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Review: Pilger's Utopia shows us Aboriginal Australia in 2014
The Conversation
Welcome to Aboriginal Australia in the 21st Century – John Pilger's Utopia. It was more than two decades ago when I saw John Pilger's 1986 documentary The Secret Country for the first time. I was a 17-year-old…

French Tribune
Kangaroo Sketch in Portuguese Prayer Book might Prove Existence of ...
French Tribune
This suggests the existence of Indigenous Australian before the arrival of Dutch. The book has been purchased at about US$15,000 by a New York gallery, Les Enluminures. It is believed that the book was possessed by a nun from western Portugal, named ...
'Kangaroo' sketch suggests Portuguese may have beaten Dutch to AustraliaBignews Portugal

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Summer camp aims to lift Indigenous uni enrolments
ABC Online
Indigenous students make up only one per cent of higher education enrolments in Australia. As Tracy Bowden reports, a special summer camp at the University of Sydney is hoping to help change that. TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: The summer holidays in ...

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Summer camp aims to lift Indigenous uni enrolments
ABC Online
Indigenous students make up only one per cent of higher education enrolments in Australia. As Tracy Bowden reports, a special summer camp at the University of Sydney is hoping to help change that. TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: The summer holidays in ...

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ABC Online
Summer camp aims to lift Indigenous uni enrolments
ABC Online
Indigenous students make up only one per cent of higher education enrolments in Australia. As Tracy Bowden reports, a special summer camp at the University of Sydney is hoping to help change that. TRACY BOWDEN, REPORTER: The summer holidays in ...

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Bid to boost Indigenous cancer survival rates
SBS
The University of Western Australia's School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care is investigating different models of cancer treatment and how they could be used to boost Indigenous survival rates. Preliminary research indicates Aboriginal ...

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Bid to boost Indigenous cancer survival rates
SBS
The University of Western Australia's School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care is investigating different models of cancer treatment and how they could be used to boost Indigenous survival rates. Preliminary research indicates Aboriginal ...

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Outcomes much poorer for Indigenous Australians with cancer
SBS
The University of Western Australia's School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care is investigating different models of cancer treatment and how they could be used to boost Indigenous survival rates. Preliminary research indicates Aboriginal ...

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Outcomes much poorer for Indigenous Australians with cancer
SBS
The University of Western Australia's School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care is investigating different models of cancer treatment and how they could be used to boost Indigenous survival rates. Preliminary research indicates Aboriginal ...

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Fred Chaney, Senior Australian of the Year nominee
SBS
While he says Australia has come a long way since the 1950s, he says Indigenous incarceration rates are still at catastrophic levels and he says it's the number one barrier to reconciliation in his home state of WA. "If there's a single barrier to ...

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What changes to teaching of Indigenous history?
SBS
"There are two aspects to Australia's history that are paramount. The first of course is our Indigenous history, because for thousands of years Indigenous Australians have lived on this continent. The second aspect of our history is our beginnings as a ...
Rocking the education debate all over againThe Age
Kathy Marks: Review set to stoke culture fireNew Zealand Herald
Australia: New school curriculum to promote war and nationalismWorld Socialist Web Site

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SBS
What changes to teaching of Indigenous history?
SBS
"There are two aspects to Australia's history that are paramount. The first of course is our Indigenous history, because for thousands of years Indigenous Australians have lived on this continent. The second aspect of our history is our beginnings as a ...
Australia: New school curriculum to promote war and nationalismWorld Socialist Web Site

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From utopia to Utopia
artsHub Australia (subscription)
Two years in the making, Utopia is Pilger's fourth documentary on Indigenous Australia and includes interviews with those he first met during the making of his seminal film, The Secret Country, in 1985. Pilger's film moves from Sydney to Canberra, and ...

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to show in Ak
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Highlighting the many relationships to place and sparking debate as to the politics of land, My Countrycelebrates the powerful art of Indigenous Australians today. The exhibition comes to New Zealand thanks to support from the Australia Council for the ...

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Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to show in Ak
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
Highlighting the many relationships to place and sparking debate as to the politics of land, My Countrycelebrates the powerful art of Indigenous Australians today. The exhibition comes to New Zealand thanks to support from the Australia Council for the ...

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Development Manager, Indigenous Strategy & Services
Pro Bono Australia
In 2012, the University launched the Wingara Mura – Bunga Barrabugu, a comprehensive strategic plan to renew the University's efforts to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with opportunities to engage with one of Australia's best ...

Development Manager, Indigenous Strategy & Services
Pro Bono Australia
In 2012, the University launched the Wingara Mura – Bunga Barrabugu, a comprehensive strategic plan to renew the University's efforts to provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with opportunities to engage with one of Australia's best ...

The Guardian
Where exactly does Christopher Pyne stand on teaching Indigenous history?
The Guardian
Last week when he announced a supposedly independent review of the national curriculum by experts clearly hostile towards the status quo, it was framed in terms of competing aspects of Australia's past – Indigenous history and “western civilisation”.
Inquiry labelled "disgusting"6minutes

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The Guardian
Where exactly does Christopher Pyne stand on teaching Indigenous history?
The Guardian
There are two aspects of Australia's history that are paramount. First of course is our Indigenous history because for thousands of years Indigenous Australians have lived on this continent. The second aspect of our history is our beginnings as a ...
Inquiry labelled "disgusting"6minutes

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Indigenous hepatitis B program cash uncertainty
The West Australian
"I am concerned that the [Hepatitis Australia] document is taking a fairly simplistic view that there is a lot of hep-B in Aboriginals and we are not doing enough, and it is just a matter of more money and we will fix the problem," he said. "It won't ...

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