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The Australian
Indigenous land rights councils 'in need of a role'
The Australian
The biggest of them — such as the Northern Territory's Northern Land Council and Central Land Council — are already multi-million-dollar operations that represent thousands of traditional land owners exercising rights over vast tracts of remote ...

The Advertiser
Adelaide artist Driller Jet Armstrong exhibition closed over use of indigenous Wandjinaspirit figures
The Advertiser
Ms McElwee contacted the region's cultural centre and the Arts Law Centre of Australia, which says Wandjina “are the sacred creation spirits and source of cultural law for the Worrora, Wunambal and Ngarinyin Aboriginal peoples of the Kimberley ...

The Advertiser
Adelaide artist Driller Jet Armstrong exhibition closed over use of indigenous Wandjinaspirit figures
The Advertiser
Ms McElwee contacted the region's cultural centre and the Arts Law Centre of Australia, which says Wandjina “are the sacred creation spirits and source of cultural law for the Worrora, Wunambal and Ngarinyin Aboriginal peoples of the Kimberley ...

The West Australian
Coalition won't rewrite history on Cook
The West Australian
Mr Morrison's op-ed follows weeks of debate around the appropriateness of colonial era statues, and Australia Day itself, considering the country's indigenous history. A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park that was defaced last week has now ...

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Courier Mail
Future Brisbane: Indigenous culture to be next big thing in tourism
Courier Mail
Brisbane Airport Corporation CEO and managing director Julieanne Alroe said: “There is as rich an Aboriginal and indigenous culture and history in Brisbane as there is in Central Australia. “We need to celebrate our indigenous culture better.'' There ...

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Courier Mail
Future Brisbane: Indigenous culture to be next big thing in tourism
Courier Mail
“We are still underselling that indigenous tourism experience,” he said. “If we have one selling point about Australia that is absolutely unique around the world, it is that we have this amazing living culture that is 50,000 to 60,000 years old. “So if ...

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Mandurah Mail
City of Mandurah mayoral candidates not keen on Australia Day date change
Mandurah Mail
... in Freo' on January 29 instead of Australia Day – are moving to change the date believing it is culturally insensitive, Mayor Marina Vergone, Cr Peter Jackson and Rhys Williams said they believed the local Aboriginal community were happy with ...

Herald Sun
Join the Great Book Swap to raise money this Indigenous Literacy Day
Herald Sun
According to 2016 NAPLAN data only 25 per cent of indigenous students in remote Australia meet the minimum standard for reading and writing, compared with 90 per cent of non-indigenous kids. The ILF is working to change this by exposing kids to the ...

The Australian
Burke and Wills descendants speak out on plans to alter monument
The Australian
Calls to recognise the indigenous Australians who explored the continent before Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition and the Aboriginal guides who helped the pair on their journey come as the latest Newspoll revealed 58 per cent of Australians don't want ...

The Australian
Burke and Wills descendants speak out on plans to alter monument
The Australian
Calls to recognise the indigenous Australians who explored the continent before Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition and the Aboriginal guides who helped the pair on their journey come as the latest Newspoll revealed 58 per cent of Australians don't want ...

SBS
Coalition won't rewrite history on Captain Cook: Morrison
SBS
"However, our modern Australian story has not been without its failures, its shames and tragedies, in particular for indigenous Australians," Mr Morrison conceded. Greens MP Adam Bandt said calls to modify plaques on statues of colonial leaders like ...
Newspoll finds overwhelming support to leave statues aloneThe Australian

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Higher rates of dementia found in Indigenous Australians who suffered childhood trauma
ABC Online
Researchers following a group of just over 300 Indigenous Australians in New South Wales say they are discovering an association between rates of dementia and those who reported a high level of childhood trauma. Doctor Kylie Radford from Neuroscience ...

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J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Diller Teen Fellows work with Aboriginal community
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Here they made new friends, learnt about Jewish Communities in other countries, developing their connection to Israel and Zionism, to world Jewry and indeed their identity as Australian Jews. The whole seminar knew who the Australians were, with their ...

Armidale Express
Aboriginal language celebrated at A Day on the Dale
Armidale Express
ABORIGINAL people were the first people in history to traverse unknown territory in Asia and Australia, a University of Copenhagen study has shown. And, on Friday, descendants of the oldest surviving culture on Earth marched through Armidale in a ...

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Lithgow Mercury
Lithgow's Mayor will not change Australia Day
Lithgow Mercury
Mayor Lesslie said all residents can be acknowledged in Australia Day celebrations, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents. “Yes. They're Australian. And Australia Day is for all Australians. We do celebrate Aboriginal people's ...

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SBS
Coalition won't rewrite history on Cook
SBS
Mr Morrison's op-ed follows weeks of debate around the appropriateness of colonial era statues, and Australia Day itself, considering the country's indigenous history. A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park that was defaced last week has now ...

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SBS
Coalition won't rewrite history on Captain Cook: Morrison
SBS
Mr Morrison's op-ed follows weeks of debate around the appropriateness of colonial era statues, and Australia Day itself, considering the country's indigenous history. A statue of Captain Cook in Sydney's Hyde Park that was defaced last week has now ...
Newspoll finds overwhelming support to leave statues aloneThe Australian

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The Australian
An Endeavour for the age: Captain James Cook's epic voyage
The Australian
And that story cannot be told without the oral histories of indigenous Australians told alongside it; the views from the elders whose ancestors occupied the east coast of this glorious land long before Endeavour bobbed into their horizon. Today, part ...

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The West Australian
Noongar man Clinton Pryor walks from Perth to Canberra to raise awareness of indigenous issues
The West Australian
Over the past year he met with Aboriginal elders and community leaders across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and NSW. His walk included trekking through the Gibson Desert for two weeks in summer, where he had to ...

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The Canberra Times
Noongar man Clinton Pryor walks from Perth to Canberra raise awareness of indigenous issues
The West Australian
Over the past year he met with Aboriginal elders and community leaders across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and NSW. His walk included trekking through the Gibson Desert for two weeks in summer, where he had to ...
Clinton Pryor arrives in Canberra after walking from Western AustraliaThe Canberra Times

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