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Business and sharing culture go hand in hand for young Indigenous entrepreneur Téa Devow - ABC News

Sat, 2018/06/09 - 9:32pm

ABC News

Business and sharing culture go hand in hand for young Indigenous entrepreneur Téa Devow
ABC News
There's a broad market for the products which are designed to share Indigenous culture with non-Indigenous Australians and tourists. "Being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander means a lot to me and it's really cool that I can embrace that," Téa said.

Aboriginal legal group lobbies to raise age of criminal responsibility - The Canberra Times

Sat, 2018/06/09 - 2:00pm

The Canberra Times

Aboriginal legal group lobbies to raise age of criminal responsibility
The Canberra Times
The Aboriginal Legal Service has called on ACT Attorney-General Gordon Ramsay to raise Canberra's age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years old. Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows Aboriginal children in the ACT between 10 and 14 years ...

The inflatable screen taking Indigenous film back to the Top End - The Guardian

Sat, 2018/06/09 - 12:54am

The Guardian

The inflatable screen taking Indigenous film back to the Top End
The Guardian
He more recently starred in a critically acclaimed Aboriginal King Lear titled The Shadow King, was a regular on the Melbourne theatre scene, and toured Australia and the globe with his jazz duo Lewis & Young. Yet too often his work, and that of other ...

1868 Indigenous XI and the colonising game of cricket - Independent Australia

Fri, 2018/06/08 - 10:15pm

Independent Australia

1868 Indigenous XI and the colonising game of cricket
Independent Australia
In 1868, the game of settlement and invasion returned in the visage of an all-Aboriginal cricket team. It was a curious business, given that the first Australian team to tour England in any official capacity was distinctly lacking in the white ...

Australia's long-lost agricultural history explored in Bangarra Dance Theatre's new production - ABC Message Stick

Fri, 2018/06/08 - 7:10pm

ABC Message Stick

Australia's long-lost agricultural history explored in Bangarra Dance Theatre's new production
ABC Message Stick
Iconic dance company Bangarra Dance Theatre has brought to life an award-winning book aiming to debunk myths about Indigenous history. "I reckon we're going to get into the spiritual consciousness of people," Bangarra Dance Theatre's creative director ...

Lane Cove gets its own creative arts precinct thanks to artist Guy Warren - Daily Telegraph

Fri, 2018/06/08 - 2:04pm

Daily Telegraph

Lane Cove gets its own creative arts precinct thanks to artist Guy Warren
Daily Telegraph
Travis De Vries won the NSW Aboriginal Arts Fellowship this year and has already started work. The new creative arts centre is supported by Lane Cove Council and managed by not-for-profit, community arts organisation Centrehouse Incorporated.

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David Speers: Shorten deserves credit for tackling thorny issue - Daily Telegraph

Fri, 2018/06/08 - 12:03pm

Daily Telegraph

David Speers: Shorten deserves credit for tackling thorny issue
Daily Telegraph
The Labor leader is willing to respond to the call from indigenous Australia, even if it means a political fight, which there surely will be. In the 30 years since the Barunga Statement, the call for a treaty has evolved. The past three decades has ...

Opinion | Is Australia still land of the fair go? - Newcastle Herald

Fri, 2018/06/08 - 9:20am

Newcastle Herald

Opinion | Is Australia still land of the fair go?
Newcastle Herald
Cilento, CEO of CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia) cited figures from their recently released report on inequality. They show that 13 per cent of Australia's population are living below the poverty line. Cilento argued that growing ...

NT signs historic Barunga agreement to begin Indigenous treaty talks - NT News

Fri, 2018/06/08 - 5:48am

NT News

NT signs historic Barunga agreement to begin Indigenous treaty talks
NT News
The NT Labor Government and the Territory's four land councils signed a Treaty Memorandum of Understanding in Barunga on Friday, marking the 30 year anniversary of Prime Minister Bob Hawke's unfulfilled promise of a treaty with indigenous Australians.

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Indigenous voice in Parliament pushed - The West Australian

Fri, 2018/06/08 - 4:34am

The West Australian

Indigenous voice in Parliament pushed
The West Australian
The next step in constitutional recognition of indigenous people in Australia will be made in the Kimberley. It has been a year since Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders from across the country came up with the Uluru Statement as the way ...

NT signs historic Barunga agreement to begin Indigenous treaty talks - The Guardian

Fri, 2018/06/08 - 1:38am

The Guardian

NT signs historic Barunga agreement to begin Indigenous treaty talks
The Guardian
The Labor senator Pat Dodson, in Barunga to reboot bipartisan talks on an Indigenous voice to parliament and constitutional recognition, told Guardian Australia: “I was sitting in the dust 30 years ago at Barunga, helping to craft the words that went ...
Reconciliation unfinished business: LaborThe Australian
Victorian Parliament to vote on first indigenous treatyBest in Australia

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Australia's frontier war killings still conveniently escape official memory - The Guardian (blog)

Fri, 2018/06/08 - 1:38am

The Guardian (blog)

Australia's frontier war killings still conveniently escape official memory
The Guardian (blog)
“For Aboriginal people - and non-Aboriginal people – rather than a site to avoid it now has become a place of healing, a totally different energy. Myall Creek does not exist in a vacuum. It is prominent in Australian consciousness because it was the ...
Massacre remembered through exhibition and promised museumArtsHub

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Keen runners picked for Indigenous Marathon Project - The West Australian

Fri, 2018/06/08 - 1:08am

The West Australian

Keen runners picked for Indigenous Marathon Project
The West Australian
A local indigenous marathon runner has beaten 140 applicants across Australia to earn a spot in the 12-person squad getting ready to run the New York City Marathon in November. Damien Crispin has been selected to be part of the 12-person squad ...

Indira Naidoo: How to grow Australian edible natives - Domain News

Thu, 2018/06/07 - 2:32pm

Domain News

Indira Naidoo: How to grow Australian edible natives
Domain News
Before European settlement, Australia's Indigenous population was sustained by an array of edible natives. These plants flourished from the coast to the deserts to our rainforests, keeping communities well supplied with delicious and nutritious ...

More support for the mental health of mine workers and the Indigenous - The North West Star

Thu, 2018/06/07 - 9:11am

The North West Star

More support for the mental health of mine workers and the Indigenous
The North West Star
MENTAL HEALTH: Indigenous Australians and mine workers in remote and regional locations will have more support. Photo: Supplied. The Turnbull Government will provide funding to support the mental health of farmers, mining workers and Indigenous ...

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More support for the mental health of mine workers and the Indigenous - The North West Star

Thu, 2018/06/07 - 9:11am

The North West Star

More support for the mental health of mine workers and the Indigenous
The North West Star
MENTAL HEALTH: Indigenous Australians and mine workers in remote and regional locations will have more support. Photo: Supplied. The Turnbull Government will provide funding to support the mental health of farmers, mining workers and Indigenous ...

AIA Australia slams government's life insurance in superannuation reforms - The Australian Financial Review

Thu, 2018/06/07 - 6:49am

The Australian Financial Review

AIA Australia slams government's life insurance in superannuation reforms
The Australian Financial Review
"This proposed change from the budget would leave low income and vulnerable workers such as migrants, single mothers, Indigenous Australians and casual workers, without insurance". The Rice Warner research revealed the impact of the "protecting your ...

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Indigenous voice to parliament given new momentum at Barunga hearings - The Guardian

Thu, 2018/06/07 - 6:18am

The Guardian

Indigenous voice to parliament given new momentum at Barunga hearings
The Guardian
The committee has already received 57 submissions, including one from the former co-chair of the Referendum Council and the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition, Mark Leibler, who wrote: “Is it asking too much of non-Aboriginal Australia and ...

Memo ANU: the role of university isn't to indulge students but to expose them to debate - The Australian

Thu, 2018/06/07 - 2:15am

The Australian

Memo ANU: the role of university isn't to indulge students but to expose them to debate
The Australian
“Working alongside many @ANU_NCIS colleagues this #AustraliaDay in acknowledgment of the ongoing survival of indigenous Australians in spite of Australia's violent colonial past and ongoing structural violence,” she tweeted this year. “We need to ...

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