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ArtsHub
TARNANTHI Art Fair offers an ethical way to buy art
ArtsHub
TARNANTHI Art Fair returns to Adelaide this October, providing a rare chance to purchase works of art directly from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and art centres. Presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia, in partnership with BHP ...

ABC News
Banking royal commission: funeral insurer blasted at inquiry targets kids at Koori Knockout
ABC News
The Financial Rights Legal Centre runs 'Mob Strong, Debt Help', a free advice service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia. Mr Holden said prospective customers should ask providers how much they would pay in premiums ...

SBS
New suicide statistics 'paint a bleak picture'
SBS
New figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show suicide has increased by 21 per cent in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community over the past decade. Professor Pat Dudgeon from the University of Western Australia's ...

SBS
New suicide statistics 'paint a bleak picture'
SBS
Professor Pat Dudgeon from the University of Western Australia's Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and School of Indigenous Studies called the new figures unacceptable. “The statistics paint a bleak picture… they're showing what's happening to some ...

Northern Star
Aboriginal congress praises controversial Oz Day decision
Northern Star
BYRON Shire Council's decision to change the date of their Australia Day event from January 26 to the evening before in 2019 has been praised by the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples (Congress). The decision led to considerable criticism ...
Trialling an Indigenous voice before a referendum is like forcing us to auditionThe Guardian

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Art Guide Australia
Podcast: Glenn Iseger-Pilkington on being a conduit
Art Guide Australia
Nowadays, he's the lead consultant at Gee Consultancy, where he works with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and arts workers. In this latest Art Guide podcast, Iseger-Pilkington, a Yamatji Nyoongar man from Western Australia with Dutch and ...

The Guardian
Trialling an Indigenous voice before a referendum is like forcing us to audition
The Guardian
Asking the Australian people to allow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to have a representative voice that can speak to government decision making about matters affecting us has now been framed by Brennan as attempting to pull the wool over ...
Aboriginal congress praises controversial Oz Day decisionNorthern Star

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The Advocate
What does the date really mean to Australians?
The Advocate
Seemingly without party consultation, public consultation or indeed much thought at all, Morrison instead floated the idea of a separate day to recognise Indigenous Australians. How this would differ from NAIDOC Week, Reconciliation Day and National ...

Whyalla News
What does the date really mean to Australians?
Whyalla News
Seemingly without party consultation, public consultation or indeed much thought at all, Morrison instead floated the idea of a separate day to recognise Indigenous Australians. How this would differ from NAIDOC Week, Reconciliation Day and National ...

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SBS
ACCC challenges Birubi Art over 'fake' didgeridoos
SBS
Australia's consumer watchdog took action against Birubi Art Pty Ltd, a “souvenirs and Aboriginal art” wholesaler based in Queensland, claiming it sold 18,000 products that were made in Indonesia between 2014 and 2017. Five types of items were ...

Starts at 60 (blog)
'Changing the date won't change history – but it might unite the nation'
Starts at 60 (blog)
Why would Aboriginals forget what happened in the past to suit a White Australia agenda; a guilt-free Australia Day on January 26. If Australia Day celebrations remain on January 26 every year I feel the same controversy will exist. For many Aboriginal ...

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Indigenous tourism entrepreneurs look to advance opportunities at Lorne conference
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Having seeded many Indigenous entrepreneurs across Australia over its 13 year history, the 2018 Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference (AITC) is to be hosted on Eastern Maar country on the Great Ocean Road, home of the Gadubanud people. Set to be ...

Indigenous tourism entrepreneurs look to advance opportunities at Lorne conference
Australasian Leisure Management (press release)
Having seeded many Indigenous entrepreneurs across Australia over its 13 year history, the 2018 Australian Indigenous Tourism Conference (AITC) is to be hosted on Eastern Maar country on the Great Ocean Road, home of the Gadubanud people. Set to be ...

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ABC News
Indigenous communities slapped with more fines under Government work-for-the-dole scheme, data shows
ABC News
Disturbing new data reveals the impact Australia's flagship remote employment program is having on Indigenous people across the country, prompting claims it is worsening poverty in communities.

ABC News
Indigenous communities slapped with more fines under Government work-for-the-dole scheme, data shows
ABC News
Disturbing new data reveals the impact Australia's flagship remote employment program is having on Indigenous people across the country, prompting claims it is worsening poverty in communities.

The Australian Financial Review
The 10 most culturally influential Australians in 2018
The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Financial Review Magazine defines cultural power as the ability to shape Australia's view of itself, crystallise an overarching issue in any given year, or reflect us back to ourselves. It is not the first time the Power panel has put ...

SBS
ACCC challenges Birubi Art over 'fake' digeridoos
SBS
Australia's consumer watchdog took action against Birubi Art Pty Ltd, a “souvenirs and Aboriginal art” wholesaler based in Queensland, claiming it sold 18,000 products that were made in Indonesia between 2014 and 2017. Five types of items were ...

The Islander
What does the date mean to Australians?
The Islander
Seemingly without party consultation, public consultation or indeed much thought at all, Morrison instead floated the idea of a separate day to recognise Indigenous Australians. How this would differ from NAIDOC Week, Reconciliation Day and National ...

Google News

ABC News
Aboriginal rangers, CSIRO surveying endangered sawfish and shark species in Top End river
ABC News
Sawfish are extinct in 40 per cent of the countries they once populated but they still exist in healthy populations in tropical Australia, even if their numbers have declined massively since the 1960s — mainly due to commercial fishing, CSIRO ...

ArtsHub
Tarnanthi Art Fair
ArtsHub
The TARNANTHI Art Fair presents the work of over 40 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art centres from across Australia, where art lovers and collectors can buy works of art direct from artists. Buy something for your home, family or friends, and ...

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