Campaign to locate First Nations people racially profiled by Coles Express

[supplied by Levitt Robinson]

High profile human rights lawyer Stewart Levitt is calling on Indigenous Australians who have been racially profiled by Coles Express Service Stations to come forward.

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Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters will showcase overseas

[by Diana Streak]

“There has never been an Australian exhibition of this scale and significance to travel extensively to premier galleries across the world”, said artist Alison Page, a member of both the National Museum’s Indigenous Reference Group and the federal government’s Senior Advisory Group.

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Indigenous community in FNQ says euthanasia against Aboriginal culture

[Mark Bowling, The Catholic Leader]

“The way I came to understand it is that there is a seasonality to life which indigenous people accept as part of their tradition, and death is not so hidden away or removed as it is in the rest of society,” Bishop Harris said.

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Djab Wurrung people win temporary work stoppage on Western Highway

[Sarah Jane Bell and Sian Johnson, ABC]

Djab Wurrung woman Marjorie Thorpe is fighting the State Government over the protection of culturally significant land between Buangor and Ararat that stands in the path of the roadworks.

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