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Australian Jewish News
Recognising Indigenous role
Australian Jewish News
TEARS were shed at a moving ceremony in Sydney last Sunday, when Jewish federal MP Julian Leeser presented certificates to 12 descendants of Indigenous men who served in Australian Light Horse brigades during the WWI Sinai-Palestine campaign.

As Charlottesville shows, if we celebrate multiculturalism, we must play down commemoration
The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne's Yarra City Council voted two days after the Charlottesville tragedy no longer to celebrate Australia Day with a citizenship ceremony, but to hold a low-key smoking ceremony instead in solidarity with Indigenous Australians who regard ...

Daily Review
NGV's Brave New World reveals an Australia charged with idealism – and anxiety
Daily Review
This was a period in which art found new forms in Expressionism, Social Realism and Surrealism as artists reacted to the ideas of Communism, the urbanisation of Australia, a new interest in Indigenous Australia and the growing threat of Fascism in Europe.

Daily Review
NGV's Brave New World reveals an Australia charged with idealism – and anxiety
Daily Review
This was a period in which art found new forms in Expressionism, Social Realism and Surrealism as artists reacted to the ideas of Communism, the urbanisation of Australia, a new interest in Indigenous Australia and the growing threat of Fascism in Europe.

NEWS.com.au
Australia won't see a total solar eclipse until 2028
NEWS.com.au
Before science, ravenous monsters were blamed for the disappearance of the sun and the ancient Chinese banged pots to frighten away sun-gobbling dragons and Aboriginal Australians got a medicine man to throw sacred stones and boomerangs at the evil ...

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Herald Sun
Darebin council votes to dump Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...
This is how councils can lose their citizenship powersThe Border Mail
Second Melbourne council votes to cancel Australia Day ceremony and celebrationsThe Guardian

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Herald Sun
Darebin council votes to dump Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...
Melbourne's City of Darebin council decides to dump Australia Day ceremoniesABC Online
This is how councils can lose their citizenship powersThe Border Mail
Second Melbourne council votes to cancel Australia Day ceremony and celebrationsThe Guardian

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Pro Bono Australia
NFPs Set to Benefit From $1M of Free Tech Expertise
Pro Bono Australia
This year's recipients ranged from medical charities to social enterprises as well as four organisations that aim to improve the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. First Australians Capital CEO Jocelyn King said the support would help their ...

The Macleay Argus
Ice use out of control in regional Australia
The Macleay Argus
Mr Wilson says ice has become inter-generational in some Indigenous communities with parents, grandparents and children all using the drug. He says there is a huge misconception that alcohol is the major issue for Indigenous Australia and that close to ...

The Macleay Argus
Ice use out of control in regional Australia
The Macleay Argus
He says there is a huge misconception that alcohol is the major issue for Indigenous Australia and that close to 100% of his clients are all ice users. “All too often we hear the same sad story,” Mr Wilson said. “It's tough for people to get off ice ...

Gizmodo Australia
World First: Kakadu National Park, As Seen From A Drone
Gizmodo Australia
Locations include the famous Yellow Waters Billabong at sunrise, the rugged escarpment of the towering Nourlangie Rock - a deeply spiritual site home to significant works of Aboriginal rock art more than 20,000 years old, the cascading waterfalls of ...

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ABC Online
NBL star Kevin White uses hoops to inspire Aboriginal youngsters in central Australia
ABC Online
He is exactly the kind of person to inspire Aboriginal youngsters in central Australia to lock onto a goal, and chase it. He has recently returned from a trip to Nyewente and Ltyentye Apurte Aboriginal communities with Charity Bounce — an organisation ...

ABC Online
NBL star Kevin White uses hoops to inspire Aboriginal youngsters in central Australia
ABC Online
He is exactly the kind of person to inspire Aboriginal youngsters in central Australia to lock onto a goal, and chase it. He has recently returned from a trip to Nyewente and Ltyentye Apurte Aboriginal communities with Charity Bounce — an organisation ...

ABC Message Stick
Aboriginal health organisation praised for reducing risk of chronic disease in far-west NSW
ABC Message Stick
"I see Broken Hill and the far west as one of the jewels in the crown for improving Aboriginal health because they are doing things that work." Former Maari Ma CEO Richard Weston said the strategy should be used as a model for other parts of Australia.

ABC Online
NT Stolen Generations 'feel like the last people in Australia' to get Commonwealth compensation
ABC Online
Ms Cummings was kept in a police cell until other Aboriginal children from the area were picked up, and she eventually ended up at the Croker Island mission. She's one of 150 Stolen Generations members still alive in the NT who have sent letters to ...

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Mission Australia residential care worker Jane Peach in award honour
Herald Sun
White Rock resident Jane Peach has won Mission Australia's CEO Celebrate award for her social work with indigenous youths. Picture: BRENDAN RADKE. A WHITE Rock grandmother has been recognised for outstanding service to her employer and the ...

Toowoomba Chronicle
AUSTRALIA DAY BAN IS ALL MEI, MEI, MEI
Herald Sun (blog)
The ostensible catalyst for this was the Aboriginal Community Consultation Report: The January 26 Project. Commissioned by the council, it involved an online survey of 88 indigenous participants as to their views of Australia Day. Not surprisingly, a ...
PAUL MURRAY: Leave Australia Day aloneToowoomba Chronicle
Yarra City Council's Australia Day policy is not a surpriseThe Sydney Morning Herald
Second Melbourne council to vote on ending Australia Day citizenship ceremoniesThe Guardian
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The Advertiser
South Australia pre-WWI, its privilege and poverty, openness and oppression, examined in papers from History SA
The Advertiser
Its subtitle was “An Act to make provision for the Better Protection and Control of the Aboriginal and Half-caste Inhabitants of the State of South Australia”. “One of the things about the 1911 Act is it really gave the chief protector sweeping power ...

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ABC Online
The 'life school' helping Indigenous teenage mums kick drugs and ...
ABC Online
Only 62 per cent of Indigenous girls on Cape York graduate high school, and it is even harder to finish when you fall pregnant. But one boarding school is ...

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ABC Online
The 'life school' helping Indigenous teenage mums kick drugs and ...
ABC Online
Only 62 per cent of Indigenous girls on Cape York graduate high school, and it is even harder to finish when you fall pregnant. But one boarding school is ...

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