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Nurse's death sparks call for bush justice
The Advertiser
APY Lands elder George Murray this week issued a statement, via YouTube, imploring the Anangu people to consider tribal punishment for Davey, who appeared in court this week amid allegations his life was under threat from other indigenous inmates in ...
SA memorial service for slain nurseThe Australian (blog) (subscription)
Gayle Woodford: APY Lands residents grieve over nurse's death, community members 'threatened'ABC Online

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Financial Times
Return of Australia 'history wars'
Financial Times
Almost 250 years after James Cook landed in Australia a bitter debate has erupted over whether the explorer heralded a British “settlement” or “invasion”, as the country continues to grapple with its colonial history and indigenous heritage. The ...
History wars are not the real battledailytelegraph.com.au
Discovery, settlement or invasion? The power of language in historical narrativesThe Conversation UK

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Financial Times
Return of Australia 'history wars'
Financial Times
Almost 250 years after James Cook landed in Australia a bitter debate has erupted over whether the explorer heralded a British “settlement” or “invasion”, as the country continues to grapple with its colonial history and indigenous heritage. The ...
History wars are not the real battledailytelegraph.com.au

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Sydney Morning Herald
Of course Australia was invaded - massacres happened less than 90 years ago
Sydney Morning Herald
Much has been made in the last few days of the University of New South Wales' “diversity toolkit” offering teachers guidelines on Indigenous terminology. The most controversial directive was a line about using the term “invasion” to describe Captain ...

ArtsHub (subscription)
Why we need adaptive resilience
ArtsHub (subscription)
It is even possible that this was a first site of resistance and information sharing by Aboriginal people in response to the invasion,' wrote Shoebridge to Minister Stokes. 'This is of the utmost seriousness and we call on you to act.' Archeological ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Why we need adaptive resilience
ArtsHub (subscription)
It is even possible that this was a first site of resistance and information sharing by Aboriginal people in response to the invasion,' wrote Shoebridge to Minister Stokes. 'This is of the utmost seriousness and we call on you to act.' Archeological ...

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ABC Online
Threatening History: Conservative Panic and the Claim of Aboriginal Sovereignty
ABC Online
Like previous episodes in the 'history wars', the latest furore will have the most negative repercussions for Aboriginal people, who are once again being asked to defend their culture and history. Credit: Cook Landing at Botany Bay, Emmanuel Phillips ...

ABC Online
Calls for support of Australia's Indigenous Football week
ABC Online
John Moriarty was the first Indigenous football player chosen to represent Australia. His not-for-profit organisation, John Moriarty Football, aims to discover and nurture Indigenous talent in the Northern Territory. On the occasion of the inaugural ...

The Guardian
Football faces closing window of opportunity to lead Indigenous participation
The Guardian
In reality, Football Federation Australia's Indigenous Football Week lies somewhere in between; without concrete on-going commitments the goodwill of such gestures can easily dissipate, but to regard such an event as mere tokenism is to grossly ...

Hyperallergic
Aboriginal Women in Australia Celebrate Their Football Heroes with Pottery
Hyperallergic
MELBOURNE — The desert of Central Australia might seem like an unlikely place to find an art cooperative making potent and beautiful pottery. But an exhibition at Melbourne's Ian Potter Centre is featuring a moving display of hand-painted pottery by ...

The Australian (subscription)
Vanessa Russ is the new associate director of Perth's Berndt Museum. Picture: Colin Murty
The Australian (subscription)
On display at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, on the grounds of UWA, is Interwoven, an exhibition of works made from fibre, feather, paper, recycled blankets and string, collected from indigenous artists in northern Australia, Papua New Guinea and Asia.

Hyperallergic
Aboriginal Women in Australia Celebrate Their Football Heroes with Pottery
Hyperallergic
MELBOURNE — The desert of Central Australia might seem like an unlikely place to find an art cooperative making politically potent and beautiful art. But an exhibition at Melbourne's Ian Potter Centre is featuring a moving display of hand-painted ...

Channel News Asia
Australia's colonial past haunts major Sydney tram project
Channel News Asia
Aboriginal Australians demanded a halt on a AUS$2.1 billion (1.12 billion pounds) tram construction project in Sydney after excavators found 20,000 objects potentially linked to one of the country's first conflicts between its original inhabitants and ...
Call to halt Sydney light rail after massive Indigenous artefact findSydney Morning Herald
Indigenous artefacts found on Sydney siteYahoo7 News
Thousands of Aboriginal artefacts found at Australian building sitegulfnews.com
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International Business Times AU
Australian singer Thelma Plum invades Australia's 'discovery' debate; Facebook post thrashes 'racist c----'
International Business Times AU
Indigenous Australian singer Thelma Plum has challenged radio host Alan Jones to a duel and it has turned pretty nasty. Plum has blasted Jones and Channel Seven's “Sunrise” after the program failed to include an indigenous person in its live discussion ...
Thelma Plum slams Sunrise as racists over James Cook invasion debateSydney Morning Herald
Thelma Plum Hands It To Alan Jones And Sunrise Over "Racist" SegmentMusic Feeds
Thelma Plum calls out 'Sunrise' for racismFasterLouder

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International Business Times AU
Australian singer Thelma Plum invades Australia's 'discovery' debate; Facebook post thrashes 'racist c----'
International Business Times AU
Indigenous Australian singer Thelma Plum has challenged radio host Alan Jones to a duel and it has turned pretty nasty. Plum has blasted Jones and Channel Seven's “Sunrise” after the program failed to include an indigenous person in its live discussion ...
Thelma Plum slams Sunrise as racists over James Cook invasion debateSydney Morning Herald
Thelma Plum Hands It To Alan Jones And Sunrise Over "Racist" SegmentMusic Feeds

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The Queensland Times
Ipswich to host forum on wellbeing for Indigenous people
The Queensland Times
IPSWICH will be among a handful of Queensland cities to host a community forum on the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The forum will be hosted by the Queensland Mental Health Commission as it develops a ...

The Queensland Times
Ipswich to host forum on wellbeing for Indigenous people
The Queensland Times
IPSWICH will be among a handful of Queensland cities to host a community forum on the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The forum will be hosted by the Queensland Mental Health Commission as it develops a ...

NEWS.com.au
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NEWS.com.au
And we would hope that, in an Australia of tomorrow, as in Australia of yesterday, the discovery of Australia brought very significant wealth. It opened up the country and everybody, including Indigenous Australians, have been beneficiaries of that ...

The Age
Why Australia lies to itself about its Indigenous history
The Age
This week it's a guide on "Indigenous Terminology" from the University of New South Wales. As documents go, it's resoundingly minor: an advisory list, likely to be read by very few people, that "clarifies appropriate language" on Indigenous history and ...

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NEWS.com.au
'Sunrise, you're a bunch of racist c**ts': Singer Thelma Plum slams Sunrise
NEWS.com.au
She pointed fans towards the clip of the segment that aired on the show before continuing. “@sunriseon7 I think you're a bunch of racist c**ts and you should 100% be ashamed of yourselves adding to the issue of thinking Aboriginal people don't have a ...
Thelma Plum slams Sunrise as racists over James Cook invasion debateSydney Morning Herald
Thelma Plum Hands It To Alan Jones And Sunrise Over "Racist" SegmentMusic Feeds

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