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Digital lifeline for Aboriginal languages facing extinction
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Gavan Breen began documenting Aboriginal languages like Yandruwandha across South Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland in the 1960s. GAVAN BREEN: Pretty well all of the languages I worked on have no speakers left now. People in some ...

Digital lifeline for Aboriginal languages facing extinction
ABC Message Stick
Gavan Breen began documenting Aboriginal languages like Yandruwandha across South Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland in the 1960s. GAVAN BREEN: Pretty well all of the languages I worked on have no speakers left now. People in some ...

Aboriginal artist takes on mining giant through paintings
artsHub Australia (subscription)
Good to Bad (2013) was purchased by the Australian National Warm Memorial in Canberra. Courtesy the artist and Cross Art Projects. This exhibition of his paintings – one that has taken three years of consultation by Cross Art Projects Director Jo ...

Plane sailing as Natalie earns Cricket Australia scholarship
Frankston weekly
Hoping to join cricket heroes such as Ellyse Perry, Meg Lanning and Alex Blackwell in the future is Natalie Plane, one of four young players to receive an Indigenous Scholarship from Cricket Australia. Plane, 17, now plays with Melbourne Cricket Club ...

The Guardian (blog)
The Gods of Wheat Street: finally, my own stories on screen
The Guardian (blog)
There has been an influx of Aboriginal stories on our screens, big and small, with breakaway hits including The Sapphires and Redfern Now as well as NITV, an entire channel featuring Indigenous content from around the world with a focus on Australia.

Remote funds under threat
The Australian (blog)
Defence has a large portfolio of infrastructure assets across Australia in good working order. Defence housing is backed by private-sector investment through the Defence Housing Australia investment program. We should look at this approach for ...

Take indigenous housing to market, says Warren Mundine
The Australian
The Australian can reveal that the government is looking at a range of efficiencies in indigenous spending in next month's budget, including for less to be spent in the renewed indigenous housing program, which the government wants to be run under a ...

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Australian Indigenous FW highlights aboriginal culture
Fibre2fashion.com
Centuries old Aussie aboriginal culture grabbed the spotlight at the recently held inaugural edition of Australian Indigenous Fashion Week (AIFW), a runway-cum-trade event that highlighted designs crafted by the aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island war heroes 'vanished' from the Anzac legendThe Daily Telegraph

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Australian Indigenous FW highlights aboriginal culture
Fibre2fashion.com
Centuries old Aussie aboriginal culture grabbed the spotlight at the recently held inaugural edition of Australian Indigenous Fashion Week (AIFW), a runway-cum-trade event that highlighted designs crafted by the aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island war heroes 'vanished' from the Anzac legendThe Daily Telegraph

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The Guardian
Five question to Shaun Edwards: on Indigenous fashion and culture
The Guardian
Fashion with a capital F. Let's debate about the "black is the new black" in fashion, and get people talking about the recent Australian Indigenous Fashion week. I was the only male designer showcasing men's swimsuits and supporting young strong male ...

Central Australia readies for the royals
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Central Australia readies for the royals. 2:25pm April 21, 2014. About 300 people live in the remote Aboriginal community of Mutitjulu, the closest to Uluru, and visitors need a permit to enter the community. Indiana and Savana were killed at Watsonia ...

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The Times (subscription)
Doris Pilkington Garimara, Aboriginal Novelist, Dies at 76
New York Times
In the 1930s, Australian authorities undertook a campaign to force the native Aborigines into white culture, with the hope that intermarriage would eventually eliminate their race. Mixed-race aboriginal children were taken from their families and ...
Doris Pilkington Garimara dies; wrote of Australia's 'stolen generations'Los Angeles Times
Doris Pilkington GarimaraThe Times (subscription)

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island war heroes 'vanished' from the Anzac legend
The Daily Telegraph
The 19-year-old Queenslander signed up in May, and by August was disembarking in Suez, Egypt, to begin training for the Australian Light Horse Remount Unit. The young indigenous trooper would fight in the 11th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt for the next ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island war heroes 'vanished' from the Anzac legend
The Daily Telegraph
The 19-year-old Queenslander signed up in May, and by August was disembarking in Suez, Egypt, to begin training for the Australian Light Horse Remount Unit. The young indigenous trooper would fight in the 11th Light Horse Regiment in Egypt for the next ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Ranger mine: Rio Tinto, ERA can't pay for rehab? Indigenous owners say 'no no ...
Sydney Morning Herald
The relationship between Energy Resources of Australia and a crucial group of indigenous people appears to be deteriorating, after the miner raised doubts about its ability to pay for the rehabilitation of the Ranger uranium mine near Kakadu. The open ...

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The Canberra Times
Health service funding in limbo
The Canberra Times
The Community Council for Australia said the uncertainty created by the government's position was also affecting charity and non-profit service providers. Advertisement. Chief executive officer of Canberra's Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health ...

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Sky News Australia
Aboriginal activists stage royal protest
Sky News Australia
About 30 Aboriginal activists are staging a protest at South Bank, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are due to arrive soon. The protesters are gathered at the park precinct, where the couple is due to attend a civic reception before a brief ...

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Aboriginal activists stage royal protest
The Australian
Police told AAP a small number of Aboriginal protesters had been moved on at South Bank. One activist was ushered away after going behind barricades meant to keep the royal route along Grey Street clear, outside the South Brisbane train station.
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Australian Indigenous Fashion Week Isn't Just Pretty Prints
The Fashion Spot
But Desert Designs wasn't the only example of Australia's oft-ostracised Aboriginal culture making its mark on modern fashion. After the last shows of MBFWA official had wound down, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week picked up the baton ...

Australian Indigenous Fashion Week Isn't Just Pretty Prints
The Fashion Spot
But Desert Designs wasn't the only example of Australia's oft-ostracised Aboriginal culture making its mark on modern fashion. After the last shows of MBFWA official had wound down, the inaugural Australian Indigenous Fashion Week picked up the baton ...