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Australia's first Indigenous-led startup incubator opens today - TechRadar

Wed, 2017/05/03 - 7:00am

TechRadar

Australia's first Indigenous-led startup incubator opens today
TechRadar
If the project proves successful, co-founders Leigh Harris and Julie-Ann Lambourne hope to lobby for similar hubs to be built around around remote Australia, ideally also led by Indigenous Australians. Harris expressed hope that the project “will get ...

Anger over indigenous plan - dailytelegraph.com.au

Wed, 2017/05/03 - 5:07am

dailytelegraph.com.au

Anger over indigenous plan
dailytelegraph.com.au
The claims come after the Association of Heads of independent Schools of Australia called for more government funding for private schools to establish satellite programs for indigenous students across the state – similar to the campus developed by ...

First indigenous-led start-up hub launched today - The Australian

Wed, 2017/05/03 - 3:40am

The Australian

First indigenous-led start-up hub launched today
The Australian
Australia's first indigenous-led digital innovation and start-up incubator has launched in far north Queensland today. According to co-founder Leigh Harris the DHIVE (digital hive) innovation and start-up hub, based in Cairns, aims to educate the ...

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New WA govt winds up Aboriginal Affairs dept - National Indigenous Times

Wed, 2017/05/03 - 2:29am

National Indigenous Times

New WA govt winds up Aboriginal Affairs dept
National Indigenous Times
The Western Australian government has scrapped its Aboriginal Affairs Department in a move cautiously welcomed by some sectors of the state's Aboriginal community. The axing of the department came as part of a public sector shake-up announced by new ...

New WA govt winds up Aboriginal Affairs dept - National Indigenous Times

Wed, 2017/05/03 - 1:25am

National Indigenous Times

New WA govt winds up Aboriginal Affairs dept
National Indigenous Times
The Western Australian government has scrapped its Aboriginal Affairs Department in a move cautiously welcomed by some sectors of the state's Aboriginal community. The axing of the department came as part of a public sector shake-up announced by new ...

Bunna Lawrie to bring 'Black Boy' beats back to Barunga - National Indigenous Times

Wed, 2017/05/03 - 1:11am

National Indigenous Times

Bunna Lawrie to bring 'Black Boy' beats back to Barunga
National Indigenous Times
Coloured Stone was an Australian Indigenous band whose members had cut its teeth the hard way, knocking on doors and travelling the back roads of Australia selling recycled drink bottles. Then came 'Black Boy', arguably the band's most defining song.

Bush bananas: The bush tucker that kept Indigenous stockman David Newry strong - ABC Online

Tue, 2017/05/02 - 9:48pm

ABC Online

Bush bananas: The bush tucker that kept Indigenous stockman David Newry strong
ABC Online
Miriwoong man David Newry was born in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia in 1960, it was a time when the town of Kununurra did not exist and the Ord River was not dammed. "I'm older than Kununurra," he said proudly. He spent his young adult ...

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Frist Center Presents "Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection" - PR Newswire (press release)

Tue, 2017/05/02 - 2:19pm

Frist Center Presents "Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection"
PR Newswire (press release)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 2, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection, an exhibition that explores the flourishing of indigenous Australian ...

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Indigenous to receive project lending boost - The Australian

Tue, 2017/05/02 - 2:12pm

The Australian

Indigenous to receive project lending boost
The Australian
Indigenous Business Australia, the federal agency tasked with funding home and business loans, will have its rules changed from the new financial year to provide intensive support to projects that would otherwise have little chance of succeeding, in ...

Indigenous students on the rise at the University of Newcastle - The Australian

Tue, 2017/05/02 - 2:05pm

The Australian

Indigenous students on the rise at the University of Newcastle
The Australian
Trawling through hundreds of hours of sound files from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Canberra, he found anomalies between the tapes and his knowledge of Aboriginal language. It became evident that scholars ...

Aboriginal ancestor's mummified remains repatriated to northern Queensland from German museum - ABC Online

Tue, 2017/05/02 - 6:00am

ABC Online

Aboriginal ancestor's mummified remains repatriated to northern Queensland from German museum
ABC Online
His mummified remains were removed from Australia in 1904 by German anthropologist Hermann Klaatsch, and have been in the possession of Frankfurt Naturmuseum Senckenburg in Frankfurt for decades. His body was returned to Australia in March, then ...

Sutherland Shire Council receives national award for exhibition promoting indigenous recognition - St George and Sutherland Shire Leader

Tue, 2017/05/02 - 1:43am

St George and Sutherland Shire Leader

Sutherland Shire Council receives national award for exhibition promoting indigenous recognition
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
The Promoting Indigenous Recognition Award acknowledges local government initiatives that promote recognition of the unique place and contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia through engaging Indigenous peoples in ...

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Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival: Voice of the peoples - The Australian

Mon, 2017/05/01 - 2:11pm

The Australian

Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival: Voice of the peoples
The Australian
In recent years Australians have embraced traditional indigenous names when describing the languages, culture and land of our original inhabitants. There's a much greater awareness that, far from being a homogenous group, the first Australians had ...

Legacy, dumped asbestos waste 'widespread' in remote Indigenous Australia, report finds - ABC Online

Mon, 2017/05/01 - 6:17am

ABC Online

Legacy, dumped asbestos waste 'widespread' in remote Indigenous Australia, report finds
ABC Online
Dumped asbestos in and around remote Indigenous communities is a widespread problem and the cost of removing it is three times higher compared to non-remote areas, a study from the Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency (ASEA) has found.

Sutherland Shire Council receives national award for exhibition promoting indigenous recognition - St George and Sutherland Shire Leader

Mon, 2017/05/01 - 4:47am

St George and Sutherland Shire Leader

Sutherland Shire Council receives national award for exhibition promoting indigenous recognition
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
The Promoting Indigenous Recognition Award acknowledges local government initiatives that promote recognition of the unique place and contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia through engaging Indigenous peoples in ...

7000 Year Old Indigenous Story Proved True - National Geographic Australia

Mon, 2017/05/01 - 3:56am

National Geographic Australia

7000 Year Old Indigenous Story Proved True
National Geographic Australia
One of Australia's youngest volcanos, Kinrara is believed to be the volcano mentioned in the 7,000-year-old Indigenous story. The Indigenous story and timeline hold fast in light of new evidence. Kinrara's eruption would've been large: suffocating ash ...

Endorsed by Nick Cave, Kurdiji 1.0 is an app designed to save young indigenous lives. They need your help - Happy

Mon, 2017/05/01 - 2:08am

Happy

Endorsed by Nick Cave, Kurdiji 1.0 is an app designed to save young indigenous lives. They need your help
Happy
One of the most glaring social issues in Australia is suicide in young indigenous people, where the incident rates are among the highest in the entire world. After a young man committed suicide in Lajamanu, a community one thousand kilometres from ...

Athletics Australia comes to Cherbourg - The South Burnett Times

Mon, 2017/05/01 - 12:38am

Athletics Australia comes to Cherbourg
The South Burnett Times
Athletics: Cherbourg has been highlighted as one of five indigenous townships to be visited by Athletics Australia's Athletics for the Outback program later this year. Following its partnership announcement with GE, Athletics Australia has pushed the ...

Divisive? There's nothing divisive about it - Courier Mail

Sun, 2017/04/30 - 1:01pm

Courier Mail

Divisive? There's nothing divisive about it
Courier Mail
It was about time our Indigenous veterans had the chance to lead the marches and under their own flag. Again, this doesn't disqualify the Australian one and all it signifies. I always find it a rather peculiar mindset that insists, especially on days ...
Lest we forget and selective national memoryABC Online

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Wide Open Space music festival in Central Australia helping preserve Indigenous languages - ABC Online

Sun, 2017/04/30 - 4:33am

ABC Online

Wide Open Space music festival in Central Australia helping preserve Indigenous languages
ABC Online
An arts festival in Central Australia is helping keep Indigenous languages and culture alive through song, musicians at the event say. Wide Open Space, held at Ross River Resort about 85 kilometres from Alice Springs, is a three-day camping festival ...

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