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Kids in care 'losing culture'
The Australian
Indigenous children are increasingly overrepresented in state care, the Queensland Child Protection Inquiry has heard. One in every two indigenous children is expected to be reported to the state's child safety department this year and half the ...
Aboriginal students to protest to 'Save the Koori Centre at Sydney University'Green Left Weekly

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Sydney Morning Herald
Actor, director and writer Leah Purcell. Source: Supplied
The Australian
ACTOR, director and writer Leah Purcell is one of the ensemble cast featuring in Redfern Now, a six-part ABC drama that has the distinction of being the first series produced, directed, written and acted by indigenous Australians. Purcell talks about ...
Big ideas shape city life storiesBrisbane Times

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Sydney Morning Herald
Chop chop: Jamie picks up the pace
Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous arrival. Redfern Now is one of the most exciting – and inclusive – new dramas to come out of ABC television. It's prompted a surge of pride in Australia's indigenous arts community because of the momentum behind the show and the calibre of ...

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Big ideas shape city life stories
Brisbane Times
The series stars some of Aboriginal Australia's best-known actors - Leah Purcell, Deborah Mailman and her Sapphires co-stars Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell - and harnesses serious directorial clout, with Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) and Rachel ...

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Big ideas shape city life stories
Sydney Morning Herald
The series stars some of Aboriginal Australia's best-known actors - Leah Purcell, Deborah Mailman and her Sapphires co-stars Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell - and harnesses serious directorial clout, with Wayne Blair (The Sapphires) and Rachel ...

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Yothu Yindi to be inducted into ARIA Hall of Fame
NEWS.com.au
The seminal collective of Aboriginal and non-indigenous musicians, led by Australian of The Year Mandawuy Yunupingu, stormed the charts worldwide with the unforgettable anthem "Treaty". The song, written by Paul Kelly with the north-east Arnhem Land ...
Hall of fame accolade crowns a life of firstsThe Australian

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Indigenous rangers to share land management skills
ABC Online
A group of Indigenous rangers from central and northern Australia is travelling to Canada to share skills in Indigenous land management. The trip has been organised by the Pew Environment Group. Patrick O'Leary from Pew says rangers will share their ...
I don't want his apologyNational Indigenous Times

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Tammy Solonec delivers scathing attack on government failure to act on jail rates
National Indigenous Times
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples Director, Tammy Solonec has launched a scathing attack at the seventh annual National Indigenous Legal conference on the failure of Federal, State and Territory governments to address the unacceptably ...

Shane Duffy welcomes NATSILS appointment of Eddie Cubillo
National Indigenous Times
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS), the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services around Australia, has met in Adelaide to discuss issues of critical importance affecting ...
Queensland child protection inquiry raises adoption for foster childrenThe Australian

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South Australian artist Trevor Nickolls dies at age 63
Art Daily
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art specialist, Wally Caruana says “Trevor participated in a number of seminal international exhibitions, which, history shows, have had a profound effect on the promotion of Indigenous Australian art abroad.” “These ...

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Spirit of the ancestors
WA today
At Tyrendarra, an indigenous protected area, we follow a walkway past reconstructed stone huts and wooden traps. "The lake was like a giant pantry," Church tells me, "and the eels were traded right across southern Australia." Using core samples, Builth ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Spirit of the ancestors
Sydney Morning Herald
At Tyrendarra, an indigenous protected area, we follow a walkway past reconstructed stone huts and wooden traps. "The lake was like a giant pantry," Church tells me, "and the eels were traded right across southern Australia." Using core samples, Builth ...

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Hall of fame accolade crowns a life of firsts
The Australian
He was the first Aboriginal man from Arnhem Land to gain a university degree and one of the first indigenous principals of an Australian school, at his home community of Yirrkala. He spent many years working to improve indigenous education. In 1993 he ...
Yothu Yindi to be inducted into ARIA Hall of FameHerald Sun

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Murray plan 'ignores Indigenous nations'
SBS
Fred Hooper, the chairman of the Northern Murray Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations says he's saddened that representatives of the more than 30 nations who live in the basin were not involved in discussions which led to the Murray-Darling basin plan ...

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Aboriginal concerns halt Buru Energy oil project
The Australian
KRED Enterprises today said Nyikina Mangala traditional owners had demanded the Perth-based company cease operations at the project, about 100km east of Broome in WA's Kimberley region, where extended production testing began in March.
Buru destroyed Aboriginal site - claimSky News Australia
Fears Indigenous archaeological site destroyedABC Online
Buru Energy 'bulldozed Aboriginal site'The West Australian
Australian Mining
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Warriors search for Maori Students for Summit
World of Rugby League
The Australian Rugby League Commission (ARLC) organises the event to recognise outstanding achievement and application to education, culture and the community by selecting a total of 64 young Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous Australian) ...

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Home truths
Sydney Morning Herald
''And [white] Australians will love it, it'll be a breath of fresh air for them, a real revelation.'' The series is the first piece of drama produced by the ABC's Indigenous Department, which saw in Redfern Now not only an opportunity for making great ...

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From the MCG to the desert salt pans
The Australian
But their success is in stark contrast to the often grim reality of grassroots sport in many remote indigenous communities in Australia, where some kids are forced to play on salt pans. The federal government has been keen to piggy back on the ...

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From the MCG to the desert salt pans
NEWS.com.au
But their success is in stark contrast to the often grim reality of grassroots sport in many remote indigenous communities in Australia, where some kids are forced to play on salt pans. The federal government has been keen to piggy back on the ...

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Buru destroyed Aboriginal site - claim
Sky News Australia
Traditional owners claim Buru Energy has destroyed an Aboriginal heritage site at its Ungani oil project about 100km east of Broome in Western Australia's Kimberley region. KRED Enterprises on Friday said Nyikina Mangala traditional owners had ...
Fears Indigenous archaeological site destroyedABC Online
Buru Energy 'bulldozed Aboriginal site'The West Australian
Mining company accused of destroying Indigenous siteAustralian Mining

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