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Hyperallergic
Digital Colonialism and the Marginalization of Australia's Indigenous Peoples
Hyperallergic
This choreographed bloodletting seems to be a dramatization of the colonialist period and the irreparable violence inflicted on the indigenous peoples of Australia. Networking the Unseen — an exhibition of works by indigenous and non-indigenous ...

What a wicked game we play with indigenous social engineering
The Australian
The authors of the National Strategy for Food Security report found that eating food was important for the health of indigenous Australians, a conclusion with which it is hard to disagree. In the Northern Territory, however — unlike, say, Tasmania ...

BBC News
Indigenous dads respond to 'racist' cartoon in Australia
BBC News
Australian Aboriginal fathers have responded to a controversial cartoon by sharing family photos on social media. A caricature published by The Australian last week depicted an alcohol-swilling indigenous father who cannot remember his son's name.
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people, Indigenous leader saysABC Online
'Racist' cartoon stokes debate over treatment of Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' Bill Leak cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
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War declared on fake Indigenous art
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Fake Art Harms Culture Campaign calls on Government to tackle the problem of fake 'Indigenous' arts and craft being sold in Australia, and harming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and incomes. CEO of Arts Law Centre of Australia ...
Families invited to join in at open dayWestern Advocate
Hands up for indigenous communitiesTenterfield Star

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ArtsHub (subscription)
War declared on fake Indigenous art
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Fake Art Harms Culture Campaign calls on Government to tackle the problem of fake 'Indigenous' arts and craft being sold in Australia, and harming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and incomes. CEO of Arts Law Centre of Australia ...

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BBC News
Australia's youth justice scandal stirs race controversy
BBC News
But this is only one scene in a terrible catalogue of videos shown on Australian television's Four Corners programme, providing a shocking insight into the treatment of children, many of them Aboriginal, behind bars in one of the wealthiest countries ...

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BBC News
Australia's youth justice scandal stirs race controversy
BBC News
But this is only one scene in a terrible catalogue of videos shown on Australian television's Four Corners programme, providing a shocking insight into the treatment of children, many of them Aboriginal, behind bars in one of the wealthiest countries ...
No responsible adult relative for bail purposes 'is not uncommon'The Australian
Closing the Census Gap - why every white Territorian should register as "Indigenous"Crikey (registration) (blog)
APSC launches Indigenous employment serviceThe Mandarin (registration)

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The Guardian
Gurrumul Yunupingu named artist of the year at National Indigenous Music awards
The Guardian
It's been 25 years since Yothu Yindi's Treaty – which Gurrumul co-wrote and performed – broke ground as the first song by a predominantly Indigenous band to chart in Australia. The artist was in the news most recently when his doctor and manager ...
Gawurra feels the love with four wins at National Indigenous Music Awards 2016The Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
I'm an Aboriginal father. I don't want my kids to see racist garbage in the media
The Guardian
He believes that he is trying to help Australia have a “difficult conversation”. Judging from the cartoon and from his lame defence of it, I guess that difficult conversation is about how Aboriginal fathers are all drunks and the myriad reasons why ...

Green Left Weekly
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
Green Left Weekly
Unfortunately, however, these reforms largely failed to make substantive change in Aboriginal water rights or to engage Aboriginal people effectively. Today Aboriginal Australians have land rights and/or native title rights over 30% of the Australian ...
Australia paper criticised for 'racist' Aboriginal cartoonTelegraph.co.uk
'Racist' cartoon stokes debate over treatment of Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Bill Leak cartoon: divided reaction to Aboriginal depictionThe Australian
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SBS
Nine Indigenous athletes to watch in Rio
SBS
The second Indigenous player to sign with the American NBA, he was part of the Championship winning San Antonio Spurs team in 2013-14. Patty has also played in both the Chinese and Australian competitions. With the squad sporting more NBA players ...

The Guardian
The truth hurts – Harold Thomas wins award with Aboriginal art that ...
The Guardian
New work from the artist behind the Aboriginal flag takes out the 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in Darwin.
Darwin artist Harold Thomas wins National Aboriginal and Torres ...ABC Online
Flag designer triumphs at Telstra awards - The West Australian - NewsThe West Australian
Harold Thomas wins $50,000 Indigenous art award with stolen ...The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal Art Directory News
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The Guardian
The truth hurts – Harold Thomas wins award with Aboriginal art that is raw and real
The Guardian
A Darwin local, and a descendant of the Luritja and Wambai people of central Australia, he was just 24 and fresh out of art school when he put together the three blocks of colour – red, yellow and black – that would become the Australian Aboriginal flag.
Harold Thomas wins $50000 Indigenous art award with stolen generations paintingThe Sydney Morning Herald
Darwin artist Harold Thomas wins National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art AwardABC Online
Activist roots inform Telstra winThe West Australian

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Rio 2016: Four things you should know about Australia's female and Indigenous Olympians
ABC Online
Australia's Indigenous cohort, at 10 athletes, is the equal second-largest Australia has fielded, after Sydney in 2000 (12 athletes) and equal to Beijing in 2008. Here are four things you need to know about the history of female and Indigenous ...

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The Guardian
'Racist' cartoon stokes debate over treatment of Indigenous Australians
The Guardian
On Friday, veteran cartoonist Bill Leak defended his sketch in the Australian newspaper of a drunk Aboriginal father forgetting his son's name, after Australia's Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, said he was appalled by the cartoon's racist ...
Indigenous dads respond to 'racist' cartoon in AustraliaBBC News
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people, Indigenous leader saysABC Online
Proud #IndigenousDads Respond To Bill Leak CartoonHuffington Post Australia
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ABC Online
Darwin artist Harold Thomas wins National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
ABC Online
Tribal Abductions, a large-scale acrylic piece, depicts the removal by white authorities of Aboriginal children from a mother who is fighting to keep them. Mr Thomas, a Luritja and Wambai man who is also known for his 1971 design of the Australian ...
Activist roots inform Telstra winThe West Australian
Harold Thomas wins $50000 Indigenous art award with stolen generations paintingThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Conversation UK
Refugees in their own land: how Indigenous people are still homeless in modern Australia
The Conversation UK
Without anywhere that is home, Indigenous people have been without a physical space to reinvent themselves and their culture in modern Australia. Since colonisation, Aboriginal people have been internally displaced from their country. The doctrine of ...

The Guardian
NT has not dropped legal action against Aboriginal boys teargassed ...
The Guardian
Chief minister Adam Giles said the government would drop suit for $360000 in damages, but it has not done so.
How the Northern Territory failed | The Saturday PaperThe Saturday Paper (subscription)

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The Australian
Noel Pearson speech on The Australian's 50th anniversary
The Australian
IN 1968, the country's greatest ethnographer, WEH Stanner, delivered his famous Boyer lecture, taking as its theme the Great Australian Silence about its indigenous peoples: the pitiful history, parlous present and precarious future. As true as Stanner ...
Homicide and suicide rates higher within indigenous communitiesReporter-Times

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ABC Online
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' cartoon published in The Australian
ABC Online
The Australian editor-in-chief Paul Whittaker defended the cartoon, citing comments made by Indigenous leaders this week, including Noel Pearson on Lateline who said: "Blackfellas have got to take charge and take responsibility for their own children.
'Racist' cartoon stokes debate over treatment of Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' Bill Leak cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous dads respond to 'racist' cartoon in AustraliaBBC News
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