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Cockburn council to consult with residents on moving Australia Day celebrations
Community Newspaper Group
The plan also included a proposal to write to the Federal Government providing the City's Aboriginal community consultation findings, which support a change to the date of national Australia Day celebrations. At tonight's council meeting Corina Abraham ...

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Insights News
Australian women trailblazer edition
Insights News
International Women's day is about celebrating all women are and strive to be but what does an Australian woman look like? You could throw the words around like diverse, vibrant, ambitious, intelligent, compassionate, etc. and you wouldn't even come ...

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The Guardian
Man dies after falling from Sydney Tower
The Guardian
The skywalk is more than 250m above ground. Two paramedic crews responded and treated witnesses for shock. A police spokesman said an operation was under way and a report will be prepared for the coroner. Readers in Australia seeking support and ...

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Red Flag
Pre-colonial society shows humans can live collectively
Red Flag
“If the test of sophistication were whether or not all were fed regardless of rank or whether all contributed to the spiritual and cultural health of the civilisation, Aboriginal Australia might have a much higher rank than some of the nations ...

PerthNow
City of Cockburn to vote on Australia Day change
PerthNow
THE City of Cockburn could follow its neighbour Fremantle and move its Australia Day celebrations from January 26. Cockburn Council will tonight vote on whether to consider moving its annual Coogee Beach Festival from Australia Day because of concerns ...

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The Mandarin
June Oscar ensuring Indigenous women's voices are again heard by government
The Mandarin
“Together with my team, I will be travelling to many places in rural, remote and urban Australia to hear directly from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and girls. Wiyi Yani U Thangani, which means 'Women's Voices' in the Bunuba language is ...

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SBS
Bruce Pascoe celebrated with Australia Council's Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature
SBS
With the 33 books he has written, the Bunurong man incorporates Aboriginal knowledge and different cultural aspects into his storytelling, as he believes it educates people on the true history of Australian colonialism. “One of the things I was pretty ...

EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous Coordinator
EducationHQ Australia
Indigenous Coordinator. Contract full-time job recruited via Department of Education - Northern Territory (Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia). Job Reference 034877. Closing date March 11, 2018. LocationGunbalanya NT, Australia. Type Full-Time ...

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ABC Local
Ruby Payne-Scott, Daisy Bindi, Mina Wylie and Fanny Durack: Meet Australia's unsung female trailblazers
ABC Local
'The future is female' has become an International Women's Day catchcry — chanted at marches and endlessly hashtagged on social media. But the slogan was first used in the 1970s on a T-shirt designed at a feminist book shop. And just as the words have ...

EducationHQ Australia
Book swap aims to help Indigenous literacy
EducationHQ Australia
While 88 per cent of Indigenous Year 3 students in major cities met or exceeded the national minimum standard for reading in 2017, only 46 per cent of students in very remote areas did so. The ILF has run the Great Book Swap for the past eight years ...

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The Conversation AU
What writers and publishers must learn from the Deadly Woman Blues fiasco
The Conversation AU
With Deadly Woman Blues, Walker sought to produce a chronologically ordered biographical encyclopedia cataloguing the overlooked histories and achievements of black women in Australian music. This included not only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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The Conversation AU
What writers and publishers must learn from the Deadly Woman Blues fiasco
The Conversation AU
With Deadly Woman Blues, Walker sought to produce a chronologically ordered biographical encyclopedia cataloguing the overlooked histories and achievements of black women in Australian music. This included not only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Book swap aims to help indigenous literacy
SBS
While 88 per cent of indigenous Year 3 students in major cities met or exceeded the national minimum standard for reading in 2017, only 46 per cent of students in very remote areas did so. The ILF has run the Great Book Swap for the past eight years ...

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The Australian
Aboriginal leaders add their voices to calls for abused children to be removed
The Australian
The Australian asked a range of national and Northern Territory figures whether they thought the soaring STI rates identified among Aboriginal children by a royal commission justified more active intervention on the part of child protection authorities ...

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The Guardian
'Jesus loves nachos': Australian woman trademarks divisive bridge graffiti
The Guardian
“This is how it started apparently: in the mid to late-80s some Aboriginal boys from Barunga community were in Katherine on a Christian convention and they wrote 'Jesus loves' on the bridge,” she says. “Then in the early 90s someone added 'nachos ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal groups push for culturally designed housing, as NT Government confirms it designed tin shed extensions
ABC Online
On the same day as Mr McCarthy's concession, Aboriginal organisations from Arnhem Land to Central Australia met in Darwin to discuss the issue of housing in communities, town camps and homelands. Aboriginal Housing NT co-chair Barbara Shaw said not ...

Healthcare IT News (blog)
All-women team set to improve Indigenous health with “highly unusual” grant win
Healthcare IT News (blog)
The exceptional grant to an all-woman team has kick-started work into the prevention of falls, which the researchers said affect one in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people each year, contributing to injuries and deaths. The Ironbark ...

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Healthcare IT News (blog)
All-women team set to improve Indigenous health with “highly unusual” grant win
Healthcare IT News (blog)
The exceptional grant to an all-woman team has kick-started work into the prevention of falls, which the researchers said affect one in three Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people each year, contributing to injuries and deaths. The Ironbark ...

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Vic nears treaty with Aboriginal people
NEWS.com.au
Vic nears treaty with Aboriginal people. A working group has finalised its report into how a treaty with Victoria's Aboriginal people should look. Australian Associated PressMarch 7, 20183:27pm. Victoria is a step closer to a treaty with the state's ...

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The Australian
Vic nears treaty with Aboriginal people
The Australian
Victoria is a step closer to a treaty with the state's Aboriginal people, with the government considering recommendations into how it should look. Victoria's Aboriginal Treaty Working Group on Wednesday handed its report to Treaty Advancement ...