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Port Adelaide
Vandenbergh: Help Australia's oldest Aboriginal footy club train longer than 30 minutes
Port Adelaide
Right now, the Roosters can only train for 30 minutes before the sun goes down, and by the time summer rolls around, the green grass we expect on a footy field is nowhere to be seen. Koonibba is the oldest surviving Aboriginal football club in ...

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Perth Now
Cockburn to vote on Australia Day fireworks
Perth Now
“In general, Aboriginal people would like to celebrate Australia Day on a different day of the year which is inclusive and respectful of all Australians, and the Fremantle decision has helped to raise the profile of this concern.” Cockburn already ...
Cockburn may host Australia Day fireworks after Fremantle cancellationThe West Australian
Cancelling fireworks will only widen gapCommunity Newspaper Group
Fireworks versus truth, reconciliation and justiceGreen Left Weekly

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Huffington Post Australia
Q&A: Shakespeare's Sonnet 127 Was Read In An Indigenous Language And It Was Awesome
Huffington Post Australia
... translates Shakespeare into Indigenous languages, and on Monday night Q&A was treated to one of those performances. Farmer performed Sonnet 127 in Noongar, which is the indigenous language of her family in the south-west of Western Australia.
Q&A on Shakespeare's universal truths: 'This famous white fella who's dead now 400 years'ABC Online
Listen To Shakespeare Performed In An Indigenous Language On Last Night's 'Q&A'Junkee
Germaine Greer tells Q&A Shakespeare's timeless lesson is to make us thinkThe Guardian

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The Conversation AU
FactCheck Q&A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500000 Indigenous people in Australia?
The Conversation AU
Nicholas Biddle works in a centre at the ANU that receives funding from Commonwealth and State/Territory governments to research Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander demographic and socioeconomic outcomes. Dennis Foley is an Indigenous Australian ...
Ngaya Ngyamitjimitang. This is all I can say in my own language, and it is painful for meThe Guardian
Hurtful cartoon fails to help indigenous victims of injusticeThe Australian
In memory of so many, there must be a national custody notification serviceIndependent Australia

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NEWS.com.au
There's a lot to love about this ad
NEWS.com.au
... Indian-Australian actor Arka Das, who continues the spiel before a succession of Australians from diverse backgrounds, including Olympian Cathy Freeman, rugby league player Greg Inglis, model Samantha Harris — all high profile Aboriginal ...
WATCH: LGBT feature in new lamb adSame Same

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ABC Online
Aboriginal patients with heart issues foregoing angiograms
ABC Online
Professor Alex Brown, from the Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, said the study also found Aboriginal patients were also more likely to be female. "Aboriginal patients were younger, more likely to be female, had higher rates of smoking, ...

The Stringer
Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children incarcerated at the world's highest rate
The Stringer
Australia incarcerates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in juvenile detention at the world's highest rate; ranked second is the mother of all jailers, the United States of America. More than half of Australia's juvenile detention is ...
FactCheck Q&A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500,000 ...The Conversation AU
In memory of so many, there must be a national custody notification ...Independent Australia
Hurtful cartoon fails to help indigenous victims of injusticeThe Australian
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ABC Online
Victoria signs over $500m in public housing stock to Aboriginal organisation
ABC Online
AHV CEO Jenny Samms said she believed the transfer of housing to the Indigenous organisation was the largest. "I believe it is the biggest housing ownership transfer in Victoria and the biggest in Australia to a single Indigenous organisation," she said.
Victoria to transfer ownership of hundreds of homes under Indigenous planThe Guardian

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ABC Online
Victoria signs over $500m in public housing stock to Aboriginal organisation
ABC Online
AHV is believed to be one of nine Aboriginal housing associations in Australia. The housing transfer is believed to be the largest — some 1,522 titles — to an Indigenous organisation anywhere and is due to be completed within two years. In Victoria ...
Victoria to transfer ownership of hundreds of homes under Indigenous planThe Guardian

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ABC Online
That Sugar Film: Documentary maker Damon Gameau pays back ...
ABC Online
That Sugar Film actor and filmmaker Damon Gameau repays a debt of knowledge, using the success of his latest documentary to support an Indigenous health ...
Australian Story :: The Sugar Trip - ABCABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Victoria to transfer ownership of hundreds of homes under Indigenous plan
The Guardian
The Victorian government will transfer ownership of 511 homes to Aboriginal Housing Victoria on Monday as part of a plan to provide almost 1,500 homes to Indigenous peoples reliant on public housing. The housing minister, Martin Foley, said the homes ...

The Australian
Aborigines were building 'stone houses' 9000 years ago
The Australian
The cone-shaped shells found inside are terebralia, a mangrove gastropod Aborigines are known to have eaten, often carting them inland to sites near waterholes. Professor McDonald said similar domestic structures have been found elsewhere in Australia ...

ABC Online
Namatjira artworks decaying in 'birthplace of modern Aboriginal art'
ABC Online
Two original Namatjira paintings hanging in the Namatjira Room are valued at $30,000 to $40,000. Mr Matuschka says the collection was significant in Australian art history. "The collection as a whole is really the birth of Aboriginal art, other than ...

Yahoo7 News
Aboriginal woman goes from 'non-citizen' to Australian parliament
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Wearing a cloak decorated with the goanna lizard, the first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia's lower house took her seat in parliament this week, saying that as a child she was a "non-citizen". Former teacher Linda Burney made ...
Aboriginal MP Linda Burney makes landmark speechBBC News

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Yahoo7 News
Aboriginal woman goes from 'non-citizen' to Australian parliament
Yahoo7 News
Sydney (AFP) - Wearing a cloak decorated with the goanna lizard, the first Aboriginal woman elected to Australia's lower house took her seat in parliament this week, saying that as a child she was a "non-citizen". Former teacher Linda Burney made ...

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ABC Online
First Aboriginal curator appointed to South Australian Museum, with benefactor's support
ABC Online
The South Australian Museum hopes more stories of Indigenous history and culture will be uncovered, following the appointment of its first Aboriginal curator Glenn Iseger-Pilkington. A Wadjarri, Nhanda and Nyoongar man, he has a background in art ...
An Indigenous curator for Indigenous artefacts: South Australia breaks new groundThe Guardian (blog)
Young Indigenous leadership gathering underway in SydneyABC Local

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ABC Online
First Aboriginal curator appointed to South Australian Museum, with ...
ABC Online
The South Australian Museum hopes more stories of Indigenous history and culture will be uncovered, following the appointment of its first Aboriginal curator ...
An Indigenous curator for Indigenous artefacts: South Australia ...The Guardian (blog)
AM - Young Indigenous leadership gathering underway in Sydney ...ABC Local

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The Guardian
'Blatant war and genocide': memories of Native Police haunt Indigenous Queensland
The Guardian
Detail from an 1888 drawing of the massacre of Indigenous people by Queensland's Native Police at Skull Hole, near Winton in central Queensland, Australia. The drawing was by Norwegian scientist Carl Lumholtz, who recounted being shown between 1882 ...

The Guardian (blog)
An Indigenous curator for Indigenous artefacts: South Australia breaks new ground
The Guardian (blog)
On Monday the museum will formally announce the appointment of Iseger-Pilkington as curator of Aboriginal art and material culture. Six other Indigenous Australians work there. But it is the first time in the history of the museum, founded in 1856 ...
Young Indigenous leadership gathering underway in SydneyABC Local

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New Matilda
The Indefinite Detention Without Trial Of Aboriginal People
New Matilda
In their 2012 landmark report No End in Sight, the Aboriginal Disability Justice Campaign (ADJC) documented the problem of the imprisonment and indefinite detention of Aboriginal Australians with cognitive impairments in Australia. They observed that ...