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Daily Telegraph
How comedian Wayne Brady deals with racism
Daily Telegraph
And I'm aware that Australia has a problem, too. I've been coming back and forth to Australia and talking to various people for many years now. I've watched movies like Romper Stomper. I know Indigenous Australians have their issues and that they are ...

Gold Coast Bulletin
TasWeekend: Your guide to the week's best events
Gold Coast Bulletin
This one-man whirlwind is coming to Jokers to share tales of growing up, marriage and the challenges of life as an Aboriginal Australian family man. Since winning the national Deadly Funny title in 2008, Kropinyeri has spent the past decade touring ...

ABC Online
The Field Revisited: National Gallery of Victoria's groundbreaking 1968 exhibition of abstract art is re-staged
ABC Online
This paralleled broader changes in Australia, which a year earlier had passed the referendum on Aboriginal voting rights, and four years later would elect Gough Whitlam as prime minister. "Australia becomes an Aboriginal place, a multicultural place ...

The Cairns Post
Indigenous homelessness is not a 'cultural choice'
The Cairns Post
All this gasbagging is pointless without considerable and prudent spending on indigenous housing. The damning results of a study into Australian homelessness released this week highlight the immense amount of work needed in regional areas like Cairns, ...

Daily Telegraph
Indigenous homelessness is not a 'cultural choice'
Daily Telegraph
The Australian Homeless Monitor 2018 report singled out the aforementioned centres for their particularly high rate of “rough sleeping or public place dwelling”, largely attributable to deplorable conditions in severely crowded remote indigenous ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous voice heightens tale of tyranny in MTC's House of Bernarda Alba
The Sydney Morning Herald
Holland says: "I'm Indigenous, my Dad's Aboriginal and I think it means a lot to everyone in the room that we're creating a work that reflects the truth. Patricia isn't didactic but it's threaded through." Caceres says that despite the Australian ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
What's on in Sydney: May 20 to 26
The Sydney Morning Herald
ART Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy (until July 14) is the first major survey exhibition of the Aboriginal Australian contemporary artist spanning his work over the last 15 years across photography, video,sculpture, performance and sound. 10am-5pm ...

NT News
The cruel disease running rampant across the NT
NT News
We need to prevent these things happening to Yolngu people, to indigenous Australians.”The clan leader is no stranger to the tragedy of heart disease. His sister Dr Marika lost her life after complications with a pacemaker. Two of his brothers ...

The Advertiser
Man of mystery
The Advertiser
IN March, a Los Angeles Times review of the Australian film Goldstone argued its star, Indigenous actor Aaron Pedersen, deserved a much higher profile. “Why,” it demanded, “isn't Pedersen – a world class brooder with soulful eyes and a singed ...

Great Southern Weekender (press release)
New chapter written
Great Southern Weekender (press release)
By Chris Thomson | posted on May 18, 2018. IN A short chapter for a national anthology titled Growing up Aboriginal in Australia, dual cultural woman Carol Pettersen gives a deeply personal account of what it is like to be on the receiving end of ...

Herald Sun
As he brings Mystery Road to ABC TV, Aaron Pedersen reflects on his long road to recognition
Herald Sun
The Los Angeles Times review of the Australian noir thriller was positive — about our country's “famed interior”, the “tough justice-seeker” at its core and Sen's “slow roast technique”. .... And that means including indigenous Australians in the ...

Herald Sun
As he brings Mystery Road to ABC TV, Aaron Pedersen reflects on his long road to recognition
Herald Sun
The Los Angeles Times review of the Australian noir thriller was positive — about our country's “famed interior”, the “tough justice-seeker” at its core and Sen's “slow roast technique”. Yet one gets the feeling it mostly ran because its author felt ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Fairfax photos of the week - May 17, 2018
The Sydney Morning Herald
Ubuntu, African children's choir touring Australia. Patience Nalugo was a little girl in the second grade at school in Kampala, Uganda when her father died of cancer. She soon learnt singing was the best way to deal with her sadness, and at the age of ...

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Geelong Advertiser
As he brings Mystery Road to ABC TV, Aaron Pedersen reflects on his long road to recognition
Geelong Advertiser
The Los Angeles Times review of the Australian noir thriller was positive — about our country's “famed interior”, the “tough justice-seeker” at its core and Sen's “slow roast technique”. Yet one gets the feeling it mostly ran because its author felt ...

WAtoday
Fairfax photos of the week - May 17, 2018
WAtoday
Ubuntu, African children's choir touring Australia. Patience Nalugo was a little girl in ... Victorian Aboriginal Clan Elders meet at Parliament House to provide guidance and claim their seat at the table of the state governments Treaty process. Clan ...

Architecture and Design
Indigenous designers to showcase their talents in Melbourne's Federation Square
Architecture and Design
Blak Design Matters will open at the Koorie Heritage Trust, Federation Square on Friday 20 July and stay open until Sunday 30 September 2018 showcasing leading Indigenous designers from across Australia, while also exploring what is Indigenous design ...

The North West Star
New exhibit explores local Aboriginal history
The North West Star
Conceived by controversial entrepreneur Archibald Meston, the original historical Wild Australia Show toured in 1892- 1893 to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and featured a choreographed troupe of 27 Aboriginal people recruited from the frontier in ...

The North West Star
New exhibit explores local Aboriginal history
The North West Star
Conceived by controversial entrepreneur Archibald Meston, the original historical Wild Australia Show toured in 1892- 1893 to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and featured a choreographed troupe of 27 Aboriginal people recruited from the frontier in ...

The North West Star
New exhibit explores local Aboriginal history
The North West Star
Conceived by controversial entrepreneur Archibald Meston, the original historical Wild Australia Show toured in 1892- 1893 to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and featured a choreographed troupe of 27 Aboriginal people recruited from the frontier in ...

The West Australian
Queensland band in town for Settlers gig
The West Australian
The three-piece band infuses electronic, reggae and house, with elements of Aboriginal Australian and African sounds to create their captivating melodies. Stu Boga Fergie is the vocalist, keys, didgeridoo player and the man behind the electronic sounds ...