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The Australian
Ballet meets indigenous dance in Milngia, Milky Way — River of Stars
The Australian
He arrived in Perth in 2013 with his French ballerina wife Sandy Delasalle and son Matteo to take up the leadership of Australia's oldest ballet company. One of the first people he met in Perth was Northern Territory choreographer Gary Lang, born in ...

The Australian
Ballet meets indigenous dance in Milngia, Milky Way — River of Stars
The Australian
He arrived in Perth in 2013 with his French ballerina wife Sandy Delasalle and son Matteo to take up the leadership of Australia's oldest ballet company. One of the first people he met in Perth was Northern Territory choreographer Gary Lang, born in ...

The Australian
Art as activism: giving feminism a platform from which to challenge
The Australian
Female assertion is always excellent, and the vulval oval has been celebrated in times and cultures as various as ancient Australian Aboriginal rock carvings and modern Italian feminist street marches. But the claim that “central core imagery” was ...

The Australian
Nationals new deputy silent on weekend trip to Gold Coast
The Australian
She also listed additional expenses for her following week in Canberra, starting on September 21, writing she was in the nation's capital because it was a parliamentary sitting week. On other 2014 trips she claimed further allowances. She explained a ...

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The West Australian
Job cuts part of education reshuffle in SW
The West Australian
“The department recently changed Aboriginal education support services to focus on improved teaching and learning for Aboriginal students – in a culturally appropriate way. “The new services are led by our most senior Aboriginal people in public ...

The Advertiser
Premier Jay Weatherill backs SA Museum in an argument over staff and displays
The Advertiser
Mr Weatherill disputed the museum was reducing space for the Australian Aboriginal and Pacific Cultures collections and staff. However, Professor Joost Daalder and Mrs Truus Daalder, who wrote to the Premier in November, said they remained aghast the ...

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SBS
Migrant students outperforming native English speakers: NAPLAN results
SBS
Nationally, the group had a higher mean scale score by 31 points, compared to the native English speaking students. It is a marked contrast from the Year 1 results for migrant students when hundreds start school with limited or no English language ...
Children from migrant families are standout performers in spelling, NAPLAN results showABC Online
High school reading stalls in NAPLAN 'wake-up call'The Australian
NAPLAN 2017: results have largely flat-lined, and patterns of inequality continueThe Conversation AU

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EducationHQ Australia
Woeful scores for Indigenous NT students
EducationHQ Australia
The more remote an Aboriginal NT child lives, the less likely they are to attain the national minimum standard, with 92 per cent of Year 9 Indigenous students in very isolated regions failing to reach that benchmark for reading. In stark contrast, 92 ...

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National Indigenous Times
Mundine: 'My mates call me a media tart'
National Indigenous Times
One of Indigenous Australia's most influential political figures has revealed he doesn't believe Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has “any real interest in Indigenous affairs”. Warren Mundine makes the claim in his new autobiography Warren Mundine: In ...

National Indigenous Times
New song captures Elijah's spirit
National Indigenous Times
Some of Australia's most recognisable names in Indigenous music have released a song in memory of 14-year-old Elijah Doughty, whose death in Western Australia last year sparked riots in the Goldfields town of Kalgoorlie and protests around Australia ...

National Indigenous Times
'Rising levels of racism' concern UN
National Indigenous Times
Pic: Australian Human Rights Commission. The United Nations says it is concerned at rising levels of racism, discrimination and xenophobia in Australia and that Indigenous people, migrants and refugees are bearing the brunt of racist hate speech and ...

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National Indigenous Times
'Rising levels of racism' concern UN
National Indigenous Times
Pic: Australian Human Rights Commission. The United Nations says it is concerned at rising levels of racism, discrimination and xenophobia in Australia and that Indigenous people, migrants and refugees are bearing the brunt of racist hate speech and ...

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National Indigenous Times
UN report damns widespread discrimination
National Indigenous Times
Indigenous Australians face persistent challenges and discrimination in all aspects of their life, a United Nations committee has said in a new report. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination said attempts to close the gaps between ...

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National Indigenous Times
25 years on, Karla laments lack of change
National Indigenous Times
The secret to Australia's queen of Indigenous television Karla Grant's seemingly endless energy may well lie in a treadmill in a Sydney gym. For a decade and a half, Grant has maintained a breakneck pace as one of NITV's most recognisable faces — the ...

National Indigenous Times
$23m capital injection for WA community
National Indigenous Times
One of Australia's most remote Aboriginal communities, Tjuntjuntjara in Western Australia's Great Victoria Desert, is to get a $23.8 million capital injection in the form of major capital works and essential services, WA Housing Minister Peter Tinley ...

National Indigenous Times
Tricia Button breaks new ground at ILC
National Indigenous Times
Tricia Button has been appointed the new deputy chief executive officer of the Indigenous Land Corporation — the first Indigenous woman to hold the job. Mrs Button joined the ILC in 2015 as the divisional manager of the eastern division and was later ...

National Indigenous Times
Traditional languages bring Pop to life
National Indigenous Times
Language speakers and custodians from across the state travelled to Sydney to record the audio books. “My Weekend with Pop is us recognising communities still speak language and there is a lot of amazing work happening around language revitalisation ...

National Indigenous Times
Traditional languages bring Pop to life
National Indigenous Times
She said the project had grown out of the library's Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project. “In 2011 we had linguist Dr Michael Walsh come in and basically mine the original manuscripts of the library,” Ms Thorpe said. “He identified significant ...

ABC Online
Organ transplant system 'tipped towards non-Indigenous patients'
ABC Online
Dr Paul Lawton, a specialist at the Menzies School of Health Research, said Australian kidney specialists were "well meaning" but that structural racism had led to unacceptably low transplant rates for Aboriginal patients. He said Australia's system ...
New Vatican publication highlights Indigenous art, cultureCatholic Outlook (press release) (blog)

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ABC Online
Organ transplant system 'tipped towards non-Indigenous patients'
ABC Online
Dr Paul Lawton, a specialist at the Menzies School of Health Research, said Australian kidney specialists were "well meaning" but that structural racism had led to unacceptably low transplant rates for Aboriginal patients. He said Australia's system ...
New Vatican publication highlights Indigenous art, cultureCatholic Outlook (press release) (blog)

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