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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Opera House sails to light up every sunset with Indigenous art
The Sydney Morning Herald
The nightly animation includes the works of five artists from across Australia and the Torres Strait Islands, including Queenslander Jenuarrie (Judith Warrie), the young NSW artist Frances Belle Parker, Torres Strait artist Alick Tipoti, as well as the ...

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Bereavement traumatises Aboriginal youths
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An inquest into a disturbing cluster of suicides by Aboriginal youths in Western Australia's far north will hear how bereavement stress is causing indigenous children to despair. Of the 13 cases between November 2012 and March last year, five were ...

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The Australian
Dancer, pilot, lawyer: indigenous children have life targets
The Australian
In the early 1990s I was involved in career workshops for indigenous students from Year 6 upwards across South Australia, western NSW and Victoria. In 1994 we worked with about 1200 students in a specifically interactive program. We found that ...

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The Australian
Dancer, pilot, lawyer: indigenous children have life targets
The Australian
In the early 1990s I was involved in career workshops for indigenous students from Year 6 upwards across South Australia, western NSW and Victoria. In 1994 we worked with about 1200 students in a specifically interactive program. We found that ...

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Census 2016: indigenous people return to pre-settlement numbers
The Australian
Overall indigenous Australians remain significantly younger than non-indigenous ones. In 2006 the median age was 20, rising to 21 in 2011 and 23 last year. The median age for non-indigenous Australians in 2016 was 38. More than half — 53 per cent ...

Census 2016: indigenous people return to pre-settlement numbers
The Australian
Overall indigenous Australians remain significantly younger than non-indigenous ones. In 2006 the median age was 20, rising to 21 in 2011 and 23 last year. The median age for non-indigenous Australians in 2016 was 38. More than half — 53 per cent ...

The Australian
Census 2016: numbers add up despite the ABS glitches
The Australian
It included University of NSW chairwoman of indigenous health, professor Lisa Jackson, Melbourne University head of demography professor Peter McDonald, former Australian statistician Dennis Trewin, former assistant chief Canadian statistician Peter ...

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The Australian
Indigenous culture to light up Sydney Opera House
The Australian
The nightly “lighting of the sails” with indigenous artworks, revealed by The Australian last year, follows the very popular Vivid displays that ended this month. Screened on the eastern side of the Bennelong restaurant at sunset, the seven-minute ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Australian gin brands: more than 100 and rising fast
The Australian Financial Review
“I want to help Aboriginal people stay on their land and work, and to put money back into community.” It's not the kind of thing you expect to hear at the launch of a new craft spirit. But Something Wild Beverages' Australian Green Ant Gin is not ...

Daily Mail
Local council demands government change Australia's national anthem because references to 'colonisation and white ...
Daily Mail
A town council will appeal to the government to change the countries national anthem because the current song doesn't include Indigenous Australians. Lake Macquarie Council says references to the 'colonisation and white settlement' excludes Aboriginal ...

Daily Mail
Local council demands government change Australia's national anthem because references to 'colonisation and white ...
Daily Mail
A town council will appeal to the government to change the countries national anthem because the current song doesn't include Indigenous Australians. Lake Macquarie Council says references to the 'colonisation and white settlement' excludes Aboriginal ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian, less European
The Sydney Morning Herald
A record 2.8 per cent of Australians identified themselves as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, up from 2.5 per cent in 2011 and 2.3 per cent in 2006. Although the census has been conducted every five years since 1911, it has only consistently ...
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ABC Online
Indigenous art pioneer Peter Fannin dies in Alice Springs
ABC Online
Tributes are flowing in for Peter Fannin, a local Central Australian botanist, Indigenous art pioneer, and philanthropist who died in Alice Springs aged 86. Along with the late Geoffrey Bardon, Mr Fannin was instrumental in the birth of the Western ...

ABC Online
Indigenous art pioneer Peter Fannin dies in Alice Springs
ABC Online
Tributes are flowing in for Peter Fannin, a local Central Australian botanist, Indigenous art pioneer, and philanthropist who died in Alice Springs aged 86. Along with the late Geoffrey Bardon, Mr Fannin was instrumental in the birth of the Western ...

The Westender
Major exhibition by Indigenous artist at Griffith Uni
The Westender
A major exhibition celebrating the work of Bidjara artist Christian Thompson opens at Griffith University Art Gallery next month. One of Australia's leading contemporary artists, Thompson made history as one of the first two Aboriginal Australians ...

The Westender
Major exhibition by Indigenous artist at Griffith Uni
The Westender
A major exhibition celebrating the work of Bidjara artist Christian Thompson opens at Griffith University Art Gallery next month. One of Australia's leading contemporary artists, Thompson made history as one of the first two Aboriginal Australians ...

SBS
Census 2016: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population growing
SBS
The first results of the 2016 Census of Population and Housing, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today, show Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples represent 2.8 per cent of the population, up from 2.5 per cent in 2011, and 2.3 ...

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SBS
Census 2016: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population growing
SBS
The first results of the 2016 Census of Population and Housing, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today, show Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples represent 2.8 per cent of the population, up from 2.5 per cent in 2011, and 2.3 ...

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Armidale Express
Census 2016: Milestone passed as Australia becomes more Asian than European
Armidale Express
One point two per cent of Australians speak Vietnamese, and another 1.2 per cent Cantonese. The Census recorded 300 different languages, including indigenous languages. A record 2.8 per cent of Australians identified themselves as Aboriginal or Torres ...
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ABC Online
Jimmy Chi: Bran Nue Dae playwright, award-winning Indigenous 'WA treasure' dies
ABC Online
Indigenous playwright Jimmy Chi, who penned acclaimed Australian play Bran Nue Dae which was later turned into a major motion picture, has died. Chi passed away in Broome hospital on Monday afternoon aged 69. His sister, Maxine, told the ABC he ...
Bran Nue Dae playwright and Broome legend passes awaySBS
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