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The West Australian
Indigenous iron mine wins deal
The Australian
Fortescue (FMG) chief executive Nev Power has signed an agreement for Australian Aboriginal Mining Corporation to deliver two million tonnes of iron ore annually for five years from Western Australia's Pilbara. AAMC will deliver the ore to Fortescue's ...
FMG opens way for first indigenous mineThe West Australian
Aboriginal iron ore mine moves closerYahoo7 News

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The West Australian
FMG opens way for first indigenous mine
The West Australian
“Fortescue is focused on building up Aboriginal communities through full economic participation rather than passive welfare and today's signing ceremony is another example of how all Australians can work together with respect to end Aboriginal ...
Aboriginal iron ore mine plannedThe Australian
Fortescue Metals Group strikes deal to support development of Aboriginal owned ...ABC Online
Aboriginal iron ore mine set for PilbaraSBS
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The West Australian
Aboriginal iron ore mine set for Pilbara
Yahoo7 News
Australia's first Aboriginal owned and operated iron ore mine is set to open in Western Australia's Pilbara, but only when the commodity's price is high enough. Fortescue Metals chief executive Nev Power has signed an agreement with Australian ...
FMG opens way for first indigenous mineThe West Australian
Fortescue Metals Group strikes deal to support development of Aboriginal owned ...ABC Online

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The West Australian
FMG opens way for first indigenous mine
The West Australian
“Fortescue is focused on building up Aboriginal communities through full economic participation rather than passive welfare and today's signing ceremony is another example of how all Australians can work together with respect to end Aboriginal ...

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Newcastle Herald
Aboriginal art festival, Australia: New generation of Central Desert artists ...
Newcastle Herald
In recent times, the sparsely populated APY Lands have gained increasing prominence, with senior men such as Hector Burton, from Amata community, ranked among Australia's most eminent and collectible Aboriginal artists. At last month's Telstra Art ...

Newcastle Herald
Aboriginal art festival, Australia: New generation of Central Desert artists ...
Newcastle Herald
His paintings hang in the Queensland Art Gallery and also in the British Museum, which exhibited a portrait of Captain Cook in its recent blockbuster show Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation. Vincent's bold, graphic works – wry commentaries on ...

ABC Online
WA football's Indigenous pioneer Jimmy Melbourne honoured nearly 80 years ...
ABC Online
Jimmy Melbourne was an immensely talented footballer, a World War I veteran and a pioneer. Born in York in 1876, the man known as "Greased Lightning" was the first Indigenous Australian to play professional football in Western Australia. Melbourne was ...

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ABC Online
WA football's Indigenous pioneer Jimmy Melbourne honoured nearly 80 years ...
ABC Online
Jimmy Melbourne was an immensely talented footballer, a World War I veteran and a pioneer. Born in York in 1876, the man known as "Greased Lightning" was the first Indigenous Australian to play professional football in Western Australia. Melbourne was ...

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The Guardian
Play gets Indigenous musicians Jimmy Little and Bobby McLeod utterly wrong
The Guardian
Jimmy Little and Bobby McLeod are giants of Australian Indigenous activism and music. In death, now, as in life, each remains a hero for his unique role in the ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights, and for the hope and inspiration their music ...

The Guardian
Date finally set for inquest into death in custody of Aboriginal woman in Broome
The Guardian
According to a contemporary report in the Australian, police had picked up Mandijarra for drinking beer at Male Oval, a grassy patch near the Broome visitor centre frequented by Aboriginal people sleeping rough in the Kimberley resort town. The report ...

Backpacking through paradise Australia and its forgotten indigenous people
Affairs Today
And it was already in 1788, when Governor Arthur Phillip landed in Botany Bay with the instructions to establish the first British colony on the continent which was at this time inhabited by 320, 000 Aborigines – the indigenous people of Australia ...

Aljazeera.com (blog)
Indigenous Australians may soon lose ancestral land
Aljazeera.com (blog)
Western Australia, Australia - The arid, rural territory of Western Australia is home to over 270 remote indigenous Australian communities that live on their ancestral land. This land has sustained the oldest living culture for over 50,000 years and ...

Aljazeera.com (blog)
Indigenous Australians may soon lose ancestral land
Aljazeera.com (blog)
Western Australia, Australia - The arid, rural territory of Western Australia is home to over 270 remote indigenous Australian communities that live on their ancestral land. This land has sustained the oldest living culture for over 50,000 years and ...

ABC Online
Indigenous recognition bill passes through WA's Parliament
ABC Online
Legislation recognising Aboriginal people as Western Australia's first peoples has been passed by State Parliament, with advocates describing it as a major milestone. The bill introduced by Labor MP Josie Farrer, an Aboriginal woman from the state's ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous recognition bill passes through WA's Parliament
ABC Online
Legislation recognising Aboriginal people as Western Australia's first peoples has been passed by State Parliament, with advocates describing it as a major milestone. The bill introduced by Labor MP Josie Farrer, an Aboriginal woman from the state's ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Starting the Conversation: Ehtical Trade in Indigenous Art
ArtsHub (subscription)
Join us for a lively discussion on issues surrounding the buying and selling of Australian Indigenous art. Six expert panelists present their positions: the dealers, the artist, the curator, the ethicist and the collector. Presented by Jane Caro ...

The Observers (blog)
Australian Aboriginal actors change narrative on world's “most dangerous" island
The Observers (blog)
In a new play, a group of Australian Aboriginal actors dramatise the story of the 2004 death of an indigenous man in police custody to tackle the years of oppression and violence faced by Aborigines living on remote Palm Island, whose modern social ...

Addressing discriminatory sentencing practices to reduce high Indigenous ...
Phys.Org
"There are many problems that Prime Minister Tony Abbott would have become better acquainted with while spending time in remote Indigenous Australia recently. A key one is the appalling treatment of Indigenous Australians by the sentencing system," ...

The Guardian
The Bundian Way: ancient Aboriginal trail, future great Australian bushwalk
The Guardian
Having now completed the trail several times, Blay says walking it became a sort of “pilgrimage towards the old Australia”. Dotted with Aboriginal artefacts – worked bits of stone, axe heads and middens – the trail is an example of “Aboriginal ...

The Guardian
The Bundian Way: ancient Aboriginal trail, future great Australian bushwalk
The Guardian
Having now completed the trail several times, Blay says walking it became a sort of “pilgrimage towards the old Australia”. Dotted with Aboriginal artefacts – worked bits of stone, axe heads and middens – the trail is an example of “Aboriginal ...