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Herald Sun
The tragic life and death of Aussie rules founder Tom Wills
Herald Sun
... 23 in Melbourne began dreaming up an alternative. It is believed his exposure to the indigenous game marngrook, which involved the kicking of marsupial skins over large areas by up to 50 people, may have inspired Wills' development of Australian rules.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
The 'aitch' or 'haitch' debate has a dark side
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous children in colonial nations like Australia and Canada have suffered everything from shame to corporal punishment for speaking their native language in schools, boarding houses, and public places. Suppression of minority languages is driven ...

The Guardian
Labor uses female MPs in question time to make gender point – as it happened
The Guardian
Today, I pay my respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging, as well as to those of all Indigenous Australians in this room, and beyond it.

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The New Daily
Aboriginal settlement in Australia 'no accident': study
The New Daily
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows. Experts have made the finding using wind and ocean current modelling, similar to that deployed in the search for ...
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was 'no accident'SBS
How to get to Australia … more than 50000 years agoThe Conversation AU

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SBS
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was 'no accident'
SBS
"There's always been a lot of speculation about how Aboriginal people made it to Australia and a lot of people have argued that people might have made it here by accident," study co-author and James Cook University archaeology Professor Sean Ulm told ...
How to get to Australia … more than 50000 years agoThe Conversation AU

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The Conversation AU
How to get to Australia … more than 50000 years ago
The Conversation AU
Over just the past few years, new archaeological findings have revealed the lives of early Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory's Kakadu potentially as early as 65,000 years ago, from the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia ...
MH370-style computer modelling reveals skilled sailors led 'large-scale' migration to Australia 50000 years ago9news.com.au

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The Conversation AU
How Indigenous and disabled women lost out in the 2018 budget
The Conversation AU
Despite the government spruiking its tax relief for Australians in this year's budget, many women will not benefit from the tax plan. There is also a lack of support for the most vulnerable in our society, including Indigenous women, women with a ...

9news.com.au
MH370-style computer modelling reveals skilled sailors led 'large-scale' migration to Australia 50000 years ago
9news.com.au
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows. Experts have made the finding using wind and ocean current modelling, similar to that deployed in the search for ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was planned migration: study
The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne: Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows. Experts have made the finding using wind and ocean current modelling, similar to that deployed in the ...

Aboriginal settlement in Oz 'no accident'
SBS
"There's always been a lot of speculation about how Aboriginal people made it to Australia and a lot of people have argued that people might have made it here by accident," study co-author and James Cook University archaeology Professor Sean Ulm told ...

The New Daily
Ultramarathon is no sweat for Zibeon Fielding
The New Daily
In 2016, he and 11 other Indigenous Australians ran the New York Marathon after six months of training. World champion marathon runner Rob De Castella developed the initiative and was on hand for the entire ultramarathon, encouraging Fielding along the ...

ABC Online
Ultramarathon is no sweat for Zibeon Fielding in quest to raise funds for remote dialysis treatment
ABC Online
Mr Fielding was running to raise money for The Purple House, an organisation that provides dialysis to some of Australia's most remote communities. Aside from the more than $40,000 raised so far, he wants to promote a healthy lifestyle to other ...

ABC Online
Ultramarathon is no sweat for Zibeon Fielding in quest to raise funds for remote dialysis treatment
ABC Online
Mr Fielding was running to raise money for The Purple House, an organisation that provides dialysis to some of Australia's most remote communities. Aside from the more than $40,000 raised so far, he wants to promote a healthy lifestyle to other ...

The North West Star
Life different for Indigenous diggers coming home
The North West Star
For Peter Craigie's descendants, daughter Olive Bohning, nephews Joe Rogers, Terry Craigie and Alfie Nathan and their families, he is remembered as a proud Aboriginal man who worked in opening up the cattle drive routes throughout Northern Australia, ...

The North West Star
Life different for Indigenous diggers coming home
The North West Star
For Peter Craigie's descendants, daughter Olive Bohning, nephews Joe Rogers, Terry Craigie and Alfie Nathan and their families, he is remembered as a proud Aboriginal man who worked in opening up the cattle drive routes throughout Northern Australia, ...

ABC Online
Bid for proposed Indigenous art gallery to be moved to Katherine met with division
ABC Online
Katherine leaders are edging in on a proposed national Indigenous art gallery and museum, should conflict over the project see it collapse in Central Australia. The $150 million centre was a key election promise made by the Labor Party, but differences ...

9news.com.au
'We're the indigenous people here – not them': The Aussie buying and selling Arab-owned properties to Jews
9news.com.au
The city has played host to an unending struggle between Jews and Muslims for centuries and, as reporter Tom Steinfort reveals tonight on 60 Minutes, it's a dispute that has consumed the lives of two Australians. “Holy Real Estate” airs tonight on 60 ...

ABC Online
Christian Thompson's Ritual Intimacy exhibition charts the Australian artist's ongoing wanderlust
ABC Online
In his best-known photographic series, artist and Bidjara man Christian Thompson appears in a variety of spangled costumes with his head crowned, or face concealed, by arrangements of Australian native flora. The series, Australian Graffiti (2007), has ...

Vivid festival to pay tribute to native wildlife
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney's Vivid Festival has famously transformed the Opera House into a canvas for Australian wildlife and Indigenous artworks, and this year is no exception. An artist's impression of Metamathemagical by Jonathan Zawada for this year's Vivid festival.

The Mercury
Dark Mofo forum to dicuss seal hunts as a revival of Tasmanian Aboriginal tradition
The Mercury
Indigenous populations around the world are allowed some rights to hunt traditional foods, Dr Lee said. They include Aboriginal people in Northern Australia, who hunt turtles, and whale hunters in northern Europe. Seal hunting in Aboriginal territories ...