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The Age
A small win in the battle for our endangered beaches
The Age
Children play near Uluru. Credit:Glenn Campbell. As a young man, writing the song at Uluru in 1981 after witnessing a powerful inma, I awoke to the injustice of colonialism and my relationship with an Aboriginal country stolen by migrant Australians. I ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Modern Guru: Should we change the words of our anthem?
The Sydney Morning Herald
A: By recent news, I guess you're referring to Harper Nielsen, the nine-year-old Brisbane schoolgirl who refused to sing Advance Australia Fair at school assembly because "it completely disregards the Indigenous Australians who were here before us" ...

The Guardian
'Youngfellas': artists come to grips with legacy of Indigenous servicemen
The Guardian
There are the tribal wars before European settlement; the “frontier wars” as Europeans pushed inland; the sacrifice made by Aboriginal Australians in two world wars, only to continue to be shunned when they returned home. And more recently, the ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Weekend Washup: 'Jesus had two dads' and other adventures in parliamentary theology
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tweet of the Week goes to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt, who acknowledged the work of Aboriginal History WA in releasing a new book on Friday which pays tribute to the 80 or so Western Australian Aboriginal soldiers who served in World War I.

Brisbane Times
Weekend Washup: 'Jesus had two dads' and other adventures in parliamentary theology
Brisbane Times
Tweet of the Week goes to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ben Wyatt, who acknowledged the work of Aboriginal History WA in releasing a new book on Friday which pays tribute to the 80 or so Western Australian Aboriginal soldiers who served in World War I.

ABC Local
Aboriginal elder William Cooper's anti-Nazi protest remembered on Kristallnacht's 80th anniversary
ABC Local
When Mr Cooper and members of the Australian Aboriginal League arrived at the consulate, they weren't allowed inside, and the letter was passed on to a guard. It is considered by many to be the only protest of its kind in the world at the time ...

ARNnet
Microsoft partners with Indigital to prevent Aboriginal culture loss
ARNnet
“The Njulgang Project is incredibly important,” Microsoft Australia managing director Steven Worrall said. “With many spoken Aboriginal languages at risk of being lost, it was important that we worked together to develop a culturally appropriate ...

Townsville Bulletin
Unease on Australia's national anthem
Townsville Bulletin
At the recent Burdekin Writers Festival, Warren Mundine AO argued that Indigenous Australians are conservative. I wanted to disagree but couldn't. After all, how has cultural, environmental and scientific knowledge otherwise been passed down some 3000 ...

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Townsville Bulletin
Unease on Australia's national anthem
Townsville Bulletin
At the recent Burdekin Writers Festival, Warren Mundine AO argued that Indigenous Australians are conservative. I wanted to disagree but couldn't. After all, how has cultural, environmental and scientific knowledge otherwise been passed down some 3000 ...

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The Australian
Ancient Cape York Aboriginal art's future set in stone
The Australian
Cape York's “Quinkan Country'' — which holds some of Australia's oldest and most distinctive Aboriginal rock art — has been put on the National Heritage List to boost protections over the vast sandstone galleries from the threat of mining and ...

The Australian
The service of Aboriginal soldiers recognised in No Less Worthy
The Australian
Their extraordinary service is celebrated in No Less Worthy, an historical account of more than 80 Aboriginal men in Western Australia who managed to enlist. It includes the names of many more who volunteered but were rejected, often on race grounds.

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The Australian
The service of Aboriginal soldiers recognised in No Less Worthy
The Australian
Their extraordinary service is celebrated in No Less Worthy, an historical account of more than 80 Aboriginal men in Western Australia who managed to enlist. It includes the names of many more who volunteered but were rejected, often on race grounds.

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The Advertiser
Arthur Butler seeks job playing Santa Claus, after disappointing ad seeking 'caucasian' men
The Advertiser
The Aboriginal man from Kurralta Park says he desperately wants a job playing Father Christmas after being dismayed by a recent online advertisement from a talent agency looking for “caucasian” men to play the jolly man in red this festive season. “I ...

J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
Kristallnacht and the Righteous Australian aboriginal William Cooper
J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service
On the other side of the world in Australia, William Cooper, also from an indigenous community, grew up in an Aboriginal mission station near Moama in the Riverina in New South Wales. Mr Cooper, a member of the Yorta-Yorta people made a living as a ...

The Guardian
Whatever happened to all those Scott Morrison thought bubbles?
The Guardian
“We know there are things that have happened, like in every country, that have left deep scars, particularly in relation to the treatment and experience of Indigenous Australians,” Morrison said , in an exclusive interview with the Daily Telegraph ...

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ArtsHub
Nginha ngurambang marunbunmilgirridyu: I love this country – but do you?
ArtsHub
In April 2015, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of Bathurst – Australia's first inland town – Aboriginal elders won the battle for Mount Panorama (better known to most Australians as the home of car racing) to also be known by its ...

ABC News
Remote Australia deaths prompts warning outback travel dangers could rise
ABC News
"I would say most Aboriginal people that I know and I travel with would say that's not required," he said. "Because most Aboriginal people really communicate about where they are going, who they are going with, and when they're expected to be somewhere ...

ArtsHub
Nginha ngurambang marunbunmilgirridyu: I love this county – but do you?
ArtsHub
In April 2015, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of Bathurst – Australia's first inland town – Aboriginal elders won the battle for Mount Panorama (better known to most Australians as the home of car racing) to also be known by its ...

NT News
Australia's national indigenous teams will play showcase matches in Darwin
NT News
According to the director of Australia's indigenous teams, Lawrence Gilbert, the Darwin-based event – which returns after an eight-year hiatus – will put the spotlight on the nation's top Aboriginal stars. “The Arafura Games provides a world-class ...

NT News
Australia's national indigenous teams will play showcase matches in Darwin
NT News
According to the director of Australia's indigenous teams, Lawrence Gilbert, the Darwin-based event – which returns after an eight-year hiatus – will put the spotlight on the nation's top Aboriginal stars. “The Arafura Games provides a world-class ...