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Sydney Morning Herald
The best books to read over summer
Sydney Morning Herald
In Australian literary fiction, Stephanie Bishop's The Other Side of the World impresses with its gorgeous language and depiction of the bumpy acclimatisation from freezing England to the swollen heat of Perth and the rival demands between familial ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Labor, Liberals and Greens fail to properly declare donations made during ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's First Nationals Political Party only lodged its disclosure statement late last year. The AEC published the form overnight. It contains a $50,000 donation from its founder, Maurice Ryan, the grandson of famed Aboriginal activist Vincent ...

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Starts at Sixty
The secret history of The Ghan
Starts at Sixty
Rose is a Western Arunta woman, who was born in 1950 at Hermansberg in Central Australia. She was part of the Stolen Generation, removed from her parents at the age of six, and given to wealthy landholders on Eleanor Downs. She was expected to work ...

Independent Australia
Australia's media in 2015: a year of distortions, disservice and disgrace
Independent Australia
On Indigenous relations, attacks on Aboriginal campaigner and champion AFL footballer Adam Goodes continued apace. Despite being the only AFL player ever to win two Brownlow medals, two premierships and be named Australian of the Year, Goodes' ...

The Australian Financial Review
Our complex relationship with Chinese Australians
The Australian Financial Review
"Or just because we decided that Indigenous people should have the same voting rights as the rest of the Australians in the 1970s, it doesn't mean that racism towards Aboriginal people goes away. "Or just because this generation has decided that ...

Mackay Daily Mercury
Teenager on the national netball stage
Mackay Daily Mercury
NETBALL: Just meeting Zali Mooney, it's obvious how excited she is about playing in the Australian Indigenous Schoolgirls Netball Championships. ... "My grandma is from the Torres Strait and my grandad is a South Sea Islander and part Aboriginal.".

UVA Today (press release) (registration)
Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA Establishes New Center to Study Indigenous Art
UVA Today (press release) (registration)
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is awarding $815,000 to the University of Virginia to create a research center for the study of the indigenous art of Australia and the Americas. The grant provides four years of funding for a proposal from the College ...

Lithgow Mercury
Aboriginal art gallery was 40000 years in the making
Lithgow Mercury
THE only dedicated indigenous art gallery in the NSW Central West showcases the evolution of art from the ancient culture to convict Australia and then to modern Aboriginal talent. The Kew-Y-Ahn Art Gallery was opened by then NSW Governor Professor ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Tarnanthi review: Art Gallery of SA festival shows vitality of Indigenous art
Sydney Morning Herald
Tarnanthi is the title of new Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia that sends a message about the resilience and vitality of Indigenous work. It's a message that needs to be broadcast ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Tarnanthi review: Art Gallery of SA festival shows vitality of Indigenous art
Sydney Morning Herald
Tarnanthi is the title of new Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia that sends a message about the resilience and vitality of Indigenous work. It's a message that needs to be broadcast ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Top ten secret Sydney beaches
dailytelegraph.com.au
The beach also marks the start of the Royal National Park coastal walk, which leads along cliffs, beaches and escarpments to see Aboriginal rock art. How to get there: From Cronulla train station it's a five-minute walk to the ferry wharf, where you ...

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Courier Mail
Top ten secret Sydney beaches
Courier Mail
The beach also marks the start of the Royal National Park coastal walk, which leads along cliffs, beaches and escarpments to see Aboriginal rock art. How to get there: From Cronulla train station it's a five-minute walk to the ferry wharf, where you ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Real reason for choice of Barnaby Joyce
Sydney Morning Herald
Richard Lennane's condemnation of the hypocrisy behind the world's nuclear powers and their beneficiaries, which includes Australia, in condemning North Korea's latest nuclear weapon test, is an indictment of international efforts to curb the threat of ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
The BUNNY dance performance at Campbelltown Arts Centre uses Japanese knot ...
Sydney Morning Herald
January 16, 10am-7pm, Barton Park, 114 Gladstone Road, North Parramatta, free parking, gold coin entry (donated to McGrath Foundation and Mission Australia), 0433 399 185, sydneykitefestival.com.au. ... Airds Aboriginal Film and Music Series. The Airds ...

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eco-business.com
Aboriginal-owned energy company one-upping Tesla
eco-business.com
The renewable energy storage game is about to be disrupted, with Australian Aboriginal-owned company AllGrid Energy announcing the launch of WattGrid, a new 10kWh solar energy storage system it says is around 30 per cent cheaper than the Tesla ...

Broadsheet
The Broadsheet Melbourne Cookbook is a Readings Best Seller Plus what else you ...
Broadsheet
Australia's Alternative Comics Scene (Or, Biting Into the Neon Lemon). Small press and self-publishing comics and zine-makers ... Wominjeka Festival 2016 at FCAC. A celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander at Footscray Community Arts Centre.

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NT News
Bed-squeeze hits Alice hospital
NT News
The Central Australia Health Service annual report reveals a failure to meet targets for discharge or admission. ... The health service also welcomed a reduction in the number of Aboriginal people leaving hospital prematurely from 81 to 61. “This is a ...

The Australian Financial Review
Labor and union leaders must confront corruption
The Australian Financial Review
As an Aboriginal man, my father earned a third of the wages of others doing the same job. The AWU helped him secure equal pay. The labour movement helped deliver the working conditions Australia enjoys today. But another critical driver was economic ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Eighty things to do in and around Sydney
Sydney Morning Herald
More than 2000 years old, the Jibbon Aboriginal carvings in Royal National Park are one of Sydney's most ancient Indigenous sites. Carvings of animal Dreamtime spirits mark the sandstone, including images of whales, stingrays, kangaroos and hunters, ...

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The Independent
Curtin University team tracks billion-year-old meteorite's fall to Lake Eyre
Sydney Morning Herald
By New Year's Eve, planetary scientist Phil Bland and his team from Western Australia's Curtin University had made their way to Lake Eyre, where they'd tracked the space rock's trajectory to a crater in the lake's solid salt crust. To reach it, Bland ...
Ancient meteorite 'older than Earth' from beyond orbit of Mars found at Lake EyreABC Online
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