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Clancy of the over throw set to shine - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Clancy of the over throw set to shine
National Indigenous Times
Australia's golden girl of beach volleyball, Taliqua Clancy, is expecting her toughest competition at the Commonwealth Games to come from Canada, Vanuatu and New Zealand. Two years ago Clancy, 25, became the first Indigenous beach volleyballer to ...

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Indigenous language link reveals common ancestor - The University of Newcastle, Australia


Warwick Daily News

Indigenous language link reveals common ancestor
The University of Newcastle, Australia
“These findings show that Indigenous Australian languages were not the likely languages spoken by the first inhabitants of Australia, raising more questions around how the languages spread and how the linguistic findings connect to the genetic findings ...
'White Australia needs to know it has a very black history'Warwick Daily News
Goondiwindi becomes set of Myall Creek filmGoondiwindi Argus
10 MW Northam solar farm stacks capacity, LGC revenue to make merchant workpv magazine Australia

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Indigenous language link reveals common ancestor - The University of Newcastle, Australia


Warwick Daily News

Indigenous language link reveals common ancestor
The University of Newcastle, Australia
“These findings show that Indigenous Australian languages were not the likely languages spoken by the first inhabitants of Australia, raising more questions around how the languages spread and how the linguistic findings connect to the genetic findings ...
'White Australia needs to know it has a very black history'Warwick Daily News
Carnegie starts building 10-MW solar park in AustraliaRenewables Now

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Sketch on Tom Ballard show Tonightly cops criticism, Cory Bernardi says 'someone needs to lose their job' - ABC Online


ABC Online

Sketch on Tom Ballard show Tonightly cops criticism, Cory Bernardi says 'someone needs to lose their job'
ABC Online
ABC Comedy show Tonightly aired a sketch last week labelling Australian Conservatives candidate for the Batman by-election, Kevin Bailey, a "c***". Cast member Greg Larsen used the same language to criticise the man who the electorate is named after ...

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Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum? - ABC Online


ABC Online

Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum?
ABC Online
Professor Marcia Langton, one of Australia's most respected Indigenous academics, told Fact Check that the so-called flora and fauna act was first mentioned by pioneer Aboriginal filmmaker Lester Bostock during a council meeting in Canberra in the ...

Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum? - ABC Online


ABC Online

Fact check: Were Indigenous Australians classified under a flora and fauna act until the 1967 referendum?
ABC Online
Most recently, the Indigenous actor Shareena Clanton said on ABC TV's Q&A program: "My mother was born in 1965 and she was not considered a human being until the referendum came through from the flora and fauna act in 1967." Warren Mundine, a ...

Spear Hill site a 'spiritual centre': report - National Indigenous Times


Spear Hill site a 'spiritual centre': report
National Indigenous Times
Roland Coppin, Ronald Hicks and Terry Hughes take a break during a cultural evaluation of Ngajanha Kanyja. A cultural evaluation report for traditional owners has found the Eastern Guruma people of Western Australia's Pilbara used and occupied an area ...

Spear Hill site a 'spiritual centre': report - National Indigenous Times


Spear Hill site a 'spiritual centre': report
National Indigenous Times
Roland Coppin, Ronald Hicks and Terry Hughes take a break during a cultural evaluation of Ngajanha Kanyja. A cultural evaluation report for traditional owners has found the Eastern Guruma people of Western Australia's Pilbara used and occupied an area ...

Multiple bids for SA salt lake fall over - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Multiple bids for SA salt lake fall over
National Indigenous Times
Three Aboriginal groups have failed in competing claims over Australia's second biggest salt lake, the 250km Lake Torrens in central South Australia. The Full Court of the Federal Court this month dismissed separate appeals by the Kokatha People, the ...

New crop of rangers look out for country - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

New crop of rangers look out for country
National Indigenous Times
Mutitjulu elders have launched a new Central Land Council ranger group to manage the vast Katiti Petermann Indigenous Protected Area around the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park. Central Land Council chairman Francis Kelly said Mutitjulu's Tjakura rangers ...

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New crop of rangers look out for country - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

New crop of rangers look out for country
National Indigenous Times
Mutitjulu elders have launched a new Central Land Council ranger group to manage the vast Katiti Petermann Indigenous Protected Area around the Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park. Central Land Council chairman Francis Kelly said Mutitjulu's Tjakura rangers ...

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Music's big guns set to ignite Karijini - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Music's big guns set to ignite Karijini
National Indigenous Times
Some of Australia's biggest Aboriginal music stars will take to the red gorges of Karijini next month. Archie Roach, Deborah Cheetham and Gina Williams will be among the line-up at the sixth annual Karijini Experience, which will run from April 17-22 ...

Music's big guns set to ignite Karijini - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Music's big guns set to ignite Karijini
National Indigenous Times
Some of Australia's biggest Aboriginal music stars will take to the red gorges of Karijini next month. Archie Roach, Deborah Cheetham and Gina Williams will be among the line-up at the sixth annual Karijini Experience, which will run from April 17-22 ...

'There are bones all through our beaches': Why people are finding skeletons in the Kimberley - ABC Online


ABC Online

'There are bones all through our beaches': Why people are finding skeletons in the Kimberley
ABC Online
It is surprisingly common for historical skeletons to turn up in bushland and coastal cliffs in remote areas. That is because for thousands of years, Aboriginal people interred the remains of people who died in rock ledges, caves, sand dunes and even ...

As ice use has climbed, so has the number of children removed from families - ABC Online


ABC Online

As ice use has climbed, so has the number of children removed from families
ABC Online
I was homeless for so many years." Now, she has been clean for more than two years, is studying for a career in social work, and has set up a support group for other mums involved with child-protection services. Megan said the drug ice was "devastating ...

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'There are bones all through our beaches': Why people are finding skeletons in the Kimberley - ABC Online


ABC Online

'There are bones all through our beaches': Why people are finding skeletons in the Kimberley
ABC Online
A human skull has surfaced at a beach in northern Western Australia, a discovery police say is not unusual in outback Australia, where the skeletons of Aboriginal people remain tucked in caves or trees from pre-colonial times. The skull was spotted by ...

Syphilis spread sourced back to funding cut in Queensland - The Australian


The Australian

Syphilis spread sourced back to funding cut in Queensland
The Australian
The syphilis epidemic ravaging remote indigenous communities across northern and central Australia might have been averted if public sexual health services had survived 2012 spending cuts by the Newman government, it has been claimed. The outbreak ...

How FIFO activists are doing down Indigenous Australia - The Australian Financial Review


The Australian Financial Review

How FIFO activists are doing down Indigenous Australia
The Australian Financial Review
Here it also hurts the poorest Australians, people in remote and regional Australia and Indigenous people engaging in economic activities on their traditional lands. This was demonstrated by the weekend byelection in Batman, where mostly affluent Labor ...

How FIFO activists are doing down Indigenous Australia - The Australian Financial Review


The Australian Financial Review

How FIFO activists are doing down Indigenous Australia
The Australian Financial Review
Here it also hurts the poorest Australians, people in remote and regional Australia and Indigenous people engaging in economic activities on their traditional lands. This was demonstrated by the weekend byelection in Batman, where mostly affluent Labor ...

Police had 'no power' to wake sleeping Aboriginal man who suffered fatal fall, inquest told - ABC Online


ABC Online

Police had 'no power' to wake sleeping Aboriginal man who suffered fatal fall, inquest told
ABC Online
Mr Young was not doing anything wrong at the time of the incident, but police and paramedics attended because a woman residing at the property had asked them to leave. The inquest heard Mr Young's family held concerns the officer responded in the ...

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