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The Australian
Troubled Cape York school's results plunge
The Australian
Aurukun, 2400km north of Brisbane, was a proving site for Direct Instruction teaching of indigenous children. Good to Great Schools Australia, which operates Mr Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Academy, ran the program in partnership with the state ...

Restoring the art of the deal
The Australian
But it is especially important that this justice has been restored for a man who bridged — at times uncomfortably and ultimately tragically — a gulf between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia in the 1950s, just as he straddled the divide between ...

The Australian
Troubled Cape York school's results plunge
The Australian
Aurukun, 2400km north of Brisbane, was a proving site for Direct Instruction teaching of indigenous children. Good to Great Schools Australia, which operates Mr Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Academy, ran the program in partnership with the state ...

The Mercury
Hobart City Council ready to say it's time to move Australia Day
The Mercury
In April, the council agreed to review its events on January 26, with the priority to consider changing the date of the Australia Day citizenship ceremony in Hobart. The review suggested the council could provide event support for the Tasmanian ...

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Further native title law changes planned
The Australian
Native title ministers meeting in Canberra on Friday discussed a range of issues relating to the system and agreed to pursue changes to section 31 of the act in consultation with indigenous communities and industry. The consultation process will ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal satirical film Never Stop Riding inspired by stockmen and spaghetti westerns
ABC Online
The film provides a glimpse of some of the personalities of those who live in South Australia's remote APY Lands. It's got all the elements of a classic, from 'wanted' signs and a hostile standoff to a shootout. Mr Mungkari said the community had a lot ...
Aboriginal art fair links artists with buyersInDaily
Stan Grant compares Indigenous cultural sites to the Sistine ChapelThe Guardian

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The West Australian
Focus on breast cancer awareness
The West Australian
In light of the upcoming event, Cancer Australia have announced the release of a video, Lots To Live For, which aims to increase early detection of breast cancer and improve survival, particularly in indigenous and Torres Strait Island women. Cancer ...

The West Australian
'Tackle problems before they get bigger'
The West Australian
Dion Meredith was Kalgoorlie- Boulder's first and, to date, only Aboriginal councillor, and he remains as passionate about the issues facing the town today as he was in 1997 when he ran. When he returned to his hometown from Geelong last November, Dion ...

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Aboriginal Australians Observed Red Giant Stars' Variability  Sky & Telescope

Oral accounts by Aboriginal Australians show that they included references to the variability of red giants Antares, Betelgeuse, and Aldebaran.

Broadsheet
The Voice of Indigenous Fashion Design Gets Louder
Broadsheet
Earlier this year, Chanel made headlines for its $2000 boomerang. The fashion label was criticised for disrespecting Indigenous Australians and for partaking in cultural appropriation. Nathan Sentence, an Indigenous project officer at the Australian ...

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Broadsheet
The Voice of Indigenous Fashion Design Gets Louder - Broadsheet
Broadsheet
Earlier this year, Chanel made headlines for its $2000 boomerang. The fashion label was criticised for disrespecting Indigenous Australians and for partaking in ...

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Indigenous people challenge the 'lost knowledge' of Australian bureaucracy
Crikey
Try this: “I don't care if you're racist,” declared one Indigenous professor invited by the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) to an event jointly hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Yes, I heard the sudden ...

Indigenous people challenge the 'lost knowledge' of Australian bureaucracy
Crikey
Try this: “I don't care if you're racist,” declared one Indigenous professor invited by the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) to an event jointly hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Yes, I heard the sudden ...

InDaily
Aboriginal art fair links artists with buyers
InDaily
Tarnanthi has grown to be Australia's largest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture festival, featuring more than 1000 artists from across the country. Highlights from this year's festival include a collection of sea creature sculptures ...

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The Guardian
Stan Grant compares Indigenous cultural sites to the Sistine Chapel
The Guardian
The ABC broadcaster made the comments at the opening of the Tarnanthi festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of South Australia on Thursday night. The program was introduced in Pitjantjatjara, Yolngu Marta ...

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InDaily
Podcast: Paralympic great and aspiring politician Matthew Cowdrey
InDaily
Tarnanthi has grown to be Australia's largest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture festival, featuring more than 1000 artists from across the country. Highlights from this year's festival include a collection of sea creature sculptures ...

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ABC Online
Tarnanthi Aboriginal art festival shines light on Maralinga's nuclear legacy
ABC Online
The installation includes 550 timber "kulata" or spears that hang from the ceiling of the South Australian Art Gallery. They were carved in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, where the so-called "black mist" swept over in the 1950s ...
Stan Grant compares Indigenous cultural sites to the Sistine ChapelThe Guardian

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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses
The Conversation AU
In both of those countries, as in Australia, there is a unique history of horse interactions with Indigenous communities. The great Native American horse cultures are well known and extraordinary, as Indians had no introduction to equestrian skills ...

The Conversation AU
Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses
The Conversation AU
In both of those countries, as in Australia, there is a unique history of horse interactions with Indigenous communities. The great Native American horse cultures are well known and extraordinary, as Indians had no introduction to equestrian skills ...

Sky News Australia
Far-right protesters storm Melboure council
Sky News Australia
In September, the Moreland council voted to scrap all references to January 26 as Australia Day out of respect for Aboriginal people, but the protesters say they had 'no right' to do so. 'This is the death of Australia Day and the council have no right ...

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