New Indigenous hub aims to boost entrepreneurs

[Sandra Fulloon, SBS]

Almost 12,000 contracts worth more than $1.8bn have been filled by Indigenous business since 2015, under the Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP).

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The massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront

[Lorena Allam and Nick Evershed, The Guardian]

The stories of “the killing times” are the ones we have heard in secret, or told in hushed tones.

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Idenity politics vs liberalism

[by Jacob Connop]

The continuous reference to the “socialist” Australian Labor Party, their values and historical faults was also somewhat contradictory in the context of Warren Mundine, given he was a member for 25 years and national president of the party. There was a sheer sense hypocrisy among the panel. 

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Young Indigenous achievers strive for bright future

[by Griffith Thomas]

More than 200 students from 33 schools across the region, including Ipswich, Brisbane and Logan, were awarded scholarships from the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Foundation (QATSIF) before a packed University of Southern Queensland (USQ) auditorium.

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