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Indigenous model Samantha Harris defends Cassi van den Dungen after ...
The Daily Telegraph
Indigenous model Samantha Harris has defended fellow model Cassi van den Dungen who stole the spotlight for the wrong reasons at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia. Van den Dungen's gaunt face and skeletal legs drew gasps on the catwalk this ...

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Senior Clinician - Circle Therapeutic Foster Care
Pro Bono Australia
... tertiary qualification in Psychology, Social Work or a related discipline such as Family Therapy/Child Psychotherapy, and a demonstrated ability to work with a culturally informed and respectful approach with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Golf is experiencing an Australian invasion
Philly.com
For instance, Bowditch was greeted by a trio of countrymen who waited an hour to watch him win: Senden; Scott Gardiner, the first PGA player of Australian aboriginal descent; and Aaron Baddeley, who has played in 29 majors. Baddeley and Gardiner did ...

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Local slams changes to Racial Discrimination Act
The Transcontinental
The Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia and a local ACEG officer have slammed the Liberal government's proposal to make changes to the Racial Discrimination Act. AHCSA chief executive officer Mary Buckskin suggested the changes would have a ...

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Crows join RECOGNISE movement
Adelaide Crows
The Club's stance on Recognise coincides with the Adelaide Football Club/McLeod Indigenous programs' first camp for the year. Thirty young, talented footballers from across South Australia were present for the significant moment on Wednesday, and ...

Adelaide Crows
Crows join RECOGNISE movement
Adelaide Crows
The Club's stance on Recognise coincides with the Adelaide Football Club/McLeod Indigenous programs' first camp for the year. Thirty young, talented footballers from across South Australia were present for the significant moment on Wednesday, and ...

Northern development needs Indigenous involvement
ABC Online
"If we don't factor that in as a major part of the consideration of the component of what happens for development in northern Australia, then something will be drastically missing - the participation of Indigenous people in the economy, the issue of ...

Northern development needs Indigenous involvement
ABC Online
Getting Indigenous communities involved is the key to developing northern Australia, a Top End land management group says. The North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance says a parliamentary inquiry into the north's development ...

Grandparents as parents
ABC Online
At this moment in Australia, nearly 30,000 families are made up of grandparents who have dependent children in their full-time care. According to Social Services Minister, Kevin Andrews, it is a 'growing social challenge'. ... Then he was removed on ...

Sydney models learn fashion industry can be trap for unwary
The Daily Telegraph
Established under the new not-for-profit peak organisation the Australian indigenous Design Initiative, AIFW aims to assist in indigenous economic development and to promote and enhance the ethical standards of the Australian fashion industry. Models ...

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Tragic confrontation in the desert
Crikey (blog)
It may be unfashionable in the Aboriginal art world to say this, but I believe many buyers of the apparently abstract canvases from tribal Australia do so in part from the belief that there's an unfathomable meaning that lifts them far above the drips ...

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Inaugural Indigenous Fashion Week hopes to launch next Sam Harris
ABC Local
Following in the footsteps of renowned Indigenous model Sam Harris, Claire Cooper is making her catwalk debut at the first Australian Indigenous Fashion Week. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. Tweed Heads born model Sam Harris was scouted at ...

Traditional owners divided on government visions for commercial development ...
Yahoo!7 News
"It is about non-indigenous Australians and the government yielding to the Aboriginal community the resources it needs to properly manage tourism the way they see it." Simon Birmingham, Parliamentary Secretary to Environment Minister Greg Hunt, says ...

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Traditional owners divided on government visions for commercial development ...
Yahoo!7 News
"It is about non-indigenous Australians and the government yielding to the Aboriginal community the resources it needs to properly manage tourism the way they see it." Simon Birmingham, Parliamentary Secretary to Environment Minister Greg Hunt, says ...

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NT traditional owners divided on national parks development plans
ABC Message Stick
"It is about non-indigenous Australians and the government yielding to the Aboriginal community the resources it needs to properly manage tourism the way they see it." Simon Birmingham, Parliamentary Secretary to Environment Minister Greg Hunt, says ...

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NT traditional owners divided on national parks development plans
ABC Message Stick
He says there are overseas models where indigenous communities are treated more fairly. "We need to look at improving the yield that tourism brings to the park, and it is not just the economic yield," he said. "It is about non-indigenous Australians ...

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Traditional owners divided on government visions for commercial development ...
ABC Online
"It is about non-indigenous Australians and the government yielding to the Aboriginal community the resources it needs to properly manage tourism the way they see it." Simon Birmingham, Parliamentary Secretary to Environment Minister Greg Hunt, says ...

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Tribute to our Aboriginal soldiers
Great Lakes Advocate
AT their 2014 Anzac Day commemoration tomorrow students from the Great Lakes College Forster campus will pay special tribute to local Aborigines who fought in defence of Australia over the last 100 years. Dozens of Aboriginal men and women from the ...

Tribute to our Aboriginal soldiers
Great Lakes Advocate
AT their 2014 Anzac Day commemoration tomorrow students from the Great Lakes College Forster campus will pay special tribute to local Aborigines who fought in defence of Australia over the last 100 years. Dozens of Aboriginal men and women from the ...

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New find challenges 'simple' Australian artefacts assumption
Science Network Western Australia
She notes that they were also made in Japan at a slightly later date, by people who would have had no contact with either Australian Aborigines or people in Africa and Europe. Prof Balme says retouched axes are just one example of material culture ...