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'Robber Captain Cook' takes NSW Aboriginal Art Prize
SBS
A statue representing Captain Cook as a robber has won the New South Wales Parliament's Aboriginal Art Prize. Jason Wing took out the top award with his provocative work called "Australia was Stolen by Armed Robbery". The combined prize is the biggest ...

Fresh calls for Indigenous recognition in Constitution
SBS
You Me Unity's Misha Schubert spoke to Santilla Chingaipe about the importance of officially recognising Indigenous Australians' ancient connection with the country. “It's time for us to make our constitution to reflect our values which have been in ...

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Tapping into the potential of Australian wild rice
ABC Local
Wild rice growing on the floodplains of the Northern Territory (CDU). Native Australian rice has been harvested and consumed by Indigenous communities in the north for thousands of years and it's now hoped it could become a lucrative bush foods product.

Teachers to help keep Indigenous language alive
ABC Local
Two Western Australian wheatbelt towns will now have access to Aboriginal language classes as the newest crop of teachers enter the regions. Mary Brogan was one of seven teachers to graduate on Friday and will now teach the Noongar language at ...

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Bush Food Gathers Momentum as a Social Enterprise
Pro Bono Australia
FEATURE: The concept of 'bush tucker' is uniquely Australian - romanticised by Hollywood as something Crocodile Dundee survived on - but now a group of Indigenous Queenslanders wants to turn the harvesting of native bush foods into a sustainable social ...

Iberia's treasures
Chicago Tribune
Thirty years ago, I'd answer "Australia"; then it was "Chile and Argentina"; a few years ago, "southern France or southern Italy." Even while all those ... I introduce them alphabetically by the indigenous Spanish or Portuguese grape variety. We ...

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Australian honour fits Tendulkar: Aussie indigenous captain Lalor is surprised ...
Daily Mail
Joshua Lalor, captain of the Australian national indigenous team now in India, on Wednesday expressed surprise that it took so long for his country to make Sachin Tendulkar an honorary member of the Order of Australia, an honour rarely bestowed on ...
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Movie review: The Sapphires (+trailer)
The Bay of Plenty Times
Australia's "Lost Generation" of Aboriginal children is one of such shame, as is the way the country's indigenous people have been treated through the years by White Australia. The Sapphires touches on these issues and delivers its message strongly but ...

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Smoking in the spotlight as Aborigines share their battles to quit
The Daily Telegraph
And her story will be told as part of a social marketing campaign aimed at reducing the high smoking rate among indigenous Australians. If she had not become addicted, the former basketball player believes she could have followed in her father's ...

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Smoking in the spotlight as Aborigines share their battles to quit
Herald Sun
And her story will be told as part of a social marketing campaign aimed at reducing the high smoking rate among indigenous Australians. If she had not become addicted, the former basketball player believes she could have followed in her father's ...

Former Origin Greats promote jobs in Toowoomba
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Setting the record straight on Nyungar South West place names
ABC Local
Setting the record straight on Nyungar South West place names. By Annie Newton. An Indigenous expert from The University of Western Australia is working to unravel generations of confusion over the true meaning of South West Aboriginal place names.

$117m injection helps 'close gap' in Indigenous health
ABC Online
Western Australia's Health Minister says a $117 million investment in Aboriginal health has created more than 400 new jobs in the sector. In 2008, the State Government adopted the Closing the Gap National Partnership Agreement which aimed to improve ...

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Inspiring indigenous lawyers recognised
The New Lawyer
Intellectual property lawyer Terri Janke was this year's recipient of an award that highlights valuable contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lawyers to the legal profession. The Indigenous Professional of the Year Award and Indigenous ...
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Opposition seizes on tent embassy riot
The Australian
The ugly scenes had given the public an inaccurate impression of indigenous people, he said. "We will not see at the next election a referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in our constitution. I think that event, as much as any event, has ...

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Australia's Julia Gillard is no feminist hero
On Line opinion
I have just spent several months in Aboriginal Australia; and the views I have gathered from remarkable, despairing, eloquent indigenous women of Gillard and her "feminisim" are mostly unknown or ignored or dismissed in this country. Watching Gillard ...
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Gillard staffer 'did not act alone'
The Australian
The ugly scenes had given the public an inaccurate impression of indigenous people, he said. "We will not see at the next election a referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in our constitution. I think that event, as much as any event, has ...

Sustainable Indigenous Housing Forum
Nine to Five
Do you know that less than 10% of repairs needed in Aboriginal Housing in Australia are because of damage caused by the occupants? Would you like every Australian to be able to have a daily shower by 2017? Find out how to provide healthy, safe housing ...

Australia PM and team stage cricket clinic
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Accompanied by members of her country's Indigenous Cricket Development Squad, Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard Tuesday attended a cricket clinic for the disadvantaged children run in Indian capital by Cricket Australia (CA) and a local ...

Screen Australia Media releases – 2012: Quality Indigenous storytelling ...
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Screen Australia today announced its investment in two outstanding Indigenous productions: the television drama series The Gods of Wheat Street and Inside AFL (working title). To be produced for ABC television, the projects are funded through Screen ...