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ABC Online
10 ways humans will leave fossils
ABC Online
Much in the same way as later arrivals to Australia have mapped early Aboriginal movements by discovering their middens, fossil-hunters of the future will know us by our garbage. But unlike first Australians, the signature of later generations will be ...

Toowoomba Chronicle
Travel back in time at Pioneer Village on Australia Day
Toowoomba Chronicle
THERE is plenty to keep you entertained at the Highfields Pioneer Village on Australia Day. The program is jam-packed full of fun starting with the Aboriginal art talks by artist Cheryl Moggs at 9am, then the milking of the cow at 9.30am. There are ...

The Mercury
Canadians ready to liven up Cygnet Folk Festival
The Mercury
Ms Collins — who is especially excited to have former Goanna frontman Shane Howard back at the festival for the first time in about a decade, and is also looking forward to a performance by Cape Barren Island Aboriginal elder Ronnie Summers — thinks ...

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The Age
The seductions of the beach
The Age
... beach is part of the Australian consciousness at many levels. We are called to the edges of the continent to find refreshment and the promise of renewal. But it's also where early intrepid travellers, settlers and convicts first encountered ...

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ABC Online
Gubinge: Kimberley Aboriginal community starts commercially harvesting new ...
ABC Online
An Aboriginal community in the West Kimberley has become the first to commercially harvest the highly sought after bush fruit gubinge. Gubinge, also known as Kakadu plum, is endemic to Northern Australia. It is rich in nutrients and has been enjoyed by ...

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NT juvenile justice: “a blight on the entire Australian legal system”
Crikey (registration) (blog)
The debacle that has been exposed in the past two years within the NT juvenile justice system shows quite clearly that by deliberate design and policy Aboriginal children in are treated in a barbarous, inhumane and illegal way. Multiple incidents ...

The Guardian
WA police introduce prerecorded cautions in Aboriginal languages
The Guardian
Indigenous people will soon be able to hear a prerecorded caution in any Aboriginal language if arrested in Western Australia under changes prompted by the case of an Indigenous man who was charged with murder despite not understanding his rights or ...

The Guardian
WA police introduce prerecorded cautions in Aboriginal languages
The Guardian
Indigenous people will soon be able to hear a prerecorded caution in any Aboriginal language if arrested in Western Australia under changes prompted by the case of an Indigenous man who was charged with murder despite not understanding his rights or ...

ABC Online
Lets Go Walkabout dance party changes name after social media backlash over ...
ABC Online
... arts festival Rainbow Serpent in Western Victoria. "Again using our culture and our beliefs in the title for a party, it becomes a huge problem and it offends Aboriginal people all over the country, so [the organisers] are going to start getting ...

Winning playwright will honour Indigenous champion
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As the recipient of the 2015 NSW Aboriginal Art Fellowship, Sydney based playwright and producer Andrea James is set to tell an important story from Australia's Indigenous history. James will use the 30,000 fellowship to produce a play about the life ...

Winning playwright will honour Indigenous champion
ArtsHub (subscription)
As the recipient of the 2015 NSW Aboriginal Art Fellowship, Sydney based playwright and producer Andrea James is set to tell an important story from Australia's Indigenous history. James will use the 30,000 fellowship to produce a play about the life ...

Broadsheet
Watch 12 Hours of Cat Videos on Loop During White Night
Broadsheet
The amazing Indigenous films we're screening showcase Australian film.” Every year in Minneapolis there's an Internet Cat Video Film ... Alongside the cat-laden showcase is some genuinely thoughtful programming, featuring a handful of worthy films from ...

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New Matilda
Cole Miller And Trevor Duroux: When Older People Get Killed It's Less ...
New Matilda
Much of the criticism was focused on the claim that Fairfax ignoring the death of Mr Duroux had nothing to do with race… because, of course, racism and indifference to Aboriginal suffering is not a problem in Australia. Instead, critics claimed ...

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Perth Now
Josh Warneke murder: WA Police Commissioner reveals detectives will be ...
Perth Now
Pre-recorded cautions in every Aboriginal language will be introduced, similar to a system in the Northern Territory. Detectives interviewing Gibson had failed to provide him with an interpreter. Mr O'Callaghan said Operation Aviemore had highlighted ...

Daily Review
Jasper Jones review: Australian novel a crowd-pleaser on stage (Belvoir, Sydney)
Daily Review
... the 13-year-old protagonist who constantly has his head in a book and is dreaming of writing the Great Australian Novel. But then Jasper Jones, a 15-year-old indigenous boy who's become the town's scapegoat because of his Aboriginal mother, appears ...
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NT radio broadcasting Aboriginal voices
Yahoo7 News
About 40 years ago, possibly the only time you could hear Aboriginal languages spoken or sung in public was at church, says musician Warren H. Williams. But that changed when the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association launched in 1980.

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NT radio broadcasting Aboriginal voices
Yahoo7 News
But that changed when the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association launched in 1980. Mr Williams, who has worked at CAAMA radio in Alice Springs for almost 20 years hosting daily music and talk shows, says the separation of Aboriginal languages ...

Broadsheet
Jasper Jones at MTC
Broadsheet
Hugo Weaving, Toni Collette, Rachel Perkins and Kate Mulvany are just a handful of the 170,000 people who have been captivated by the story of Jasper Jones, the young Aboriginal kid who shows up at Charlie Bucktin's window one hot summer's night with a ...

The Queensland Times
Miller to quit? CFMEU ready to swoop with new candidate
The Queensland Times
Mr Thompson previously worked at the Aboriginal Family Legal Services in Roma between 2012 to 2015 and stood as a candidate in the seat of Maranoa at the last federal election. The QT contacted Mr Thompson, who has been a long-standing member of ...

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NT News
High lead levels danger to indigenous shooters
NT News
The use of lead shotgun pellets is illegal for all waterfowl hunters in Australia except in the Territory, where it can be used only by indigenous hunters shooting on Aboriginal land. Centre for Disease Control community physician Steven Skov said the ...