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'WE ARE NOT MUSEUM PIECES': Elders blast Greens crusader Bob Brown
Herald Sun
An Aboriginal elder in Western Australia's Kimberley region has hand-delivered a stinging letter to Bob Brown, urging the former Greens leader to back off from his protest against a major gas project. The full, unedited letter is reprinted below. In ...
'Owners' disagree with Brown over gas hubThe West Australian
Gas hub politics and whale spotting near BroomeABC Online
Butt out of Browse, Bob: traditional ownerThe Australian

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Groups vie for Indigenous Governance Awards
ABC Message Stick
Reconciliation Australia says it has received a record number of nominations for this years Indigenous Governance Awards. Eight finalists, including three central Australian organisations, have been selected from more than 100 nominations ...

Green Left Weekly
More than 200 migrants to receive Aboriginal passports
Green Left Weekly
Whilst they acknowledge our rights to all the Aboriginal Nations of Australia we reciprocate by welcoming them into our Nations. It is a moral win-win for all involved in the process.” The Aboriginal passport was first introduced in 1988 by Palawa ...

SBS
Aboriginality: Who is and who isn't?
SBS
Afterwards, a rather more enigmatic definition, “Aboriginal person means a person of the Aboriginal race of Australia”, became foundational in legislative status. Today's more broadly accepted three-part definition is: - being of Aboriginal or Torres ...
Groups vie for Indigenous Governance AwardsABC Message Stick

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Radio Australia
Warm response to Australian Indigenous Arts Festival in Vanuatu
Radio Australia
There's music and dance in the festival, being run for a second year, and a group of Indigenous Australian volunteers are working with local Ni-Vanuatu communities. Presenter:Geraldine Coutts. Speaker:Charlene Watego, acting Australian High ...

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Brisbane Times
Rush pushes arts and drama to centre of the education stage
Brisbane Times
... after the finances of putting on Arsenic and Old Lace in year 11'.'' The Australian of the Year and his Young Australian counterpart, Marita Cheng, visited the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence yesterday as part of a national tour ...
Medals and Oscars aren't everything: RushNEWS.com.au
Medals and Oscars aren't everything-RushSky News Australia

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Indigenous push to widen the law against bias
The Australian
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples wants to end an anomaly in the act that allows organisations and victims to lodge complaints with the Australian Human Rights Commission but only individuals to take court action, as in the case ...

Health: $7.5 Million for Three Indigenous Health Research Centres
eGov monitor
“Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health is a key Government priority, closing the gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders health outcomes and those of the wider Australian population,” Minister for Indigenous Health, Warren ...
Sydney Uni SRC angry at Koori Centre closureGreen Left Weekly

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Sky News Australia
Medals and Oscars aren't everything: Rush
Herald Sun
He acknowledged Australia's low medal tally, so far, but recognised athletes, and artists, who pursue excellence in their fields. The actor visited the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence in Redfern on Monday when asked if more funding would ...
Medals and Oscars aren't everything-RushSky News Australia

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Abbott heads to Aurukun working bee
The Australian
Mr Abbott, along with Fortescue Metals boss Andrew Forrest, National Australian Bank chairman Michael Chaney, retailer Gerry Harvey and Rio Tinto Australia managing director David Peever, will help refurbish the school library at Aurukun in far north ...

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Engineering Excellence in the Northern Territory
DesignBuild Source
A large-scale indigenous housing and infrastructure program, a unique wartime heritage museum, and the Southern Hemisphere's largest solar tracking power plant have shown that engineering excellence and innovation are alive and kicking in Australia's ...

Jewels in the festival crown
WA today
The director of the warm-hearted Australian musical, about four young Aboriginal women who become Australia's version of the Supremes in the 1960s, stood with his cast during a sustained standing ovation at the world premiere at Cannes in May.

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Changemakers - Priscilla Brice Weller
Pro Bono Australia
In 2010, Priscilla Brice Weller started a new Not for Profit organisation All Together Now to promote the prevention of racism in Australia. This was largely born out of her belief that for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians to reconcile, racism ...

World licking lips over bush tucker
NEWS.com.au
AUSTRALIA is in danger of having our unique indigenous food such as alpine pepper, lemon myrtle and kakadu plum mass-produced overseas.` While so-called bush tucker is an emerging industry here, its production may well go the same way as the ...

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Different justice?
On Line opinion
Chris Graham argues that Aboriginal people's cultural difference must be acknowledged in the Australian criminal justice system (The Drum, 25 July). Graham focuses on the differences between Aboriginal people and non-Indigenous people and describes ...

World licking lips over bush tucker
Herald Sun
While so-called bush tucker is an emerging industry here, its production may well go the same way as the macadamia nut, an indigenous product stolen by the Americans half a century ago and only recently built into an industry in Australia. State and ...

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Indigenous leaders desert Labor
The Australian
Larisa Lee, daughter of prominent Jawoyn leader Robert Lee, is standing against Labor indigenous affairs, regional development and tourism minister Malarndirri McCarthy. Mr Rioli and a spokesperson for Mr Hampton did not return The Australian's calls ...

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Blackbird descendants track down their families
ABC Online
And last week, Indigenous Australian MP Carol Martin travelled to Vanuatu for a workshop to discuss broadening efforts to link ni-Vanuatu descendents in Australia with their extended families in the Pacific. CAROL MARTIN: People were kidnapped from the ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Beaten but unbowed, Hooper flags turning pro
Sydney Morning Herald
After his second-round exit at the hands of Mekhontcev, he stood by the stunt but intimated it was done less in protest at plight of indigenous Australians but in opposition to the existence of the Union Jack on the Australian flag. Damien Hooper sits ...
Aboriginal Boxer Will Not Be Punished for Wearing Native Flag at Olympics ...Indian Country Today Media Network.com
Damien Hooper, strikes trouble for wearing T-shirt with the Aboriginal flag to ...National Indigenous Times
Canadian aboriginal athletes back Australian boxer's T-shirt stuntCanada First Perspective
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Aboriginal or not
SBS
While Australians may personally identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, not everyone has a document to prove it. This becomes problematic when Indigenous-specific services (for things like housing and education) require people to provide a ...

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