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Gizmodo Australia
Meet The Indigenous Digital Excellence Awards Finalist Creating Change In The Sustainable STEM Space
Gizmodo Australia
IDX is continuing an 80,000 year tradition of innovation that has been practiced by Indigenous people and communities across Australia. What Indigenous innovators are doing today is combining the sophistication of traditional knowledge with 21st ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Jail numbers point to a wider malaise
The Sydney Morning Herald
The disproportionate representation of Aboriginal people in our jails is a symptom of a wider disconnect, which no court process can fix. Jails may mean one thing for Australia's non-Indigenous population and something quite different for its first people.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Jail numbers point to a wider malaise
The Sydney Morning Herald
The disproportionate representation of Aboriginal people in our jails is a symptom of a wider disconnect, which no court process can fix. Jails may mean one thing for Australia's non-Indigenous population and something quite different for its first people.

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Deirdre McCloskey explains what makes Australia great
The Australian
The many places that have succeeded have nothing in common in terms of their indigenous history, race, geography, climate or resources. Any claims to ownership of Australian IP — that is, how it became the Australia of today — that rests on the ...

Deirdre McCloskey explains what makes Australia great
The Australian
The quaint idea that the intellectual property of Australia, how we came to be the superb country that we are, was somehow created by Aborigines, Anglos and (mostly) European postwar settlers misrepresents the truth. It is tantamount to theft. Had ...

WIRED
Geneticists Trace an Australian Migration with Aboriginal Artifacts
WIRED
So far, Cooper and Tobler have published an analysis of the mitochondrial DNA from 111 samples taken from three Aboriginal communities—representing families that the Australian government and missionaries had moved from homelands all across the ...

Architecture AU
Design competition for new Adelaide contemporary art gallery forthcoming
Architecture AU
“As its name suggests, Adelaide Contemporary encompasses contemporary art,” he said. “But more than that, it is about a contemporary attitude to art, education and entertainment – one that encompasses Aboriginal Australia and the state's collection.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
London's Tate Modern takes possession of iconic Australian art
The Sydney Morning Herald
London: Captain Cook fades into the background, replaced by bold indigenous colours in a new work displayed at London's Tate Modern, part of a program to bring Australian art into the international limelight. On Tuesday, the Tate unveiled Gordon ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
London's Tate Modern takes possession of iconic Australian art
The Sydney Morning Herald
London: Captain Cook fades into the background, replaced by bold indigenous colours in a new work displayed at London's Tate Modern, part of a program to bring Australian art into the international limelight. On Tuesday, the Tate unveiled Gordon ...

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ABC Online
Heterosexual, white men with jobs 'aren't included in anything', Canberra Liberal MLA says
ABC Online
The private motion, which was brought on by Labor MLA Tara Cheyne, noted government funding to promote the inclusion of women, gay and lesbian Canberrans, refugees, Indigenous Australians and vulnerable people. It applauded programs like A Gender ...

Kim Scott wants to reclaim Aboriginal stories and languages
ABC Local
He also studies indigenous languages and is equally as passionate in teaching us about the languages used in Australia before white colonisation and the rich way of describing the world and empowerment that comes from indigenous language and stories.

National Indigenous Times
Incarceration solutions lie within communities
National Indigenous Times
Aboriginal people make up 27 percent of Australia's adult prison population, despite representing only three percent of the nation's total population, the ALS said. “Our people say laws are too punitive and that there aren't enough community-based ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day review: 'A full vision of the hell of Australian race relations'
The Sydney Morning Herald
The day dawns hot on this particular Australia Day in the northern capital, but we are off at pace. An Aboriginal teenage girl runs from something, her head stained with blood; a young dark-skinned man runs from two white youths, in another suburb; a ...
MOVIE REVIEW: Crackingly paced but runs out of puffMackay Daily Mercury

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia Day review: 'A full vision of the hell of Australian race relations'
The Sydney Morning Herald
So now we have three storylines, on three broad themes: Indigenous Australians versus police, White Australia versus Arab Australia, and human trafficking. When we find out that Terry (Brown) has lost his farm to the bank, we can add rural ...

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National Indigenous Times
Evans all at sea about next big challenge
National Indigenous Times
Yorta Yorta man Cormach Evans will cross one of the world's most dangerous stretches of water on a paddle board as part of a 170km sea odyssey to raise money and awareness for Aboriginal health and wellbeing programs. Evans, 28, from Geelong, will make ...

National Indigenous Times
Ancient place names must be known: Pearson
National Indigenous Times
Ancient Aboriginal place names should be officially recognised throughout Australia, Cape York chairman Noel Pearson says. Mr Pearson estimates that fewer than one in 100 ancient names are acknowledged and says reinstating them is a vital agenda for ...

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National Indigenous Times
Ancient place names must be known: Pearson
National Indigenous Times
Ancient Aboriginal place names should be officially recognised throughout Australia, Cape York chairman Noel Pearson says. Mr Pearson estimates that fewer than one in 100 ancient names are acknowledged and says reinstating them is a vital agenda for ...
90% of Chinese-Speaking Teenagers Experience Racism in Australia, Study RevealsNextShark

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National Indigenous Times
UN envoy urges Australia to speed up treaty
National Indigenous Times
The push for Constitutional change and a treaty in Australia has been backed in a United Nations report. The report to the UN Human Rights Council this month followed the March visit to Australia by its Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous ...

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National Indigenous Times
UN envoy urges Australia to speed up treaty
National Indigenous Times
The push for Constitutional change and a treaty in Australia has been backed in a United Nations report. The report to the UN Human Rights Council this month followed the March visit to Australia by its Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous ...
"Australia must change": UN human rights rapporteurABC Local

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National Indigenous Times
10-year-olds in Oz prisons 'deeply troubling': UN
National Indigenous Times
Meanwhile, Ms Tauli-Corpuz said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were 24 times more likely to be detained than other children in Australia. “In some detention facilities, such as in the Northern Territory and in the Cleveland Youth ...

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