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The Conversation AU
The red professor and the white anting that continues to this day
The Conversation AU
Rose (1915-1991) migrated to Australia in 1937 to conduct anthropological fieldwork in a classical Aboriginal society. Born in London and educated at Cambridge, he was inspired by zoologist and anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon, who in the late 19th ...

Indigenous Australians' wellbeing 'stagnating or worsening', Productivity Commission report reveals
Radio Australia
The commission's Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage report says despite some positive trends, the plight of Indigenous Australians has "stagnated or worsened" in critical areas of wellbeing. Among the findings, the national Indigenous imprisonment rate ...

ABC Online
Indigenous Australians' wellbeing 'stagnating or worsening', Productivity Commission report reveals
ABC Online
Despite the disturbing assessment, a number of case studies have been highlighted where good governance is contributing to the success of Indigenous organisations. These include the Waitja Tjutangku Palyapayi Aboriginal Corporation in Central Australia ...
'Lift the bonnet' on Indigenous spending, Productivity Commission urgesThe Australian Financial Review
Indigenous disadvantage getting worse in mental health and incarcerationThe Guardian
Productivity Commission slams lack of policy evaluation as Indigenous incarceration soarsThe Sydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Indigenous Australians' wellbeing 'stagnating or worsening', Productivity Commission report reveals
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians are becoming more disadvantaged, with alarming increases in imprisonment rates, mental health problems and self harm, according to a damning Productivity Commission report released today.
'Lift the bonnet' on Indigenous spending, Productivity Commission urgesThe Australian Financial Review
Indigenous disadvantage getting worse in mental health and incarcerationThe Guardian
Productivity Commission slams lack of policy evaluation as Indigenous incarceration soarsThe Sydney Morning Herald

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Courier Mail
Gallery captures arts and mines
Courier Mail
AFFECTIONATELY known as the “Big Australian”, BHP Billiton is investing big in Aboriginal art, with a whopping $17.5 million sponsorship of the Art Gallery of South Australia's Tarnanthi festival. In one of Australia's biggest corporate sponsorships ...

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Courier Mail
Gallery captures arts and mines
Courier Mail
In one of Australia's biggest corporate sponsorships for art, the world's largest mining company has given AGSA the money to present the national indigenous visual arts festival annually for the next five years. Like the festival it staged for the ...

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The Advertiser
Gallery captures arts and mines
The Advertiser
AFFECTIONATELY known as the “Big Australian”, BHP Billiton is investing big in Aboriginal art, with a whopping $17.5 million sponsorship of the Art Gallery of South Australia's Tarnanthi festival. In one of Australia's biggest corporate sponsorships ...
BHP Billiton puts up $17.5m to support indigenous art festivalsThe Australian

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The Advertiser
Gallery captures arts and mines
The Advertiser
In one of Australia's biggest corporate sponsorships for art, the world's largest mining company has given AGSA the money to present the national indigenous visual arts festival annually for the next five years. Like the festival it staged for the ...
BHP Billiton puts up $17.5m to support indigenous art festivalsThe Australian

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Gallery captures arts and mines
dailytelegraph.com.au
In one of Australia's biggest corporate sponsorships for art, the world's largest mining company has given AGSA the money to present the national indigenous visual arts festival annually for the next five years. Like the festival it staged for the ...
TARNANTHI returnsAboriginal Art Directory News

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The Australian
BHP Billiton puts up $17.5m to support indigenous art festivals
The Australian
South Australian governments may have been slow to celebrate indigenous art, but today Premier Jay Weatherill will reveal he has brokered a deal in which resources giant BHP Billiton will spend $17.5 million on three Aboriginal art festivals across the ...

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The Australian
US activist Carole Johnson recalls role in Aboriginal dance
The Australian
“There is a tremendous amount of racism Australia doesn't recognise. There was and there is still. It's not overt and it's not too bad, although I had much less trouble than the Aboriginal people. But it was exciting to meet up with Aboriginal people ...

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The Australian
US activist Carole Johnson recalls role in Aboriginal dance
The Australian
Jenny was Jenny Isaacs, indigenous officer of the then Australian Council for the Arts. It was in her Glebe home that a young woman by the name of Carole Johnson first gleaned the idea for what would become Australia's most significant indigenous ...

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The Australian
Lack of account in $5.9bn indigenous spend 'beggars belief'
The Australian
Ms Chester said the OID report, produced in consultation with federal, state and territory governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, including peak body the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, had not put a dollar figure on ...

The Australian
Lack of account in $5.9bn indigenous spend 'beggars belief'
The Australian
Only 24 of more than 1000 indigenous programs show clear evidence of success and meet rigorous assessment criteria, a new government report finds as it questions the efficiency of the $5.9 billion spent on reducing the disadvantage of First Australians.

The Guardian
Western Australian Indigenous ranger program proposed for 5m hectares
The Guardian
Five million hectares of unmanaged pastoral leases in outback Western Australia would become national park land under a proposal being put before the Barnett government to expand the Indigenous ranger program and create more than 200 jobs. The 66 ...

SBS
NSW leads the way to protecting Aboriginal languages
SBS
NSW Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Leslie Williams says this is the first act of its kind in Australia and that NSW is paving the way for the future. "Aboriginal people who speak their language are healthier, Aboriginal children learning an ...
NSW to become first state to pass laws protecting Indigenous languagesThe Border Mail
Aboriginal languages in NSW to be protected by legislation, Minister saysABC Online

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The Age
Refugee advocate Paris Aristotle named 2017 Victorian Australian of the Year
The Age
Meanwhile indigenous educator Lois Peeler, 72, was named Victorian Senior Australian of the Year. Ms Peeler was a member of wartime pop group the Sapphires, which inspired the movie hit of the same name. An elder of the Yorta Yorta people, she's also ...

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The Age
Refugee advocate Paris Aristotle named 2017 Victorian Australian of the Year
The Age
Paris Aristotle, who has spent decades advocating for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, has been named 2017 Victorian Australian of the Year at a ceremony at Melbourne's Government House. In 1988 Mr Aristotle was a community development ...
Refugee advocate Paris Aristotle named Victoria's 2017 Australian of the YearSBS

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Perth Now
Australia ignorant on Aboriginals: Barnett
Perth Now
WA Premier Colin Barnett says most of Australia is ignorant about a social crisis in which more Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal children live in state care despite indigenous people representing well under seven per cent of the population. New figures ...

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Perth Now
Australia ignorant on Aboriginals: Barnett
Perth Now
I don't think the rest of Australia understands the severity of some of the issues faced not exclusively in Aboriginal communities but predominantly and increasingly Aboriginal children." A 12-year-old Perth indigenous boy, who was 11 when arrested ...
It's time to invest in carbon farming on Aboriginal lands | Rowan FoleyThe Guardian

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