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Indigenous body to help develop north Aust
The Australian
Northern Australia Minister Matt Canavan says eight senior community figures would ensure the policy benefits Aboriginal businesses and supports innovation. Aboriginal Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said a major proportion of Northern Australia was ...

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ABC Online
Jessica Mauboy to represent Australia at Eurovision 2018
ABC Online
... in 2018 after winning in 2017, thanks to Salvador Sobral's aching love song Amar Pelos. More than three million Australians watched the Eurovision semi-finals and grand final in 2017. In 2014, the singer performed her song Sea of Flags in front of ...
Jessica Mauboy delighted to compete in Eurovision for Australia: 'it's unfinished business'The Guardian

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'I definitely feel blessed': Jessica Mauboy will represent Australia at 2018 Eurovision
SBS
Mauboy, whose family are from the Indigenous tribe KuKu Yalanji, made history at the contest by becoming the first non-European solo artist to guest perform at Eurovision in Denmark back in 2014. She performed her song, Sea of Flags – the song paying ...
Australia ups the ante for EurovisionBBC News
Jessica Mauboy delighted to compete in Eurovision for Australia: 'it's unfinished business'The Guardian
'I know saying yes to this is going to start a lot of conversations': Jessica Mauboy reveals her excitement at ...Daily Mail
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The Conversation AU
Why simple school sores often lead to heart and kidney disease in Indigenous children
The Conversation AU
In Australia, data collected from 1991-2008 in the Northern Territory revealed that 95% of cases occurred in Indigenous Australians, with 98% of affected individuals living in remote locations. The average age was seven years old, with children younger ...

Gladstone Observer
OPINION: Country's indigenous culture to be valued
Gladstone Observer
In order to understand the present, we have to understand the past. What led to the situation we are faced with today? How have indigenous Australians become second-class citizens in a country that claims to be egalitarian? What has led to the huge gap ...

PinkNews
Will same-sex marriage change anything for transgender Aboriginal Australians?
PinkNews
The electoral district of Lingiari, which has the largest indigenous population in Australia, also had a significantly lower turnout than any other district, with 50% voter participation, in comparison to the national average of 77%. However the ...

The West Australian
Australian Wildlife Conservancy strike deal with Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation to protect Kimberley land
The West Australian
An Aboriginal corporation and a conservation group have agreed on a deal to protect thousands of hectares of Kimberley land described as a “lost world”. The Australian Wildlife Conservancy will partner with the Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporation to ...

Voice of America
Aboriginal Masterpiece in Australia to Raise Money For Kidney Patients
Voice of America
A rare painting by Albert Namatjira, one of Australia's most iconic Aboriginal artists, is to be sold to raise money for kidney patients in remote parts of central Australia. Indigenous people suffer kidney disease at 15 times the national average ...

SBS
Paul Keating's Redfern speech still powerful after 25 years
SBS
We need to see that again," the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner told AAP. "What saddens me is that we haven't really followed (Mr Keating's speech) and implemented it. "Fatigue happens. But we cannot afford to lose hope. We must ...

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Paul Keating's Redfern speech still powerful after 25 years
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We need to see that again," the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner told AAP. "What saddens me is that we haven't really followed (Mr Keating's speech) and implemented it. "Fatigue happens. But we cannot afford to lose hope. We must ...

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Sky News Australia
Australia's first Indigenous mine opens in NT - Sky News
Sky News Australia
The first Aboriginal owned and operated mine in Australia has opened in Northeast Arnhem Land.

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Sky News Australia
Australia's first Indigenous mine opens in NT
Sky News Australia
The colour of the dirt might have been different, but according to the Gumatj clan, the moment was no less significant. At Gulkula in Northeast Arnhem Land, Gumatj leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu poured a handful of bauxite into the hands of Rio Tinto ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Dead heart: the booming trade in fake Indigenous art
The Sydney Morning Herald
Now, just four months out from the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, industry sources say there's so much fake stuff flooding Australia that genuine Indigenous products are being priced out of the market. Politicians have joined with ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Dead heart: the booming trade in fake Indigenous art
The Sydney Morning Herald
Now, just four months out from the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, industry sources say there's so much fake stuff flooding Australia that genuine Indigenous products are being priced out of the market. Politicians have joined with ...

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ABC Local
Aboriginal culture taught to Murray Bridge primary school students through art
ABC Local
Ms Rigney is a Ngarrindjeri elder and artist who has found her latest creative inspiration in a classroom at Murray Bridge in South Australia's Murraylands. She has been working at St Joseph's primary school for the past 18 months as part of an artist ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The 25th anniversary of Paul Keating's Redfern address
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating delivers the emotional speech in Redfern, Sydney, to mark the International Year of the Worlds Indigenous People, 10 December 1992. Photo: Kylie Pickett. "We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional ...
Keating speech still powerful 25 years onNEWS.com.au

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal rights activist Solomon Bellear remembered at state funeral in Redfern Park
The Sydney Morning Herald
The daughter of the late Sol Bellear, Tamara Bollear-Mayers, is consoled while marching to the state funeral of the Aboriginal activist. Photo: James Brickwood. Each and every persona of the late Solomon "Sol" Bellear was remembered on Saturday, when ...
Sol Bellear remembered as giant at state funeralThe Australian
Sol Bellear's state funeral held in SydneySky News Australia

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The Australian
Sol Bellear remembered as giant at state funeral
The Australian
Pat Turner, chief executive of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, described Bellear as a “giant of a man who made a giant contribution to self-determination for our people right throughout the land”, one who would now ...

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ABC Online
High school for disadvantaged Indigenous students celebrates first formal
ABC Online
He travels more than 30 kilometres every day to attend class. He's also the first person in his family to finish Year 11. "My parents would be proud, my siblings would be proud too of course," he said. A young man in a suit stands in front of a painted ...

The Australian
The Dystopia in the Desert: Australia's Remotest Aboriginal communities
The Australian
It is a mark of Australia's lack of serious attention to questions about remote Aboriginal life that this book has been ignored while headlines have been devoted to the elusive dream of indigenous constitutional recognition. For Purtill, the realm of ...