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Mariners search for the next Indigenous star
Australian FourFourTwo
“We feel the Mariners already make a tremendous difference to the lives of many people on the Central Coast, but with our Elite Indigenous Football Academy we hope to bring forward the days when the Socceroos can boast a strong number of Australia's ...

Hope new pictorial dictionaries will preserve Indigenous language
ABC Local
"In other cultures where there is indigenous language, say in New Zealand, there is just the one language, and because there is just the one language it is that much easier to keep it alive." Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, ...

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Australian Geographic
On this day: Yirrkala bark petitions before Parliament
Australian Geographic
The presentation of these petitions to the sitting parliament sparked a chain of events that would become monumental in the fight for indigenous land rights in Australia. The artworks framed twin declarations, one in Yolngu Matha language and the other ...

The Guardian
Tony Abbott's plan for Indigenous Australians is fatally flawed
The Guardian
Tony Abbott, it might seem, is putting his money where his mouth is in his quest to be the prime minister Indigenous Australians have never had. The announcement of a new Indigenous advisory body led by Abbott's "kindred spirit" Warren Mundine ...
Indigenous land rights emerging as key election issueSBS
A commercial path forwardThe Australian (blog)

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Jenni Kemarre Martiniello with her winning glass fish trap. Picture: Daniel ...
The Australian
The Telstra prize was Martiniello's second major achievement this year, having already been awarded a two-year fellowship by the Australia Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander board. "It's exciting. Sometimes I've horrified my team because ...

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Dilemma of difference in indigenous art
The Australian
McLean is the curator of "My Country: I Still Call Australia Home", a vast exhibition of contemporary art from "Black Australia" now showing in Brisbane: his aim is to represent indigenous people "as we are now". This judging trio had a particularly ...
TELSTRA CORPORATION LTD : Jenni Kemarre Martiniello wins 30th Telstra ...4-traders (press release)

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A commercial path forward
The Australian (blog)
Like other leaders in the vanguard of reform, including Noel Pearson who denounced welfare "poison" 15 years ago, Mr Mundine, the executive chairman of the Australian Indigenous Chamber of Commerce, recognises that real jobs are created through ...

Indigenous land rights emerging as key election issue
SBS
"If I have one mission in life, it's to ensure that closing the gap on Indigenous Australia is taken out of the political ruck and frankly we get to the stage where all Australians realise that this is a national mission for us all.. We're judged by ...

Indigenous scholar Lilly Brown graduates from Cambridge university
Australian Times
Ms Brown, originally from the Eastern Hills of Western Australia, was a 2012 recipient of the Charlie Perkins Scholarship, a scholarship to assist indigenous Australians pursue postgraduate study at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The scholarship ...

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ABC Local
Best of the National Indigenous Music Awards
ABC Local
Artists from around Australia came to Darwin on Saturday night for the National Indigenous Music Awards to celebrate the best of the industry. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. National Indigenous Music Awards Archie Roach National Indigenous ...

ABC Local
Best of the National Indigenous Music Awards
ABC Local
Artists from around Australia came to Darwin on Saturday night for the National Indigenous Music Awards to celebrate the best of the industry. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. National Indigenous Music Awards Archie Roach National Indigenous ...
Jessica Mauboy scoops top honours at National Indigenous Music AwardsABC Online
Mauboy takes top Indigenous music awardSBS

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Long-term strategies are needed to provide better support for Indigenous ...
Crikey (blog)
At a recent meeting in Melbourne of leading Indigenous researchers from Australia, Canada and New Zealand, there was overwhelming agreement that much still needs to be done to build the capacity of the Indigenous research workforce in the three ...

Sky News Australia
Rio signs MoU to boost Indigenous economic independence
Australian Mining
The move has been welcomed by Indigenous leaders in northeast Arnhem Land who are eager to see their communities become economically independent, The West Australian reports. Pending the feasibility study's results, the mine would be owned and ...
Rio signs MoU for mine in Arnhem LandYahoo!7 News

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Sydney Morning Herald
McGuire eats another slice of humble pie
Sydney Morning Herald
So blatant was the McGuireism, so battered did Eddie feel, that he reckoned he'd now walked a mile in the shoes of indigenous Australians. ''The absolute injustice I felt the moment of being done over by the media was an insight into the life of Adam ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal tongue engages young
Sydney Morning Herald
A class of year 7 students grappling with a new language is not an uncommon sight in Australian high schools. But the challenge faced by students at Woolgoolga High School is unique. They are learning Gumbaynggirr, a traditional Aboriginal language.

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Tony Abbott overruled advice on indigenous advisory council
The Australian
The Weekend Australian revealed that Mr Abbott had secured the agreement of Mr Mundine to head a super advisory board on indigenous spending, projects and policy, reporting directly to the prime minister, if a Coalition government was elected. Mr ...
Abbott calls for new era of engagement with indigenous AustraliaWA today

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Indigenous destiny
The Australian
... few speed bumps along the way, but these will be smoothed out over time. The philosophy of indigenous Australians accepting their rights but balancing this with responsibilities is a principle that should be applied across Australia, indigenous or ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Eddie McGuire compares being 'done over' by media to indigenous Australians ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has compared the "absolute injustice" he felt in the wash-up of his racial vilification of Adam Goodes to the plight of indigenous Australians. McGuire, invited to a pre-match function at Saturday's AFL clash between ...

The Age
Eddie McGuire compares being 'done over' by media to indigenous Australians ...
The Age
'Absolute injustice': Collingwood president Eddie said his treatment by the media following his comments about Adam Goodes made him appreciate the vilification suffered by indigenous Australians. Photo: Pat Scala. Collingwood president Eddie McGuire ...

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Eddie McGuire compares being 'done over' by media to indigenous Australians ...
WA today
'Absolute injustice': Collingwood president Eddie said his treatment by the media following his comments about Adam Goodes made him appreciate the vilification suffered by indigenous Australians. Photo: Pat Scala. Collingwood president Eddie McGuire ...