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Australia Day 2017 'one of biggest ever'
The Australian
Mr Kirby said about two-thirds of Australians get involved in celebrations every year - from backyard barbecues to harbourside concerts. An indigenous morning ceremony at Barangaroo will kick things off in Sydney, before the Australian and Aboriginal ...
NSW hive of activity for Australia Day9news.com.au

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Mason gives hope to indigenous women
The Australian
... the Aboriginal language word for grass. We have over 400 artists creating baskets and sculptures inspired by ancient stories and song lines," she said. "It makes it multidimensional, tangible and so visually exciting." Ms Mason, the first ...

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Mason gives hope to indigenous women
9news.com.au
Her work covers a 350,000 square kilometre stretch of central Australia, but 2017 Australian of the Year nominee Andrea Mason says the indigenous women who are scattered across the region make it feel much smaller. "They know the country, the language ...

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Students serve up Indigenous Australia on a plate
EducationHQ Australia
Guests savoured the tantalising, native-inspired ice creams with wattle seed, macadamia and Australian honey. MacDougall and Laker explained to curious guests that Aboriginal women gathered Honey Ants from nests around the Mulga trees where the ants ...

Courier Mail
'Change the date? What will that solve?'
Courier Mail
Her comments come after Warren Mundine outlined why he thought if people love Australia, the date should be changed, saying that all Aussies, including indigenous Australians, should be able to celebrate the country. Pauline Hanson doesn't believe ...

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SA's Australian of Year 2017 finalists
NEWS.com.au
Senior Australian of the Year: Patricia Buckskin. An educator and passionate advocate of lifelong learning. Was appointed South Australia's first Aboriginal state manager of Aboriginal education workers in 1987. Instrumental in setting up the Kaurna ...

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Domain News
Australian style: meet the designers at the forefront of contemporary Australian design
Domain News
In the Aboriginal culture of Australia, art and design have been used as forms of communication and education for 50,000 years. Today, contemporary design concepts complement the traditional arts and crafts that have evolved over centuries.
Indigenous Homeless Hit Hardest By Funding UncertaintyPro Bono Australia

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NITV's 3LACK60 Sessions: #ChangeTheDate
SBS
NITV Channel Manager, Tanya Orman, said: “As part of our role as Australia's dedicated Indigenous broadcaster, NITV provides an important place for Indigenous voices to be heard on issues that matter to communities. For many Aboriginal and Torres ...
Aussie hip hop artists unite for 'Change the Date' trackABC Online

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Why I won't be partying on 26 January
Red Flag
“Australia Day is our national day”, a day when “history is put to one side”, he insisted. WA Labor's Aboriginal affairs spokesperson Ben Wyatt also turned on the council, telling the Australian, “cancelling fireworks is a facile response and likely to ...

Shepparton News
Date stirs up controversy
Shepparton News
For many, this is a symbolic time to reflect on Australia's colonisation, but for indigenous Australians January 26 can be a reminder of the hardship their people faced on that day and in the decades following. Earlier this month The News published an ...

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Works by contemporary female artists from remote Aboriginal areas to tour North America for the next two years
the AU review (blog)
Miami's The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU will exhibit the work of nine contemporary female artists hailing from remote Aboriginal areas, in an exhibition called Making the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia ...

Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous Homeless Hit Hardest By Funding Uncertainty
Pro Bono Australia
Research from AHURI has found there are no government programs that specifically target supporting homeless Indigenous Australians or those at risk of experiencing homelessness, despite their being significantly overrepresented in the homeless ...

Courier Mail
The woman with “the best job in the world”
Courier Mail
WITH her professional responsibilities stretching across a 350,000 square kilometre sweep of central Australia, it's fair to say Andrea Mason has a very big job. But as the renowned Indigenous leader puts it, her role as Chief Executive Officer of the ...

The Advertiser
The woman with “the best job in the world”
The Advertiser
WITH her professional responsibilities stretching across a 350,000 square kilometre sweep of central Australia, it's fair to say Andrea Mason has a very big job. But as the renowned Indigenous leader puts it, her role as Chief Executive Officer of the ...

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The woman with “the best job in the world”
dailytelegraph.com.au
To that end the qualified lawyer, businesswoman and former national leader of the Family First Party is working hard to integrate elements of corporate Australia into traditional Aboriginal cultural approaches to create employment, support health and ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
The woman with “the best job in the world”
dailytelegraph.com.au
WITH her professional responsibilities stretching across a 350,000 square kilometre sweep of central Australia, it's fair to say Andrea Mason has a very big job. But as the renowned Indigenous leader puts it, her role as Chief Executive Officer of the ...

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The Australian
Too many caught up in cycle of the sorry business
The Australian
Present damage caused by historical wrongs became a fashionable cause in Canadian indigenous politics in the 1990s, and Kevin Rudd's acclaimed apology to indigenous Australians unwittingly encouraged its importation to Australia. Aboriginal and Torres ...

The Australian
Stolen Generation court battle: sisters win $200k after Linda Burney appeals
The Australian
In a passionate letter addressed to the court, Ms Burney, who is the first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia's House of Representatives, argued that "a forced adoption" had torn the family apart more than 50 years ago, but their love for each other ...

The Australian
Too many caught up in cycle of the sorry business
The Australian
Indigenous Australians “have experienced trauma as a result of colonisation, dispossession and dislocation, as well as the trauma of ongoing racism, family violence and other events”, wrote Calma, citing as his authority a little-known emeritus ...

Courier Mail
If you love Australia, change the date
Courier Mail
In 1938, then Australian premiers gathered in Sydney to mark 150 years since the First Fleet's landing. That same day, Aboriginal leaders held a Day of Mourning and Protest to highlight the mistreatment of Aboriginal people and campaign for equal rights.

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