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Herald Sun
Indigenous kids need basics for real equality, writes Kevin Donnelly
Herald Sun
“Whiteness” is described as teaching “the white values, culture and history” of Australia. As an alternative, Dr Schultz argues the schools must teach “racial literacy across all subjects” and that teachers must “allow indigenous knowledges and ways of ...

Herald Sun
Indigenous kids need basics for real equality, writes Kevin Donnelly
Herald Sun
“Whiteness” is described as teaching “the white values, culture and history” of Australia. As an alternative, Dr Schultz argues the schools must teach “racial literacy across all subjects” and that teachers must “allow indigenous knowledges and ways of ...

The Guardian
Kulaluk lease: NT minister upholds rejection of Aboriginal site heritage listing
The Guardian
The Northern Territory minister for culture has followed the much-criticised footsteps of her predecessor and rejected a recommendation to heritage list a tract of Aboriginal land near Darwin. Lauren Moss confirmed on Sunday she had made the ruling on ...

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ABC Online
At-risk Aboriginal youths 'returning to country' in crime reduction strategy
ABC Online
A new program has reconnected a group of at-risk Aboriginal youths to the remote outback of Western Australia, in the hope of keeping them out of the juvenile justice system. Ten boys aged between 12 and 17 have been taken into the heart of the ...

Experts shine light on Australia's genocidal history
The Westender
UThe nee d for recognising past injustices towards Indigenous Australians was a powerful topic at this year's International Association for Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference in Brisbane. The 2017 conference saw several global scholars come together ...

Experts shine light on Australia's genocidal history
The Westender
UThe nee d for recognising past injustices towards Indigenous Australians was a powerful topic at this year's International Association for Genocide Scholars (IAGS) conference in Brisbane. The 2017 conference saw several global scholars come together ...

SBS
Musicians bring Indigenous Australian composers' works to life
SBS
Musicians are performing original music from Indigenous composer Brenda Gifford who says the sound is based on the seasons from her home town of Wreck Bay. "It's that connection within me...it's that connection like when I go down to Wreck (Bay) it's ...

SBS
Musicians bring Indigenous Australian composers' works to life
SBS
Musicians are performing original music from Indigenous composer Brenda Gifford who says the sound is based on the seasons from her home town of Wreck Bay. "It's that connection within me...it's that connection like when I go down to Wreck (Bay) it's ...

Daily Mail
'I want to show the beauty of our culture': Photographer behind stunning images of Indigenous newborns and pregnant ...
Daily Mail
Indigenous Australian photographer, Bobbi-lee Hille, 30, specialises in culturally significant baby photography. Her breathtaking works pay homage to her own Indigenous culture - as she captures babies and children surrounded by traditional Indigenous ...

The Advertiser
Nick Ryan: What next after South Australia's big battery? How about rockets?
The Advertiser
Countless frustrated Christmas mornings tell us most people buy the toys but forget about the batteries but in South Australia we're doing it the other way around. We've got the bloody big battery, now we want to play with rocket ships. Some might ...

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The Guardian
300000 fines levied on participants in remote work-for-dole program
The Guardian
Participants in a work-for-the-dole program that overwhelmingly targets Indigenous people are 27 times more likely to be penalised by loss of income than those on another similar program, an analysis by the Australian National University has found. In ...

ABC Online
Welfare recipients in 'some of Australia's poorest communities' slapped with 300000 fines
ABC Online
Fines imposed on welfare recipients in a controversial work-for-the-dole scheme have soared to 300,000 in under two years, prompting renewed claims of poverty and hunger in Aboriginal communities.

The Australian
Greens' Kiwi senator Scott Ludlam exposed by barrister
The Australian
Mr Cameron, a former Aboriginal Legal Service lawyer and social justice advocate, told The Weekend Australian last night that he was not politically motivated when he applied three weeks ago to the NZ Department of Internal Affairs to search its ...
Greens senator Scott Ludlam forced to quit because of dual citizenshipThe Conversation AU

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The Australian
APY paints broader picture for War Memorial
The Australian
In the end, it's about the defence of our land — Australia.” The 5m-long painting, to be officially unveiled this year, was commissioned through South Australia's APY Art Centre Collective, in part in recognition of the roughly 1100 indigenous ...

The Australian
APY paints broader picture for War Memorial
The Australian
In the end, it's about the defence of our land — Australia.” The 5m-long painting, to be officially unveiled this year, was commissioned through South Australia's APY Art Centre Collective, in part in recognition of the roughly 1100 indigenous ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
The End of AAMU
Aboriginal Art Directory News
But Stijn Schoonderwoerd, General Director of the NMWC, said about this acquisition: “We are very proud and happy that the most important collection of Aboriginal art outside Australia is being entrusted to our care. This means we can immediately ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
The End of AAMU
Aboriginal Art Directory News
But Stijn Schoonderwoerd, General Director of the NMWC, said about this acquisition: “We are very proud and happy that the most important collection of Aboriginal art outside Australia is being entrusted to our care. This means we can immediately ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal artist Peter Mungkuri wins inaugural Hadley's Art Prize
ABC Online
A painting by Aboriginal artist Peter Mungkuri has taken out the inaugural Hadley's Art Prize, the world's richest landscape art prize. Mungkuri will take home ... The painting depicts his birth place in Fregon, in central Australia. "This is my story ...
South Australian indigenous artist Peter Mungkuri wins inaugural $100000 Hadley's Art PrizeThe Mercury

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The Mercury
South Australian indigenous artist Peter Mungkuri wins inaugural $100000 Hadley's Art Prize
The Mercury
Mungkuri, a retired stockman, is from Indulkana — an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in South Australia. He said his piece, Ngura Wiru (Good Country), was inspired by and depicted the landscape of his people.

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AEC cuts will disempower the NT: Labor MP
The Australian
"Aboriginal people are already disadvantaged and under-represented," he said. "To take away their ability to vote in 2017 - 50 years after the 1967 referendum - is one more terrible example of the Turnbull government putting indigenous Australians last ...

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