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New stamps highlight work of Indigenous artists Bede Tungutalum and Banduk Marika
ABC Online
A Northern Territory artist whose work will be celebrated on a new stamp says he hopes it will inspire other Australians to learn about his culture. The works of two NT artists — Bede Tungutalum and Banduk Marika — have been chosen to appear on new ...

James wants people to come to his party
National Indigenous Times
Mr Gibbs said he was fed up that the opinions of Aboriginal Australia were being ignored. He said his party would push for programs in communities to combat high incarceration rates, promote reconciliation and engage with those people who were in prison.

James wants people to come to his party
National Indigenous Times
Mr Gibbs said he was fed up that the opinions of Aboriginal Australia were being ignored. He said his party would push for programs in communities to combat high incarceration rates, promote reconciliation and engage with those people who were in prison.

National Indigenous Times
Namatjira's work now has a bigger canvas
National Indigenous Times
Mr Namatjira was a pioneer of contemporary Indigenous Australian art and is considered the most famous Indigenous Australian of his generation. The Namatjira Legacy Trust has been established to protect the interests of his family and to benefit the ...
The $1 Namatjira Copyright deal – how it happenedArtsHub

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Perth Now
WA researcher Anne Poelina presented with international women's award
Perth Now
An indigenous woman from the Mardoowarra region, commonly known as the Fitzroy Valley, Dr Poelina has played a leading role in Indigenous health, education, language maintenance, publishing, empowerment, clinical practice and cultural development ...

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National Indigenous Times
Doco exposes 'fake news' about island
National Indigenous Times
Ms Mordey, an illustrator for Magabala Books, said she was offered the K'Gari project this year not long after graduating from Griffith University with a degree in contemporary Australian Indigenous art. She said Fraser Island should return to its ...

National Indigenous Times
Smoking down but deaths still to rise
National Indigenous Times
An epidemic of smoking-related deaths is about to hit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, health researchers have warned. A research team led by Dr Raymond Lovett from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the ...

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National Indigenous Times
Smoking down but deaths still to rise
National Indigenous Times
An epidemic of smoking-related deaths is about to hit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, health researchers have warned. A research team led by Dr Raymond Lovett from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the ...

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BuzzFeed News
Meet The Aboriginal Women Who Want Australia To Take Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Seriously
BuzzFeed News
But despite years spent tipping in their own money to support Aboriginal people affected by Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in daily life, education and employment, as well as undertaking FASD training, they have been continually knocked back ...

SBS
More heart disease deaths in the regions
SBS
The report also finds indigenous people living in Central Australia develop heart failure on average 20 years younger than the general population. It's estimated there are 800,000 cases of people 35 years and older being admitted to hospital with ...
Isolation, low incomes and lack of services result in more deaths from heart disease in regional AustraliaABC Online

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9news.com.au
HSC students asked to apologise to Aboriginal poet over 'online abuse'
9news.com.au
The spokesman also congratulated Ms van Neerven for having a poem chosen to be featured on an HSC exam. First Nations Australia Writers Network – a literary group for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander authors and publishers – said it “condemns” the ...

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SBS
'But where are you really from?' No, you don't have the right to ask this question
SBS
To be 'othered' as an Aboriginal woman in Australia takes it to another level. Much more than the interaction, the behavioural gestures of intrigue and disbelief, you are not only questioning me of my identity. You are questioning my family, my elders ...

SBS
'But where are you really from?' No, you don't have the right to ask this question
SBS
To be 'othered' as an Aboriginal woman in Australia takes it to another level. Much more than the interaction, the behavioural gestures of intrigue and disbelief, you are not only questioning me of my identity. You are questioning my family, my elders ...

Irish Times
Irish played part in atrocities against Aboriginal people - Australian MP
Irish Times
The first Aboriginal woman to be elected to Australia's House of Representatives has said that it must be acknowledged that the Irish were among the colonists who committed atrocities against Aboriginal people. Linda Burney MP, speaking days after ...

ArtsHub
The $1 Namatjira Copyright deal – how it happened
ArtsHub
An Arrernte man from Central Australia, Namatjira is recognised as Australia's greatest Indigenous painter and the first to work in the western tradition. He is best known for his watercolour paintings of the outback, and created about 2000 artworks ...

The RiotACT
Taking back the narrative
The RiotACT
Aboriginal culture is the oldest living culture in the world today. Buried tools and pigments recently found at Madjedbebe, a rock shelter in northern Australia, tell a history of Aboriginal occupation in Australia which began 65,000 years ago. Yet so ...

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Herald Sun
Australia Day: council ignores call to dump citizenship ceremonies
Herald Sun
Far-Right protesters stormed a Moreland council meeting recently over the Australia Day issue. Picture: Emma Hastings. “The Aboriginal community itself is divided on this issue — even within our own municipality there are varying views among ...

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NEWS.com.au
Australia Day: council ignores call to dump citizenship ceremonies
NEWS.com.au
The group was also disappointed four councillors who attended the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia in Darwin were absent from the meeting. “At least now we know that Aboriginal people and their rights are not a strategic priority ...

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ABC Online
Isolation, low incomes and lack of services result in more deaths from heart disease in regional Australia
ABC Online
The report also stated that Indigenous people in Central Australia developed heart failure on average 20 years younger than the general population. It found chronic heart disease increased nationally during 2016-17. The researchers estimated there were ...

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Courier Mail
Wearable indigenous art – not soft drinks – available from new vending machine
Courier Mail
Mr Bosen is also a talented artist and even designed the special indigenous playing jersey worn this year by the North Queensland Cowboys. The business, renamed as Kulture in 2014, markets itself as Australia's leading indigenous fashion label.

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