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Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art
The Conversation AU
The College seeks an Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer to develop, enhance and provide leadership in research, learning and teaching in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (CAIA). The CAIA program is designed to prepare students, as indigenous ...

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Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art
The Conversation AU
The College seeks an Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer to develop, enhance and provide leadership in research, learning and teaching in Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art (CAIA). The CAIA program is designed to prepare students, as indigenous ...

Anger over brochure advising Aboriginal people how to look after houses the ...
SBS (satire)
Reconciliation South Australia co-chair Peter Buckskin agreed, and said the fact that the brochure was run past some Aboriginal people did not excuse its content. "I just think it's disrespectful," he said. "Aboriginal people want to live as Aboriginal ...

SBS
Anger over brochure advising Aboriginal people how to look after houses the ...
SBS
A South Australian peak housing organisation is under fire for a pamphlet that advises Aboriginal people how to care for their houses the "whitefella way". The brochure, which was produced by Shelter SA, contains advice including 'always pay your rent ...

SBS
Anger over brochure advising Aboriginals how to look after houses the ...
SBS
A South Australian peak housing organisation is under fire for a pamphlet that advises Aboriginal people how to care for their houses the "whitefella way". The brochure, which was produced by Shelter SA, contains advice including always pay your rent ...

Indigenous housing and financial advice
ABC Online (blog)
For sale We hear more and more often about difficulties in achieving that 'great Australian dream' of owning your own home. Even in regional Australia where prices tend to stay lower, people are struggling to break into the market. This week, help and ...

The Mandarin (press release) (subscription)
Local government workforce: older, more indigenous workers
The Mandarin (press release) (subscription)
Among the key findings, more than 4.5% of the local government workforce across Australia are of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background — well ahead of state and territory governments (2%), the Commonwealth (1.5%) and the private sector ...

ABC Online
Indigenous health organisations unite to improve remote dialysis treatment
ABC Online
Western Desert Dialysis, formally known as Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation, was born from a community fundraising effort. The organisation has been providing remote dialysis services in the Central Australia ...

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Indigenous Employment Going Backwards
Pro Bono Australia
“In addition to the fall in Indigenous employment, the proportion of non-Indigenous Australians who are employed rose from 75.0 per cent to 75.6 per cent. Consequently, between 2008 and 2012-13 there has been an increase of 6.9 percentage points in the ...
Tweed-born indigenous advocate Faith Bandler diesEchonetdaily
Kirstie Parker, Mick Gooda say enough of 'fine words' – Close the Gap, a big ...The Stringer
The Health Wrap: On Closing the Gap; persistent policy pickles; lessons for Oz ...Crikey (blog)

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Echonetdaily
Indigenous Employment Going Backwards
Pro Bono Australia
“In addition to the fall in Indigenous employment, the proportion of non-Indigenous Australians who are employed rose from 75.0 per cent to 75.6 per cent. Consequently, between 2008 and 2012-13 there has been an increase of 6.9 percentage points in the ...
Tweed-born indigenous advocate Faith Bandler diesEchonetdaily
Kirstie Parker, Mick Gooda say enough of 'fine words' – Close the Gap, a big ...The Stringer
State governments share blame for (Not) Closing the GapGreen Left Weekly
Crikey (blog)
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The Guardian (blog)
'It taunts us spiritually': the fight for Indigenous relics spirited off to the UK
The Guardian (blog)
Bark art is usually synonymous with Indigenous people from northern Australia and the three Dja Dja Wurrung pieces from the comparative far south are believed to be the only ones of their period in existence. They may be precious to the British Museum ...

Australia Is Not Closing the Gap on Aboriginal Life Expectancy, as ...
VICE
Australia released its annual "Closing the Gap" report on Aboriginal health and mortality on Wednesday. It revealed that Australia is failing to meet its goals of bringing equal quality of life to the first peoples on almost every front. And ...

Reno Gazette Journal
Nevada Art Museum features Aboriginal Australian exhibit
Reno Gazette Journal
The Nevada Museum of Art's newest exhibit "No Boundaries" comes from the farthest reaches of Australia's countryside. It is bold. It is colorful. It is abstract. And yet, the artists are some of the most unlikely suspects. All nine artists are men from ...

ABC Online
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96
ABC Online
Prime Minister Tony Abbott said in a statement that Australia had lost a champion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, while Opposition leader Bill Shorten said she would be remembered for her lifelong dedication and courage. Born to a ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96
The Guardian
She was named as a national living treasure and receiving the Order of Australia. “Her legacy lives on in our journey toward the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,” Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and opposition ...
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96Daily Life
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
State funeral offered to Bandler's familySBS
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The Guardian
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96
The Guardian
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler has died. She was 96. Bandler was instrumental in campaigning for the 1967 referendum to give Indigenous Australians rights under the constitution. A state funeral has been offered to her family. “Our country ...
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96Daily Life
Bandler's faith in people drove changeThe Australian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
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The Guardian (blog)
'It taunts us spiritually': the fight for Indigenous relics spirited off to the UK
The Guardian (blog)
Bark art is usually synonymous with Indigenous people from northern Australia and the three Dja Dja Wurrung pieces from the comparative far south are believed to be the only ones of their period in existence. They may be precious to the British Museum ...

Daily Life
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96
Daily Life
"Ms Bandler was a tireless social activist, best known for leading the political campaign which resulted in the landmark 1967 referendum that ensured Indigenous Australians were counted as full citizens and gave the Federal Government responsibility ...
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96The Guardian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
State funeral offered to Bandler's familySky News Australia

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SBS
Activist for Aboriginal rights Faith Bandler has died aged 96
SBS
Aboriginal Activist Faith Bandler at her home in Sydney in 2009. The Governor-General of Australia, Quentin Bryce (left), and Aboriginal rights campaigner Faith Bandler after she was presented with the Companion of the Order of Australia in 2009 ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal rights activist, Faith Bandler, dies at 96
Sydney Morning Herald
"Ms Bandler was a tireless social activist, best known for leading the political campaign which resulted in the landmark 1967 referendum that ensured Indigenous Australians were counted as full citizens and gave the Federal Government responsibility ...
Aboriginal rights activist Faith Bandler dies aged 96The Guardian
Political activist and writer Faith Bandler AC dies aged 96ABC Online
State funeral offered to Bandler's familySBS
The Australian
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