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Closing the Gap: Queensland's positive Indigenous health model eyed for national rollout
ABC Online
The IUIH has become arguably the most innovative and responsive ACCHO in the country and it is no coincidence that the region it serves is the fastest growing Indigenous population in Australia, with some 65,000 people. More Indigenous people live in ...
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the forceSBS
NBA champ Patty Mills wins NAIDOC awardThe West Australian
Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winnersThe Guardian
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The West Australian
NBA champ Patty Mills wins NAIDOC award
The West Australian
NBA champion and fan favourite Patty Mills has been honoured for his work in promoting Australia's indigenous cultures. The three-time Olympic basketballer was named person of the year at the National NAIDOC Awards ceremony in Cairns on Saturday ...
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the forceSBS
Naidoc awards: Dianne Ryder, Ollie George and Patty Mills among winnersThe Guardian
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From remote desert to Harbour City: Blak Markets at Barangaroo for Naidoc week
Brisbane Times
They were teenagers before they knew that there were non-Indigenous people living in Australia. Septuagenarians now, the women from the desert have come to Sydney to sell their unique art. Mary Pan, Tjungkaya Tapaya and Iluwanti Ken are artists from ...

NBA champ Patty Mills wins NAIDOC award
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NBA champion and fan favourite Patty Mills has been honoured for his work in promoting Australia's indigenous cultures. The three-time Olympic basketballer was named person of the year at the National NAIDOC Awards ceremony in Cairns on Saturday ...

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Courier Mail
Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival keeps Dreamtime traditions alive
Courier Mail
Cape York artist and elder Sid Bruce Shortjoe says there is a huge appetite for indigenous Australian art and culture overseas. The tribal lawman takes washed-up ghost nets and weaves them into the skeletons of powerful totems – the crocodile, shark, ...

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Courier Mail
Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival keeps Dreamtime traditions alive
Courier Mail
Cape York artist and elder Sid Bruce Shortjoe says there is a huge appetite for indigenous Australian art and culture overseas. The tribal lawman takes washed-up ghost nets and weaves them into the skeletons of powerful totems – the crocodile, shark, ...

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ABC Online
Claiming Aboriginality: Have Tasmania's Indigenous services been 'swamped with white people'?
ABC Online
"Unfortunately, some government departments and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, they [still] want documentation. "We went into it with much enthusiasm thinking things would change and we would fall in line with the rests of the states in Australia.".

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Claiming Aboriginality: Have Tasmania's Indigenous services been 'swamped with white people'?
ABC Online
"It is widely known that Tasmania came closest to wiping out all our people than any other state in Australia," she said. "Yet today we see Australia-wide the proportion of Indigenous people is 2.8 per cent whereas in Tasmania it is 4.6 per cent. How ...

The RiotACT
'Defying Empire' in NAIDOC Week
The RiotACT
NAIDOC Week is celebrated around Australia each July, acknowledging the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Special events occur not just in the Indigenous communities but also in increasing numbers of ...

SBS
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the force
SBS
State employment minister Wade Noonan said he hoped the traineeship program would also help fight Indigenous unemployment, hovering around 14 per cent in Victoria and 18 per cent, Australia-wide. "Statistically, we actually understand that our ...
Australia's Aborigines deliver PM a roadmap to constitutional recognitionBusiness Insider

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SBS
Indigenous youth get a taste of life in the force
SBS
... more Indigenous staff as part of a recruitment drive. State employment minister Wade Noonan said he hoped the traineeship program would also help fight Indigenous unemployment, hovering around 14 per cent in Victoria and 18 per cent, Australia-wide.
Australia's Aborigines deliver PM a roadmap to constitutional recognitionBusiness Insider

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Broadsheet
Legacies of the Referendum
Broadsheet
When The Sky Fell was put together by Clothilde Bullen, who previously curated for the Indigenous art collection at the Art Gallery of Western Australia for more than a decade. Bullen is a Wardandi (Nyoongar) Aboriginal woman with English-French ...

Business Insider
Australia's Aborigines deliver PM a roadmap to constitutional recognition
Business Insider
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's aboriginal leaders delivered a report to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Friday recommending the indigenous population be recognized in the constitution as the country's first people, with a history dating back some ...

The Guardian
Bangarra: Indigenous Australian dance company tells the conflicted story of Bennelong – video
The Guardian
Bangarra's newest work is inspired by the life of Woollarawarre Bennelong, one of the most famous Aboriginal figures from the time of first contact. Bennelong was a senior man of the Eora nation, who was captured by British colonialists, becoming an ...

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ABC Online
Just being Aboriginal doesn't make me an activist
ABC Online
Aboriginal activists often face sustained animosity — Australia doesn't want to see Aboriginal people as David, or itself as Goliath. That would turn the image of the beloved Aussie underdog on its head, reframing it in light of theft, murder and ...

ABC Online
Just being Aboriginal doesn't make me an activist
ABC Online
Aboriginal activists often face sustained animosity — Australia doesn't want to see Aboriginal people as David, or itself as Goliath. That would turn the image of the beloved Aussie underdog on its head, reframing it in light of theft, murder and ...

ABC Online
Mervyn Bishop blazed trail as Australia's first Aboriginal press photographer
ABC Online
Mervyn Bishop's iconic 1975 photo of Gough Whitlam pouring red earth into Gurindji leader Vincent Lingiari's hand in the aftermath of the Wave Hill strike only exists because Bishop insisted on a reshoot. "The first version didn't look good. It was ...

Smithsonian
How Indigenous Australians Are Still Fighting for Their Lands 25 Years After a Landmark Court Case
Smithsonian
The landmark decision—issued 25 years ago this month—changed the lives of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. (While both are indigenous to Australia, they have different ancestry.) For cultures so deeply intertwined with the land ...

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Faith no more: churches in trouble as the nation goes godless
The Australian
Between the 2011 census and the 2016 census the Australian population increased by 9 per cent. The number of indigenous Australians increased by 18 per cent. And the number of atheist Australians increased by 45 per cent. Each of these numbers tell a ...
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The Australian
Papunya's hidden art comes in from desert
The Australian
“The efflorescence of imagery that struck in the hothouse conditions of the Men's Painting Room will not be repeated, for these works were created at the moment when the epic songlines that connect Aboriginal Australia were unveiled,” Kean writes.