; it has transpired that more children are currently...
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Racism puts Indigenous kids at abuse risk, while culture protects them, royal commission finds

Systemic racism has contributed to a heightened risk of Aboriginal children being sexually abused in institutions, research has found.
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Racism scandal: MP suspended after using the N word at public meeting

British MP suspended after uttering an offensive phrase at a community meeting about Brexit.

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Indigenous voice key to education progress

Aboriginal educational disadvantage will only be addressed with the full participation of indigenous people, from the national level down to individual schools, a...
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Intensive correction orders could curb Indigenous incarceration dramatically

The number of Indigenous people serving short prison sentences in NSW could be cut by 500 a year if offenders were placed on intensive correction orders (ICO)...
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Tongue plays footy with Don Dale inmates

There's many different Aboriginal languages spoken in the Northern Territory's youth prisons, but one common language they all understand is footy.
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Is your summer barbecue eating up Indigenous forests in South America?

A new report reveals many brands of charcoal are concealing the fact they are produced from the forest home of Indigenous Paraguayan groups.
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Queensland Indigenous War Memorial design unveiled

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicemen and women will be officially recognised with a dedicated memorial in Brisbane’s ANZAC Square, for the first time...
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From lateral violence to lateral love: the online project restoring pride to Yarrabah

In a community often associated with crime and dysfunction, a social media project profiling the characters of Yarrabah is promoting pride and positivity.
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If you want to keep failing, keep talking to remote communities in English

Comment: 'Itne arratye angketyakenhe': ‘They don't talk right'. How does language continue to influence those who already have such rich, spiritual and cultural...
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Police officer stabbed during arrest

A police officer allegedly received non-life threatening injuries while arresting an Indigenous teenager in the Northern Territory.
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Qantas asked Aboriginal artist to work for free during NAIDOC week

Qantas has been accused of trying to pay an artist in "exposure" and displaying a lack of cultural awareness around Indigenous language and totems.
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NAIDOC 2017 Artist of the Year Elverina Johnson believes in the power of art

Highly respected Gungganji Gurugulu and Yidindji Gimuy woman Elverina Johnson is the 2017 NAIDOC Artist of the Year.
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'Injustice system': human rights groups call for Australia-wide overhaul of juvenile justice

Three incidents of child abuse in one week have triggered an outcry from human rights groups.
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Dylan Voller ‘shocked’ to discover his confidential files were in cabinets for sale dumped at Alice Springs tip

Files containing the confidential information of 33 clients were discovered up for sale at the Alice Springs recycling centre following a ‘messy’ refurbishment of...
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'I thought who's gonna look after these kids now?' camps bring hope after tragedy

When Gwenneth Yeatman lost her brother to suicide, she could've despaired, but instead, she decided to start something positive.
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Map starts to reveals true extent of massacres of Indigenous Australians by Europeans

Interactive map reveals the location of more than 150 European massacres of Indigenous Australians.
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NT indigenous life expectancy rises for women, decreases for men

the gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal people and other Australians living in the NT declined by nearly five years for women, but increased by one year...
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Poisoned water in remote WA causing kidney diseases

Bore water in parts of Western Australia is contaminated with arsenic, uranium and nitrates, according to a report presented to state ministers on Thursday.
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Politics of Death: 'Am I next?' Deadly waiting game for Honduras land activists

Every night, land rights activist Felipe Benitez and his wife wedge shut the doors and windows of their home and pray gunmen do not break in to kill the entire...
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Are dingoes dangerous or just misunderstood?

These animal rescue experts believe it's the latter.
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Indigenous and religious leaders demand rainforests be saved at Norway conference

Religious and Indigenous leaders have called for an end to deforestation in the first international multi-faith, multicultural plea to reduce greenhouse gas...
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Mexico's native crops hold key to food security, says ecologist

A return to first nations crops could hold the key to defeating looming crop shortages caused by climate change, argues one scientist.
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Work begins in NT on world's biggest cat-proof fence

There are high hopes an ambitious project to fence off a huge area in the NT will see the creation of the largest feral cat free enclosure ever created.
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Amazon protectors: Brazil's Indigenous people struggle to stave off loggers

Inside Brazil's Indigenous Reserve 124, Chief Geraldo Apurina walks along a muddy footpath, past towering trees as yet untouched by Amazon loggers. Much of the...
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How old mattresses are bringing new life to remote communities

"From what I hear, some of the communitites, they got scabbies out there, or they're sleeping on the floor. It might be recycled mattresses, but they're cleaned...
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Federal Government pledges $30 million for Indigenous rangers

In a move that highlights increasing recognition for the role Aboriginal land management plays in protecting endangered species and eco-systems, the government...
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Indigenous rangers in the Kimberley are helping save the bilbies

The bilby is one of the most critically endangered native animals in Australia their numbers have dramatically reduced since European settlement now the finally...
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US won't budge on climate change despite Indigenous groups and Arctic nations' pleas

Indigenous groups and Arctic nations have renewed calls for the world to address climate warming, but US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says his country will...
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Brazil prosecutors demand crackdown on illegal gold mining in Amazon's 'El Dorado'

Thousands of miners are descending on the Amazon in the hopes of striking it rich and are destroying the rainforest in the process.