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Last of Rabbit-Proof Fence sisters, whose trek home was made into famous film, dies - ABC Message Stick


ABC Message Stick

Last of Rabbit-Proof Fence sisters, whose trek home was made into famous film, dies
ABC Message Stick
At the time, Western Australia had a policy of removing children from Aboriginal parents and taking them into state care for "integration" into western society. Tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families until ...

Deadly virus sparks meeting in Alice - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Deadly virus sparks meeting in Alice
National Indigenous Times
Representatives of Aboriginal community-controlled health services in Central Australia, Alice Springs Hospital and key research groups will meet in August as an $8 million taskforce is launched to tackle the potentially deadly HTLV-1 virus in Australia.

Deadly virus sparks meeting in Alice - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Deadly virus sparks meeting in Alice
National Indigenous Times
Representatives of Aboriginal community-controlled health services in Central Australia, Alice Springs Hospital and key research groups will meet in August as an $8 million taskforce is launched to tackle the potentially deadly HTLV-1 virus in Australia.

'I was told I couldn't do it because I was Aboriginal': Erika Chapman-Burgess's journey to becoming a doctor - ABC Online


ABC Online

'I was told I couldn't do it because I was Aboriginal': Erika Chapman-Burgess's journey to becoming a doctor
ABC Online
Life expectancy: Close the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation; Employment: Halve the gap in employment by 2018; Reading and writing: Halve the gap in reading and numeracy for Indigenous ...

'I was told I couldn't do it because I was Aboriginal': Erika Chapman-Burgess's journey to becoming a doctor - ABC Online


ABC Online

'I was told I couldn't do it because I was Aboriginal': Erika Chapman-Burgess's journey to becoming a doctor
ABC Online
Life expectancy: Close the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians within a generation; Employment: Halve the gap in employment by 2018; Reading and writing: Halve the gap in reading and numeracy for Indigenous ...

Lovers of design: pull up a chair - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Lovers of design: pull up a chair
National Indigenous Times
Top Indigenous designers from around Australia and the Torres Strait have been invited to show their creations. Work will include graphic design by Marcus Lee Designs in Victoria, Balarinji Designs in New South Wales and Galimbaa Designs in Queensland.

Hazel Hawke's Barunga gifts on display to celebrate historic statement's 30th anniversary - ABC Message Stick


ABC Message Stick

Hazel Hawke's Barunga gifts on display to celebrate historic statement's 30th anniversary
ABC Message Stick
The exhibition is a collaboration between Parliament House and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). "They're important because of their association with the Barunga Statement, which is an object of ...

Kings Cross, kitsch and coming home - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Kings Cross, kitsch and coming home
National Indigenous Times
It's something of a homecoming for the graduate of the Griffith University's Queensland College of Art and former Art Gallery of Queensland employee who is now considered one of Australia's brightest contemporary Indigenous artists. Not only is Albert ...

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More stumbling blocks on treaty path - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

More stumbling blocks on treaty path
National Indigenous Times
The talks began after Victoria's only Aboriginal MP, the Greens' Lidia Thorpe, a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, said she could vote against the legislation if amendments recognising sovereignty weren't included. Ms Thorpe could not be contacted for ... The ...

More stumbling blocks on treaty path - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

More stumbling blocks on treaty path
National Indigenous Times
The Federation of Victorian Traditional Owner Corporations said failure to obtain bipartisan support for a treaty in Victoria would let down its First Peoples and be a missed chance to create a defining moment in Australia's history. The FVTOC called ...

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Global brand sports Indigenous designs - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Global brand sports Indigenous designs
National Indigenous Times
The range's design centres on a crown, reflecting Indigenous Australians as King and Queen of Australia, with the transition from red to gold representing royalty. The limited range includes a t-shirt, hoodie, scarf and shoes. PUMA Oceania general ...

Aussies accents differ from Canadian, American, British and Kiwi. Here's why - ABC Online


ABC Online

Aussies accents differ from Canadian, American, British and Kiwi. Here's why
ABC Online
It's important to remember that the Aboriginal people had been using their own languages for thousands of years before the Europeans came to Australia, so English was a foreign language to them. The Aussie accent, as we know it today, started more than ...

Aussies accents differ from Canadian, American, British and Kiwi. Here's why - ABC Online


ABC Online

Aussies accents differ from Canadian, American, British and Kiwi. Here's why
ABC Online
There are Aussie accents from the city, from the country, from older and younger people, from different places in Australia, from Indigenous Australians, from people whose families came from Lebanon, Greece, Italy, Vietnam, China and India to name a few.

Reconciliation Week: Confronting art puts all Australians on journey to better future - ABC Online


ABC Online

Reconciliation Week: Confronting art puts all Australians on journey to better future
ABC Online
In the heart of our nation's capital lies some of Australia's most confronting works of art. Reconciliation Place was commissioned to enshrine Indigenous stories and artwork in the centre of Canberra's Parliamentary Triangle. The project worked closely ...
Community walks a pathway to reconciliationGriffith News (press release)

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Reconciliation Week: Confronting art puts all Australians on journey to better future - ABC Online


ABC Online

Reconciliation Week: Confronting art puts all Australians on journey to better future
ABC Online
In the heart of our nation's capital lies some of Australia's most confronting works of art. Reconciliation Place was commissioned to enshrine Indigenous stories and artwork in the centre of Canberra's Parliamentary Triangle. The project worked closely ...
Community walks a pathway to reconciliationGriffith News (press release)

all 3 news articles »

'It was shocking': The fight against scammers preying on WA's most vulnerable - The Sydney Morning Herald


The Sydney Morning Herald

'It was shocking': The fight against scammers preying on WA's most vulnerable
The Sydney Morning Herald
Jeremiah Riley knows all about the 'government agencies, debt collectors, Australia Post representatives and salespeople' who come knocking on the door of indigenous communities in Western Australia's North West. He worked as a chief executive officer ...

Curious Kids: Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders? - The Conversation AU


The Conversation AU

Curious Kids: Why do Aussies have a different accent to Canadians, Americans, British people and New Zealanders?
The Conversation AU
It's important to remember that the Aboriginal people had been using their own languages for thousands of years before the Europeans came to Australia so English was a foreign language to them. The Aussie accent, as we know it today, started more than ...

Hobart to be offered new Aboriginal name in act of reconciliation - ABC Local


ABC Local

Hobart to be offered new Aboriginal name in act of reconciliation
ABC Local
The Hobart City Council will today be offered a new Indigenous name for the Tasmanian capital in palawa kani, the revived Tasmanian Aboriginal language. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) will present the traditional name for Hobart to the council ...

Hobart to be offered new Aboriginal name in act of reconciliation - ABC Local


ABC Local

Hobart to be offered new Aboriginal name in act of reconciliation
ABC Local
The Hobart City Council will today be offered a new Indigenous name for the Tasmanian capital in palawa kani, the revived Tasmanian Aboriginal language. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) will present the traditional name for Hobart to the council ...

Martin Luther King's son says Australia should be 'embarrassed' by Indigenous treatment - Brinkwire (press release)


Brinkwire (press release)

Martin Luther King's son says Australia should be 'embarrassed' by Indigenous treatment
Brinkwire (press release)
The son of legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior has said Australia should be embarrassed of the way it treats Indigenous Australians. Speaking on a visit to Alice Springs, Martin Luther King III said Australia's Indigenous people ...

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