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The West Australian
Aboriginal men honoured for 1852 rescue
The West Australian
Yarri and Jacky Jacky - who later changed their names to James McDonnell and John Morley - were among 62 Australians honoured in the latest national bravery awards announced by Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove on Monday. Both Yarri and Jacky ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'I saw the shark's head behind Cooper': How two boys saved their mate
The Sydney Morning Herald
They are among 62 presentations in the Australian Bravery Awards announced today by the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove. .... The gold lettered inscription states 'In memory of Yarri, hero of Gundagai' an Aboriginal man who rescued 49 people'.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
'I saw the shark's head behind Cooper': How two boys saved their mate
The Sydney Morning Herald
They are among 62 presentations in the Australian Bravery Awards announced today by the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove. .... The gold lettered inscription states 'In memory of Yarri, hero of Gundagai' an Aboriginal man who rescued 49 people'.

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'I saw the shark's head behind Cooper': How two boys saved their mate
The Sydney Morning Herald
They are among 62 presentations in the Australian Bravery Awards announced today by the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove. .... The gold lettered inscription states 'In memory of Yarri, hero of Gundagai' an Aboriginal man who rescued 49 people'.

'I saw the shark's head behind Cooper': How two boys saved their mate
The Sydney Morning Herald
They are among 62 presentations in the Australian Bravery Awards announced today by the Governor-General, Sir Peter Cosgrove. .... The gold lettered inscription states 'In memory of Yarri, hero of Gundagai' an Aboriginal man who rescued 49 people'.

The Australian Financial Review
Labor plans a constitutional renovation: republic and recognition
The Australian Financial Review
No republic in the 1990s and, still today, no proper recognition of indigenous Australia in the Constitution." Gallop, who was also a politics professor at Sydney University and a delegate to the republic convention before the failed 1999 referendum ...

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Remains of more than 60 Aboriginal people reburied after Kimberley floods  The Guardian

Floods in 2017 unearthed graves of Indigenous people buried in Fitzroy Crossing between 1938 and 1960.

Sunshine Coast Daily
Aboriginal artist, political activist wins $50K art award
Sunshine Coast Daily
AN ARTIST and political activist who grew up on a farm outside Rockhampton is the latest to be honoured with the $50,000 Gold Award for contemporary art. Richard Bell was announced as the winner of one of Australia's richest art prizes at a Rockhampton ...

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Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Aboriginal artist, political activist wins $50K art award
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
AN ARTIST and political activist who grew up on a farm outside Rockhampton is the latest to be honoured with the $50,000 Gold Award for contemporary art. Richard Bell was announced as the winner of one of Australia's richest art prizes at a Rockhampton ...

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Australia's forgotten heroes: 200 years of doing good
Independent Australia
... truths himself, eminent Australian Historian Professor Henry Reynolds is releasing, this month, a book dedicated to the largely forgotten humanitarians who took on the authorities over the mass killing and generally poor treatment of Aboriginal ...

ABC Message Stick
Army and Yalata Aboriginal community face off on footy pitch, work together to improve the remote community's outcomes
ABC Message Stick
For the past three months, 150 members of the Australian Army have been in the remote, Anangu Aboriginal community of Yalata, on South Australia's west coast. Yalata was established after the British Army tested nuclear weapons at Maralinga, part of ...

ABC News
Both a whitefella and a proud Indigenous man: Growing up in 'shades of grey'
ABC News
Bruce's unusual upbringing has given him a rare and important skill — a deep understanding of how things work in both remote Aboriginal communities and mainstream Australia. "Not too many people have been able to go from somewhere as remote as ...

ABC News
Both a whitefella and a proud Indigenous man: Growing up in 'shades of grey'
ABC News
Bruce's unusual upbringing has given him a rare and important skill — a deep understanding of how things work in both remote Aboriginal communities and mainstream Australia. "Not too many people have been able to go from somewhere as remote as ...

ABC News
Indigenous community condemns Australia Day play by satirist Jonathan Biggins
ABC News
Members of the Indigenous community in the New South Wales and Victoria border towns of Albury and Wodonga have condemned a local theatre company's plans to stage a play by satirist Jonathan Biggins, best known for The Wharf Revue by the Sydney ...

ABC News
Indigenous community condemns Australia Day play by satirist Jonathan Biggins
ABC News
Members of the Indigenous community in the New South Wales and Victoria border towns of Albury and Wodonga have condemned a local theatre company's plans to stage a play by satirist Jonathan Biggins, best known for The Wharf Revue by the Sydney ...

ABC News
Two colours, one family: What life is like when your child looks quite different to you
ABC News
"How can they be your children?" It's a question Cissy Gore-Birch gets asked all the time. Ms Gore-Birch is an Aboriginal woman and looks visibly dark skinned, but her children — 19-year-old Quincy-Rae, 18-year-old Scott, 12-year-old Abby, 10-year-old ...

BBC News
Artist's Aboriginal portraits back in Tasmania after 170 years
BBC News
A collection of 19th Century paintings of Aboriginal Tasmanians has gone on display in Australia for the first time. English convict artist Thomas Bock painted the portraits of indigenous leaders in Tasmania in the 1830s - a time of infamous frontier ...

SBS
WA Police shoot Aboriginal man in front of his children
SBS
According to Western Australia police, a police car drove up behind a stolen vehicle in the driveway in Seville Grove, in Perth's eastern suburbs. Police say the car reversed into the police vehicle multiple times, causing damage, in an attempt to get ...

ABC Local
Adani Indigenous challenge dismissed by Federal Court, Government could cancel mine native title
ABC Local
Mr Burragubba said on Friday it would be a "travesty" for the Government to wipe out native title for Adani. "If Queensland can stop them dredging the reef before Adani has the money, or pull the pin on NAIF [Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility ...
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ArtsHub
Providing literature to remote communities
ArtsHub
'I believe every child in Australia deserves equal access to education and books.' – Justine Clarke ILF ambassador. Photo via Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Suzy Wilson, founder of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, was perplexed when she first heard ...