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Aboriginal meditation is being used to heal minds in the modern world - ABC Online

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 10:31pm

ABC Online

Aboriginal meditation is being used to heal minds in the modern world
ABC Online
"It's just chilling-out time and sometimes the non-Indigenous people who come here find that really, really stressful." Nauiyu, a town of less than 700 people, was once known primarily for having the best barramundi fishing in Australia, but these ...

Indigenous leaders ask NT Government to reject iron mine revival - ABC Online

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 8:33pm

ABC Online

Indigenous leaders ask NT Government to reject iron mine revival
ABC Online
Indigenous leader Grace Daniels thought the prospect of iron ore mining and transport through her country in the pristine Gulf of Carpentaria had disappeared. In 2014 the two fledgling iron mines in the Roper River region, 420 kilometres south-east of ...

Indigenous art winners' powerful statement - NT News

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 2:31pm

NT News

Indigenous art winners' powerful statement
NT News
YOUNG Indigenous Australians need to stand behind culture and not behind bars – that's the powerful statement made by the winners of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Kulata Tjuta – Wati kulunypa tjukurpa (Many ...
Youth justice art wins indigenous awardThe Australian
Inquiry into fake Indigenous artThe West Australian
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards: SA family wins overall prize with work on prison and cultureABC Online
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Art and about - The Australian

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 2:03pm

The Australian

Art and about
The Australian
He explains that indigenous Australians look for different food sources depending on the season. At the time of our tour the weather is cool, which is ideal for shellfish. Around a full moon, the current is also stronger, so the crabs eat more and ...

What's hot in 2017 - The Australian

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 12:32pm

The Australian

What's hot in 2017
The Australian
... Australian Modernism, the kind of narrative dining exemplified by restaurants such as Brae and Attica that got a real shot in the arm post Noma, pop-up of the century, in Sydney last year. Dane Rene Redzepi's bear hug of Australian indigenous ...

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards: SA family wins overall prize with work on prison and culture - ABC Online

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 12:22pm

ABC Online

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards: SA family wins overall prize with work on prison and culture
ABC Online
... Unrupa Rhonda Dick, and his grandson Anwar Young jointly created the work, called Many Spears — Young Fella Story, with the men carving the spears and Ms Dick photographing her nephew in a commentary on Indigenous incarceration in Australia.
Indigenous art winners' powerful statementNT News
Youth justice art wins indigenous awardNEWS.com.au

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National indigenous art award winners - NEWS.com.au

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 12:03pm

National indigenous art award winners
NEWS.com.au
The overall $50,000 prize was won by South Australian artists Frank Young, Anwar Young and Unrupa Rhonda Dick for their multimedia collaboration titled Kulata Tjuta - Wati Kulunypa tjukurpa or 'Many spears - young fella story'. It uses traditional ...

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National indigenous art award winners - The Australian

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 12:03pm

National indigenous art award winners
The Australian
The overall $50,000 prize was won by South Australian artists Frank Young, Anwar Young and Unrupa Rhonda Dick for their multimedia collaboration titled Kulata Tjuta - Wati Kulunypa tjukurpa or 'Many spears - young fella story'. It uses traditional ...

Youth justice art wins indigenous award - The Australian

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 11:55am

NT News

Youth justice art wins indigenous award
The Australian
The solemn artwork, a dignified call to action for troubled indigenous kids behind bars to get behind their culture instead, has won Australia's most prestigious Aboriginal art prize. The multimedia collaboration by South Australian artists Frank Young ...
Indigenous art winners' powerful statementNT News
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards: SA family wins overall prize with work on prison and cultureABC Online
Inquiry into fake Indigenous artThe West Australian
Daily Review -Green Left Weekly -SBS
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NATSIAA prizes: APY Lands artists big winners - The Australian

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 11:37am

The Australian

NATSIAA prizes: APY Lands artists big winners
The Australian
Aboriginal artists from South Australia's remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands took home four of six gongs at the nation's premier indigenous art prize this evening, adding to a swag of recent successes for the region. Community leader ...

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Natsiaa 2017: major prize celebrates innovation and collaboration in ... - The Guardian

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 11:34am

The Guardian

Natsiaa 2017: major prize celebrates innovation and collaboration in ...
The Guardian
This year's Indigenous art awards in Darwin sees the projects of remote arts centres highlighted and a multimedia artwork winning for first time.
NATSIAA prizes: APY Lands artists big winners - The AustralianThe Australian

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Inquiry into fake Indigenous art - The West Australian

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 8:31am

The West Australian

Inquiry into fake Indigenous art
The West Australian
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Indigenous Affairs has announced it will inquire into the increasing presence of 'fake' Indigenous arts and craft for sale across Australia. Committee chairwoman Melissa Price said the inquiry aims to ...
Recognise campaign ends after making 'significant contribution'ABC Online
Corporate 'fake art' profiting off Aboriginal artGreen Left Weekly
Recognise campaign to be abandoned: reportSBS

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Australia Day: Yarra Council considers move to rename day, move citizenship ceremony - Herald Sun

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 6:16am

Herald Sun

Australia Day: Yarra Council considers move to rename day, move citizenship ceremony
Herald Sun
The council should drop all references to Australia Day to “acknowledge the pain and disconnection” felt by the Aboriginal community, according to an internal report released today. In place of a citizenship ceremony it could hold an event marking ...

An American closes the gap with indigenous kids - Eternity News

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 5:56am

Eternity News

An American closes the gap with indigenous kids
Eternity News
The Kids Club is run by the pastor of the Barunga Baptist Church, Patrick Bauer, who says God gave him a passion to reach the Aboriginal people in Australia when he was just six years old. For a boy growing up in Pennsylvania, in the northern United ...

Recognise campaign ends after making 'significant contribution' - ABC Online

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 3:01am

ABC Online

Recognise campaign ends after making 'significant contribution'
ABC Online
In a statement, Reconciliation Australia co-chairman Tom Calma confirmed the campaign had ended. He said Recognise had made "a significant contribution" to building public awareness of constitutional change. "As we enter this next phase of the ...
Recognise campaign to be abandoned: reportSBS

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Indigenous student sent to Rome in honour of Aboriginal boy who died training for the priesthood - Catholic Leader

Fri, 2017/08/11 - 12:02am

Indigenous student sent to Rome in honour of Aboriginal boy who died training for the priesthood
Catholic Leader
Last month, Aboriginal man Nathan Pitt, from Brisbane, also made a trip to Rome, and in honour of Francis Xavier Conaci. Mr Pitt is a 19-year-old psychology student from Australian Catholic University, and last month he was named the inaugural Francis ...

Same-sex marriage: Fears Indigenous people in remote areas will be left out in postal plebiscite - SBS

Thu, 2017/08/10 - 9:31pm

SBS

Same-sex marriage: Fears Indigenous people in remote areas will be left out in postal plebiscite
SBS
South Australian Liberal MP Rowan Ramsey said some Aboriginal people in his electorate will “undoubtedly” not be able to take part in the same-sex marriage plebiscite. Mr Ramsey's electorate of Grey is one of the biggest in Australia and encompasses ...

Letters to the Queen, Bombers help make learning fun for remote Indigenous kids - ABC Online

Thu, 2017/08/10 - 9:02pm

ABC Online

Letters to the Queen, Bombers help make learning fun for remote Indigenous kids
ABC Online
But in the remote Northern Territory community of Manyallaluk, about 100 kilometres east of Katherine, letter writing is making a resurgence. Students at the tiny Indigenous community's school have been practising their English by writing letters. At ...

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Tarnanthi festival galvanises artists of South Australia's Western Desert - The Australian Financial Review

Thu, 2017/08/10 - 2:16pm

The Australian Financial Review

Tarnanthi festival galvanises artists of South Australia's Western Desert
The Australian Financial Review
At Ernabella, Australia's oldest continuously operating indigenous art centre, staff make cuppas for artists including Rupert Jack, busy etching a Ned Kelly figure onto a ceramic vessel, and Pepai Jangala Carroll, whose new body of work Mark and Memory ...

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Indigenous Australians and asylum seekers 'bookends of rejection' in Australia, says Jesuit head - The Tablet

Thu, 2017/08/10 - 12:06pm

The Tablet

Indigenous Australians and asylum seekers 'bookends of rejection' in Australia, says Jesuit head
The Tablet
The Provincial Leader of the Australian Jesuits, Fr Brian McCoy, has announced a project to bring together the Jesuits' concerns for Indigenous Australians and asylum seekers, which he described as "the bookends of rejection" in Australian history. Fr ...

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