While William Dampier is lauded as the first Englishman to set foot in Australia, he published a popular book with a derogatory description of Aboriginal people ...
The Guardian Indigenous groups call for investigation into Scullion fund stoush The Guardian Former NT Indigenous affairs minister, Dr Jak Ah Kit, told Guardian Australia the decision to fund these groups with money set aside for addressing Indigenous disadvantage was “totally immoral and totally against the normal rules that apply”. “I think ...
The Australian Western civilisation is not served by pandering to populism The Australian Or denying indigenous Australians citizenship rights. Some states still think the national interest is served by criminalising abortion: what happens to research that challenges those laws under a national interest test? Or given euthanasia is banned ...
The Australian Running for their lives The Australian In 2010, when the seeds of his foundation were being sown, de Castella saw it as a 10-year project; his goal was to have an indigenous long-distance runner in the 2016 Australian Olympic Team. But he was soon mugged by some grim realities. He'd grown ...
SBS 'Thank you for putting up with the invasion': Abbott tells an Indigenous community SBS Former prime minister Tony Abbott was greeted with a traditional welcome by the Anangu people when he arrived in Pukatja, one of South Australia's most remote Aboriginal communities. It was the last stop on a three-day visit to the state as part of his ...
SBS Tony Abbott says: 'Thank you for putting up with the invasion' SBS Former prime minister Tony Abbott was greeted with a traditional welcome by the Anangu people when he arrived in Pukatja, one of South Australia's most remote Aboriginal communities. It was the last stop on a three-day visit to the state as part of his ...
Daily Liberal Australian Conservatives' senate candidates to hold Dubbo meet and greet Daily Liberal ... is based in Sydney but said it wasn't fair to assume the issues that dominated the recent Wentworth byelection – “rainbow issues”, “climate issues” and whether or not to move the Australian embassy in Israel to Jerusalem – were priorities for ...
The West Australian Runners ready for New York test The West Australian After months of rigorous physical and mental training, two Kimberley runners will be representing WA indigenous communities in the US. Kimberley duo Damien Crispin and Torey Rickerby will be completing the final leg of their Indigenous Marathon Project ...
The Conversation AU Seagrass, protector of shipwrecks and buried treasure The Conversation AU They've locked away thousands of shipwrecks in conditions perfect for preserving the fragile, centuries-old timbers of early European and Asian explorers, and could even hold secrets of seafaring by Aboriginal Australians. Seagrass meadows accumulate ...
NEWS.com.au Scullion draws anger over legal funding NEWS.com.au Dr Jackie Huggins, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, said the group had long standing concerns funds specifically to benefit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were often siphoned off. "This money needs to be ...
Scullion draws anger over legal funding The Australian Australia's Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has been criticised by Aboriginal groups for giving nearly half a million dollars to non-indigenous lobby groups for legal funding. Northern Land Council chairman Joe Morrison says it is a "poor ...
ArtsHub Freda Glynn - from little things, big things grow ArtsHub She happens to be the matriarch of a family that includes filmmaking offspring Warwick Thornton and Erica Glynn (who was Head of the Indigenous Department at Screen Australia from 2010 – 2014) and filmmaking grandchildren Dylan River and Tanith ...