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Indonesia blames licence breach for Tigerair's Bali grounding - Brisbane Times

Thu, 2017/01/12 - 5:42am

Brisbane Times

Indonesia blames licence breach for Tigerair's Bali grounding
Brisbane Times
​Indonesian authorities say they grounded Tigerair Australia because the budget airline does not use its own aircraft or pilots to fly between Australia and Bali, which breaches the rules of its licence. Tigerair on Wednesday cancelled flights between ...
Tigerair forced to cancel all flights to and from BaliThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The soft-glove politics of Indigenous festival programming - ArtsHub (subscription)

Thu, 2017/01/12 - 3:40am

ArtsHub (subscription)

The soft-glove politics of Indigenous festival programming
ArtsHub (subscription)
It has been a long time coming but the timing offers a curious alignment, coinciding with the 40th incarnation of the Festival and the 50th anniversay of the 1967 Australian Referendum that recognised Aboriginal Australians in our census, and empowered ...

Megafauna and Indigenous Australians coexisted for at least 17000 years - The Guardian

Thu, 2017/01/12 - 2:49am

The Guardian

Megafauna and Indigenous Australians coexisted for at least 17000 years
The Guardian
Australia was once home to giant reptiles, marsupials and birds (and some not so giant), but the extinction of this megafauna has been the subject of a debate that has persisted since the 19th century. Despite great advances in the available scientific ...

The Australia Day 2017 lamb ad doesn't even mention Australia Day - The New Daily

Thu, 2017/01/12 - 2:42am

The New Daily

The Australia Day 2017 lamb ad doesn't even mention Australia Day
The New Daily
But given recent debate over whether Australia Day's January 26 date should be changed – some believe the date signifies the day Indigenous Australians were invaded by Britain – MLA has produced 2017's ad from an Aboriginal perspective.
This year's Australia Day lamb ad doesn't mention Australia DayThe Age
The new lamb ad gets a “D” for effort, not for diversitySBS
New 'We Love Our Lamb' ad tackles Australia Day date controversyThe Australian Women's Weekly
Pedestrian TV -The Australian -AdNews -YouTube
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Australia Day ad doesn't mention Australia Day but it does mention Fyshwick - WAtoday

Thu, 2017/01/12 - 2:10am

Australia Day ad doesn't mention Australia Day but it does mention Fyshwick
WAtoday
Amid growing calls to move Australia Day from January 26, the industry group on Thursday released an ad that confronts head-on the controversy around hosting the national day on a date marking the start of colonialism and Indigenous dispossession.

This year's Australia Day lamb ad doesn't mention Australia Day - The Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2017/01/12 - 12:59am

The Australian

This year's Australia Day lamb ad doesn't mention Australia Day
The Sydney Morning Herald
Amid growing calls to move Australia Day from January 26, the industry group on Thursday released an ad that confronts head-on the controversy around hosting the national day on a date marking the start of colonialism and Indigenous dispossession.
Australia Day ad has no mention of it? Strewth!The Australian
'Never lamb alone': Annual Aussie lamb ad celebrates multiculturalism9news.com.au
'Hang on, aren't we all boat people?'NEWS.com.au
Weekly Times Now -AdNews -Huffington Post Australia
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Curtain And The Case For Freedom: How Many Indigenous Prisoners In Australia Are Innocent? - New Matilda

Thu, 2017/01/12 - 12:34am

New Matilda

Curtain And The Case For Freedom: How Many Indigenous Prisoners In Australia Are Innocent?
New Matilda
Amy McQuire has been investigating the jailing of an Aboriginal man in Queensland for over a year. Here she details at the case, and the broader reality of wrongful convictions in Australia. In 1991, an Aboriginal woman named Lynda tragically lost her ...

How Donald Trump sent the Australian dollar soaring - The Sydney Morning Herald

Thu, 2017/01/12 - 12:14am

The Sydney Morning Herald

How Donald Trump sent the Australian dollar soaring
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian dollar surged around one US cent amid renewed uncertainty about Donald Trump's policies following his first press conference as US President-elect. After trading around 73.75 US cents before Trump spoke, the dollar soared to as high as ...

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MLA shirks Australia Day, tackles Invasion Day controversy - AdNews

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 10:12pm

AdNews

MLA shirks Australia Day, tackles Invasion Day controversy
AdNews
It went onto say that The Monkeys had found it difficult to cast Aboriginal characters due to Indigenous actors “feeling like the commercial trivialises the violent British settlement of Australia”. MLA and The Monkeys haven't shied away from ...

Strong wet season boosting yields for Indigenous gubinge harvest - ABC Online

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 9:51pm

ABC Online

Strong wet season boosting yields for Indigenous gubinge harvest
ABC Online
The bush tucker, which is also known as Kakadu plum, is found across northern Australia and regarded as having more vitamin C than any other fruit. Lenny O'Meara from Kimberley Wild Gubinge said after big rains in December, there was an abundance of ...

Giving the less fortunate a hand up - dailytelegraph.com.au

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 7:02pm

dailytelegraph.com.au

Giving the less fortunate a hand up
dailytelegraph.com.au
“Including awful examples of forced labour in the very supply chains of my company, Fortescue Metals Group,” he says. “That's what really tipped me over the edge to adding modern slavery to ending the indigenous disparity in Australia as my lifetime ...

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Snake on a plane leads to flight cancellation - The New Daily

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 11:43am

The New Daily

Snake on a plane leads to flight cancellation
The New Daily
The MLA's two-and-a-half-minute spot features a diverse cast including European settlers, a wave of immigrants, vegans and LGBT Australians atop a Mardi Gras float who arrive in waves to join a beach barbecue started by three indigenous Australians.
Political expenses: Julie Bishop charged taxpayers for Portsea Polo trip, Mathias Cormann claimed for AFL finalABC Online

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Fate of AAMU and its Collection - Aboriginal Art Directory News

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 4:59am

Aboriginal Art Directory News

Fate of AAMU and its Collection
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Georges: It was founded by a private collector of Indigenous Australian art whose passion led to its creation. It is the same person who has supported the Museum to date. We have had some funding from other sources, the equivalent of the Australia ...

Time to clean up Western Australia's democratic act - Policy Forum

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 4:07am

Policy Forum

Time to clean up Western Australia's democratic act
Policy Forum
However, those special problems cannot be an excuse for vote rigging. Such special issues do warrant special administrative arrangements and funding allocations. The history of appalling treatment of the state's most remote citizens, Indigenous ...

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Management Accountant (Research Agreements, Grants And Contracts) - The Conversation AU

Wed, 2017/01/11 - 12:06am

Management Accountant (Research Agreements, Grants And Contracts)
The Conversation AU
The Melbourne School of Engineering ('The School') is one of Australia's leading Engineering Schools and aims to be the school of choice for the highest performing students and research staff in Australia and rank within the top twenty Schools of ...

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Meet the sisters dubbed 'Australia's Kardashians' - InDaily

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 11:43pm

InDaily

Meet the sisters dubbed 'Australia's Kardashians'
InDaily
I'm not sure who first referred to the Rule family, the subject of their own new reality show on National Indigenous Television, as Australia's Kardashians. I can't figure out if the phrase first appeared in some NITV publicity material, or whether a ...

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More work needed on human rights - Lawyers Weekly

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 11:05pm

Lawyers Weekly

More work needed on human rights
Lawyers Weekly
“Indeed, this year we have seen serious human rights violations in respect of the treatment of people seeking asylum, unprecedented national security measures, an ongoing crisis in protecting the rights of Indigenous Australians, a failure to realise ...

Anahata Offers 35% Discounts for Indigenous Australian Businesses - IT Business Net

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 7:40pm

Anahata Offers 35% Discounts for Indigenous Australian Businesses
IT Business Net
Anahata has come up with this special offering, keeping in mind that businesses working directly in Indigenous cultural industries have higher SROI ratios than businesses working in mainstream industries. Also the Indigenous businesses employ more than ...

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Indigenous people and miners need each others' help - The Australian Financial Review

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 5:18pm

The Australian Financial Review

Indigenous people and miners need each others' help
The Australian Financial Review
Indigenous people aren't going anywhere either and our population is also getting bigger. Minerals extraction means engaging with Indigenous people. Indigenous Australians have ownership or other rights over 20 per cent of the continent, including most ...

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Anahata Offers 35% Discounts for Indigenous Australian Businesses - IT Business Net

Tue, 2017/01/10 - 9:04am

Anahata Offers 35% Discounts for Indigenous Australian Businesses
IT Business Net
Anahata has come up with this special offering, keeping in mind that businesses working directly in Indigenous cultural industries have higher SROI ratios than businesses working in mainstream industries. Also the Indigenous businesses employ more than ...

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