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New festival brings together Indigenous artists
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Merindah Donnelly, Indigenous Program Officer for the Australian Council for the Arts, said the main focus has been supporting the artists and extending the life of their work beyond one show. "So a festival like Boomerang provides the most incredible ...

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Ernie Bridge's family offered state funeral
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He served in state parliament for 21 years and was the first Aboriginal MP and the first Indigenous Cabinet minister in any Australian government. Mr Bridge was suing the State Government and the companies of two of Australia's richest women, Gina ...
Family man with big ideasThe West Australian
Former WA MP Ernie Bridge dies aged 76ABC Online
WA state funeral offered to family of Ernie BridgePerth Now
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Runway ready
The Australian
"This collection features the work from indigenous Australian women artists. Their projection of everyday objects, environments, and animals and turning them into beautiful bold pieces, have been the influence to the range of silhouettes and features ...

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Indigenous workers want a fair go on Curtis Island
Australian Mining
Members of the Indigenous community in Gladstone say they have been overlooked when it comes to employment opportunities on Curtis Island. Around 20 members of the Gladstone Alliance protested at the Bechtel office in Gladstone last week, The ...

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DFAT appoints first Indigenous ambassador
ABC Online
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) has for the first time appointed an Indigenous Australian as the head of an overseas mission. Foreign Minister Bob Carr has appointed Damien Miller as the next ambassador to Denmark. Mr Miller, a career officer ...
First indigenous ambassador appointedThe Australian
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More autonomy urged for struggling Indigenous communities
ABC Online
The State Government says it is no surprise Queensland's five most disadvantaged communities are Indigenous. The latest Australian census data ranks Yarrabah in the far north as Queensland's lowest socio-economic area, followed by Cherbourg, Aurukun, ...

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Family man with big ideas
The West Australian
Tributes flowed across the nation yesterday for WA's first Aboriginal MP - and the first indigenous Cabinet minister in any Australian government - who died surrounded by family late on Sunday. Former politicians praised him universally yesterday as a ...
Former WA MP Ernie Bridge dies aged 76ABC Message Stick
WA state funeral offered to family of Ernie BridgePerth Now
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Creative Australia likely to deliver real change
On Line opinion
These are positive signs, because although Creative Australia lacks the ambition and gravitas of 1994's Creative Nation, it may well prove to be more influential, especially for Indigenous and young artists. One of the most important things of Creative ...

Ernie's life 'has lessons for everyone'
The Australian
BEFORE dawn on the day in 1980 when Ernie Bridge was poised to be elected to parliament in Western Australia's Kimberley, a 44-gallon drum of port was mysteriously delivered to the Aboriginal voters of Turkey Creek. The story of the port is held up as ...

DFAT announces first Indigenous head of overseas mission
Radio Australia
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) has for the first time appointed an Indigenous Australian as the head of an overseas mission. Foreign Minister Bob Carr has appointed Damien Miller as the next ambassador to Denmark. Mr Miller, a career officer ...
Indigenous Aussie is ambassador to DenmarkBrisbane Times

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First indigenous ambassador appointed
The Australian
AUSTRALIA will post its first indigenous ambassador to the nation's embassy in Denmark. Damien Miller, a career diplomat, is the first indigenous Australian appointed as head of an overseas mission. As well as being Australia's ambassador to Denmark, ...
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WA's first indigenous minister dies
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Tributes are flowing for Australia's first indigenous cabinet minister Ernie Bridge, who has died of mesothelioma just days after launching a bid to sue the West Australian government over his illness. Mr Bridge, the Kimberley MLA from 1980 to 2001 ...

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WA's first indigenous minister dies
The Australian
TRIBUTES are flowing for Australia's first indigenous cabinet minister Ernie Bridge, who has died of mesothelioma just days after launching a bid to sue the West Australian government over his illness. Mr Bridge, the Kimberley MLA from 1980 to 2001 ...
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Former WA MP Ernie Bridge dies aged 76
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Mr Bridge was the first Indigenous Australian to become a cabinet minister in any Australian government. He was a stockman and a country music performer before serving in the Labor government of Brian Burke from 1986 as minister for water resources ...
Ernie Bridge dead at 76The West Australian
Ernie Bridge loses mesothelioma fightPerth Now

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The West Australian
Ernie Bridge dead at 76
The West Australian
"As Australia's first indigenous minister Mr Bridge was a visionary who never stopped working for the people of the north," said Mr Gray, who is a former parliamentary secretary for northern Australia. "I last saw Ernie in Fitzroy Crossing and I can ...
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Bridge loses asbestos battleThe Australian
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Native title 'industry' costs miners millions
The Australian
MINERS say they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for a "significant industry" of anthropologists, archeologists and native title representatives to deal with Aboriginal cultural heritage regulations, with as little as 10-15 per cent ...

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Indigenous involvement in whaling and sealing
SBS
A researcher from Melbourne's Monash University Indigenous centre, has uncovered the involvement of Aboriginal people in Australia's early whaling and sealing industry between the 1700s and 1800s. In a new book, Professor Lynette Russell reveals that ...

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'Sapphires' actor O'Dowd on aboriginal similarity
The Seattle Times
'Sapphires' actor O'Dowd on aboriginal similarity. While making his latest film "The Sapphires," Chris O'Dowd noticed a common thread between the indigenous Australian community and his own Irish heritage. By JOHN CARUCCI. Associated Press ...
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'Sapphires' actor O'Dowd on aboriginal similarity
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NEW YORK — While making his latest film "The Sapphires," Chris O'Dowd noticed a common thread between the indigenous Australian community and his own Irish heritage. "I was really surprised by was how similar Aboriginals and Irish people are, like in ...
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Giving indigenous children access to education should be a bipartisan priority
The Australian (blog)
He explained that all government agencies working on issues to do with Aboriginal Australia would in his new administration report to the Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet. The energetic Opposition Leader regularly spends one week each year doing ...