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Protesters hope to bridge indigenous gap - The Australian


The Australian

Protesters hope to bridge indigenous gap
The Australian
Protesters have marched across one of Australia's most iconic landmarks, calling for the Aboriginal flag to be flown there permanently. Kamilaroi woman Cheree Toka started a campaign to raise the indigenous flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge 365 days a ...

Top doc supports Uluru indigenous reforms - The Australian


Top doc supports Uluru indigenous reforms
The Australian
The new president of Australia's peak medical body has thrown his support behind aspirations for indigenous reform put forward at Uluru last year. Tony Bartone, elected to lead the Australian Medical Association last week, said the Uluru Statement from ...

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Indigenous cricketers to honour 1868 XI - cricket.com.au


cricket.com.au

Indigenous cricketers to honour 1868 XI
cricket.com.au
The 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England is an incredible story of hardship, race relations and colonial attitudes. Arguably even more remarkable is how few Australians now know the tale of the nation's first sporting team to tour overseas, 150 ...
Cricket prodigy Brock Larance to pad up for historic Indigenous tourThe Macleay Argus

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Indigenous cricketers to honour 1868 XI - cricket.com.au


cricket.com.au

Indigenous cricketers to honour 1868 XI
cricket.com.au
The 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England is an incredible story of hardship, race relations and colonial attitudes. Arguably even more remarkable is how few Australians now know the tale of the nation's first sporting team to tour overseas, 150 ...
Cricket prodigy Brock Larance to pad up for historic Indigenous tourThe Macleay Argus

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Stolen Generation elders travel across the country for symbolic footy match - ABC News


ABC News

Stolen Generation elders travel across the country for symbolic footy match
ABC News
Five Aboriginal elders from the Kimberley in Western Australia are travelling more than 3,000 kilometres to open the Fremantle vs. Collingwood football match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. Their symbolic journey is part of an event that ...

'A bloody lot' of fake Indigenous art is being sold. Here's how you can spot it - ABC News


ABC News

'A bloody lot' of fake Indigenous art is being sold. Here's how you can spot it
ABC News
Around 80 per cent of 'Aboriginal art' products marketed to tourists are thought to be fakes, made by either non-Indigenous Australians or imported, so how can you tell what you're buying is legit? 'Salty,' an Indigenous artist, sits in between the ...

Deadly Questions: ask Aboriginal champions anything about being Indigenous - The Guardian


The Guardian

Deadly Questions: ask Aboriginal champions anything about being Indigenous
The Guardian
“This is an opportunity for any Australian to ask that question and say the thing that they are too scared to ask, or too afraid to ask,” he told Guardian Australia. “Not every Aboriginal person will agree with this and neither should they have to ...
Victoria launches campaign in support of indigenous treatyThe Australian

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Deadly Questions: ask Aboriginal champions anything about being Indigenous - The Guardian


The Guardian

Deadly Questions: ask Aboriginal champions anything about being Indigenous
The Guardian
“This is an opportunity for any Australian to ask that question and say the thing that they are too scared to ask, or too afraid to ask,” he told Guardian Australia. “Not every Aboriginal person will agree with this and neither should they have to ...
Victoria launches campaign in support of indigenous treatyThe Australian

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Life in Irons: Brisbane's convict stories highlight role of Aboriginal people in penal colony - ABC News


ABC News

Life in Irons: Brisbane's convict stories highlight role of Aboriginal people in penal colony
ABC News
"These seven long years I've been serving now and seven long more have to stay, all for bashing a block down our alley and taking his ticker away." The song may be about Botany Bay, but Brisbane did not escape the tide of convicts transported to ...

Life in Irons: Brisbane's convict stories highlight role of Aboriginal people in penal colony - ABC News


ABC News

Life in Irons: Brisbane's convict stories highlight role of Aboriginal people in penal colony
ABC News
"These seven long years I've been serving now and seven long more have to stay, all for bashing a block down our alley and taking his ticker away." The song may be about Botany Bay, but Brisbane did not escape the tide of convicts transported to ...

American 'love affair' with Australian Indigenous art brings artists together for a US exhibition - ABC News


ABC News

American 'love affair' with Australian Indigenous art brings artists together for a US exhibition
ABC News
Two American philanthropists, a museum director and nine female artists have come together to showcase Australian Aboriginal art in Washington DC. The show has just opened at the Phillips Collection museum in the United States capital where artist ...

American 'love affair' with Australian Indigenous art brings artists together for a US exhibition - ABC News


ABC News

American 'love affair' with Australian Indigenous art brings artists together for a US exhibition
ABC News
Two American philanthropists, a museum director and nine female artists have come together to showcase Australian Aboriginal art in Washington DC. The show has just opened at the Phillips Collection museum in the United States capital where artist ...

Tiwi Islands footy, art and family in the fabric of AFL Indigenous Round designs - ABC News


ABC News

Tiwi Islands footy, art and family in the fabric of AFL Indigenous Round designs
ABC News
Jennifer "Lulu" Coombes is an artist from the islands north of Darwin whose work, and the culture it depicts, will soon be witnessed by spectators around Australia. She is one of the handful of artists to have designed the guernseys worn in the AFL ...

Australian Medical Association endorses Uluru Statement on Indigenous constitutional change - ABC News


ABC News

Australian Medical Association endorses Uluru Statement on Indigenous constitutional change
ABC News
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is vowing to push for Indigenous constitutional change after endorsing the Uluru Statement. The powerful doctors lobby declared it would get on the "front foot" during any referendum campaign, raising the ...

Cricket prodigy Brock Larance to pad up for historic Indigenous tour - The Macleay Argus


The Macleay Argus

Cricket prodigy Brock Larance to pad up for historic Indigenous tour
The Macleay Argus
The tour will commemorate 150 years since an Aboriginal cricket side became the first sporting team from Australia to tour internationally. The Rovers Cricket Club junior was picked to replace D'Arcy Short, who has been selected into the Australian One ...

Fighting spirit: Tai Tuivasa, 25, mixed martial artist - The Saturday Paper


The Saturday Paper

Fighting spirit: Tai Tuivasa, 25, mixed martial artist
The Saturday Paper
I'm the first Indigenous Australian to win a UFC fight. [Tuivasa's mother is an Indigenous Australian and his father is Samoan.] It's a tradition that didn't just start with me. Indigenous Australia has produced great boxers. I think they're just the ...
The UFC contender who was born to fightThe Australian

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Opinion | First anniversary of the signing of the Uluru Statement from the Heart | John Sutton - Newcastle Herald


Newcastle Herald

Opinion | First anniversary of the signing of the Uluru Statement from the Heart | John Sutton
Newcastle Herald
Australia has just marked the first anniversary of the signing of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, at a historic First Nations Convention. That gathering in May 2017 of about 250 indigenous delegates from throughout the country was the culmination ...

In the spirit of getting the ball rolling, Noel Pearson offers this 'Declaration of Australia and the Australian People' - The Australian


In the spirit of getting the ball rolling, Noel Pearson offers this 'Declaration of Australia and the Australian People'
The Australian
And whereas Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the First Nations of the Australian continent and its islands, possessed under ancient laws and customs, according to the reckoning of culture, from the Creation, according to the common law ...

Symbolic indigenous recognition for all of us - The Australian


Symbolic indigenous recognition for all of us
The Australian
We stand on the cusp of bringing these three parts of our national story together … with constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. This reconciliation will make a more complete commonwealth. The following year, Julian Leeser, now Liberal ...

Symbolic indigenous recognition for all of us - The Australian


Symbolic indigenous recognition for all of us
The Australian
We stand on the cusp of bringing these three parts of our national story together … with constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. This reconciliation will make a more complete commonwealth. The following year, Julian Leeser, now Liberal ...

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