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Saturday recap : Aboriginal Community

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Tempers flare over Australia Day ad featuring hijab-wearing girls - But for many people, particularly in the Aboriginal community, Australia's most disadvantaged group, it is known as “Invasion Day”, when colonial ...

Why You Should Be Having A Lot More Sex - The act of penetrative sex has evolved over millions of years as a mechanism to deliver sperm to eggs and initiate pregnancy. But there's more to sex ...

Our 2017 Australians of the Year and their cherished objects - This is the third time that the National Museum and the National Australia Day ... The Northern Territory's Australian of the Year, indigenous leader and ...

Indigenous bright sparks learn about science - This week, a group of 35 indigenous Year 10 and 11 students has travelled to Adelaide from regional and rural areas to learn the science behind their ...

Aboriginal representation in comic books and capes - Growing up, I was a huge comic book fan, but I often wondered why there weren't many Aboriginal comic book heroes (or villains). I knew of Gateway ...

Blood cancer death rates on rise in Aust - With a quarter of the Australian population estimated to be aged 65 years or older by the turn of the next century, this trend is very concerning for the ...

ALGA explores East Melbourne's glorious queer history - Ever done one of the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives History Walks? If not, you haven't lived! Find out more about this town's queer past with ...

Sydney calling! Why Mardi Gras is a must-do for 2017 - An event that captivates Australia and reverberates around the world, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade sees 10,000 people take to the ...

Brisbane gets steamy with third annual Melt Festival - Now in its third year, the festival is becoming one of Australia's top LGBTI festivals, falling between Melbourne's Midsumma and the Sydney Mardi Gras ...

90 per cent of LGBTI Australians against marriage bill if it includes discrimination clause - According to a large-scale new survey, members of the Australian LGBTI community have rejected proposals to legalise marriage equality this year if it ...

An enticing future of poverty and slavery - In Australia , our two richest individuals, Gina Rinehart and Harry Triguboff, own more than the poorest 20 per cent, while the wealthiest 1 per cent of ...

How to Teach Children About Poverty - How to Teach Children About Poverty . We all want our children to grow up as healthy, well-balanced individuals who have understanding and ...

The Debate Over Legalizing Assisted Suicide Scares Me - She also mourns the legalization of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia in Australia . “No doubt one of the key ideas will be the notion that we ...

Scientists Have Reconstructed The Extinct Tasmanian Tiger's Brain - A team of Australian and US scientists have, for the first time, used an ... scan two thylacine brain specimens, both of which were about 100 years old .

Vale Yosl Bergner- artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes - The two paintings above, both held by the National Gallery of Victoria, illustrate sharply the distinctive eye he brought to Australian history. While the friends and relatives he had left behind were dying in Nazi concentration camps, Yosl Bergner showed Australians that they too were creating a Holocaust.  

More than $100000 raised to reinstate Australia Day billboard with Muslim girls, but not all are happy - the campaign's alignment with Australia Day and the message that sends to Aboriginal Australians on what is a day of grieving and protest for them.

Australia names first indigenous minister -  Australia on Wednesday appointed its first indigenous minister, a former labourer who has credited education for his rise from humble ...

CIA documents: US feared 'racial tensions' over Maori land claims - But a document dated July 3, 1984 entitled 'New Zealand: Muldoon Goes to the Polls', claims Mr Lange's public statements differed from his private thoughts. "Lange has privately assured US officials that he is personally satisfied that nuclear propulsion is safe and that his reservations are centred on nuclear weaponry," the briefing says. It also claims senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials said "some sort of compromise" could be reached over future ship visits.