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Art Guide Australia
Looking beyond the Myall Creek Massacre
Art Guide Australia
This exhibition is comprised of mainly new commissions by Indigenous artists from across Australia. “I looked for Indigenous artists who are really creating a dialogue around massacres and histories in both historical and in contemporary contexts who ...

ABC News
Aboriginal map of Lake Eyre Basin, an area twice the size of France, released after 12 years in the making
ABC News
An Aboriginal map detailing significant cultural information has been released for the Lake Eyre Basin, which spans 1.2 million square kilometres across inland Australia — almost one-sixth of the country. The map, which took 12 years to make, features ...

ABC News
Jigija Indigenous fire training attracts remote firefighters from thousands of kilometres away
ABC News
Firefighters are travelling thousands of kilometres to one of Australia's most remote roadhouses to hone their fire-management skills. Indigenous rangers in Queensland's gulf country have been combining traditional burning methods with modern science ...

Daily Telegraph
How Pat Corrigan gives away one of Australia's great art collections
Daily Telegraph
Corrigan, who made his fortune in freight after starting Corrigans Express in 1965, has long held a special position in Australia's art community as an avid collector, generous philanthropist and tireless promoter of Australian indigenous and ...

The Australian
'Unsatisfied anger' could become armed struggle, says Mick Dodson
The Australian
Simmering anger in indigenous Australia over a failure to make good for past wrongs could easily turn into organised armed resistance, Aboriginal academic Mick Dodson has warned. In launching a new thriller by former journalist and political staffer ...

The Australian
'Unsatisfied anger' could become armed struggle, says Mick Dodson
The Australian
Simmering anger in indigenous Australia over a failure to make good for past wrongs could easily turn into organised armed resistance, Aboriginal academic Mick Dodson has warned. In launching a new thriller by former journalist and political staffer ...

Courier Mail
UQ to take native food to the world with $3.5m grant for centre
Courier Mail
The University of Queensland will today receive a $3.5 million federal grant to create a training centre to teach local agribusiness and food producers how to take indigenous and uniquely Australian food from the bush to dinner plates around the world.

The Advertiser
Aboriginal elders want inquiry after man's life support turned off at RAH before father could arrive from APY Lands
The Advertiser
ABORIGINAL elders from South Australia's Far North are demanding an investigation into the “unauthorised” removal of life support from one of their community at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. APY Council of Elders spokesman George Kenmore says ...

The Age
Tracking down and recording Australia's first languages a life's work
The Age
In the stores of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Canberra sit precious recordings of Victorian Aboriginal songs and language. They were taped on the machines of the 1960s by linguist-ethnographer Luise Hercus.

ABC News
Peter Macdonald, heart transplant pioneer, helping close the Indigenous life-expectancy gap
ABC News
"They are seriously disadvantaged and, as you know, we've got this awful gap in life expectancy between the Aboriginal community and non-Indigenous Australians. "What I do coming out here won't solve this problem but at least it's something. It's an ...

ABC News
Peter Macdonald, heart transplant pioneer, helping close the Indigenous life-expectancy gap
ABC News
"They are seriously disadvantaged and, as you know, we've got this awful gap in life expectancy between the Aboriginal community and non-Indigenous Australians. "What I do coming out here won't solve this problem but at least it's something. It's an ...

UNSW Newsroom
Champions of Indigenous recognition to feature in Mason Conversation
UNSW Newsroom
“The 2018 Mason Conversation is the opportunity to hear from these two inspiring Aboriginal women from different generations and backgrounds, about this landmark process in Australian law and politics, and the personal journey that brought them to be ...

UNSW Newsroom
Champions of Indigenous recognition to feature in Mason Conversation
UNSW Newsroom
“The 2018 Mason Conversation is the opportunity to hear from these two inspiring Aboriginal women from different generations and backgrounds, about this landmark process in Australian law and politics, and the personal journey that brought them to be ...

ABC News
Unpaid domestic violence leave comes into effect across Australia
ABC News
In Alice Springs, the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress (CAAC) has offered employees paid domestic violence leave since December 2017. General manager of health services Tracey Brand said the new legislation fell short of what she thought would ...
New work change to affect millions of AussiesQueensland Times

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ABC News
Unpaid domestic violence leave comes into effect across Australia
ABC News
In Australia, one in three women will be affected by domestic violence, with Indigenous women disproportionately impacted. Indigenous women and girls are 32 times more likely to be hospitalised from family violence than the rest of the population.
Millions of Australians now eligible for domestic violence leaveHRM Asia

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The Conversation AU
'Digital land rights': co-designing technologies with Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
For the last 248 years, Indigenous Australians have experienced disruption and disadvantage as a result of colonisation. Now with the advent of the internet, the same structures that keep Indigenous people marginalised and isolated in the real world ...

The Conversation AU
'Digital land rights': co-designing technologies with Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
For the last 248 years, Indigenous Australians have experienced disruption and disadvantage as a result of colonisation. Now with the advent of the internet, the same structures that keep Indigenous people marginalised and isolated in the real world ...

The Australian
Noumea, Broome dancers explore independence movements
The Australian
The dancers in Le Dernier Appel come from a range of backgrounds, including indigenous Australian, Kanak from New Caledonia, Vietnamese and Indonesian. The performers bring with them their personal stories, experiences and their own dance styles, ...

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The Weekly Times
Australian Native Food and Botanicals: Amanda Garner raising interest in native foods
The Weekly Times
One couple who have pledged to put Aboriginal communities before their own profit is Gayle and Mike Quarmby, of indigenous plant, fruit and vegetable business Outback Pride in South Australia's Reedy Creek, 100km west of the Victorian border.

The Weekly Times
Australian Native Food and Botanicals: Amanda Garner raising interest in native foods
The Weekly Times
The organisation was established about a decade ago by Vic Cherikoff — regarded as a pioneer of the native Australian food industry — Chris Reid of Tasmanian native mountain pepper business Diemen Pepper, and a handful of others to develop native ...