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SBS
Indigenous modelling agency launches at Melbourne Fashion Week
SBS
Jira Models' debut at Melbourne Fashion Week on Friday features Indigenous designers and models discovered during Perina's travels across Australia - from desert country Junjuwa in the Kimberley to Gapuwiyak in East Arnhem Land. The show will see ...

SBS
Indigenous modelling agency launches at Melbourne Fashion Week
SBS
Jira Models' debut at Melbourne Fashion Week on Friday features Indigenous designers and models discovered during Perina's travels across Australia - from desert country Junjuwa in the Kimberley to Gapuwiyak in East Arnhem Land. The show will see ...

The Conversation AU
Media watchdog's finding on Sunrise's Indigenous adoption segment is justified
The Conversation AU
While “censorship” is a label that is often used by the media in response to criticism, actual censorship in Australia by government or media watchdogs is thankfully rare to nonexistent. Other issue such as defamation law are greater sources of censorship.

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The Conversation AU
Media watchdog's finding on Sunrise's Indigenous adoption segment is justified
The Conversation AU
While “censorship” is a label that is often used by the media in response to criticism, actual censorship in Australia by government or media watchdogs is thankfully rare to nonexistent. Other issue such as defamation law are greater sources of censorship.

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The Guardian
'I just dropped the phone and screamed': the enduring pain of losing a child
The Guardian
“I wish Edward was alive to see this,” Helen says. Eddie Russell's story is, sadly, replicated over time. Guardian Australia's Deaths Inside investigation found that 40% of Aboriginal people who died in custody between 2008 and 2018 had mental health ...

SBS
Australian movie 'The Nightingale' favourite to win at Venice film festival
SBS
A stirring story of revenge and friendship involving an Irish convict woman and an Aboriginal tracker in colonial Tasmania has been hailed the favourite to win the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival. 'The Nightingale' by Australian Jennifer Kent ...
Venice 2018 Review: THE NIGHTINGALE Sings Out In Dark RageScreenAnarchy (blog)

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RACGP
Lend me your ear: New program targets hearing problems in NT children
RACGP
According to data supplied by the NT Government, 90% of Aboriginal children in the territory under the age of three have an ear disease. Most of them will experience hearing loss that can affect early brain development and can ultimately lead to ...

EducationHQ Australia
Bush settings boost wellbeing in Aboriginal students
EducationHQ Australia
“Presently, schooling in Australia tends towards separating Aboriginal children's academic learning from their identity as Aboriginal children. The curriculum operates in a way that fundamentally overlooks the Aboriginal child's identity. We seek to ...

EducationHQ Australia
Bush settings boost wellbeing in Aboriginal students
EducationHQ Australia
“Presently, schooling in Australia tends towards separating Aboriginal children's academic learning from their identity as Aboriginal children. The curriculum operates in a way that fundamentally overlooks the Aboriginal child's identity. We seek to ...

ABC News
Arnhem Land communities in mourning following death of three young people by suicide
ABC News
Suicide rates in the Northern Territory are the highest in Australia, with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people twice as likely to die by suicide than non-Indigenous Territorians. The latest statistics put the number of suicides in the NT at ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
The Advertiser's Letters to the Editor, September 7, 2018
The Advertiser
THE proposed National Aboriginal Art and Cultures Gallery announced in the State Budget (“New Aboriginal Gallery in the frame for 2020”, The Advertiser, 5/9/18) has much merit but does nothing to answer the problem that the Art Gallery of South ...
The Museum Race Hots UpAboriginal Art Directory News

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Cage of Ghosts review: Jon Rhodes' epitaph to artifacts of Aboriginal life
The Sydney Morning Herald
... is much more than an exhibition catalogue. Cage of Ghosts is a studious epitaph to the artifacts of Aboriginal life that we still have – the engravings, the carved trees, the ochre drawings hidden in caves and cliffs – and that have so far survived ...

The Australian
Noel Pearson wary of 'progressives'
The Australian
Cape York lawyer Noel Pearson has warned against blindly adopting progressive ideology in indigenous affairs, questioned the value of state-based treaty discussions and unveiled a form of words for a formal “Declaration of Australia” that would tie ...

The Australian
Andrew Forrest's jobs program goes directly to jail
The Australian
So far, 9000 indigenous Australians have been helped to find work through the federally funded VTEC program, based on the employment model of Mr Forrest's GenerationOne, an initiative of his charitable organisation, the Minderoo Foundation.

The Australian
Andrew Forrest's jobs program goes directly to jail
The Australian
So far, 9000 indigenous Australians have been helped to find work through the federally funded VTEC program, based on the employment model of Mr Forrest's GenerationOne, an initiative of his charitable organisation, the Minderoo Foundation. Of those ...

The Australian
Geoff Clark risks long jail term if fraud charges upheld
The Australian
Geoff Clark, once the most powerful Aboriginal man in Australia, is facing the prospect of a lengthy stint in jail after Victoria Police this week laid the first tranche of historical fraud charges related to the use of funds from an Aboriginal trust a ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
The Museum Race Hots Up
Aboriginal Art Directory News
The new gallery and public sculpture park is envisaged as "one of the most significant new arts initiatives of 21st-century Australia", providing a national focal point for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and cultures, as well as new spaces ...
Exhibition aims to build relationshipsThe Maitland Mercury

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The Islander
Goolagong opens indigenous tennis event
The Islander
In the same week John Millman gave Australian tennis a boost by defeating Roger Federer, former world No.1 Evonne Goolagong Cawley has opened the inaugural National Indigenous Tennis Carnival in Darwin. Goolagong Cawley welcomed some of the ...

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Armidale Express
Goolagong opens indigenous tennis event
Armidale Express
In the same week John Millman gave Australian tennis a boost by defeating Roger Federer, former world No.1 Evonne Goolagong Cawley has opened the inaugural National Indigenous Tennis Carnival in Darwin. Goolagong Cawley welcomed some of the ...

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Yass Tribune
Goolagong opens indigenous tennis event
Yass Tribune
In the same week John Millman gave Australian tennis a boost by defeating Roger Federer, former world No.1 Evonne Goolagong Cawley has opened the inaugural National Indigenous Tennis Carnival in Darwin. Goolagong Cawley welcomed some of the ...

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