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Bob Hawke at Woodford Folk Festival: Australia should be world's nuclear dumping ground - Courier Mail


Courier Mail

Bob Hawke at Woodford Folk Festival: Australia should be world's nuclear dumping ground
Courier Mail
The former PM said a non-negotiable part of Australia becoming the world's nuclear dump would be using revenue to address the “great stain on our national character” — the gap between indigenous Australians and mainstream society. He said many ...

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Finding the next Indigenous football star! - FourFourTwo Australia


FourFourTwo Australia

Finding the next Indigenous football star!
FourFourTwo Australia
During the 2015/16 A-League season one time Socceroo and current Brisbane Roar Defender Jade North, was the only Indigenous representative in Australia's top flight. There are over 1 million participants who play football in Australia and 6,541 ...

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Australian University to promote Aboriginal culture - Press TV


Press TV

Australian University to promote Aboriginal culture
Press TV
The University of Adelaide has established the National Center for Aboriginal Language and Music Studies (NCALMS) for that purpose. An aboriginal elder carries burning gum leaves during a smoking ceremony on Australia Day in Sydney, Australia, ...

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING TRUE BLUE - dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)


dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING TRUE BLUE
dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)
Arriving in Jerusalem a week or so back for the Australia Israel UK Leadership Dialogue, Aboriginal leader and former Australian Labor Party president Nyunggai Warren Mundine discovered his luggage had been lost enroute. For the first two days of the ...

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SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING TRUE BLUE - dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)


dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)

SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING TRUE BLUE
dailytelegraph.com.au (blog)
Sources of the suit and shirt represent Australia's two foundation states, while the Grafton-born wearer himself represents indigenous Australians, the Catholic church and our nation's rural centres. Warren's Labor history combines with the Liberal ...

Record-breaking Christmas storm in Australia's Uluru national park causes flash floods - The Independent


The Independent

Record-breaking Christmas storm in Australia's Uluru national park causes flash floods
The Independent
A quarter of people in Kintore, a remote settlement in the Northern Territory with a 91 per cent Aboriginal population, was evacuated after a record-breaking amount of rain hit the Uluru-Kata Tjuta national park yesterday. Photographs shared on social ...
Christmas storm brings waterfalls to UluruThe Times (subscription)
Stunning waterfalls on Uluru after freak stormSky News
Australia's Uluru flooded after record-breaking Christmas downpourthejournal.ie
Condé Nast Traveler
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Survival skills essential when disaster strikes in Western Desert region - The Australian


The Australian

Survival skills essential when disaster strikes in Western Desert region
The Australian
In 1982, aged 28, I acted as a field assistant for anthropologists Kim Akerman and Peter Bindon who, with the help of the local Aboriginal community, were working in the Great Sandy Desert locating significant Aboriginal sites for the Western ...

Black Arm Band in financial disarray - The Australian


Black Arm Band in financial disarray
The Australian
The Black Arm Band has been the toast of major arts festivals and an ambassador for indigenous Australia overseas, but behind the scenes its board and financial management appear to have been a shambles. Gurrumul, Archie Roach and Dan Sultan are ...

Schools failing history - NT News


NT News

Schools failing history
NT News
Mr Egan, who was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 for services to Aboriginal people, was NT Administrator from 2003 to 2007. Both believe the education department is failing Territory children by not giving them detailed knowledge about ...

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The greatest team photo in Australian sporting history - The Age


The greatest team photo in Australian sporting history
The Age
This is ostensibly a cricket photo, but the Aboriginal players in this picture, all from western Victoria, had seen dispossession, disease and murder at a catastrophic rate. Like photographs of Truganinni taken around the same time in Tasmania, these ...

Clinton's walk for justice: The man walking across Australia for Indigenous communities - Radio Australia


Radio Australia

Clinton's walk for justice: The man walking across Australia for Indigenous communities
Radio Australia
He describes himself as a "Wajuk, Balardung, Kija and a Yulparitja man from the west", but as he told the ABC: "I'm a man from Western Australia walking across the whole country for justice and for change." A team of eight people rallied together as Mr ...

Aboriginal XI v MCC remembered 150 years on - cricket.com.au


cricket.com.au

Aboriginal XI v MCC remembered 150 years on
cricket.com.au
Editor's note: Some of the language used in the newspaper excerpts below is a reflection of Australian society at the time. Readers may find the language offensive, but it has been included to help explain the relationship between Aboriginal people and ...

Aboriginal XI v MCC remembered 150 years on - cricket.com.au


cricket.com.au

Aboriginal XI v MCC remembered 150 years on
cricket.com.au
Editor's note: Some of the language used in the newspaper excerpts below is a reflection of Australian society at the time. Readers may find the language offensive, but it has been included to help explain the relationship between Aboriginal people and ...

Interview: Chef Paul Iskov, Champion of Aboriginal Australian Ingredients - The Daily Meal


Interview: Chef Paul Iskov, Champion of Aboriginal Australian Ingredients
The Daily Meal
We met Paul Iskov at the Margaret River Gourmet Escape, a major international food and wine experience in Australia. He is unusual in that he forages for his food and ingredients with the aborigines and hosts all his meals in pop-up format. He's one of ...

Labor calls for overhaul of 'Mickey Mouse' work for the dole courses - ABC Online


ABC Online

Labor calls for overhaul of 'Mickey Mouse' work for the dole courses
ABC Online
"I don't believe in training for training's sake," Labor Leader and Aboriginal affairs spokesman Bill Shorten said. "I believe the training should lead to meaningful jobs. "I don't think you punish people for not necessarily going through some of the ...

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SA Museum, Yolngu people breathe new life into didgeridoos from 1880s - ABC Online


ABC Online

SA Museum, Yolngu people breathe new life into didgeridoos from 1880s
ABC Online
The instruments are just some of the 28,000 Aboriginal items held by the South Australian Museum's Australian Aboriginal cultural collection. The fragile nature of the instruments meant museum workers had to be especially careful to reintroduce ...

Noel Pearson's involvement in remote Indigenous Queensland schools to continue - The Guardian


The Guardian

Noel Pearson's involvement in remote Indigenous Queensland schools to continue
The Guardian
Pearson's Good To Great Schools Australia, which pulled out of Aurukun school after a tumultuous dispute including the government's attempts to limit the contentious Direct Instruction (DI) curriculum, has signed an in-principle agreement for jointly ...

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Agreement reached over Cape schools - dailytelegraph.com.au


dailytelegraph.com.au

Agreement reached over Cape schools
dailytelegraph.com.au
According to the joint agreement, the Department of Education will be responsible for the operation of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy and Good to Great Schools Australia will be responsible for the implementation of its “5C Education Model ...
Noel Pearson Cape York schools ink deal with Palaszczuk governmentThe Australian

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Agreement reached over Cape schools - Courier Mail


Courier Mail

Agreement reached over Cape schools
Courier Mail
According to the joint agreement, the Department of Education will be responsible for the operation of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy and Good to Great Schools Australia will be responsible for the implementation of its “5C Education Model ...
Noel Pearson Cape York schools ink deal with Palaszczuk governmentThe Australian

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