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Rare items of Aboriginal cricketing history discovered
Australian Times
The discovery of the artifacts was made by Dr Gaye Sculthorpe, curator and section head of Oceania at the British Museum and curator of the BP exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation at the British Museum showing until 2 August. While on ...
Australia's first XI left its spears and clubs behind in EnglandThe Australian (blog)
Aboriginal cricket team first Australian cricketers to travel overseas ...Western Daily Press
The visiting Aborigine cricket team who amazed Victorian crowds with bat, ball ...Daily Mail

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Shields Gazette
Aboriginal art display sparks tales of Australia
Shields Gazette
The exhibition, about the Aboriginal concept of 'Country', opened last month at Bede's World, Jarrow, as part of the Treasures of South Tyneside 2015 programme. Prints, on loan from the British Museum, created by four Australian artists, are shown ...

SBS
Aboriginal activist enters Australia without passport
SBS
In a statement to SBS, immigration said the Australian Government does not recognise the Aboriginal passport as a valid travel document. “In certain circumstances where a traveller presents at the border and is seeking to enter Australia without a bona ...

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Aboriginal activist enters Australia without passport
SBS
In a statement to SBS, immigration said the Australian Government does not recognise the Aboriginal passport as a valid travel document. “In certain circumstances where a traveller presents at the border and is seeking to enter Australia without a bona ...
This guy just got into Australia using a homemade passportBusiness Insider Australia

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Indigenous tourism in the picture - PS News
PS News
Indigenous tourism in the picture. A new short film highlighting Aboriginal tourism experiences to domestic and international visitors has been launched by Tourism Australia. Titled Aboriginal Australia: Our Country is Waiting For You, the three-minute ...

CNET
Remote communities call for digital inclusion in outback Australia
CNET
A forum of indigenous leaders, communications groups and regional community advocates has called for greater digital inclusion across Australia, saying parts of the country are being left behind as Australia carves out its broadband future. The ...

CNET
Remote communities call for digital inclusion in outback Australia
CNET
A forum of indigenous leaders, communications groups and regional community advocates has called for greater digital inclusion across Australia, saying parts of the country are being left behind as Australia carves out its broadband future. The ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...
The Guardian (blog)
Three months after opening an exhibition of treasured items from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, it is clear just how thoroughly London's British Museum has anticipated the potential anger and emotion of Indigenous Australians.
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair a winter taste of culture | afr.comThe Australian Financial Review
Modest but realistic hope for a 2017 Referendum - Eureka StreetEureka Street (satire) (registration)

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The Guardian (blog)
Enduring controversy: BP sponsorship ignites new row over British Museum's ...
The Guardian (blog)
Even before it opened, this landmark exhibition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts was criticised over the acquisition of many of its treasures. Now protesters are focusing on the oil company sponsor and claims about its treatment of ...

The Australian (blog)
Australia's first XI left its spears and clubs behind in England | The Australian
The Australian (blog)
If England's cricketers have anything to be grateful for after losing the second Test by 405 runs, it is that their opponents are not fielding the skills of the first Australian side to tour England. In 1868 a team of Aboriginal cricketers amazed ...

Government policy on remote communities has failed
The Australian
For 40 years we have lived under the delusion Aboriginal Australia needs more government, not less. The Howard government's 2007 intervention relied on that same flawed assumption. People of good heart wanted John Howard's measures to succeed, ...

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Western Daily Press
Aboriginal cricket team first Australian cricketers to travel overseas ...
Western Daily Press
The Aboriginal cricket team became the first organised group of Australian cricketers to travel overseas. The first tour by an Australian team classed as representative would not be made until 1878. From the early 1860s onwards, cricket matches between ...

Belfast Telegraph
Bangor loyalist Gary Hall forms new paramilitary group in Australia, blames ...
Belfast Telegraph
Police in Alice Springs — one of Australia's largest Aboriginal settlements — are keeping a close watch on the AVF amid fears it is involved in racial violence. Cops have confirmed they are “monitoring the activity of anyone choosing to associate ...

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The Australian
Warwick Thornton. 'You can make bad decisions now that will have massive ...
The Australian
But he is dismissive of Tony Abbott's claim that indigenous Australians made “lifestyle choices” to live in remote communities. “The healthiest way to live is on land, on community, on country, eating bush tucker and not the crap from town,” he says ...

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The Australian
Warwick Thornton. 'You can make bad decisions now that will have massive ...
The Australian
But he is dismissive of Tony Abbott's claim that indigenous Australians made “lifestyle choices” to live in remote communities. “The healthiest way to live is on land, on community, on country, eating bush tucker and not the crap from town,” he says ...

Kyle Anderson becomes first Indigenous Australian to qualify for Darts World ...
Sydney Morning Herald
When Australian Kyle Anderson hit a double 12 to make his first televised nine-darter, he turned to the crowd, pointed at his brother Beau, a fellow professional darts player, and mouthed the words: "You man." Ironically, Beau, who is five years older ...

Kyle Anderson becomes first Indigenous Australian to qualify for Darts World ...
WA today
Kyle "The Original" Anderson was raised in Perth and will become the first Indigenous Australian to qualify for the Darts World Matchplay tournament, which begins in England on Sunday morning Australian time. The 27-year-old's opening match in the ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal artefacts from Australia's first England cricket tour discovered
Sydney Morning Herald
LONDON: A small number of Aboriginal artefacts on display in a regional British museum have been identified as rare survivors of Australia's first ever cricket tour of England in 1868. Australian curator Dr Gaye Sculthorpe made the discovery in Exeter ...
Aboriginal artefacts discovered from first Australian tour of England in 1868Sportskeeda

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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal artefacts from Australia's first England cricket tour discovered
Sydney Morning Herald
LONDON: A small number of Aboriginal artefacts on display in a regional British museum have been identified as rare survivors of Australia's first ever cricket tour of England in 1868. Australian curator Dr Gaye Sculthorpe made the discovery in Exeter ...

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The Australian
Recognition referendum needs indigenous input
The Australian
We each have our own independent views on constitutional propositions, but our commitment should be to ensure that the voices of indigenous Australian communities are brought into the discussion. We must hold seriously our responsibility to work ...
Patrick Dodson and Noel Pearson forge a pact on constitutional recognitionThe Canberra Times (blog)

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