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Sydney Morning Herald
Racism plays major role in poor education outcomes for Aboriginal children: study
Sydney Morning Herald
Racism plays a major role in poor education outcomes for Aboriginal children, including school attendance and grades, new research shows. But racism is not included in the central targets of Australia's overarching measure of Indigenous disadvantage, ...
Racism hits Indigenous students' attendance and gradesThe Conversation AU

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The Conversation AU
Racism hits Indigenous students' attendance and grades
The Conversation AU
Previous research we undertook showed that racism towards Indigenous students negatively affected school attendance. In further research we have found not only attendance but wider school outcomes are negatively affected when Indigenous Australians ...

ABC Online
Kimberley pastoralist wants Indigenous rangers to take on bigger firefighting role
ABC Online
... else comparable in Australia and it's just got to be curtailed. "It's far too damaging to the environment...and the pastoral industry." DFES Kimberley superintendent Grant Pipe said fire mitigation was just one of the many roles of Indigenous ...

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Generational Change
Pro Bono Australia
A passion to see his children reach their full potential as Aboriginal Australians is what drives Jeremy 'Yongurra' Donovan to push for change. The CEO of GenerationOne is this week's Changemaker. He spoke to Xavier Smerdon. Donovan is a descendent of ...

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Generational Change
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A passion to see his children reach their full potential as Aboriginal Australians is what drives Jeremy 'Yongurra' Donovan to push for change. The CEO of GenerationOne is this week's Changemaker. He spoke to Xavier Smerdon. Donovan is a descendent of ...

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Australasian Lawyer
NSW appoints Australia's first indigenous silk
Australasian Lawyer
The NSW Bar Association appointed Tony McAvoy to the top honours of senior counsel last week. McAvoy, one of just two indigenous barristers in the state, was admitted to the bar in 2000 and awarded the inaugural National Indigenous Legal Professional ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Taking indigenous art to the mainstream
SBS
It is something of a paradox that Australia's longest running indigenous art fair has yet to reach double digits when the culture it represents stretches back tens of thousands of years. But that is a gap the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair hopes to bridge ...
Generational ChangePro Bono Australia

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Pro Bono Australia
Taking indigenous art to the mainstream
SBS
It is something of a paradox that Australia's longest running indigenous art fair has yet to reach double digits when the culture it represents stretches back tens of thousands of years. But that is a gap the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair hopes to bridge ...
Generational ChangePro Bono Australia

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Australia's Indigenous Business Month kicks off October 1
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The inaugural Australian national October Indigenous Business Month will see a series of breakfast networking sessions in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane, culminating with a virtual event with professor Ian Williamson and associate professor ...

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Historic return of land to Indigenous owners in biggest protected area in ...
SBS
The 22,000 hectare Mawonga Station is now the biggest piece of Indigenous protected land in Southern Australia. It's located in central New South Wales, about 550 kilometres west of Sydney, and is the home of the Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan people.

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SBS
Historic return of land to Indigenous owners in biggest protected area in ...
SBS
The 22,000 hectare Mawonga Station is now the biggest piece of Indigenous protected land in Southern Australia. It's located in central New South Wales, about 550 kilometres west of Sydney, and is the home of the Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan people.

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Australia's Roe Highway in Perth under fire for undermining historic ...
International Business Times AU
A political storm is brewing in Australia over the extension link of Roe Highway in Perth that allegedly cuts through the historically significant aboriginal lands in the area. The project has been in limbo for many years following environmental ...

Social media vilification and the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
ABC Local
Her career has taken a path through legal education, consulting and strategy before leading to her current role as Director, Legal and Strategy with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS). She has recently returned from representing Australia at ...

TheBull.com.au
Australia's big task to meet the new UN development goals
Sydney Morning Herald
They replace the Millenium Development Goals, which have a 2015 deadline. According to Australia's Megan Davis, chairwoman of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the new goals will be "really relevant and significant for Aboriginal Australia".
Sustainable Development Goals: a win-win for AustraliaTheBull.com.au

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Australia's big task to meet the new UN development goals
Sydney Morning Herald
They replace the Millenium Development Goals, which have a 2015 deadline. According to Australia's Megan Davis, chairwoman of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the new goals will be "really relevant and significant for Aboriginal Australia".

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Huffington Post Australia
Australia's Aboriginal Cowboys Turn History Of Indentured Labor Into New ...
Huffington Post Australia
The boy cowers in the dirt and for an agonising second, the bullock is directly above him. As it bucks skyward, there is something violently beautiful about the streamline curve of horn to hoof -- the immense muscular piston of a hind leg coiled with ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Young people of the Molly Springs community, Wijilawarrim, in the Kimberley ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Mango, lemon, guava and orange trees shade abandoned 4x4s, a vast store of fuel canisters and a small, colourful play park in the extremely remote Western Australian Aboriginal community. A lone contractor works in the midday sun while dogs sleep.

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Indigenous theatre booms with stories to tell
ArtsHub (subscription)
HART is a piece of verbatim theatre based on the stories of four Aboriginal men from Western Australia, told by Ian Michael. In simple prose, it tracks the doleful story of dispossession and institutionalisation that continues to affect so many ...

ABC Online
Why we play footy: Meet some of Australia's brightest young Indigenous female ...
ABC Online
This month some of Australia's most promising Indigenous football players headed to Darwin for a national AFL under-18 competition. The ABC spoke to Female Kickstart Championships players from across the country about their career hopes, challenging ...

Sci-News.com
Australian Aboriginal Stories of Ancient Sea-Level Rise Preserved for 13000 Years
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Patrick Nunn of the University of the Sunshine Coast and Dr Nick Reid of the University of New England analyzed Aboriginal stories from 21 places around Australia's coastline, each describing a time when sea levels were significantly lower than today.