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Architecture AU
SA budget sets out plans for old Royal Adelaide Hospital site sans Adelaide Contemporary
Architecture AU
A National Aboriginal Art and Cultures Gallery will be built at the site of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital in place of the previously mooted Adelaide Contemporary gallery, with more than $60 million promised to the project in the 2018-19 South ...
A look across the border at our gallery rivalAlice Springs News Online

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EducationHQ Australia
New Indigenous book series aimed at improving literacy
EducationHQ Australia
... celebration of Indigenous culture, stories, language and literacy. Through activities on the day, attention is focused on the disadvantages experienced in remote communities and the rest of Australia is encouraged to raise funds and advocate for ...

ARTnews
'Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia' at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
ARTnews
Today's show: “Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia” is on view at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., through Sunday, September 9. The group exhibition, which draws from the collection of Debra and Dennis ...

ABC News
Fact check: Do Sudanese people account for only 1 per cent of crimes committed in Victoria?
ABC News
In 2017, there were 208 Sudanese-born prisoners in Australia — 0.5 per cent of the total. Consultant criminologist and Melbourne University lecturer Dr Karen Gelb referred to statistical comparisons made between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in ...

ABC News
Indigenous art at Maningrida's Djomi Museum the most significant community collection in nation
ABC News
In a small building in one of the most northern, remote parts of Australia, lies the most significant community collection of Indigenous art in the country. The decades-old bark paintings, which independent experts describe as priceless, were recently ...

ABC News
Indigenous art at Maningrida's Djomi Museum the most significant community collection in nation
ABC News
In a small building in one of the most northern, remote parts of Australia, lies the most significant community collection of Indigenous art in the country. The decades-old bark paintings, which independent experts describe as priceless, were recently ...

The Conversation AU
Australia's UN report card: making progress, could do better on inequality and climate
The Conversation AU
And the Closing the Gap report illustrates the vast inequality gulf between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Of all the UN Sustainable Development Goals goals, taking urgent action to combat climate change is the area where Australia is most ...

The Australian
Closing the Gap: reconciling a policy mess
The Australian
Academic Marcia Langton has called the appointment a “punch in the guts to indigenous Australia”, and it has been described by others as being more about solving Scott Morrison's political problems than black Australia's lived ones. The Prime Minister ...

The Australian
Closing the Gap: reconciling a policy mess
The Australian
Academic Marcia Langton has called the appointment a “punch in the guts to indigenous Australia”, and it has been described by others as being more about solving Scott Morrison's political problems than black Australia's lived ones. The Prime Minister ...

The Australian
Tony Abbott challenged to support indigenous 'bush university'
The Australian
A remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community that was at the heart of Tony Abbott's 2013 declaration that he would be a “prime minister for indigenous affairs” has challenged him to back its comprehensive plan for educational reform in his new role ...
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointmentABC News
Indigenous council wary of new Abbott roleNEWS.com.au

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The Australian
Tony Abbott challenged to support indigenous 'bush university'
The Australian
A remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community that was at the heart of Tony Abbott's 2013 declaration that he would be a “prime minister for indigenous affairs” has challenged him to back its comprehensive plan for educational reform in his new role ...
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointmentABC News
Indigenous council wary of new Abbott roleNEWS.com.au

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ABC News
Yatala prison inquest hears officer who restrained prisoner had 'no memory' of what happened
ABC News
A correctional officer who helped restrain an Aboriginal prisoner who died three days later has told a coronial inquest he has "no memory" of what happened but woke up "lying across him". Wayne Fella Morrison died in hospital after being restrained by ...

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ABC News
Indigenous council wary of new Abbott role
The Australian
But indigenous leaders reacted angrily to the snap appointment. Rod Little, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, said last week Mr Abbott had a poor record on indigenous affairs as prime minister. Ms Mason criticised the lack ...
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointmentABC News

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The Age
Halt sale of Crown land until Aboriginal treaty is signed: Greens MP
The Age
The Greens want the Victorian government to freeze the sale of hundreds of hectares of government-owned land earmarked for private development until treaties have been signed with traditional owners. Greens MP and Aboriginal Affairs spokeswoman Lidia ...

ABC News
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointment
ABC News
The Prime Minister's hand-picked Indigenous advisory council has written to Scott Morrison demanding a meeting and an explanation on the appointment of Tony Abbott as special envoy for Aboriginal affairs.

ABC News
Indigenous advisory body demands answers from PM Scott Morrison on Tony Abbott appointment
ABC News
The Prime Minister's hand-picked Indigenous advisory council has written to Scott Morrison demanding a meeting and an explanation on the appointment of Tony Abbott as special envoy for Aboriginal affairs.

Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)
Pharmacists to be embedded in Aboriginal health
Australian Journal of Pharmacy (blog)
James Cook University, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) have joined forces to explore this potential by way of a project which will aim to embed pharmacists in 22 ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Molly the Weet-Bix pig drives Indigenous reading campaign
The Sydney Morning Herald
In the Binjari community of northern Australia, a domesticated pig by the name of Molly has inspired one of nine new children's books written and illustrated by Binjari women in their first language, Kriol, the largest contemporary Aboriginal language ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Molly the Weet-Bix pig drives Indigenous reading campaign
The Sydney Morning Herald
In the Binjari community of northern Australia, a domesticated pig by the name of Molly has inspired one of nine new children's books written and illustrated by Binjari women in their first language, Kriol, the largest contemporary Aboriginal language ...

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The Conversation AU
How will Indigenous people be compensated for lost native title rights? The High Court will soon decide
The Conversation AU
Today, the High Court of Australia will begin hearing the most significant case concerning Indigenous land rights since the Mabo and Wik native title cases in the 1990s. For the first time, the High Court will consider how to approach the question of ...