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The Guardian
Life's a beach, unless you're aboriginal in Australia show at the Royal Academy
Culture24
Speaking in the 1960s, artist Russell Drysdale said of his home turf that in Australia there is a “quality of strangeness you do not find anywhere else”. So in an act of QED, Drysdale has painted a warped and burnt out sheep station which has attracted ...
'Cascade of diarrhoea': UK critic savages Australian art exhibitionSydney Morning Herald
Australian art show in London – the reviews are inThe Guardian
UK critic slams Australian art as 'a cascade of diarrhoea'SBS
The Independent
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National Geographic
Employment and Indigenous Empowerment in Mining: Australia and South Africa
National Geographic
I recently supervised the Master's degree thesis project of Richard W Roeder, a German lawyer and Rotary Peace Studies Scholar at the University of Queensland who sought to ask the following research question: “How do Public Governance and Private ...

Spotlight on indigenous affairs today
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
2013 marks the 30th anniversary of the passing of the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 ('the Act'), recently celebrated as part of NAIDOC week. The 1983 Act, passed by the Wran Labor Government, was New South Wales' first piece of land ...

1997: Lowitja O'Donoghue
The Australian
PRIME minister John Howard was struggling through his address to the Australian Reconciliation Convention when Aboriginal leader Lowitja O'Donoghue sprang to her feet and turned her back on him. Now 81 and retired from public life, she still remembers ...

1997: Lowitja O'Donoghue
The Australian
PRIME Minister John Howard was struggling through his address to the Australian Reconciliation Convention when Aboriginal leader Lowitja O'Donoghue sprang to her feet and turned her back on him. Now 81 and retired from public life, she still remembers ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
I still call Australia home
The Australian
A graduate of the University of Southern Queensland and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, he became in 2010 one of the first Aboriginal Australians to be accepted into Oxford University. He was awarded an inaugural Charles Perkins ...
The best Australian art, home and awayTelegraph.co.uk
How many more suicides will it take?Sydney Indymedia
Royal Academy's major survey of Australian art is 'powerfully atmospheric' and ...The Week UK
Art Daily
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Sydney Celebrates Aboriginal Culture
CRIENGLISH.com
Sydney's connection to the aboriginal "dreaming" will be celebrated for the first time this year, in a new event that organizers hope will celebrate and inspire visitors from around the world and reconnect Australia's largest city with the meaning and ...

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Sydney Celebrates Aboriginal Culture
CRIENGLISH.com
Sydney's connection to the aboriginal "dreaming" will be celebrated for the first time this year, in a new event that organizers hope will celebrate and inspire visitors from around the world and reconnect Australia's largest city with the meaning and ...

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Shoalhaven students in national Indigenous prime minister challenge
ABC Local
'The Other Election', run by the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), features over 600 Indigenous kids from around Australia in years 10-12 putting themselves into the hypothetical role of delivering a speech as Australia's first ...

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Shoalhaven students in national Indigenous prime minister challenge
ABC Local
'The Other Election', run by the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), features over 600 Indigenous kids from around Australia in years 10-12 putting themselves into the hypothetical role of delivering a speech as Australia's first ...

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Sydney launches summer celebration of aboriginal culture
Xinhua
20 (Xinhua) -- Sydney's connection to the aboriginal "dreaming," will be celebrated for the first time this year, in a new event that organizers hope will celebrate and inspire visitors form around the world and reconnect Australia's largest city with ...

WA today
Two festivals showcase indigenous culture
WA today
Yet the Boomerang Festival, curated by Rhoda Roberts and touted as Australia's most ambitious indigenous arts event, has struggled to sell tickets, despite a line-up led by Gurrumul Yunupingu and Archie Roach. Poor ticket sales for the festival, which ...

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Sky News Australia
Abbott's indigenous team to be named
Sky News Australia
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's new team to instigate a radical shake-up of indigenous affairs will be named within 10 days. The incoming chairman of Mr Abbott's new indigenous advisory council, Warren Mundine, has flagged the announcement of the panel's ...
Portfolio details spell out Tony Abbott's role as women's ministerThe Guardian
Abbott sworn in as 28th Prime MinisterABC Online
Five reasons Tony Abbott shouldn't be women's ministerNew Statesman
The Australian -The Border Mail -Sydney Morning Herald
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Stuff.co.nz
Abbott's indigenous team to be named soon
The Australian
Mr Abbott unsuccessfully tried to woo Ms Anderson to the federal political arena late last year and was criticised for saying that it would be terrific to have an "authentic" indigenous representative of central Australia in Canberra. Mr Mundine ...
Portfolio details spell out Tony Abbott's role as women's ministerThe Guardian
Abbott criticised by both sides over lack of senior women in governmentThe Border Mail
Abbott sworn in as 28th Prime MinisterABC Online
New Statesman -Newcastle Herald -Stuff.co.nz
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Indigenous art exhibition in Longreach showcases western Qld stories
ABC Online
The finishing touches are being made to an Indigenous art exhibition to showcase artwork from across outback Queensland. Arts foundation Red Ridge has coordinated the My Earth Calls exhibition at Longreach in the state's central-west. More than 70 ...

Two festivals showcase indigenous culture
Sydney Morning Herald
An indigenous festival in Byron Bay with a strong music line-up has struggled to attract paying customers, but the NSW government is confident people will flock to a new Aboriginal arts festival in Sydney with mainly free events. Launched on Thursday ...

Talks to consider Indigenous housing needs
ABC Local
A welfare agency hopes to form recommendations ahead of the next state election to address homelessness and housing for Aboriginal people across South Australia. Shelter SA will be holding consultations in November in Adelaide, Murray Bridge and Port ...

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Indigenous art exhibition in Longreach showcases western Qld stories
ABC Local
The finishing touches are being made to an Indigenous art exhibition to showcase artwork from across outback Queensland. Arts foundation Red Ridge has coordinated the My Earth Calls exhibition at Longreach in the state's central-west. More than 70 ...

Former Kimberley Land Council head Wayne Bergmann near Broome yesterday ...
The Australian
THE indigenous leader who brokered Woodside Petroleum's aborted $1.5 billion native title deal in the Kimberley says Aborigines are being condemned to live in poverty while the gas giant chases bigger returns for shareholders and high-profile ...

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The Canberra Times
Health firm sends 2000 doctors to outback
The Canberra Times
''It's a chance to contribute to what I think is a really critical issue in Australia and one that every Australian should be embarrassed about, that we have such a huge mortality gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.'' Mr Keys said ...