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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous playwright Nakkiah Lui could be Australia's next David Williamson
The Sydney Morning Herald
The first recipient of The Dreaming Award from the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Arts Board, Lui was also the first to win the Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright's Award. In 2013, her first play at Sydney's Belvoir ...

The Australian
Art brings good fortune, but also damage to APY Lands
The Australian
An explosion of international interest in the work of artists from South Australia's remote indigenous lands has delivered an economic boon of non-welfare money while fuelling social problems as disputes driven by jealousy and gambling lead to violence ...

The Australian
Art brings good fortune, but also damage to APY Lands
The Australian
An explosion of international interest in the work of artists from South Australia's remote indigenous lands has delivered an economic boon of non-welfare money while fuelling social problems as disputes driven by jealousy and gambling lead to violence ...

University News: The University of Western Australia
Dingoes may provide clues to understanding how Australia evolved
University News: The University of Western Australia
A more precise date for the arrival of dingoes in Australia is important as it answers questions about the relationship between dingoes and Aboriginal people and the dingoes' possible contribution to the extinction of animals such as the Tasmanian ...
Dingo's arrival led to thylacine and devil extinctionsThe Australian

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The Guardian
'Finally the prime minister is here': Turnbull to visit Tennant Creek
The Guardian
... Australia reported local residents and traditional owners in Tennant Creek had urged Turnbull to visit, following their long-running struggle with social issues, a number of traumatic deaths, and poor services. Turnbull sent his minister for ...

Australian Defence Magazine
Indigenous lead for Garden Island refurb
Australian Defence Magazine
“These works are essential to ensure the RAN can safely berth and maintain its ships at Garden Island, which is the major home-port on the east coast of Australia.” “The Indigenous Procurement Policy (IPP) has supercharged the Indigenous business ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Some people in government wish we had died out, says Anita Heiss
The Sydney Morning Herald
Remarkably, debate over what happened to Indigenous Australians when this country was settled by Europeans continues to this day. Statistics on the Reconciliation Australia website show one in three Australians don't recognise the Stolen Generations.

The Sydney Morning Herald
Some people in government wish we had died out, says Anita Heiss
The Sydney Morning Herald
Remarkably, debate over what happened to Indigenous Australians when this country was settled by Europeans continues to this day. Statistics on the Reconciliation Australia website show one in three Australians don't recognise the Stolen Generations.

The Beijinger (blog)
Rare Australian Aboriginal Bark Paintings on Exhibit in Beijing
The Beijinger (blog)
The origin of the practice of painting on bark cannot be determined, but all the patterns, according to Mathew Trinca, the director of the National Museum of Australia, are handed down through generations, tracing back to cultural relics from when ...

InDaily
Aboriginal women working for cultural connection in child protection system
InDaily
When she approached Western Australian child protection authorities, she was placed in a children's home. With the help of local politicians, Moyle's mother successfully advocated for her return to her Aboriginal family in South Australia when she was ...

Brisbane Times
'I think there are members of the current government who wish that we had died out,' says Indigenous writer Anita Heiss
Brisbane Times
Remarkably, debate over what happened to Indigenous Australians when this country was settled by Europeans continues to this day. Statistics on the Reconciliation Australia website show one in three Australians don't recognise the Stolen Generations.

ABC News
Dingo arrival coincides with decline of native predators on Australian mainland: fossil study
ABC News
If dingoes did enter Australia during the timeframe suggested by the study, this could help explain the decline of other native predators around this time. The study highlights evidence that Tasmanian tiger and devil populations began waning around the ...
Dawn of the dingo: Iconic Australian dog was brought to the continent aboard Aboriginal ships 1500 years later than ...Daily Mail

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The Australian
We cannot ignore the effects of colonisation on indigenous communities
The Australian
As in any country or society, opinions will always vary, but as the national organisation to prevent violence against all Australian women and their children, it is Our Watch's responsibility to listen to and make central these voices. We can't solve a ...
COLONISATION DIDN'T BASH THESE WOMENHerald Sun (blog)
Blind Justice? Not in our experience.IndigenousX (press release) (blog)

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Inside Film
Catriona McKenzie on the 'brain cracking' Boori Monty Pryor and 'The Wrong Kind of Black'
Inside Film
“Australia has to wake up. We as a nation have not been able to engage with Aboriginal Australia, and that has to shift. This is just one story of millions of stories that are waiting to be told about the impact of white colonial Australia on ...

ArtsHub
Review: Tony Albert – Visible, Queensland Art Gallery
ArtsHub
Conceptually, it extends Albert's premise for this exhibition, which questions how we have visualised Aboriginal Australia as mere self-serving décor and thuggish lads, and while the aesthetic may have changed, he asks, has the intention also changed?

The West Australian
Charity's bid to curb over-representation of Aboriginal children in State care
The West Australian
Mission Australia staff will start attending unsafe homes in a bid to curb over-representation of Aboriginal children in State care. The Department of Communities will refer families at risk of having children removed to Mission Australia. Staff will ...

The Conversation AU
Explainer: how Tasmania's Aboriginal people reclaimed a language, palawa kani
The Conversation AU
Across Australia, an estimated 250 Indigenous Australian languages and hundreds more dialects were spoken before the British arrived. The cultural disruption caused by invasion has resulted in more than half of these languages vanishing. In parts of ...

The Conversation AU
Explainer: how Tasmania's Aboriginal people reclaimed a language, palawa kani
The Conversation AU
Across Australia, an estimated 250 Indigenous Australian languages and hundreds more dialects were spoken before the British arrived. The cultural disruption caused by invasion has resulted in more than half of these languages vanishing. In parts of ...

SBS (blog)
Expert Opinion: Traditional Indigenous healers should work alongside doctors to help close the gap
SBS (blog)
Ngangkari are Aboriginal healers of the Anangu of the Western Desert in Central Australia, which includes the Pitjantjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra and Yankunytjatjara peoples. In some places, particularly South Australia, ngangkari are increasingly being ...

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SBS (blog)
Expert Opinion: Traditional Indigenous healers should work alongside doctors to help close the gap
SBS (blog)
Ngangkari are Aboriginal healers of the Anangu of the Western Desert in Central Australia, which includes the Pitjantjatjara, Ngaanyatjarra and Yankunytjatjara peoples. In some places, particularly South Australia, ngangkari are increasingly being ...

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