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Australia's citizenship program should focus on Indigenous introduction, Darwin linguistics teacher says - ABC News


ABC News

Australia's citizenship program should focus on Indigenous introduction, Darwin linguistics teacher says
ABC News
As Ganesh Koramannil passed through Sydney Central train station in 2004, a man approached and asked him for $2. It was an interaction he would have long forgotten, except the man was the first Indigenous Australian Mr Koramannil had ever met.

Marching off the mission: Aboriginal girls who took it to white Australia and won - ABC News


ABC News

Marching off the mission: Aboriginal girls who took it to white Australia and won
ABC News
It is 1962 in Brisbane and a group of teenage girls sit on an airport fence, brimming with excitement. Their mouths are wide with joy and their polished white shoes gleam in the sun, as they wait for their first plane ride. Many had never before been ...

Marching off the mission: Aboriginal girls who took it to white Australia and won - ABC News


ABC News

Marching off the mission: Aboriginal girls who took it to white Australia and won
ABC News
It is 1962 in Brisbane and a group of teenage girls sit on an airport fence, brimming with excitement. Their mouths are wide with joy and their polished white shoes gleam in the sun, as they wait for their first plane ride. Many had never before been ...

'It's not third world, but it's close': The town of Darlngunaya on the Fitzroy River, where the taps run dry - ABC News


ABC News

'It's not third world, but it's close': The town of Darlngunaya on the Fitzroy River, where the taps run dry
ABC News
Because of the land tenure — the site is held by the Aboriginal Lands Trust and leased to residents — the WA government says it is not responsible for ensuring a safe and consistent water supply, a situation Greens MP Robin Chapple said was ...

'Not soft on crime': push for specialist indigenous court - The Sydney Morning Herald


The Sydney Morning Herald

'Not soft on crime': push for specialist indigenous court
The Sydney Morning Herald
The state's barristers and police are pushing the NSW government to urgently fund a specific indigenous court in a bid to lower the "spiralling number" of Aboriginal people in jail. In a significant move, the NSW Bar Association and and the Police ...

'Not soft on crime': push for specialist indigenous court - The Sydney Morning Herald


The Sydney Morning Herald

'Not soft on crime': push for specialist indigenous court
The Sydney Morning Herald
The state's barristers and police are pushing the NSW government to urgently fund a specific indigenous court in a bid to lower the "spiralling number" of Aboriginal people in jail. In a significant move, the NSW Bar Association and and the Police ...

Indigenous voices have never been more important to Australian literature - The Guardian


The Guardian

Indigenous voices have never been more important to Australian literature
The Guardian
Even in those seven years since, I have seen changes in the Australian literary landscape. Significant programs have fostered a new generation of Aboriginal voices over the past few decades: the David Unaipon award, for instance, which has been running ...

Indigenous voices have never been more important to Australian literature - The Guardian


The Guardian

Indigenous voices have never been more important to Australian literature
The Guardian
Even in those seven years since, I have seen changes in the Australian literary landscape. Significant programs have fostered a new generation of Aboriginal voices over the past few decades: the David Unaipon award, for instance, which has been running ...

Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word 'kangaroo' - ABC News


ABC News

Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word 'kangaroo'
ABC News
An Indigenous language that has survived for more than 50,000 years and gave Australia the word "kangaroo" is fighting to stay alive amid fears the number of fluent speakers is dwindling. Guugu-Yimidhirr is the mother tongue of people in Hope Vale on ...

Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word 'kangaroo' - ABC News


ABC News

Indigenous community fights to preserve language that gave Australia the word 'kangaroo'
ABC News
An Indigenous language that has survived for more than 50,000 years and gave Australia the word "kangaroo" is fighting to stay alive amid fears the number of fluent speakers is dwindling. Guugu-Yimidhirr is the mother tongue of people in Hope Vale on ...

Workshops share traditional knowledge of 'cultural burns' as fire management - ABC News


ABC News

Workshops share traditional knowledge of 'cultural burns' as fire management
ABC News
Mr Steffensen works with a group called the Firesticks Alliance, an Indigenous organisation that runs programs with communities across Australia to build recognition of cultural fire management, and to reintroduce it onto lands owned and run by ...

Workshops share traditional knowledge of 'cultural burns' as fire management - ABC News


ABC News

Workshops share traditional knowledge of 'cultural burns' as fire management
ABC News
Mr Steffensen works with a group called the Firesticks Alliance, an Indigenous organisation that runs programs with communities across Australia to build recognition of cultural fire management, and to reintroduce it onto lands owned and run by ...

'Eerily similar' suspected Indigenous murder cases go cold as police explain away the truth - ABC News


ABC News

'Eerily similar' suspected Indigenous murder cases go cold as police explain away the truth
ABC News
And yet 10 years later, a different Aboriginal family is reeling from police mistakes that were "eerily similar" to the Raggett case. This is the real life Mystery Road, where Indigenous deaths are explained away by those who are supposed to find the ...

'Eerily similar' suspected Indigenous murder cases go cold as police explain away the truth - ABC News


ABC News

'Eerily similar' suspected Indigenous murder cases go cold as police explain away the truth
ABC News
And yet 10 years later, a different Aboriginal family is reeling from police mistakes that were "eerily similar" to the Raggett case. This is the real life Mystery Road, where Indigenous deaths are explained away by those who are supposed to find the ...

Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art - ABC News


ABC News

Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art
ABC News
This year marks 200 years since the first Chinese migrant arrived in Australia back in 1818, yet the historical connections between Chinese and Indigenous people have largely gone unrecorded.

Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art - ABC News


ABC News

Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a long, 'untold history' that's been captured through art
ABC News
This year marks 200 years since the first Chinese migrant arrived in Australia back in 1818, yet the historical connections between Chinese and Indigenous people have largely gone unrecorded.

'Code of silence' on sexual abuse of children tearing apart Aboriginal communities - Courier Mail


Courier Mail

'Code of silence' on sexual abuse of children tearing apart Aboriginal communities
Courier Mail
... interviews with News Corp, Aboriginal women have revealed the high cost of this silence, which is tearing apart their communities; most recently highlighted by the alleged rapes of young Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory and Western ...
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'An untold history': Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a strong cultural bond - ABC News


ABC News

'An untold history': Chinese and Indigenous Australians share a strong cultural bond
ABC News
This year marks 200 years since the first Chinese migrant arrived in Australia back in 1818, yet the historical connections between Chinese and Indigenous people have largely gone unrecorded.

NT Government's National Indigenous Art Gallery plan dividing proponents and opponents down the Centre - NT News


NT News

NT Government's National Indigenous Art Gallery plan dividing proponents and opponents down the Centre
NT News
“It will cement Alice Springs' reputation as the Inland Capital of Australia and the Red Centre as the heart of Aboriginal art in Australia and the rightful home for a National Aboriginal Art Gallery,” she said. But the Government's plan to build this ...

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NT Government's National Indigenous Art Gallery plan dividing proponents and opponents down the Centre - NT News


NT News

NT Government's National Indigenous Art Gallery plan dividing proponents and opponents down the Centre
NT News
“It will cement Alice Springs' reputation as the Inland Capital of Australia and the Red Centre as the heart of Aboriginal art in Australia and the rightful home for a National Aboriginal Art Gallery,” she said. But the Government's plan to build this ...

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