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ABC Online
Australia Day award change: venue shortage forces shift not Aboriginal sensitivities
ABC Online
A Tasmanian mayor says his council is shifting the date of its Australia Day awards because of a venue shortage rather than Aboriginal sensitivities. Kingborough Council has voted five to four to move the ceremony from January 26 to earlier in the ...

Honi Soit
Andy Mason visited the Muurrbay Aboriginal Language & Culture Co-operative.
Honi Soit
Founded in 1986 in the old mission church hall, using contributions from the pensions of local elders who were concerned about the declining use of their language, Muurrbay has become a model for Aboriginal language revitalisation across Australia.

The Stringer
Dhu, Morrison, Ward, Mandijarra, Briscoe, Doomadgee did not have to die
The Stringer
Yawuru Elder, Senator Pat Dodson recently accused the Australian nation of racism though by sleight of hand, “you cannot claim amnesia” when referring to the quarter century old recommendations from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in ...

Australians should be standing up for dissenters
The Australian
However, Bill Leak's concerns — and ours — is with the higher percentage of Aboriginal child incarceration and damage from parental alcohol and drug abuse, the kids on the streets all night and low school attendance, the drugs and alcohol awash in ...

The Australian
Indigenous dictionary project aims to keep endangered languages alive
The Australian
The prototype includes Anindilyakwa, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara speakers but has the potential to cover all of Australia's living languages. Each dynamic dictionary entry includes text, audio recordings and video of speakers. Indigenous ...

Phys.Org
Revealing the science of Aboriginal fermentation
Phys.Org
A cider gum (Eucalyptus gunnii) in central Tasmania. Cider gum produces a sugar-rich sap. Credit: John Reid, Redbeard Bakery, Victoria. Wine researchers at the University of Adelaide are investigating the traditional practices of Australian Aboriginal ...

ABC Message Stick
Aboriginal Astronomy
ABC Message Stick
Scientists think they may have found the world's oldest astronomical map right here in Australia. The sacred Aboriginal site is believed to have been made to map the position of the sun, moon and stars in the sky. And studies suggest it might be old ...

Billboard
Jessica Mauboy Becomes First Indigenous Artist to Debut Atop Australia's Albums Chart
Billboard
Jessica Mauboy has claimed a piece of history by becoming the first Indigenous Australian artist to debut at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. The 27-year-old Darwin-born singer and actor bows at the national chart summit with The Secret Daughter (Songs ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Lack of accountability letting down Indigenous Australians
The Australian Financial Review
Any stranger visiting Australia who was presented with a statistical snapshot of what is happening in some of our Indigenous communities could be forgiven for concluding that ours is an uncaring nation, indifferent to the plight of some of our most ...

Call for SA Aboriginal kids commissioner
The Australian
South Australia should have a children's commissioner specifically focused on the state's Aboriginal kids, the head of welfare group Anglicare SA says. CEO Peter Sandeman says the passing of legislation last week to establish a commissioner for ...

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SBS
Shadow Trackers: Hunting monsters in the unexplored Australia
SBS
But one question that isn't asked often enough is how truly Australian this fear is. In watching Shadow Trackers, a new SBS documentary series focusing on two Indigenous myth and monster hunters, you quickly come to realise that our First Peoples have ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal communities struggle with world's highest rheumatic heart disease rates
ABC Online
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is completely preventable, but children in Australian Aboriginal communities still have the highest rate in the world. Six years ago, 12-year-old Paddy Cahill told his parents he did not want to go to school because his ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal communities struggle with world's highest rheumatic heart disease rates
ABC Online
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is completely preventable, but children in Australian Aboriginal communities still have the highest rate in the world. Six years ago, 12-year-old Paddy Cahill told his parents he did not want to go to school because his ...

Manila Bulletin
Discovering the past: Australian Embassy holds exhibit showcasing Indigenous Australians of Filipino descent
Manila Bulletin
Aside from marking the 70th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Philippines and Australia, the exhibit aims to raise awareness that there is a deep historical Australian indigenous connection between the two countries, even before they ...

TheBull.com.au
Australian Ethical members help choose recipients for $260K in community grants
TheBull.com.au
Founder and CEO of ELP, Laura Egan, said; “We're thrilled to have the Ethical Super community join us in fostering grassroots enterprise in remote Australia! The Aboriginal communities we partner with are bursting to share their stories and their ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
On the move: latest appointments and resignations
ArtsHub (subscription)
Six architects have been shortlisted to deliver a new Masterplan for Boyd's iconic south coast property at Bundanon. Indigenous remains returned to Australia. The UK is relinquishing the remains of 13 Aboriginal Australians which will be handed over in ...

Community Newspaper Group
Reigning Miss NAIDOC out to change perceptions about media coverage of indigenous Australians
Community Newspaper Group
FRUSTRATED with the overwhelmingly negative media coverage surrounding indigenous Australians, Applecross resident, Noongar and reigning Miss NAIDOC Shelley Cable set out to change perceptions. After joining forces with friend Mikayla King ...

Australia's status as a bastion of free speech is in peril
The Australian
Returning to Australia from Malaysia some years ago shortly after being threatened with a charge of sedition over my reporting as a foreign correspondent, I felt a sense of relief that I was back in a county where freedom of the press prevailed. But it ...

Courier Mail
Cartoon persecution is just not funny
Courier Mail
He sent it off to The Australian. The next day, Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, who earns around 300 grand, got up, saw the cartoon, and posted it on Facebook, urging Aboriginal Australians to complain to the Human Rights ...

New Matilda
The Silver Lining When Bill Leak Wins His Racial Discrimination Case
New Matilda
You win some, you lose some. And New Matilda editor Chris Graham thinks Aboriginal Australia is about to lose small, but ultimately win big. In case you've been living under a rock, cartoonist for The Australian newspaper, Bill Leak is being taken to ...