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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 ...

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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Crikey (blog)
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 ...
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"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 ...

Science Network Western Australia
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 ...

MAHS students enjoy cultural exchange
Daily Advertiser
A DESIRE to learn about indigenous culture and life in regional Australia brought migrant students from Asian countries based in Sydney to Mount Austin High School yesterday. The group of students from the Chatswood Intensive English Centre (CIEC) ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous leaders ask Attorney-General to protect their people in race law debate
Sydney Morning Herald
... safeguards to be included in its review. In a submission written to Attorney-General George Brandis (right) on Tuesday, the three co-authors, who have strong links with Australia's indigenous community, argue the act should be strengthened, not ...
Indigenous ACT MLA Chris Bourke moves to ensure protections against racial ...ABC Local

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Lucky country and its toxic mix
Daily Times
It arises from a case where a powerful conservative media commentator, Andrew Bolt, found himself on the wrong side of the law for casting aspersions on the identity of Aboriginals (native Australians) of fairer skin. In the relevant case, the judge ...

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'Australia Day in Spring' returning to city tomorrow
Daily Times
... original inhabitants of the Australian land and introduce their unique culture to Pakistan. Theme for this year's celebrations is “Celebrating Australia's Indigenous Heritage” where three-person music group called Western Creation is scheduled to ...

Style.com
Down Under Update: An In-Depth Look at Australia Fashion Week, Day One
Style.com
I found them at Desert Designs, a fashion collective that focuses on Australian history and Aboriginal culture. The finale look, an electric printed jacket over bathing suit bottoms, was the perfect cure for my midday exhaustion. And a series of ...

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