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Grafton Daily Examiner
Goanna frontman talks music, politics and national identity
Grafton Daily Examiner
SHANE Howard's iconic song Solid Rock (Sacred Ground) held a mirror up to this country in 1982, his powerful lyrics highlighting the plight of indigenous Australians and lighting a fire for the rights of Aboriginal people. Its theme touched people ...

The RiotACT
Bigger than ever: The AIATSIS Indigenous Art Market 2018
The RiotACT
On 7 and 8 December, Canberra will host the largest ever Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Art Market. Artists travelling distances as far as 20,000km will bring beautiful works of art to the market. On ...

The RiotACT
Bigger than ever: The AIATSIS Indigenous Art Market 2018
The RiotACT
On 7 and 8 December, Canberra will host the largest ever Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Art Market. Artists travelling distances as far as 20,000km will bring beautiful works of art to the market. On ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Indigenous Comic Con coming to Australia in 2019
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
All over the world geeks unite a couple times a year to meet guests from their favourite TV shows, movies, books, comics. These are called Comic Conventions. Australia has it's own comic conventions all year round with Supanova and Oz Comic Con. But ...

IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
Indigenous Comic Con coming to Australia in 2019
IndigenousX (press release) (blog)
All over the world geeks unite a couple times a year to meet guests from their favourite TV shows, movies, books, comics. These are called Comic Conventions. Australia has it's own comic conventions all year round with Supanova and Oz Comic Con. But ...

Books+Publishing
Findlay to edit 'Growing Up Disabled in Australia'
Books+Publishing
... most recent addition to a series of life writing that includes forthcoming titles Growing Up Queer in Australia and Growing Up African in Australia, and the previously published volumes Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia and Growing Up Asian in ...

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Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Call for Aboriginal tourism operators in Kings Park Western Australia
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Kings Park and Botanic Garden is inviting local businesses employing, owned or run by Aboriginal people to provide a range of new commercial visitor experiences in the park. The initiative has been prompted by demands from domestic and international ...

PerthNow
Dreamtime Dive and Snorkel takes you on Indigenous journey of Great Barrier Reef
PerthNow
This story of how Australia's UNESCO world heritage listed marine sanctuary was created is how the local Aboriginal tribes believe it was formed. It is called a creation story and is being told in Cairns as part of a new dive experience called ...

PerthNow
Dreamtime Dive and Snorkel takes you on Indigenous journey of Great Barrier Reef
PerthNow
This story of how Australia's UNESCO world heritage listed marine sanctuary was created is how the local Aboriginal tribes believe it was formed. It is called a creation story and is being told in Cairns as part of a new dive experience called ...

The Australian
Dumped indigenous welfare program rated 'a success'
The Australian
The 112-page strategic review, obtained by The Australian, was designed to assess the success of the 10-year-old Cape York program and Family Responsibilities Commission, the initiative of indigenous leader Noel Pearson. The conclusions of the QUT ...

Voice of America
Program Tackles Sky High Rates of Aboriginal Smoking in Australia
Voice of America
A new program in Sydney is helping indigenous Australians quit smoking. It's also exploring the deeper reasons why about a third of aboriginal adults smoke, a much higher proportion than the national average. The organizers of the “Talking About ...

Voice of America
Program Tackles Sky High Rates of Aboriginal Smoking in Australia
Voice of America
A new program in Sydney is helping indigenous Australians quit smoking. It's also exploring the deeper reasons why about a third of aboriginal adults smoke, a much higher proportion than the national average. The organizers of the “Talking About ...

The West Australian
Turnaround brings bright future
The West Australian
The 24-year-old was recently named the nation's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student of the year at the Australian Training Awards, just one month after winning the State version of the accolade. Miss White's success came about after ...

Australian Indigenous talent set to shine at World Cup
FTBL Australia
“It's great that the First Nations people of Australia have been invited to be part of it,” he told FTBL. “It's quite exciting times because for a lot of Indigenous players making the Matildas and the Socceroos is a long way off but this way they get ...

Brisbane Times
School strikers are going places but the dole queue isn't one of them
Brisbane Times
The great social movements that defined modern Australia—the movements for women's liberation, gay rights, Indigenous rights, and environmental protection—all inspired school students to get out on the streets, wave banners and chant slogans.

Newshub
Report explains why New Zealand's Māori are better off than Australia's Aborigines
Newshub
New Zealand's Māori have better outcomes than Australia's Aboriginal people because our Government treats its indigenous people better, according to a report. The Economist states Aboriginal people living in Australia face a decade-wide gap in life ...

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Business Insider Australia
The popular and prize-winning Aboriginal artist Kathleen Petyarre has died
Business Insider Australia
“About” that age, because Petyarre was born out bush, delivered by Anmatyerr midwives at Atnangker on Anmatyerr country in Australia's northeast Central Desert. Petyarre's birth was not recorded in any official birth register, although it is believed ...

Best in Australia
Indigenous voice in constitutional reform backed by bipartisan committee
Best in Australia
This idea was the result of an historic gathering of hundreds of Indigenous Australian delegates during the Uluru Convention in 2017. Scott Morrison argued that the concept would not gain public approval. However, the bipartisan committee now calls on ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Easing of adoption laws is not in the best interests of children
The Sydney Morning Herald
Nearly 18,000 of the 48,000 young people in out-of-home care are Indigenous – 10 times the non-Indigenous rate, as noted in the recent Family Matters Report 2018. Across Australia, only four Indigenous children had adoption orders finalised in 2016-17 ...

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The Canberra Times
Easing of adoption laws is not in the best interests of children
The Canberra Times
Nearly 18,000 of the 48,000 young people in out-of-home care are Indigenous – 10 times the non-Indigenous rate, as noted in the recent Family Matters Report 2018. Across Australia, only four Indigenous children had adoption orders finalised in 2016-17 ...