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Disaster declared in Cooktown as severe Tropical Cyclone Ita threatens to ...
Courier Mail
... as forecast. Latest tracking has it coming ashore at Murdoch Point, 50km north of Cape Flattery. The community of Laura, population about 100, and home to some of Australia's most magnificent Aboriginal art is also in the storm's firing line but ...
Aboriginal mayor demands Cape York cyclone sheltersSBS
Cyclone Ita predicted to reach category four off far north QueenslandRadio Australia

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The Guardian (blog)
The Gods of Wheat Street: where soap opera meets the spirit world
The Guardian (blog)
“Australian Aboriginal stories and spirituality are not Aesop's fables," Bell says. "There's not always a clear moral in the story. They can be a little inaccessible for Western audiences. Sometimes with indigenous cultures, the story is the thing that ...

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Indigenous students skipping school to avoid bullying and racism
The Conversation
More quantitative data is available in Australia about the experiences of racial discrimination for children and young people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. In a seminar we gave this week at the Australian Institute of Family ...

Indigenous students skipping school to avoid bullying and racism
The Conversation
More quantitative data is available in Australia about the experiences of racial discrimination for children and young people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent. In a seminar we gave this week at the Australian Institute of Family ...

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New Statesman
Australia's grand vision for a national broadband network has shrunk
New Statesman
Despite Australia's terrors, people have been making their marks on this nation for longer than almost any other. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people are part of one of the oldest continuous human cultures, but their presence in modern Australia ...

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New Statesman
Australia's grand vision for a national broadband network has shrunk
New Statesman
Despite Australia's terrors, people have been making their marks on this nation for longer than almost any other. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people are part of one of the oldest continuous human cultures, but their presence in modern Australia ...

Nova Peris links new race act to referendum
The Australian
Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten used Australia Day to reaffirm their commitment to advancing constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. The Prime Minister said recognition was a “national crusade''. “It is very important to me, it is very ...

Nova Peris links new race act to referendum
The Australian
Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten used Australia Day to reaffirm their commitment to advancing constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. The Prime Minister said recognition was a “national crusade''. “It is very important to me, it is very ...

Palestinians brought their condition upon themselves
The Australian (blog)
This article was the first I have heard that I was not to be reappointed to the board of Indigenous Business Australia or that the government was not happy with my performance. Interestingly, the article does not focus on the IBA but on the Indigenous ...

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Palestinians brought their condition upon themselves
The Australian (blog)
This article was the first I have heard that I was not to be reappointed to the board of Indigenous Business Australia or that the government was not happy with my performance. Interestingly, the article does not focus on the IBA but on the Indigenous ...

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5 Movies You Must See Before Going to Australia
Huffington Post
On its surface, Walkabout is just a survival story set in the Outback, but beneath the lush setting is a comparison of two contrasting, but colliding, worlds: city-life in Adelaide (the capital of South Australia) and the aboriginal, untamed life in ...

SBS
Artists fight to preserve royalty scheme
SBS
Members of Australia's art community have gathered at Boomalli Aboriginal Arts Cooperative to show their support for a royalty scheme aimed at helping artists collect ongoing profits from the resale of their works. By. Tara Callinan. Source. NITV News.

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'Slow, expensive, complicated' legal system must be improved
The Conversation
Australia has four “pillars” of government-funded legal assistance: legal aid commissions, community legal centres, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal services, and Aboriginal family violence prevention legal assistance services. The legal ...

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The West Australian
Ridding Sports of Homophobia, World's First in Australia
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Greg Inglis, South Sydney, Queensland and two-time Indigenous All-Star, said that sports should be about a person's physical agility and not whether he belonged to the stereotypes of race, gender, sexuality and disability. In a statement to NRL, Inglis ...
Australia's major sporting codes commit to ending homophobia ahead of ...The West Australian
Australia sports sign commitment to eliminate homophobiaReuters India

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Aboriginal language dictionary for Badimaya people launched at Mount Magnet
ABC Online
A dictionary designed to preserve one of Western Australia's Aboriginal languages is due to be launched after two decades of research. Work on the Badimaya dictionary started in the early 1990s, with knowledge collected from some of the last known ...

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A hot new model at the Australian Indigenous Fashion Week
The Conversation
It's not difficult to find reference to Indigenous ethnographic designs in contemporary Australia. Motifs from Adelaide's Balarinji Design Studios coat Qantas' Boeing fleet and elders wore Victorian possum…

A hot new model at the Australian Indigenous Fashion Week
The Conversation
It's not difficult to find reference to Indigenous ethnographic designs in contemporary Australia. Motifs from Adelaide's Balarinji Design Studios coat Qantas' Boeing fleet and elders wore Victorian possum…

Australian Composer Finds Her Marbles
Wall Street Journal
Born in Australia to Chinese parents, she played the piano and violin and began composing at age 11. When she lived in Brisbane, a relationship with Aboriginal neighbors helped draw her to Aboriginal art and music, including, she said, "the idea of the ...

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The West Australian
Buffalo duffers could 'shut down' Vietnam live export trade
The West Australian
Buffalo industry experts warn poachers could threaten Australia's emerging live export trade with Vietnam, and reduce income opportunities for Traditional Owners. Most of the Northern Territory's wild buffalo populations inhabit Aboriginal lands, where ...

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Closing the Gap
The Transcontinental
Country North South Australia Medicare Local (CNSAML) advocacy and health development manager John Buckskin said that is the average for Aboriginal people, speaking recently at the National Close the Gap Day. “We are working with Aboriginal ...

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