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Top Indigenous players sweep into Broome SPORT - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Top Indigenous players sweep into Broome SPORT
National Indigenous Times
A who's who of Indigenous footy stars will be in Broome for a four-day camp beginning today (February 1). Fifty-five players from clubs around Australia are gathering in the northern West Australian town to bond in player-led cultural development ...

Parrot pie and possum curry – how colonial Australians embraced native food - SBS


SBS

Parrot pie and possum curry – how colonial Australians embraced native food
SBS
The relationship between European settlers and native Australian foodstuffs during the 19th century was a complex one. While the taste for native ingredients waxed and waned for the first century of European settlement, there's ample evidence to ...

Funding restricts support for homeless Indigenous Australians - Swinburne University of Technology


Swinburne University of Technology

Funding restricts support for homeless Indigenous Australians
Swinburne University of Technology
Indigenous Australians experience homelessness at a rate 14 times higher than non-Indigenous Australians, yet current funding arrangements are making it difficult for support services to provide Indigenous people with the most appropriate assistance, ...

Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal Australia - ABC Online


ABC Online

Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal Australia
ABC Online
There is now a higher proportion of Indigenous characters on Australian television than in the Australian population, and Aboriginal actor Mark Coles Smith can see the difference it is having on young people. Growing up in Broome in the far north-west ...

Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal Australia - ABC Online


ABC Online

Mark Coles Smith on what Indigenous film and television characters mean for Aboriginal Australia
ABC Online
A 2016 Screen Australia study found that while non-Anglo-Celtic characters were under-represented on Australian television, a significant exception was that Indigenous characters had come from nowhere to make up 5 per cent of on-screen characters, ...

Indigenous elder turns 110 - Townsville Bulletin


Townsville Bulletin

Indigenous elder turns 110
Townsville Bulletin
“His mum was an aboriginal woman named Minnie from the Kukatj tribe and his dad was a white book keeper at Magoura station where he was born. “The kind station manager would tell his dad when he knew the police were coming and Dad was allowed to ...

Indigenous elder turns 110 - Townsville Bulletin


Townsville Bulletin

Indigenous elder turns 110
Townsville Bulletin
The former stockman known for his easygoing nature, celebrated his 110th birthday with family at his Kirwan home this week. He is the oldest living member of the Kukatj tribe of the Normanton area where he grew up mustering cattle with the early ...

The markers of everyday racism in Australia - SBS


SBS

The markers of everyday racism in Australia
SBS
Let's try to understand the experience of everyday racism by negotiating the material world of an Aboriginal person in northern Australia. You have come into Katherine, Northern Territory, from a remote community. It might be say, Barunga, 80 ...

The markers of everyday racism in Australia - SBS


SBS

The markers of everyday racism in Australia
SBS
Let's try to understand the experience of everyday racism by negotiating the material world of an Aboriginal person in northern Australia. You have come into Katherine, Northern Territory, from a remote community. It might be say, Barunga, 80 ...

Australia Day date debate: Sadness turns to hope in Grafton - Clarence Valley Daily Examiner


Clarence Valley Daily Examiner

Australia Day date debate: Sadness turns to hope in Grafton
Clarence Valley Daily Examiner
EXPERIENCE: Uncle Roger Duroux, Bianca Monaghan and Dean Loadsman will run a free workshop on contemporary Aboriginal issues and culture in response to opinions of Australia Day. facebook ...

Southern Stars name Ashleigh Gardner in squad, could become Australia's first Indigenous cricket player in 59 years - ABC Online


ABC Online

Southern Stars name Ashleigh Gardner in squad, could become Australia's first Indigenous cricket player in 59 years
ABC Online
Gardner set the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) alight this season with a break-out performance, and her reward is being named the first Indigenous player in the Australian women's team in 59 years. The last Indigenous player in national women's ...
Sydney Sixers' Indigenous prodigy Ashleigh Gardner picked for Southern StarsThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Southern Stars name Ashleigh Gardner in squad, could become Australia's first Indigenous cricket player in 59 years - ABC Online


ABC Online

Southern Stars name Ashleigh Gardner in squad, could become Australia's first Indigenous cricket player in 59 years
ABC Online
Gardner set the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) alight this season with a break-out performance, and her reward is being named the first Indigenous player in the Australian women's team in 59 years. The last Indigenous player in national women's ...
Indigenous star Ashleigh Gardner in line to debut for Southern StarsThe Age
Perry ruled out, historic debut loomscricket.com.au

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Australia Day addresses - Wingham Chronicle


Wingham Chronicle

Australia Day addresses
Wingham Chronicle
It is crucial that the future generations are educated about, and understand, the history of our country and the importance and sacrifices made by Indigenous Australians. By doing that, our country will become even greater than it already is. It'll be ...

I'm just misunderstood, says Mundine - The Australian


dailytelegraph.com.au

I'm just misunderstood, says Mundine
The Australian
Mundine said the anthem was the theme song for the divisive White Australia policy, and unjust to him and his fellow indigenous population. “I'm about uniting people together, uniting the country together,” he said. “Do your research on the anthem, do ...
'I'm trying to better Australia': Mundinedailytelegraph.com.au
Anthony Mundine won t stand for national anthem, Danny Green responds - Yahoo7Yahoo7 News
Mundine has insulted all of usThe Advertiser
The New Daily -Daily Mail -NEWS.com.au
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Aboriginal boxer refuses to stand for Australian anthem - Newstalk 106-108 fm


Newstalk 106-108 fm

Aboriginal boxer refuses to stand for Australian anthem
Newstalk 106-108 fm
Anthony "The Man" Mundine has ignited racial tensions in Australia after announcing that he won't stand for he national anthem prior to his fight with Danny Green in Adelaide this weekend. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald ahead of the bout, he ...
Editorial: Boxer's low blow rouses racial divideThe Advertiser
Anthony Mundine says Australian national anthem is racistDaily Mail
'I'm trying to better Australia': Mundinedailytelegraph.com.au
NEWS.com.au -The Missouri Injury Blog (blog)
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Indigenous MP Billy Gordon seeks Pauline Hanson deal - The Australian


The Australian

Indigenous MP Billy Gordon seeks Pauline Hanson deal
The Australian
Mr Gordon won the seat as a Labor candidate in 2015 from the Liberal National Party on the back of preferences, largely from the Greens and Katter's Australian Party. “I'd like to talk to Steve and get the lay of the land and have a dialogue; everybody ...

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Editorial: Boxer's low blow rouses racial divide - The Advertiser


dailytelegraph.com.au

Editorial: Boxer's low blow rouses racial divide
The Advertiser
In 2007 he branded Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter and fellow Aboriginal athlete Cathy Freeman a “sellout” for being involved with corporate Australia. After the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on America, he said that country had “brought it ...
'I'm trying to better Australia': Mundinedailytelegraph.com.au
Anthony Mundine confirms he won't stand for national anthem ahead of Danny Green fightNEWS.com.au
Anthony Mundine says Australian national anthem is racistDaily Mail

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Why are we destroying 40000-year-old sites, ask Pilbara's Eastern Guruma OPINION - National Indigenous Times


National Indigenous Times

Why are we destroying 40000-year-old sites, ask Pilbara's Eastern Guruma OPINION
National Indigenous Times
All of the sites were considered to meet the requirements of an Aboriginal site under the Western Australian Aboriginal Heritage Act (1972). Unfortunately, one of these very significant sites has already been destroyed and there are plans by one of the ...

Indigenous Youth Conference offers chance to make a change - Mandurah Mail


Mandurah Mail

Indigenous Youth Conference offers chance to make a change
Mandurah Mail
The National Indigenous Youth Parliament (NIYP) is a week-long leadership program for Indigenous Australians aged 16 to 25. Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers said it was a golden opportunity to learn about government and leadership directly from the ...

Mundine has insulted all of us - The Advertiser


The Advertiser

Mundine has insulted all of us
The Advertiser
It is true that the plight and living conditions of many indigenous Australians remain a national disgrace, but it is not because of any political or social neglect that they can't be resolved. If the predicaments of indigenous health, welfare and ...

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