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Aboriginal language makes a comeback
SBS
The last fluent speaker of Kaurna language died in the 1900s, but now there's more than 100 people, including non-Indigenous Australians, in the process of learning it. Teacher Jack Buckskin, and linguist Dr Robert Amery reintroduced Karuma to the ...

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Study unravels Tasmania's historic languages
ABC Message Stick
Australian researcher Associate Professor Claire Bowern of Yale University says studying Tasmania's Aboriginal language history is difficult because there are no known native speakers and relatively few sources of information. "We don't have any ...

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Eureka Street
Aboriginal Catholics' culturally enriched living
Eureka Street
I acknowledge the traditional owners of this place and pay my respects to elders past and present, present and absent. It is always a great privilege for me as an Australian Catholic priest to be invited the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Radio Australia
Indigenous doctors look to integrate traditional and modern medicine
Radio Australia
The conference brings together Indigenous medical practitioners, students, and health professionals from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States of America, Hawai'i, Taiwan, and across the Pacific. The focus is to promote culturally safe research ...

Brandywine professor's family tree has deep Penn State roots
Penn State Live
Guerin's academic areas of expertise are health psychology and indigenous and refugee health. She co-wrote an award-winning textbook on indigenous health in Australia titled “Health Care and Indigenous Australians: Cultural Safety in Practice.

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Better schooling, not uni quotas
The Australian
Attendance at the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy in Aurukun is up from about 38 per cent in 2009 to about 70 per cent, a majority of students approaching or exceeding national benchmarks. Other regions are considering adopting Pearson's ...

Maori affairs MPs to tour Australia
Radio New Zealand
Committee chairman Tau Henare says the trip in October is being paid for by the Australian Government. He says a team of eight MPs is deciding which Aboriginal community to visit. Mr Henare says they want to examine some of the indigenous programmes, ...

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Australian academic calls to block UN security Council bid
MuslimVillage.com
Australia has been involved since 1788 in an Aboriginal Genocide in which about 2 million Indigenous Australians have perished from violence, deprivation or introduced disease. Australia also furthered the Aboriginal Genocide by the forcible removal of ...

time for uranium mining in Queensland?
Herald Sun
The Queensland Resources Council and the Australian Uranium Association tell us that it's time to develop this State's uranium resources. Cutting greenhouse gas emissions, economic development and indigenous engagement are provided as convenient ...

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Protection for traditional owners' special places: the untold story
The Australian
RECENTLY the Premier of Western Australia introduced a bill into parliament. Nothing unusual in that. But this bill is unique, representing the first time in history that WA's parliament will ratify an agreement between indigenous West Australians and ...

South Australia's “dead of night” attack on Native Title
National Indigenous Times
By National Indigenous Times reporter Geoff Bagnall. South Australian Indigenous Association President and Nunga Elder, Alison Thorne has condemned the South Australian Government's "dead of night" action passing legislation that has taken away ...

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Congress welcomes recommendations as a way forward to save Indigenous ...
National Indigenous Times
les malezer_&_jody_broun The recommendations from a Parliamentary Committee inquiry reinforce the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples' priority to address the crisis in protecting and maintaining Aboriginal languages, Co-Chair Jody Broun has ...

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Michael Anderson urges UN to reject Aust seat bid
Herald Sun
Mr Anderson also criticised the government for its policies on asylum seekers. "Aboriginal nations and peoples in Australia object to any support for Australia to have a temporary position on the UN Security Council," he said in the letter released on ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Into the red dust and wind
Sydney Morning Herald
You need an NT permit from the Central Land Council to travel on the Great Central Road (Uluru-Docker River) and the Gary Junction Road (Kintore-Papunya) plus a West Australian permit from the Department of Indigenous Affairs for the Sandy Blight ...

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UN urged to reject Aust seat bid
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UN urged to reject Aust seat bid
Ninemsn
Mr Anderson also criticised the government for its policies on asylum seekers. "Aboriginal nations and peoples in Australia object to any support for Australia to have a temporary position on the UN Security Council," he said in the letter released on ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Immense yourself in the Visions of Australia tour
Telegraph.co.uk
Australia is a land of luscious rainforests and island getaways, vibrant cities, abundant wildlife, a fascinating indigenous culture and, in the centre of it all, that big, beautiful rock nestled in the heart of the rugged Outback. You could spend a ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Performing partners … Samuel and Taryn Beatty. Photo: James Brickwood
Sydney Morning Herald
I have had no problem adapting to life married to an indigenous Australian. It's about respecting other people's ways. Taryn and I both agree it's important our children learn about all cultures: not just African-American culture or indigenous ...

1967 original wants youth to find fire in the belly
The Australian
SHIRLEY Peisley was barely 25 when she found herself thrust into the centre of the 1967 referendum campaign that counted Indigenous Australians in the census and gave them basic citizenship. A Ngarrindjeri woman from the southeast of South Australia, ...

From Claymore to Cape York the poverty endures
The Australian
THE ABC's Four Corners program this week on the southwestern Sydney housing commission suburb of Claymore, a humanitarian disaster 36 years in the making, showed that welfare ghettos are not restricted to indigenous Australia. Through the tender ...