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The Ayers Rock Resort purchase shines a light on failures of accountability
ABC Local
I am about to complete four years as chair of the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC), a Commonwealth statutory corporation. The experiences of the board I have led have shown how difficult good policy making has become in Australia, and demonstrated the ...

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ABC Online
TARNANTHI contemporary Indigenous art festival attracts 50000 people
ABC Online
Australia's largest festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art has been deemed a success with more 50,000 people attending events across Adelaide. More than 300 artists contributed to works showcased in exhibitions for the ...

ABC Online
TARNANTHI contemporary Indigenous art festival attracts 50000 people
ABC Online
Australia's largest festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art has been deemed a success with more 50,000 people attending events across Adelaide. More than 300 artists contributed to works showcased in exhibitions for the ...

Australia's new flag? – The Spirit of Belonging
The Westender
The SOB flag represents, once again, an extraordinary act of generosity from our Aboriginal brothers and sisters. Darren's flag lifts our eyes, our discourse and our thoughts. I particularly like Darren's distinction between Indigenous Australians ...

SBS
Oversupply and taxes hurting demand for Indigenous art
SBS
Aboriginal art dealer Adrian Newstead has seen a decline in the global appetite for Australian Indigenous art in the past 10 years. He says the global financial crisis and the introduction of a number of taxes and restrictions on Indigenous art ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Charlie Perkins at a parliamentary joint committee of public accounts inquiry ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Alongside fellow Aboriginal teammates John Moriarty and Gordon Briscoe, Perkins presented a petition to the South Australian Parliament advocating citizenship rights for Aboriginal people. Moriarty, who regards Perkins as "like a brother", remembers ...

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Love Child star Miranda Tapsell says she does not identify as Australian
9news.com.au
Indigenous Australian actress Miranda Tapsell has revealed she does not identify as an Australian in a candid interview about the impact of racism on her life. Speaking with host Karl Stefanovic on The Verdict last night, the young actress said she had ...

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ABC Message Stick
Research gives merit to accuracy of Aboriginal storytelling
ABC Message Stick
"To actually have, around Australia, a body of stories that appear to have come from a time depth of about 7000 years ago when the sea level reached its current height, is an extraordinary finding." Professor Reid said there's been a great deal of ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal women reaffirm fight against nuclear waste dump in South Australia
ABC Online
The shipment began its journey just a day after senior Aboriginal women gathered in Adelaide to mark their fight against a proposed dump in South Australia in the 1990s. The women say they will fight against any new move to put the waste on their land.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Keating pushes 'unfinished business' of Indigenous treaty and republic
Sydney Morning Herald
The former prime minister also says he would back any move by Malcolm Turnbull to revive the minimalist model for an Australian republic that both men crafted in the early 1990s, conceding this might be the "last and best opportunity" to secure the model.

Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Keating pushes 'unfinished business' of Indigenous treaty and republic
Sydney Morning Herald
The former prime minister also says he would back any move by Malcolm Turnbull to revive the minimalist model for an Australian republic that both men crafted in the early 1990s, conceding this might be the "last and best opportunity" to secure the model.

Man pleads guilty to stealing over $1 million from Indigenous Business Australia
ABC Online
Indigenous Business Australia was originally the commercial arm of the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Nicholas Ian Schofield, 46, was the financial manager in 2013 when the offences occurred. The court heard that at the time ...

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Man pleads guilty to stealing over $1 million from Indigenous Business Australia
ABC Online
A Canberra man has been taken into custody after admitting to stealing more than $1 million from the Commonwealth authority set up to help Indigenous people buy their own homes and businesses. Indigenous Business Australia was originally the ...

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Lynne Thomas reading Aboriginal translations
ABC Local
Here is a selection of photos sent in by ABC Open audience members from around Australia. If you have any photos you'd like to share with ABC Open, send them via their upload page. You can also Instagram your photo by using #abcmyphoto ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Are Aboriginal art centres sustainable?
ArtsHub (subscription)
Aboriginal art centres are pivotal to the cultural, social and economic wellbeing of many communities in remote areas of Australia. They are key in continuing inter-generational learning, offering work and encouraging entrepreneurship, and offer a ...

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Red Flag
'Still waiting for justice' Aboriginal stolen wages in Western Australia
Red Flag
From 1905 until 1972, thousands of Aboriginal workers in Western Australia had their wages stolen and placed in trust accounts operated by the state government, never to be seen again. In 2012 – four years after a WA taskforce recommended official ...

ABC Online
NT Aboriginal community of Kintore buys $30000 custom-made European church bell
ABC Online
A remote Central Australian Aboriginal community has used money from mining royalties and leases to purchase a new church bell and tower from France at a cost of almost $30,000. A committee of senior people from Kintore, 530 kilometres west of Alice ...

ABC Online
Indigenous Australians 'frowned upon', unable to access medical help for ice ...
ABC Online
Two Indigenous Australians who suffered through ice addictions have told a Parliament House forum they did not get any professional help on their journey to sobriety. The former methylamphetamine addicts spoke at the event, hosted by the National ...

ABC Online
Indigenous Australians 'frowned upon', unable to access medical help for ice ...
ABC Online
Two Indigenous Australians who suffered through ice addictions have told a Parliament House forum they did not get any professional help on their journey to sobriety. The former methylamphetamine addicts spoke at the event, hosted by the National ...

The Guardian
Aboriginal woman in WA fined $500 for stealing $6.75 box of tampons
The Guardian
An Aboriginal woman has been fined $500 for stealing a $6.75 box of tampons under a system of on-the-spot infringement notices introduced in Western Australia to free up police time. The 20-year-old woman received the infringement notice on Tuesday ...

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