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Indigenous group bids to halt coal project
The Australian
A South Australian indigenous group says it was not properly consulted on plans for a controversial mining trial and has launched Supreme Court action to halt the project. Leigh Creek Energy announced this week it had received approval from the state's ...

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Leigh Creek Aboriginal group seeks to stop coal gas extraction after minister's approval
ABC News
An Aboriginal group has launched an 11th-hour bid to stop underground gas extraction at Leigh Creek in South Australia's far north. The Adnyamathanha people today applied for an injunction in South Australia's Supreme Court to halt plans to trial ...

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Katherine Times
Tax support for Indigenous people
Katherine Times
Throughout 2018 we have continued to work across government and with the community to better understand the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The ATO is continuing to tailor its existing range of free products and services including:.
Swinburne reflects on reconciliation at RAP halfway markSwinburne University of Technology

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Katherine Times
Tax support for Indigenous people
Katherine Times
Throughout 2018 we have continued to work across government and with the community to better understand the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The ATO is continuing to tailor its existing range of free products and services including:.

InDaily
Concern for 'disturbing' funding cuts to Aboriginal services
InDaily
South Australian Aboriginal leaders have warned “disturbing” measures announced in the State Budget – including ending a native title grant and a $6 million funding cut to the Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation bureaucracy – will result in further ...

Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne reflects on reconciliation at RAP halfway mark
Swinburne University of Technology
Swinburne was the first university in Australia to achieve Elevate RAP status, awarded by Reconciliation Australia. This recognises the university's commitment to drive engagement and visibility of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues, culture ...

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Herald Sun
Aboriginal leader Geoff Clark charged with fraud
Herald Sun
The former head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission will face a Warrnambool Court next month, according to court listings. Geoffrey Wayne Clark and Trudy Ann Clark were due to appear on October 1, along with Jeremy and Aaron Clark.
Geoff Clark claims charges politically motivatedWarrnambool Standard
Former ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark chargedNEWS.com.au

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SBS
These sweet Australian ants are "the best honey you've ever tasted"
SBS
In Australia, they're mainly found in desert areas of the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and Indigenous people were eating them long before they received any famous chef's attention. The community of Papunya, in the Northern Territory, is ...

ABC News
Aboriginal-owned bauxite mine creating job opportunities in Arnhem Land
ABC News
The Northern Territory's newest mine might be small, but it's creating some big opportunities for local employment. The Country Hour recently broadcast from the Gulkula Mine near Nhulunbuy, which is Australia's first Aboriginal-owned and operated ...

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Portraits documenting generations of Aboriginal families returned to Central Australia
ABC News
Now eight portraits by the Archibald Prize winner have been returned to Central Australia and will be held by the Namatjira Legacy Trust at the Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre in Alice Springs. "He really admired them as people who could live in ...

National Indigenous Times
Appointment of Abbott as envoy 'disrespectful' says peak rep body
National Indigenous Times
The peak representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia says if new special envoy Tony Abbott wants their advice on Indigenous affairs he can pay for it. But the National Congress of Australia's First People's co ...

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National Indigenous Times
Appointment of Abbott as envoy 'disrespectful' says peak rep body
National Indigenous Times
The peak representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia says if new special envoy Tony Abbott wants their advice on Indigenous affairs he can pay for it. But the National Congress of Australia's First People's co ...
Indigenous council wary of new Abbott roleThe West Australian

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National Indigenous Times
Will ScoMo blow off the dust?
National Indigenous Times
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, the peak representative body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, intends to meet Mr Morrison in the first few months of his prime ministership. Congress co-chair Rod Little said they ...

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National Indigenous Times
Unthinkable: an Australian screen industry without Indigenous stories
National Indigenous Times
Head of Indigenous at Screen Australia, Penny Smallacombe, said the anniversary was a special landmark in Australia's cultural history. “When Wal Saunders set up the Indigenous Department in 1993, it would have been unthinkable that over 160 First ...

Independent Australia
Australia's child suicide epidemic
Independent Australia
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicides comprise 7% of Australia's total suicides but shockingly 80% of Australia's child suicides aged 12 years and less are of Aboriginal children. I have often said the nation should weep at this harrowing ...

Independent Australia
Australia's child suicide epidemic
Independent Australia
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander suicides comprise 7% of Australia's total suicides but shockingly 80% of Australia's child suicides aged 12 years and less are of Aboriginal children. I have often said the nation should weep at this harrowing ...

The Conversation AU
Speaking with: Author Anita Heiss on Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
The Conversation AU
Anita Heiss is one of the most prolific writers documenting Aboriginal experiences in Australia today through non-fiction, historical fiction, poetry and children's literature. Her memoir, Am I Black Enough for You?, was a finalist in the 2012 Human ...

The Conversation AU
Speaking with: Author Anita Heiss on Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
The Conversation AU
Anita Heiss is one of the most prolific writers documenting Aboriginal experiences in Australia today through non-fiction, historical fiction, poetry and children's literature. Her memoir, Am I Black Enough for You?, was a finalist in the 2012 Human ...

NEWS.com.au
Unearthing Queensland's 'native police' camps gives us a window into colonial violence
NEWS.com.au
Our archaeological work is revealing the day-to-day livelihoods that underpinned the chilling work of these police. This is an important part of reckoning with Australia's colonial violence, given the difficulties in identifying physical evidence of ...

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Unearthing Queensland's 'native police' camps gives us a window into colonial violence
NEWS.com.au
While staffed with non-Indigenous senior officers, the bulk of the force was made up of Aboriginal men and, sometimes, boys. We have been exploring the remote Queensland outback for traces of the base camps of the Native Mounted Police. There were ...