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Ultramarathon is no sweat for Zibeon Fielding - The New Daily

Sun, 2018/05/20 - 10:25am

The New Daily

Ultramarathon is no sweat for Zibeon Fielding
The New Daily
In 2016, he and 11 other Indigenous Australians ran the New York Marathon after six months of training. World champion marathon runner Rob De Castella developed the initiative and was on hand for the entire ultramarathon, encouraging Fielding along the ...

Ultramarathon is no sweat for Zibeon Fielding in quest to raise funds for remote dialysis treatment - ABC Online

Sun, 2018/05/20 - 7:01am

ABC Online

Ultramarathon is no sweat for Zibeon Fielding in quest to raise funds for remote dialysis treatment
ABC Online
Mr Fielding was running to raise money for The Purple House, an organisation that provides dialysis to some of Australia's most remote communities. Aside from the more than $40,000 raised so far, he wants to promote a healthy lifestyle to other ...

Life different for Indigenous diggers coming home - The North West Star

Sun, 2018/05/20 - 4:46am

The North West Star

Life different for Indigenous diggers coming home
The North West Star
For Peter Craigie's descendants, daughter Olive Bohning, nephews Joe Rogers, Terry Craigie and Alfie Nathan and their families, he is remembered as a proud Aboriginal man who worked in opening up the cattle drive routes throughout Northern Australia, ...

Bid for proposed Indigenous art gallery to be moved to Katherine met with division - ABC Online

Sat, 2018/05/19 - 11:18pm

ABC Online

Bid for proposed Indigenous art gallery to be moved to Katherine met with division
ABC Online
Katherine leaders are edging in on a proposed national Indigenous art gallery and museum, should conflict over the project see it collapse in Central Australia. The $150 million centre was a key election promise made by the Labor Party, but differences ...

'We're the indigenous people here – not them': The Aussie buying and selling Arab-owned properties to Jews - 9news.com.au

Sat, 2018/05/19 - 11:07pm

9news.com.au

'We're the indigenous people here – not them': The Aussie buying and selling Arab-owned properties to Jews
9news.com.au
The city has played host to an unending struggle between Jews and Muslims for centuries and, as reporter Tom Steinfort reveals tonight on 60 Minutes, it's a dispute that has consumed the lives of two Australians. “Holy Real Estate” airs tonight on 60 ...

Christian Thompson's Ritual Intimacy exhibition charts the Australian artist's ongoing wanderlust - ABC Online

Sat, 2018/05/19 - 8:05pm

ABC Online

Christian Thompson's Ritual Intimacy exhibition charts the Australian artist's ongoing wanderlust
ABC Online
In his best-known photographic series, artist and Bidjara man Christian Thompson appears in a variety of spangled costumes with his head crowned, or face concealed, by arrangements of Australian native flora. The series, Australian Graffiti (2007), has ...

Vivid festival to pay tribute to native wildlife - The Sydney Morning Herald

Sat, 2018/05/19 - 2:15pm

Vivid festival to pay tribute to native wildlife
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney's Vivid Festival has famously transformed the Opera House into a canvas for Australian wildlife and Indigenous artworks, and this year is no exception. An artist's impression of Metamathemagical by Jonathan Zawada for this year's Vivid festival.

How comedian Wayne Brady deals with racism - Daily Telegraph

Sat, 2018/05/19 - 11:05am

Daily Telegraph

How comedian Wayne Brady deals with racism
Daily Telegraph
And I'm aware that Australia has a problem, too. I've been coming back and forth to Australia and talking to various people for many years now. I've watched movies like Romper Stomper. I know Indigenous Australians have their issues and that they are ...

Indigenous homelessness is not a 'cultural choice' - The Cairns Post

Fri, 2018/05/18 - 7:02pm

The Cairns Post

Indigenous homelessness is not a 'cultural choice'
The Cairns Post
All this gasbagging is pointless without considerable and prudent spending on indigenous housing. The damning results of a study into Australian homelessness released this week highlight the immense amount of work needed in regional areas like Cairns, ...

Indigenous homelessness is not a 'cultural choice' - Daily Telegraph

Fri, 2018/05/18 - 7:01pm

Daily Telegraph

Indigenous homelessness is not a 'cultural choice'
Daily Telegraph
The Australian Homeless Monitor 2018 report singled out the aforementioned centres for their particularly high rate of “rough sleeping or public place dwelling”, largely attributable to deplorable conditions in severely crowded remote indigenous ...

Indigenous voice heightens tale of tyranny in MTC's House of Bernarda Alba - The Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2018/05/18 - 2:48pm

The Sydney Morning Herald

Indigenous voice heightens tale of tyranny in MTC's House of Bernarda Alba
The Sydney Morning Herald
Holland says: "I'm Indigenous, my Dad's Aboriginal and I think it means a lot to everyone in the room that we're creating a work that reflects the truth. Patricia isn't didactic but it's threaded through." Caceres says that despite the Australian ...

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The cruel disease running rampant across the NT - NT News

Fri, 2018/05/18 - 2:03pm

NT News

The cruel disease running rampant across the NT
NT News
We need to prevent these things happening to Yolngu people, to indigenous Australians.”The clan leader is no stranger to the tragedy of heart disease. His sister Dr Marika lost her life after complications with a pacemaker. Two of his brothers ...

Man of mystery - The Advertiser

Fri, 2018/05/18 - 12:05pm

The Advertiser

Man of mystery
The Advertiser
IN March, a Los Angeles Times review of the Australian film Goldstone argued its star, Indigenous actor Aaron Pedersen, deserved a much higher profile. “Why,” it demanded, “isn't Pedersen – a world class brooder with soulful eyes and a singed ...

As he brings Mystery Road to ABC TV, Aaron Pedersen reflects on his long road to recognition - Herald Sun

Fri, 2018/05/18 - 7:38am

Herald Sun

As he brings Mystery Road to ABC TV, Aaron Pedersen reflects on his long road to recognition
Herald Sun
The Los Angeles Times review of the Australian noir thriller was positive — about our country's “famed interior”, the “tough justice-seeker” at its core and Sen's “slow roast technique”. Yet one gets the feeling it mostly ran because its author felt ...

As he brings Mystery Road to ABC TV, Aaron Pedersen reflects on his long road to recognition - Geelong Advertiser

Fri, 2018/05/18 - 7:03am

Geelong Advertiser

As he brings Mystery Road to ABC TV, Aaron Pedersen reflects on his long road to recognition
Geelong Advertiser
The Los Angeles Times review of the Australian noir thriller was positive — about our country's “famed interior”, the “tough justice-seeker” at its core and Sen's “slow roast technique”. Yet one gets the feeling it mostly ran because its author felt ...

New exhibit explores local Aboriginal history - The North West Star

Fri, 2018/05/18 - 2:14am

The North West Star

New exhibit explores local Aboriginal history
The North West Star
Conceived by controversial entrepreneur Archibald Meston, the original historical Wild Australia Show toured in 1892- 1893 to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and featured a choreographed troupe of 27 Aboriginal people recruited from the frontier in ...

Fixing citizenship imbroglio is not just a matter of better paperwork - ABC Online

Thu, 2018/05/17 - 11:18pm

ABC Online

Fixing citizenship imbroglio is not just a matter of better paperwork
ABC Online
This cloud also covers those who do not have documentation about their family, including Indigenous Australians". One of the cameos given in the report is fictionalised as "Christine" but obviously based on Labor Indigenous senator Pat Dodson. It ...

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The Bible in Australia review: Meredith Lake's big story of the big book - The Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2018/05/17 - 6:22pm

The Sydney Morning Herald

The Bible in Australia review: Meredith Lake's big story of the big book
The Sydney Morning Herald
This is especially true of her thorough and searching exploration of the role of the Bible in Indigenous Australia. The Bible came with the first fleet. Actually, it was here before that. Lake implies a delightful comparison between the copy of the ...

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We must return all our landmarks to their Indigenous names - The Guardian

Thu, 2018/05/17 - 6:01pm

The Guardian

We must return all our landmarks to their Indigenous names
The Guardian
However, it is also a welcome gesture of recognition from broader non-Indigenous Australia that so much more needs to be done to acknowledge and reconcile the present nation's short, violent past with this continent's long and enduring First Nations ...
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The Bible in Australia review: Meredith Lake's big story of the big book - The Canberra Times

Thu, 2018/05/17 - 2:16pm

The Canberra Times

The Bible in Australia review: Meredith Lake's big story of the big book
The Canberra Times
This is especially true of her thorough and searching exploration of the role of the Bible in Indigenous Australia. The Bible came with the first fleet. Actually, it was here before that. Lake implies a delightful comparison between the copy of the ...

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