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Australia Day 2015: Complete guide to events happening across Sydney - The Daily Telegraph

Fri, 2015/01/23 - 8:43pm

The Daily Telegraph

Australia Day 2015: Complete guide to events happening across Sydney
The Daily Telegraph
WugulOra is a word belonging to the Eora people meaning “One Mob”, and it perfectly captures the essence of a ceremony that actively promotes and acknowledges the special place that indigenous Australians hold and have always held in this country.

Constitutional recognition for indigenous Australia has had enough delays - Brisbane Times

Fri, 2015/01/23 - 1:20pm

Brisbane Times

Constitutional recognition for indigenous Australia has had enough delays
Brisbane Times
It was supposed to have happened by now. In the days following the inconclusive 2010 election, Julia Gillard promised a referendum to correct the silence about the First Australians in the nation's founding document. As part of the agreements she ...
Rebellion thwarts remote controlThe Australian
'Real consultation' needed on WA Indigenous recognition billABC Online

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Photojournalist Ingetje Tadros documents indigenous life in remote Kennedy Hill - Sydney Morning Herald

Fri, 2015/01/23 - 1:17pm

Sydney Morning Herald

Photojournalist Ingetje Tadros documents indigenous life in remote Kennedy Hill
Sydney Morning Herald
Photojournalist Ingetje Tadros spent more than six months in Kennedy Hill, a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia, documenting the lives of its residents. "The Hill", as locals call it, is at risk of closure due to loss of federal funding ...

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Rebellion thwarts remote control - The Australian

Fri, 2015/01/23 - 1:05pm

The Australian

Rebellion thwarts remote control
The Australian
ALMOST 1½ years into the initial term of Tony Abbott's Coalition government and the latest drastic overhaul of indigenous affairs policies and programs, the great mystery overhanging remote Aboriginal Australia has only deepened. It is the besetting ...
'Real consultation' needed on WA Indigenous recognition billABC Online

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Reflect on what January 26 means to Indigenous Aussies: Calma - SBS

Fri, 2015/01/23 - 9:22am

SBS

Reflect on what January 26 means to Indigenous Aussies: Calma
SBS
0. Dr Tom Calma has urged Australians to consider what January 26 means for Indigenous Australians. Many Indigenous people choose to mourn or not celebrate Australia Day, preferring to call it 'Invasion Day' or 'Survival Day'. "Some Aboriginal and ...

Calma urges Australians to consider what January 26 means for Indigenous - SBS

Fri, 2015/01/23 - 9:04am

SBS

Calma urges Australians to consider what January 26 means for Indigenous
SBS
Dr Tom Calma has urged Australians to consider what January 26 means for Indigenous people. Many Indigenous people choose to mourn or not celebrate Australia Day, preferring to call it Invasion or Survival Day. "Some Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

British Museum exhibition to showcase Australia's 'difficult' Indigenous history - The Guardian

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 9:28pm

The Guardian

British Museum exhibition to showcase Australia's 'difficult' Indigenous history
The Guardian
The exhibition, Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation, will run from 23 April to 2 August and is thought to be the biggest and most significant of its kind to be held outside Australia. Gaye Sculthorpe, the British Museum's curator for Oceania ...

The British Museum to Display INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA Exhibit, 4/23 - Broadway World

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 8:14pm

The British Museum to Display INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIA Exhibit, 4/23
Broadway World
In April 2015 the British Museum will open a major exhibition presenting a history of Indigenous Australia, supported by BP. This exhibition will be the first in the UK devoted to the history and culture of Indigenous Australians: both Aboriginal ...

British Museum exhibition reveals Australia's first ever UK cricket tour team ... - The Independent

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 8:11pm

The Independent

British Museum exhibition reveals Australia's first ever UK cricket tour team ...
The Independent
The exhibition will seek to tell the history of indigenous Australians, from diverse Aboriginal tribes to the Torres Strait Islanders. The objects on display run from a shield collected by Captain Cook's men in 1770 to a sign protesting land rights 200 ...

Aboriginal Heritage Strengthens Australia's Tourism - TravelPulse

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 7:09pm

TravelPulse

Aboriginal Heritage Strengthens Australia's Tourism
TravelPulse
Across Australia, hundreds of indigenous owned and operated tourism businesses are prospering, none bigger than Ayers Rock Resort. Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia manages the resort as well as the nearby Longitude 131, the Home Valley Station ...

Indigenous Australia on show in London - The Australian (blog)

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 2:47pm

ABC Online

Indigenous Australia on show in London
The Australian (blog)
THE exhibition, entitled 'Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation', will run from April 23 to August 2 and is thought to be the biggest and most significant of its kind to be held outside of Australia. Gaye Sculthorpe, the British Museum's curator ...
British Museum exhibit set to showcase Australian Indigenous history; includes ...ABC Online

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British Museum exhibit set to showcase Australian Indigenous history; includes ... - ABC Online

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 1:41pm

ABC Online

British Museum exhibit set to showcase Australian Indigenous history; includes ...
ABC Online
A shield collected after a skirmish at Botany Bay in 1770 is set to go on display at the British Museum as part of an "immensely important" exhibition devoted to the history of Indigenous Australia. The exhibition will draw on objects from the British ...
Indigenous Australia on show in LondonThe Australian (blog)

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Indigenous Barngarla Australians win land claim - BBC News

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 6:00am

BBC News

Indigenous Barngarla Australians win land claim
BBC News
Australia's indigenous Barngarla people have won a campaign, lasting nearly 20 years, for the law to recognise their right to traditional lands. The native title claim over a huge tract of land in South Australia has been mostly upheld by a federal court.

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Aboriginal Hepatitis C rising, prompting calls for improved services - The Guardian

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 5:57am

The Guardian

Aboriginal Hepatitis C rising, prompting calls for improved services
The Guardian
As rates of the disease decrease among Australians overall, Hepatitis C is three times higher and rising in Indigenous populations, according to a 2013 study by the Kirby Institute. The worsening problem is mainly due to higher rates of unsafe drug ...

Indigenous Barngarla Australians win land claim - BBC News

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 5:56am

BBC News

Indigenous Barngarla Australians win land claim
BBC News
Australia's indigenous Barngarla people have won a campaign, lasting nearly 20 years, for the law to recognise their right to traditional lands. The native title claim over a huge tract of land in South Australia has been mostly upheld by a federal court.

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We must look to our humanity to solve the crisis of Indigenous incarceration - The Guardian

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 5:07am

The Guardian

We must look to our humanity to solve the crisis of Indigenous incarceration
The Guardian
Against this background, it is very simple to impose policies for Indigenous Australians that do not signal any sense of belief in our humanity and own capacity to rise above the challenges we are confronted by. We are also mistaken if we assume that ...
Australia Day, Survival Day or Invasion Day? Why indigenous Australians can't ...Crikey
Who owns Indigenous stories?ArtsHub (subscription)
Tas premier slates native land hand-backs9news.com.au
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Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people 'compatible' with treaty ... - ABC Online

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 2:32am

ABC Online

Constitutional recognition of Aboriginal people 'compatible' with treaty ...
ABC Online
A prominent advocate for Indigenous reconciliation in Tasmania believes recognising Aboriginal people in Australia's constitution is compatible with negotiating a treaty. Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman is considering supporting a move to "acknowledge ...

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Friend or foe of indigenous culture? Jessica Mauboy as Australia Day poster girl - Daily Review

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 12:44am

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Friend or foe of indigenous culture? Jessica Mauboy as Australia Day poster girl
Daily Review
One of the more insidious ways in which indigenous Australian people have been colonised is through the rewriting of history. Alongside use of the more congenial term “settlement”, the common view is that Aboriginal people maintained little resistance ...
Who owns Indigenous stories?ArtsHub (subscription)

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Who owns Indigenous stories? - ArtsHub (subscription)

Thu, 2015/01/22 - 12:01am

ArtsHub (subscription)

Who owns Indigenous stories?
ArtsHub (subscription)
Maza said it was time the Australian theatre sector stopped viewing the world through a lens of white privilege and power; and stopped repeating old and deeply entrenched myths about Aboriginal people. 'We all are products of our upbringing, and we ...

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bottom line feels heat of visitor lull - The Australian

Wed, 2015/01/21 - 1:02pm

bottom line feels heat of visitor lull
The Australian
However, Sydney businessman David Baffsky, the former chairman of the Indigenous Land Corp-owned Ayers Rock Resort, said it was difficult to understand how, at a time when tourism generally in Australia was booming, particularly inbound tourism, some ...

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