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Australia: Aboriginal cave art 'only few years old'
BBC News
A piece of cave art resembling an ancient Aboriginal hand stencil, found near a controversial Australian coalmine project, has turned out to be less than four years old, it's been reported. The drawing was found by environmentalist Chris Jonkers in a ...
"Aboriginal" art stopping coal expansion found to be phonyFerret

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Roundup: Remote Indigenous Australia struggles for economic equality
GlobalPost
SYDNEY, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Indigenous Australia has remained a blind spot for successive governments and the drive for economic and social equality has come under renewed scrutiny in 2014, with a review into Indigenous jobs and training programs ...

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Roundup: Remote Indigenous Australia struggles for economic equality
GlobalPost
SYDNEY, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Indigenous Australia has remained a blind spot for successive governments and the drive for economic and social equality has come under renewed scrutiny in 2014, with a review into Indigenous jobs and training programs ...
​The tyranny of distance: Building better broadband for the bushCNET

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Field Museum Returning Aboriginal Skulls To Australia
CBS Local
CHICAGO (CBS) – A delegation from the Australian state of Tasmania was visiting Chicago to take home the remains of three Aborigines that have been in the collection of the Field Museum since 1958. “These were taken. I can't tell you exactly how, but ...
Field Museum Returns Human Remains to Their Descendants After DecadesDNAinfo

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Remote Indigenous Australia struggles for economic equality
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
SYDNEY, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Indigenous Australia has remained a blind spot for successive governments and the drive for economic and social equality has come under renewed scrutiny in 2014, with a review into Indigenous jobs and training programs ...

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Remote Indigenous Australia struggles for economic equality
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
SYDNEY, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Indigenous Australia has remained a blind spot for successive governments and the drive for economic and social equality has come under renewed scrutiny in 2014, with a review into Indigenous jobs and training programs ...
​The tyranny of distance: Building better broadband for the bushCNET

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Indigenous legal minds meet in Brisbane
ABC Local
Mr Creamer says the World Indigenous Legal Conference, which is held every two years, gives legal minds the chance to look at issues unique to Indigenous communities. He says Australia will be looking to the United States for their experience in ...

"Aboriginal" art stopping coal expansion found to be phony
Australian Mining
The Australian reported that the principal archaeologist for Aecom compared the painting to another aboriginal heritage site in the area, which had more than 20 hand-stencils in red ochre, while the single painting was done in white-grey pigment which ...

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"Aboriginal" art stopping coal expansion found to be phony
Ferret
The Australian reported that the principal archaeologist for Aecom compared the painting to another aboriginal heritage site in the area, which had more than 20 hand-stencils in red ochre, while the single painting was done in white-grey pigment which ...

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The Guardian (blog)
Pecan Summer: an opera for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian (blog)
Photograph: Jorge de Araujo and Richard Jefferson. As Australia's first Indigenous opera, Pecan Summer, prepares to open at the Adelaide Festival Centre for its fourth season, creator and composer Deborah Cheetham well remembers the opera's premiere.

The Guardian (blog)
Pecan Summer: an opera for Indigenous Australia
The Guardian (blog)
Photograph: Jorge de Araujo and Richard Jefferson. As Australia's first Indigenous opera, Pecan Summer, prepares to open at the Adelaide Festival Centre for its fourth season, creator and composer Deborah Cheetham well remembers the opera's premiere.

Failing Aboriginal Australians
CounterPunch
Several recent events in Australia have served to again highlight how little the peoples and cultures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island nations feature on the national radar. Lack of formal education about Aborigines and a failure on the media ...

Failing Aboriginal Australians
CounterPunch
Several recent events in Australia have served to again highlight how little the peoples and cultures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island nations feature on the national radar. Lack of formal education about Aborigines and a failure on the media ...

Mine's 'rock art' just 3½ years old
The Australian
A report by engineering consultancy Aecom Australia for Coalpac says the “questionable” hand stencil is likely to be a “modern replica” of a traditional Aboriginal hand stencil and is at most 3½ years old. The “now obvious” rock stencil was not there ...

Call for action on indigenous suicide
The Australian
Professor Chandler has been invited to address a roundtable of indigenous elders, youth leaders, health professionals, academics, social justice campaigners and government figures hosted by the University of Western Australia. One of the convenors, ...

Bureaucrat's last word on sites stirs anger
The Australian
But native title representative groups and anthropologists say the proposed changes to Australia's first set of laws covering Aboriginal sacred sites will concentrate power in the hands of a single bureaucrat, the chief executive of the Department of ...

Opinion: Teaching in mother tongue key to engaging indigenous students
Courier Mail
IT WAS reported last week that Australian jail populations have “risen sharply” in the past year. In among the statistical data was the fact indigenous prisoners now represent 28 per cent of the total jail population. What wasn't reported was this is ...

Sydney City News
Talk of protest and civil disobedience usually conjures thoughts of distant ...
Sydney City News
Featuring archival documents, letters and petitions alongside new works by contemporary Indigenous artists, Nicole Foreshew, Jacob Nash and Karla Dickens, the exhibition honours the legacy of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA) and ...

Sydney Morning Herald
NBA star Patty Mills wants to revive his family club
Sydney Morning Herald
He is now an NBA championship-winning star with the San Antonio Spurs, but Patty Mills began basketball in Canberra as a four-year-old with the Shadows. Mills wants to help resurrect the multicultural and Australian indigenous basketball club founded ...
Australian basketball needs to take advantage of Patty Mills-maniaWarrnambool Standard

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No new term for Indigenous Business Australia chair Dawn Casey
The Australian
Dr Casey's five-year term at the head of the IBA, which promotes self-sufficiency and economic independence among indigenous Australians, ends on June 28. Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion today paid tribute to Dr Casey, who The Australian ...