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National Geographic Australia
7000 Year Old Indigenous Story Proved True
National Geographic Australia
One of Australia's youngest volcanos, Kinrara is believed to be the volcano mentioned in the 7,000-year-old Indigenous story. The Indigenous story and timeline hold fast in light of new evidence. Kinrara's eruption would've been large: suffocating ash ...

Happy
Endorsed by Nick Cave, Kurdiji 1.0 is an app designed to save young indigenous lives. They need your help
Happy
One of the most glaring social issues in Australia is suicide in young indigenous people, where the incident rates are among the highest in the entire world. After a young man committed suicide in Lajamanu, a community one thousand kilometres from ...

Happy
Endorsed by Nick Cave, Kurdiji 1.0 is an app designed to save young indigenous lives. They need your help
Happy
One of the most glaring social issues in Australia is suicide in young indigenous people, where the incident rates are among the highest in the entire world. After a young man committed suicide in Lajamanu, a community one thousand kilometres from ...

Athletics Australia comes to Cherbourg
The South Burnett Times
Athletics: Cherbourg has been highlighted as one of five indigenous townships to be visited by Athletics Australia's Athletics for the Outback program later this year. Following its partnership announcement with GE, Athletics Australia has pushed the ...

Courier Mail
Divisive? There's nothing divisive about it
Courier Mail
One can be simultaneously Indigenous, man, soldier, veteran, woman, and Australian. Aboriginal War Veterans participate in the Anzac Day march at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. (Pic: AAP Image/Lukas Coch). As 21-year veteran, John Enchong, ...
George Christensen: Anzac principles 'under attack'Mackay Daily Mercury

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Courier Mail
Divisive? There's nothing divisive about it
Courier Mail
It was about time our Indigenous veterans had the chance to lead the marches and under their own flag. Again, this doesn't disqualify the Australian one and all it signifies. I always find it a rather peculiar mindset that insists, especially on days ...
Lest we forget and selective national memoryABC Online

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Campbelltown Macarthur Advertiser
Who's allowed to compose Australian values?
Campbelltown Macarthur Advertiser
And, if we're talking about the need for newcomers to "assimilate” into the existing culture, perhaps Aboriginal Australians can offer an interesting historical perspective on that. Let me say at this point, I agree with many of the things the PM said ...

Wollondilly Advertiser
Who's allowed to compose Australian values?
Wollondilly Advertiser
And, if we're talking about the need for newcomers to "assimilate” into the existing culture, perhaps Aboriginal Australians can offer an interesting historical perspective on that. Let me say at this point, I agree with many of the things the PM said ...

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Camden Advertiser
Who's allowed to compose Australian values?
Camden Advertiser
And, if we're talking about the need for newcomers to "assimilate” into the existing culture, perhaps Aboriginal Australians can offer an interesting historical perspective on that. Let me say at this point, I agree with many of the things the PM said ...

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ABC Online
Wide Open Space music festival in Central Australia helping preserve Indigenous languages
ABC Online
An arts festival in Central Australia is helping keep Indigenous languages and culture alive through song, musicians at the event say. Wide Open Space, held at Ross River Resort about 85 kilometres from Alice Springs, is a three-day camping festival ...

SBS
The young Indigenous filmmakers broadcasting their stories to the world
SBS
Their videos capture snippets of life in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands, in central Australia. It's a closed Indigenous community, open to few visitors. There's also no mobile phone reception and few homes have access to the internet ...

Bendigo Advertiser
Anthem update should occur regularly, says Bowman MP
Bendigo Advertiser
Mr Laming said the anthem's first verse could focus on Australia's natural attributes while the second could be on values. While indigenous people needed to be recognised, no particular race of people who had come to Australia dominated. Mr Laming's ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous housing: Family living in indoor tent for privacy, as government promises overcrowding fix
ABC Online
He said that from July, Indigenous businesses in communities would have to bid for the remote housing funding to provide services. "[They] will be able to put bids forward to the NT Government and be able to show new innovation, new efficiencies," he said.

The Australian
Indigenous mentoring pioneer reaches out to the world
The Australian
Twelve years later he is chief executive of Australia's largest indigenous high school mentoring program, the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, engaging almost 2000 university mentors to help more than 10,000 students. But the 31-year-old ...

Phys.Org
Australian volcanic eruption may have lived on in Aboriginal stories
Phys.Org
"Studying the Kinrara eruption has been a fascinating step on the road to better understanding the most recent volcanic activity in Australia, and also the history and traditions of Aboriginal peoples. We look forward to continuing our work on ...

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Courier Mail
Aborigines want charter of change
Courier Mail
Constitutional recognition for Aborigines is, prima facie, a simple matter, eloquently articulated by Harold Ludwick, an indigenous Queenslander from Cape York who once said: “If the Constitution was the birth certificate of Australia, we're missing ...

Courier Mail
Aborigines want charter of change
Courier Mail
Constitutional recognition for Aborigines is, prima facie, a simple matter, eloquently articulated by Harold Ludwick, an indigenous Queenslander from Cape York who once said: “If the Constitution was the birth certificate of Australia, we're missing ...

Daily Mail
Volcanic eruption lives on in Aboriginal stories
Daily Mail
A devastating Australian volcanic eruption may have lived on in Aboriginal stories for thousands of years. New research shows that a volcano in northeastern Australia last erupted around 7,000 years ago. Stories passed down through as many as 230 ...

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ABC Online
Remote Aboriginal community trains to develop emergency rescue skills
ABC Online
Warburton is 1,000 kilometres east of Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, while Kalgoorlie is to the south, in Western Australia. The training focused on simple, practical tips such as using the jaws of life hydraulic cutting tool. "If a person's ...

Time Out Sydney (blog)
Two generations talk about the impact of the 1967 Referendum and the 1992 Mabo Decision
Time Out Sydney (blog)
Maybe the big change will come when Elizabeth dies and we have to think about a republic or not. [We need] a bigger discussion in the next ten years about what it means to be a republic and therefore to reset the conversation with Aboriginal Australia ...