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ABC Online
Magnolia Maymuru: From Yirrkala to the catwalk
ABC Online
Ms Maymuru also hoped her participation in the pageant — something traditionally associated with bikinis, crowns and proclamations of world peace — would continue to boost her career prospects and show Australia a different side to young Indigenous ...
NT Makes History With 1st Indigenous Contender For Miss World Oz CrownPedestrian TV

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The Guardian
Ken Wyatt's battle in Hasluck: can the first federal Indigenous frontbencher hold his seat?
The Guardian
It's week one of an eight-week election campaign and, in Wyatt's electorate office in Forrestfield shopping centre, 23km east of Perth, Western Australia, the details are still being mapped out. It will be a fight. Hasluck, the outer metropolitan seat ...

Fox Sports
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Fox Sports
To have the opportunity to represent my heritage and Australia's indigenous people while doing what I love is something I'm grateful for. While I go out there to give 100 per cent every week for Penrith, there's always that little extra excitement ...
Indigenous stars front and centreNRL.COM

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ABC Message Stick
Sandalwood industry restructure: Aboriginal groups feel left out, but FCP says opportunities exist
ABC Message Stick
The Western Australian government is reforming the wild sandalwood industry and recently held a briefing in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for parties interested in tendering for harvesting contracts. However, some Aboriginal groups said they still felt locked out ...

The Age
We must embrace Indigenous issues in the 2016 federal election
The Age
Indigenous disadvantage is a reality that must be confronted and owned by the entire nation. But we perceive a real danger in this election campaign that the many issues affecting Indigenous people will be swept aside or tritely agglomerated into a ...
#IHMayDay16 – a cry for help on Indigenous mental healthThe Guardian
Pop star invoked to protect Torres Strait intellectual propertyThe Cairns Post

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The Conversation AU
Ancient Australia: world's first nation of innovators
The Conversation AU
For the first couple of centuries of European occupation of Australia the history of its Indigenous people, as written by white fellas, drew heavily on adjectives like 'primitive'. As both a white fella and an anthropologist devoting much of my time to ...

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The Guardian
#IHMayDay16 – a cry for help on Indigenous mental health
The Guardian
We are co-hosting @IndigenousX this week to highlight how much is going on around suicide prevention, families and communities in Indigenous Australia. On 5-6 May, the Inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference took ...
Pop star invoked to protect Torres Strait intellectual propertyThe Cairns Post

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The Guardian
#IHMayDay16 – a cry for help on Indigenous mental health
The Guardian
We are co-hosting @IndigenousX this week to highlight how much is going on around suicide prevention, families and communities in Indigenous Australia. On 5-6 May, the Inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference took ...

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The Guardian
Gary Foley and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy: 'We were all young, crazy, but we believed in justice'
The Guardian
... behind the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. The embassy, which was first assembled by activists on the lawn of Parliament House in Canberra in 1972, still exists today, representing Indigenous Australia's ongoing struggle for land rights and self ...

The Guardian
Gary Foley and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy: 'We were all young, crazy, but we believed in justice'
The Guardian
“That's the biggest Aboriginal community that's ever existed in the 80,000-year history of Australia and it came about because of the slow but sure breakdown of the old apartheid system,” Foley says. “All of the people in Redfern in those days were ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Archaeologists find proof that indigenous Australians made 'first' axe
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
But in most countries in the world they arrive with agriculture (about) 10,000 years ago," Professor O'Connor, from the Australian National University School of Culture, History and Language, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Wednesday.
Cutting edge Stone Age technology was born in AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Oldest axe ever found was invented by Aboriginal ancestorsSBS
Axe fragment found in Australia 'world's oldest'Yahoo7 News

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NEWS.com.au
Axe discovery in WA: Aboriginal ancestors' tool is world's oldest
NEWS.com.au
Lead author Professor Peter Hiscock from the University of Sydney said the discovery meant we must give credit to the ancestors of Aboriginal people for their ingenuity, creativity and adaptability. “We are rewriting history here,” he told Fairfax Media.
Cutting edge Stone Age technology was born in AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
World's oldest hafted axe unearthed in Australia used by early AboriginesDaily Mail
Oldest axe ever found was invented by Aboriginal ancestorsSBS
Shanghai Daily (subscription) -9news.com.au -Telegraph.co.uk
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NEWS.com.au
The earliest Australians invented the axe, scientist believe
NEWS.com.au
Lead author Professor Peter Hiscock from the University of Sydney said the discovery meant we must give credit to the ancestors of Aboriginal people for their ingenuity, creativity and adaptability. “We are rewriting history here,” he told Fairfax Media.
World's oldest hafted axe unearthed in Australia used by early AboriginesDaily Mail
Oldest axe ever found was invented by Aboriginal ancestorsSBS
Cutting edge Stone Age technology was born in AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
Telegraph.co.uk -ABC Online -The Guardian
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Language Magazine
Declaration Gives New Rights to Indigenous People of Canada
Language Magazine
Canada's Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Carolyn Bennett has announced Canada's decision to drop its permanent objector status to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The declaration was first ...
Canada changes course on indigenous rights 3:33CBC.ca
Canada drops opposition to UN indigenous rights declarationThe Globe and Mail
Canada Finally Adopts UN Declaration on Indigenous Peoples But Some Are SkepticalVICE News
Globalnews.ca -Daily Miner and News -National Post
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Indigenous Writers Workshop - Birch Backs Indigenous Writers
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Mildura Writers Festival, in collaboration with PEN Melbourne and Mallee District Aboriginal Services, will present an Indigenous Writers Workshop with acclaimed Indigenous author, Tony Birch. The workshop is open to local Indigenous writers of all ...

SBS
Oldest axe ever found was invented by Aboriginal ancestors
SBS
A piece of an ancient axe, discovered by Aussie archaeologists in the Kimberley region in Western Australia, reveals the first people to arrive on this continent – Aboriginal ancestors – were also pioneers of early technology. The artefact has been ...
Cutting edge Stone Age technology was born in AustraliaSydney Morning Herald
World's oldest axe discovered in AustraliaTelegraph.co.uk
World's oldest known axe discovered in Australia – videoThe Guardian
Science Network Western Australia -International Business Times UK -RedOrbit
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The Conversation AU
Indigenous reconciliation is hard, it re-opens wounds to heal them
The Conversation AU
Australia is being held back by its unresolved relationship with its Indigenous population. Drawing on attempts at reconciliation overseas, this series of articles explores different ways of resolving this unfinished business. We begin today by looking ...

Courier Mail
Teachers evacuated as school locked down
Courier Mail
Education Minister Kate Jones said she was deeply concerned for the safety of teachers at the Aurukun campus of the Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy and promised the department would review its infrastructure and security in the town immediately ...
Aurukun teachers evacuated after alleged carjacking in Indigenous communityThe Guardian

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ABC Online
Bookkeeper jailed for $780k theft from Aboriginal organisations in Central Australia
ABC Online
He used almost 170 separate transactions to pilfer about $550,000 from more than a dozen mostly not-for-profit Aboriginal organisations in remote Central Australia. He also stole $230,000 from a link-up service for family members of the Stolen ...

The Guardian
Aurukun teachers evacuated after alleged carjacking in Indigenous community
The Guardian
Kate Jones, the Queensland education minister, ordered her department on Tuesday to urgently relocate 25 staff from the Aurukun campus of Noel Pearson's Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy to Cairns after she became “deeply concerned” for their ...
Minister orders temporary relocation of Aurukun teachersNorth Queensland Register

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