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From Antarctica to the Vatican, remote Indigenous community sends crosses to the world - ABC Online


ABC Online

From Antarctica to the Vatican, remote Indigenous community sends crosses to the world
ABC Online
Catholic crosses hand-painted by women in a remote Northern Territory Indigenous community are gaining popularity across the world, being sold in places as far away as Antarctica and the Vatican. The women work on the crosses in the traditional ...

Morning Headlines - Business News


Morning Headlines
Business News
Aboriginal residents in the troubled town of Roebourne are falling behind the rest of Australia, and particularly behind other Aboriginal Australians, at a rate that defies huge spending programs by state and commonwealth governments, an unpublished ...

An athlete who couldn't outrun his past - ABC Online


ABC Online

An athlete who couldn't outrun his past
ABC Online
His story was unique, but his death is recorded as just one of the dozens of young Aboriginal people who take their own lives in Australia each year. From 2011 to 2015, of the 317 Australian children who ended their lives, 85 were Indigenous. That is 9 ...

An athlete who couldn't outrun his past - ABC Online


ABC Online

An athlete who couldn't outrun his past
ABC Online
His story was unique, but his death is recorded as just one of the dozens of young Aboriginal people who take their own lives in Australia each year. From 2011 to 2015, of the 317 Australian children who ended their lives, 85 were Indigenous. That is 9 ...

Australia's 'big' problem: What are we going to do with our ageing super statues? - ABC Online


ABC Online

Australia's 'big' problem: What are we going to do with our ageing super statues?
ABC Online
Indigenous artist Munganbana Norman Miller has proposed the Cook statue be given a Big Boomerang to hold. Then there is South Australia's "Larry" the Lobster. Created in 1979, the 17-metre fibreglass crustacean has been on the market intermittently ...

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Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin - ABC Online


ABC Online

Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin
ABC Online
Yorta Yorta soprano and Dean of Indigenous performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Deborah Cheetham, said Dr G Yunupingu's music changed the landscape for Indigenous artists. "[He] ignited a fire for Aboriginal Australians that singing in ...

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Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin - ABC Online


ABC Online

Dr G Yunupingu, renowned Indigenous musician, to be farewelled at state memorial in Darwin
ABC Online
Yorta Yorta soprano and Dean of Indigenous performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, Deborah Cheetham, said Dr G Yunupingu's music changed the landscape for Indigenous artists. "[He] ignited a fire for Aboriginal Australians that singing in ...

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EOI - Manager, State Schools - Indigenous Education - EducationHQ Australia


EOI - Manager, State Schools - Indigenous Education
EducationHQ Australia
EOI - Manager, State Schools - Indigenous Education. Temporary full-time job recruited via Department of Education and Training (Queensland) (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia). Job Reference QLD/CO253793/17E. Closing date September 25, 2017.

$53m spent but gap widens in troubled town of Roebourne - The Australian


The Independent

$53m spent but gap widens in troubled town of Roebourne
The Australian
Aboriginal residents in the troubled town of Roebourne are falling behind the rest of Australia, and particularly behind other Aboriginal Australians, at a rate that defies huge spending programs by state and commonwealth governments, an unpublished ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au
Australian town gripped by paedophile epidemic with '90% of school-age children sexually abused'The Independent

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$53m spent but gap widens in troubled town of Roebourne - The Australian


The Australian

$53m spent but gap widens in troubled town of Roebourne
The Australian
Aboriginal residents in the troubled town of Roebourne are falling behind the rest of Australia, and particularly behind other Aboriginal Australians, at a rate that defies huge spending programs by state and commonwealth governments, an unpublished ...
Town of the damned: the Australian town with 'staggering' child sex abuse rateNEWS.com.au

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Linda Burney wants Turnbull to prioritise question for constitutional referendum - The Australian


The Australian

Linda Burney wants Turnbull to prioritise question for constitutional referendum
The Australian
A process of engagement with indigenous and non-indigenous Australians would be needed to thrash out finer details of the constitutional shake-up. Ms Burney said the urgency of the task was heightened by a number of obstacles to change, including the ...

Tracks divide locals, outrage experts - The Australian


The Australian

Tracks divide locals, outrage experts
The Australian
“The middens there are unlike anything anywhere else in Australia — incredibly important Aboriginal sites that are several thousand years old, and they want to open them to vandals.” The three tracks were closed in 2012 after damage to middens, dunes ...

Tracks divide locals, outrage experts - The Australian


The Australian

Tracks divide locals, outrage experts
The Australian
“The middens there are unlike anything anywhere else in Australia — incredibly important Aboriginal sites that are several thousand years old, and they want to open them to vandals.” The three tracks were closed in 2012 after damage to middens, dunes ...

Advance Australia Fair translated into Ngunawal for the first time, sung at Parliament House - The Sydney Morning Herald


The Sydney Morning Herald

Advance Australia Fair translated into Ngunawal for the first time, sung at Parliament House
The Sydney Morning Herald
Ngunawal elder Mr Bell, who was assisted with the translation by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies linguist Doug Marmion, is seeking the intellectual property rights for the translation, which he then hopes to share ...

Advance Australia Fair translated into Ngunawal for the first time, sung at Parliament House - The Sydney Morning Herald


The Sydney Morning Herald

Advance Australia Fair translated into Ngunawal for the first time, sung at Parliament House
The Sydney Morning Herald
Minerals Council chief executive Brendan Pearson said Indigenous communities were "one of the most important partnerships for Australia's mining industry", and this was one way of honouring that. "We always look to pay respect to Indigenous communities ...

Community pays financial and emotional costs for increased imprisonment - Herald Sun


Herald Sun

Community pays financial and emotional costs for increased imprisonment
Herald Sun
Those studies proved that the common factor for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians was entrenched disadvantage, leading to social alienation, crime and imprisonment. Of course, individuals make decisions about their own lives and should be ...

Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children' - Bellingen Courier Sun


Bellingen Courier Sun

Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bellingen Courier Sun
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children' - Bunbury Mail


Bunbury Mail

Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bunbury Mail
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children' - Bendigo Advertiser


Bendigo Advertiser

Royal Far West shines the light on Australia's 'invisible children'
Bendigo Advertiser
Indigenous children and families were significantly more likely to experience social isolation than non-Indigenous Australians (40 per cent and 22 per cent respectively). The report found the economic cost of not tackling developmental vulnerabilities ...

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Mining millions to lift traditional Aboriginal landowners out of 'poverty', says Ngadju elder - ABC Online


ABC Online

Mining millions to lift traditional Aboriginal landowners out of 'poverty', says Ngadju elder
ABC Online
Twenty-five years since the High Court's landmark Mabo decision, traditional landowners in one of Western Australia's biggest mining regions are finally starting to see the benefits of native title. The resources wealth of WA's Goldfields, which ...

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