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Herald Sun
Indigenous acts rally for a true blue cause
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TRUE Blue country singer John Williamson will headline Adelaide's newest music event in October when he joins a line-up of some of Australia's best indigenous acts for the “Around The Campfire” concert at Alberton Oval. Williamson, who recently hit out ...
Indigenous acts rally Around the Campfire for a true blue causeHerald Sun

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Yahoo News
Australia warns against homebrew Vegemite alcohol drinks
Yahoo News
The sticky spread, made from yeast extract, is an Australian icon and similar to its British cousin Marmite. But in some remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory where liquor is banned to stem alcohol-related problems, minister Nigel ...
Vegemite being used to make homemade alcohol in dry communities: reportsSydney Morning Herald
Vegemite Blamed For Spread Of Social Ills In Rural AustraliaInternational Business Times
Australian Government Concerned Over Vegemite's Use In MoonshineNPR
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The Australian
'Luminous' work captures spirit of place and Telstra indigenous prize
The Australian
The warm, colourful acrylic was painted by the wheelchair-bound veteran over three weeks in Fitzroy Crossing, in northern Western Australia, where she lives but it evokes her birthplace in the Great Sandy Desert. Eva Nargoodah, acting as her great-aunt ...

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The Australian
Tony Abbott rules out Vegemite ban in indigenous communities
The Australian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said businesses in dry communities had a responsibility to report any Vegemite purchase that may raise their suspicions. But the government wasn't seeking to place any restrictions on the sale of the spread ...
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ABC Online
Bush burial knockbacks causing distress for Aboriginal families in outback WA
ABC Online
... Aboriginal people and there needed to be more transparency about why decisions were made. "I don't think it's very well understood by people up here," he said. "It's a very important issue for Aboriginal people, not just in the Kimberley but all ...

The Guardian (blog)
Indigenous activist Murrumu has fought the law this week. But who will win?
The Guardian (blog)
If you've been following the saga of Murrumu since Guardian Australia highlighted it a year ago, you'll know this Indigenous man has renounced his Australian citizenship, having divested of the documentation – passport, Medicare card, driver's licence ...

The Straits Times
Booing of Aboriginal player a test for Australia
The Straits Times
Aboriginal activist and Australian Rules football legend Adam Goodes (left) training with Sydney Swans teammates at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday. Goodes has been subject to relentless booing from rival Australian Rules crowds for months now.
Adam Goodes feels dagger of racism in painting entered in Indigenous art awardsThe Age
Adam Goodes, Andrew Bolt and an echo chamber of boosBrisbane Times
Adam Goodes saga a warning to the AFL of the perils of playing politicsThe Australian Financial Review
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The Australian
Aboriginal cash 'siphoned' off by Northern Territory
The Australian
The chairman of Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, Australian Indigenous Education Foundation head Andrew Penfold and conservative former minister for Aboriginal affairs Fred Chaney called for better audits and a more ...

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The Australian
Aboriginal cash 'siphoned' off by Northern Territory
The Australian
The chairman of Tony Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, Australian Indigenous Education Foundation head Andrew Penfold and conservative former minister for Aboriginal affairs Fred Chaney called for better audits and a more ...

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Perth Now
WA desert artist wins top art award
Perth Now
Jukuja Dolly Snell from Kurtal, WA, has won the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for her painting 'Kurtal'. A WEST AUSTRALIAN artist from the Great Sandy Desert has won Australia's most prestigious indigenous art prize ...
WA desert artist wins national Aboriginal art prize for paintingThe Australian
WA painter Snell wins Aboriginal art prizeNEWS.com.au
Desert dreaming inspires prize-winning artThe West Australian
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The Australian
WA desert artist wins national Aboriginal art prize for painting
The Australian
Ms Snell began painting in the 1980s and is married to another celebrated indigenous artist, Nyilpirr Ngalyaku Spider Snell. Her paintings, known for their vibrant colours, hang in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of ...
WA painter Snell wins Aboriginal art prizeNEWS.com.au
Desert dreaming inspires prize-winning artThe West Australian
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The Guardian
Inquest into Aboriginal woman's death in custody to be held 16 months after ...
The Guardian
The inquest into the death in custody of 22-year-old Aboriginal woman Ms Dhu will be held in late November, almost 16 months after she was pronounced dead at a hospital in Western Australia on 4 August last year. Protests were held on Tuesday to mark ...
Inquest set for WA death in custodySBS

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Kudos: Indigenous artists shine at the top
ArtsHub (subscription)
West Australian artist Jukuja Dolly Snell has been named winner of Australia's most prestigious Indigenous art prize for 2015, the Telstra Art Award (Telstra NATSIAA). Born in 1933, it was Dolly's work Kurtal – the name of her homeland in the Great ...

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ABC Online
Jukuja Dolly Snell wins National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art ...
ABC Online
Her painting, Kurtal, which took out the overall National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA), was inspired by her birthplace at a jila, or a permanent waterhole, in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert. With her granddaughter ...
WA desert artist wins top art awardPerth Now
WA painter Snell wins Aboriginal art prizeNEWS.com.au
WA desert artist wins national Aboriginal art prize for paintingHerald Sun
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The Canberra Times
Canberra Raiders celebrate Indigenous players ahead of NRL's Indigenous round
The Canberra Times
"Two per cent is about the overall percentage of Indigenous people in the Australian population, so when you look at that, elite sport outweighs the general consensus. "There have been a sprinkling of forwards at the Raiders, guys like Lui Bon, Sam ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Create and educate ... Daren Dunn's stunning contribution to Indigenous Round
Sydney Morning Herald
"Would you believe, it's from non-Aboriginal people and athletes," he said. "They inspire me. My Aboriginality has always been there, but it's the non-Aboriginal people who inspire me. Non-Aboriginal Australia embrace Aboriginal culture more than you ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Undiscovered: A contemporary indigenous perspective on colonisation
Sydney Morning Herald
In Michael Cook's series of large-scale photographs entitled Undiscovered, an indigenous man dressed in colonial uniform stands on the seashore re-enacting the discovery Australia. It's an incongruous image and it challenges the core power structures ...

The Conversation AU
White Australia needs to take responsibility for reconciliation too
The Conversation AU
There is a hypocrisy in Australia's demand that to receive any entitlements that come with the special status of “Aboriginal”, people must continue to live their culture – yet if an Aboriginal person displays their culture in a way that challenges ...
Indigenous Australia is the true foundation of our multicultural societyThe Guardian
From Arthur Beetson to the modern-day stars: Why the NRL's Indigenous Round is ...Sydney Morning Herald
All Stars crucial role in reconciliation pushThe Australian
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The Conversation AU
White Australia needs to take responsibility for reconciliation too
The Conversation AU
Much of the media coverage has centred on the question of whether the booing of Goodes is racially motivated, but the issue goes beyond racism to the question of the place of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia. Who gets to define ...
Indigenous Australia is the true foundation of our multicultural societyThe Guardian
From Arthur Beetson to the modern-day stars: Why the NRL's Indigenous Round is ...Sydney Morning Herald
Australian football jeers sound 'wake up' call on raceBBC News
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One in ten Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders have been to jail – racialised ...
The Stringer
There has been very little research on how many Australians and how many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have been to prison. There is very little information collected on what happens to people post-prison. It has been my long-held view that in ...