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ABC Online
Changing weather: Understanding Australia through ancient Indigenous knowledge of seasons
ABC Online
"We call it arretherre. It's the bad wind. People get irritable and cranky because of the west wind." Arrernte indigenous elder Veronica Dobson is talking about the weather from a unique point of view. She learned about the natural world from her ...

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ABC Online
Changing weather: Understanding Australia through ancient Indigenous knowledge of seasons
ABC Online
"We call it arretherre. It's the bad wind. People get irritable and cranky because of the west wind." Arrernte indigenous elder Veronica Dobson is talking about the weather from a unique point of view. She learned about the natural world from her ...

Financial Times
Statue wars spread from US to Australia
Financial Times
A public debate over the impact of colonisation on Australia's indigenous population has raged since the 1980s, shortly after academics began disputing the official view of a peaceful settlement of Australia, instead arguing it was an invasion resisted ...

ABC Online
Cooktown wants monuments to mark first reconciliation between Indigenous and European people in 1770
ABC Online
Cooktown is planning to erect a series of statues to commemorate the first recorded reconciliation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia in 1770. Alberta Hornsby, a Bama historian and Guugu Yimithirr woman, is part of the team behind the ...

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ABC Online
Cooktown wants monuments to mark first reconciliation between Indigenous and European people in 1770
ABC Online
Cooktown is planning to erect a series of statues to commemorate the first recorded reconciliation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Australia in 1770. Alberta Hornsby, a Bama historian and Guugu Yimithirr woman, is part of the team behind the ...

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Mackay Daily Mercury
'More important issues than statues'
Mackay Daily Mercury
In Sydney, a statue of Captain James Cook has been at the centre of a debate on whether the plaque stating he discovered Australia should be changed to acknowledge indigenous Australians. Cr Hill said she had not received any direct complaints about ...

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SBS
'Aust film of the year' to air in London
SBS
Indigenous-Australian film making talent will be on display at the upcoming London Film Festival, with Warwick Thronton's Sweet Country in the official competition. The Melbourne-born festival director Clare Stewart told AAP the "highly-anticipated ...

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The Australian
Indigenous history lessons 'capitulation to the left': Abbott
The Australian
The Australian revealed on Wednesday the government had commissioned Melbourne University to devise resources to enhance teaching on pre-settlement indigenous history under the leadership of prominent indigenous academic Marcia Langton.

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The Australian
Indigenous history lessons 'capitulation to the left': Abbott
The Australian
The Australian revealed on Wednesday the government had commissioned Melbourne University to devise resources to enhance teaching on pre-settlement indigenous history under the leadership of prominent indigenous academic Marcia Langton.

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The Northern Daily Leader
Wattle Day: Could a new, golden Australia Day bloom in the springtime?
The Northern Daily Leader
The wattle has been the annual herald of new life to Australians from the first Indigenous people, who used the tree for all manner of purposes over tens of thousands of years, to those who have adopted the green and gold - the foliage and the bloom ...

Wattle Day: Could a new, golden Australia Day bloom in the springtime?
Brisbane Times
The wattle has been the annual herald of new life to Australians from the first Indigenous people, who used the tree for all manner of purposes over tens of thousands of years, to those who have adopted the green and gold – the foliage and the bloom ...

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Wattle Day: Could a new, golden Australia Day bloom in the springtime?
Brisbane Times
The wattle has been the annual herald of new life to Australians from the first Indigenous people, who used the tree for all manner of purposes over tens of thousands of years, to those who have adopted the green and gold – the foliage and the bloom ...

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Courier Mail
History can't be reduced to 'us' and 'them'
Courier Mail
She has not publicly condemned, as have others with indigenous heritage, the extremists who spray-painted the words “change the date” and “no pride in genocide” on Cook's statue, the former harking back to a campaign to can Australia's national day ...

Courier Mail
Townsville's Mayor says Robert Towns statue is least of the city's concerns
Courier Mail
In Sydney, a statue of Captain James Cook has been at the centre of a debate on whether the plaque stating he discovered Australia should be changed to acknowledge indigenous Australians. Cr Hill said she had not received any direct complaints about ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Indigenous population in NSW and Victoria doubles
The Sydney Morning Herald
The number of Aboriginal Australians living in NSW and Victoria has doubled since 2001.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Indigenous population in NSW and Victoria doubles
The Sydney Morning Herald
The number of Aboriginal Australians living in NSW and Victoria has doubled since 2001, figures released by the Bureau of Statistics show, far outpacing the growth in the non-Indigenous population of both states. In NSW, the number of Aboriginal and ...

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The West Australian
Child ear disease a crisis: specialist
The West Australian
In his published report, Dr Lannigan said Australia's indigenous population had the highest rate of chronic ear disease of any indigenous people on the planet, mainly because of socio-economic factors. He has been visiting the Goldfields region for ...

ABC Online
Northern Territory commits to changing racist place names
ABC Online
"You wouldn't for a minute have a statue of an enemy, yet Aboriginal people are constantly being told to get over it." Dr Richards said he believed Australians in general had a problem with facing up to colonial history. "At this stage, people are ...
NT government pushes to rename racist place names after Queensland's moveSBS

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BuzzFeed News
The Australian Government Accidentally Listed A $3.8m Indigenous Grant To Australia Day
BuzzFeed News
The Indigenous Advancement Strategy fund was allocated $4.9 billion over four years in the 2015-2016 budget to support a range of programs aimed at improving life for Indigenous Australians across the areas of employment, education, health and culture.

The West Australian
Pilbara Aboriginal tourism ready, waiting for global exposure
The West Australian
Australia's North West Tourism chief executive Glen Chidlow spoke of the campaign to “soften” the perception of the Pilbara, by promoting the outstanding tourism opportunities, in particular the Karijini, Murujuga and Millstream national parks ...