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ABC Online
Indigenous flag designer says idea to police the authenticity of Aboriginal art is 'repugnant'
ABC Online
The ANKA submission called on Federal Government to change the Australian Consumer Law, to "ban the distribution and sale of unauthentic Aboriginal-style objects in Australia at all levels of the supply chain". It also wanted recognition that ...

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ABC Online
How two unlikely South Americans transformed an indigenous art centre
ABC Online
But as someone "from the wrong side of the tracks", she found it hard to advance in Chile and emigrated to Australia. Cecilia, meanwhile, studied art administration and in 2001 was offered her "dream job" — managing an Aboriginal art centre in the ...

ABC Online
How two unlikely South Americans transformed an indigenous art centre
ABC Online
They moved to Australia in 1971 after receiving threats from the then-new Allende socialist government. Gloria, in contrast, grew up in an Indigenous Mapuche community in Chile. Her people struggled to survive and were sometimes forced to work for ...

ABC Local
Blackfella Beef brand concept has potential to unite Indigenous cattle producers
ABC Local
The idea of Blackfella Beef was developed by the Wangan Jagalingou and Western Kangoulu Indigenous groups and has garnered financial support from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and the University of Southern Queensland. The next step is to ...

ABC Local
Blackfella Beef brand concept has potential to unite Indigenous cattle producers
ABC Local
The idea of Blackfella Beef was developed by the Wangan Jagalingou and Western Kangoulu Indigenous groups and has garnered financial support from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and the University of Southern Queensland. The next step is to ...

ABC Online
Broome artist exposes Australia's dark chapters of history with photographic series
ABC Online
This dark and hidden story of Aboriginal blackbirding in Broome and Roebourne in Western Australia is one of several little-known stories explored by artist Michael Jalaru Torres in the eight photographs in his exhibition Scar III, showing in Sydney as ...

ABC Online
Broome artist exposes Australia's dark chapters of history with photographic series
ABC Online
This dark and hidden story of Aboriginal blackbirding in Broome and Roebourne in Western Australia is one of several little-known stories explored by artist Michael Jalaru Torres in the eight photographs in his exhibition Scar III, showing in Sydney as ...

Daily Telegraph
Remembering our cricket pioneers, 150 years after our first team of cricketers landed on English soil
Daily Telegraph
And the trivia element, famously, is that the men who comprised that maiden touring team were almost exclusively indigenous. The players – besides captain-coach Charles Lawrence, an Englishman and first-class cricketer who had made Australia his home ...

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ABC Online
Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir
ABC Online
The Central Australian Women's Choir are taking German hymns taught to their ancestors 140 years ago, but to Europe. Source: ABC News | Duration: 1min 56sec. Topics: indigenous-music, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, ...

Junkee
Watch This High School Student Open An NRL Game With A Stunning Indigenous National Anthem
Junkee
The NRL has kicked off this year's Indigenous round with a stunning rendition of Advance Australia Fair sung in an Indigenous language and backed by traditional Indigenous instruments. The anthem was sung by Rebecca Hatch, an Indigenous Australian ...
Year 12 student sings moving Indigenous national anthemYahoo Sports

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Junkee
Watch This High School Student Open An NRL Game With A Stunning Indigenous National Anthem
Junkee
The NRL has kicked off this year's Indigenous round with a stunning rendition of Advance Australia Fair sung in an Indigenous language and backed by traditional Indigenous instruments. The anthem was sung by Rebecca Hatch, an Indigenous Australian ...
Year 12 student sings moving Indigenous national anthemYahoo Sports

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ABC Local
Bunya nuts: The Australian bush food that is growing in popularity
ABC Local
Queensland's bunya nut season has just finished but when the next nut fall occurs in 2021, Queensland artist Leeton Lee hopes more people treat them as a tasty bush food, not annoying garden waste.

The West Australian
West Coast Eagles trio aim to lift cultural appreciation
The West Australian
Lewis Jetta hails from a family that played a key role in an Aboriginal team that made a racism stand in the Wheatbelt town of Pingelly in 1967. Family members from the Pingelly Tigers, like Jetta, still flourish in the AFL. Willie Rioli is part of ...

NRL.COM
Luke thrilled Maori getting first Indigenous Round recognition
NRL.COM
During Saturday's clash between the Warriors and Roosters, the NRL will officially recognise Maori as part of the round, dedicated to Australia's indigenous people. Maori will be on full display through a special jersey depicting New Zealand heritage, ...

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SBS
More to receive Order of Australia honours
SBS
Sir Peter earlier this year called for greater diversity in the Australia Day honours list. Of those being honoured on Australia Day, 67 per cent were men and 33 per cent women. He said he wanted to see more women, migrants, indigenous Australians and ...

The Australian
Charles Dickens's unexpected role in Australian cricket's expansion
The Australian
He saw an advantage in coaching indigenous cricketers and he became the captain-coach of the 1868 Aboriginal Australian Cricket Tour of England. He had long envisioned making big money from the Aboriginals' ability to throw boomerangs and spears ...

The Australian
Meanjin AZ: Fine Fiction, 1980 to Now, short stories that reveal us
The Australian
It isn't only Aboriginal Australia that narrates its ambivalence towards mainstream white culture in this collection. Lily Brett's Malka, from 1989, immerses us in the Jewish enclaves of Melbourne at a moment in which the children of Holocaust ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Dicey Topics: Linda Burney talks about death, politics and religion
The Sydney Morning Herald
The three things that motivated me to stand at the 2003 NSW state election [at which Burney became the first Aboriginal to serve in the NSW Parliament] were the same things that motivate me now: my Aboriginality; the fact I'm a woman; the pursuit of ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Remembering the tragedy of the Black War
The Sydney Morning Herald
Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Australia FranchescaCubillo said the exhibition The national picture: the art of Tasmania's Black War was "very important for us to have". The exhibition, three years in the making, brings ...

Sporting News
NRL 2018: Indigenous team of the competition
Sporting News
He has also featured for NSW, Australia and the Indigenous All-Stars. 3. Will Chambers- After a couple of code switches which saw him move from the Storm to the Queensland Reds and back to Melbourne, Chambers has established himself as one of the ...
Warriors reveal new jersey to celebrate Māori culture for Indigenous RoundStuff.co.nz

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