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Forbes Advocate
Let's ride: bike safety workshop for Aboriginal kids
Forbes Advocate
Pump up your tyres and dust off your seats, as Cycling Australia will be a hosting a number of free Aboriginal Bicycle Safety Programs across the region over the next two weeks. Using Cycling Australia's successful Let's Ride program, these three-hour ...

9news.com.au
Australian of the Year finalist: Indigenous leader Andrea Mason strives to give women in remote communities 'a voice'
9news.com.au
Chief executive of community organisation Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women's Council, Ms Mason has assisted around 2,000 women in remote Indigenous communities understand their potential. "We help women learn about their ...

AdNews
MLA's non-Australia Day spot faces watchdog scrutiny
AdNews
Topping the list for one of the most controversial ads of 2016 was MLA's Australia Day campaign featuring Lee Lin Chin. The ad totalled more than 700 complaints, with uproar from vegan community and Indigenous Australians. Again, the ASB dismissed the ...

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ABC Online
No picnic at Hanging Rock: Campaign to recognise Aboriginal past rather than 'white myth'
ABC Online
A campaign has been launched to highlight the significance of Indigenous history at Victoria's Hanging Rock, rather than Australia's obsession with a fictional story about missing girls. Miranda Must Go is the controversial catch-cry of a campaign that ...
Picnic at Hanging Rock unsettles on stage as it did on film - reviewTelegraph.co.uk

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ABC Online
No picnic at Hanging Rock: Campaign to recognise Aboriginal past rather than 'white myth'
ABC Online
A campaign has been launched to highlight the significance of Indigenous history at Victoria's Hanging Rock, rather than Australia's obsession with a fictional story about missing girls. Miranda Must Go is the controversial catch-cry of a campaign that ...

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ABC Online
Non-Indigenous woman with skin name defends practice amid criticism from Arrernte singer
ABC Online
One of three concepts central to many Indigenous Australian kinship systems, skin names are a form of societal organisation that indicates how generations are linked and how different people should interact. Much of Mr Williams' criticism centred on ...

ABC Online
Indigenous arts community lobby Government to make it illegal to sell fake Aboriginal-style souvenirs
ABC Online
Gabrielle Sullivan, chief executive of Indigenous Art Code, has been collecting dozens of mementos and trinkets during an investigation into fake Aboriginal-style souvenirs over the past six months. "These items are extremely popular … marketed as ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous arts community lobby Government to make it illegal to sell fake Aboriginal-style souvenirs
ABC Online
Gabrielle Sullivan, chief executive of Indigenous Art Code, has been collecting dozens of mementos and trinkets during an investigation into fake Aboriginal-style souvenirs over the past six months. "These items are extremely popular … marketed as ...

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The Mandarin (registration)
Push to revive national plan for Indigenous language interpreters
The Mandarin (registration)
And, as the lead agency for Indigenous Affairs since 2013, the PM's department has provided around $970 million in funding for some targeted initiatives, including TAFE courses in South Australia and Indigenous language interpreters for the ABC.

Herald Sun
WA Noongar elder Robert Isaacs says Australia Day is 'for everyone'
Herald Sun
Elder Robert Isaacs has warned fellow indigenous Australians they were damaging their people and causing division by opposing Australia Day. Picture: Matt Jelonek. “We cannot change the past. We are damaging our own people, causing division, and we ...

Perth Now
WA Noongar elder Robert Isaacs says Australia Day is 'for everyone ...
Perth Now
ELDER Robert Isaacs has warned fellow indigenous Australians they were damaging their people and causing division by opposing Australia Day.

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Perth Now
'You can't go forward always looking back'
Perth Now
In a speech to be delivered in Newman on January 26, the ambassador and former chairman of Australia Day WA council will urge Aboriginal people to “get past the hurts of the past”. Dr Isaacs said the solution was to make Australia Day more of a ...

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Echonetdaily
SCU law student receives national Indigenous award
Echonetdaily
The annual National Indigenous Law Awards (NILA), awarded by the federal Attorney-General's Department, recognise the achievements of Indigenous Australians who improve justice outcomes for Indigenous Australians. Johanna said the NILA judges ...

EXPERIENCE AUSTRALIA DAY 2017 AT BARANGAROO RESERVE
PRWire (press release)
Australia Day in Barangaroo Reserve provides visitors with a unique chance to experience and learn about Sydney's Aboriginal heritage and Australia's shared history, combined with a full day of free family-friendly activities and entertainment. "If you ...

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NEWS.com.au
Muslim Australia Day billboard pulled
NEWS.com.au
The uproar came just days after a divisive Australia Day advertisement by Meat and Livestock Australia, in which multiple ethnic groups are seen to turn up uninvited to a barbecue being held by indigenous Australians. It drew criticism from similar ...

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ABC Online
Five reasons to love brush turkeys
ABC Online
Their egg incubation process — dumping them in a mound and abandoning them — is an extraordinarily primitive nesting behaviour, closer to a crocodile than a normal bird's. In many places in Australia brush turkeys are totems for Aboriginal people.

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SBS
Indigenous art collective hits back at lamb ad with satire
SBS
The former fish and chip shop owner expressed her displeasure to News Corp, saying she wasn't 'knocking' Aboriginal Australians and urged 'them' to see themselves as Australians. “It really is pretty sad, isn't it? It's bloody idiots out there, ratbags ...

Indigenous art collective hits back at lamb ad with satire
SBS
The video shows a couple of 'settlers' arriving at a beach, where two Indigenous men are having a barbeque. The new arrivals shoot and kill their hosts, after they ask where they came from. The video then encourages Australians to change the date, ...

ABC Online
Australia Day: Organisers promise huge celebrations to showcase Sydney
ABC Online
A free concert at the iconic Sydney Opera House will cap off a full day of Australia Day festivities in the Harbour City that organisers hope will rival the grandeur of New Year's Eve. Both the Australian and Aboriginal flags will be raised on the ...

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ABC Online
Australia Day: Organisers promise huge celebrations to showcase Sydney
ABC Online
A free concert at the iconic Sydney Opera House will cap off a full day of Australia Day festivities in the Harbour City that organisers hope will rival the grandeur of New Year's Eve. Both the Australian and Aboriginal flags will be raised on the ...

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