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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 ...

ArtsHub
Sovereign stories: stories for all of us (but firstly, us)
ArtsHub
The First Nations Australia Writers Network gathers in Canberra next week, an exciting and momentous occasion for all Australians that many of us don't know about. A gathering of this kind is nourishing for Aboriginal people. Not only is it a great ...

Marie Claire
The Bachelor's Brooke Blurton Opens Up About Her Tragic Upbringing
Marie Claire
The Youth Worker – and the show's first indigenous contestant - took Bachelor Nick Cummins by surprise with her bubbly energy and love of sports and the pair shared a moment during last night's group date. However as Cummins himself noted, there is ...

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B&T
Qantas Unveils New Campaign Starring Hugh Jackman & Maroubra Beach
B&T
Adam Goodes said: “As a Qantas Ambassador since 2013 I continue to proudly stand up with Qantas and support their commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion in Australia and celebrating the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
Qantas' new ad celebrates diversity starring Adam Goodes, Wallabies, Hugh JackmanThe Australian

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Mamamia
What The Bachelor viewers don't know of the tragic past of Brooke Blurton.
Mamamia
The 23-year-old Western Australia youth worker is the first contestant with indigenous heritage on the show, and she's recently shared how her traumatic past fuels her motivation for bringing awareness to mental health and indigenous issues. In an ...

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ABC News
Thomas Bock Aboriginal portraits return to Tasmania after 180 years in storage
ABC News
A collection of 19th century portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people is on show in Australia for the first time after being in storage in England for 180 years. Convict artist Thomas Bock was sentenced to transportation to Australia in 1823 and ...

ABC News
Thomas Bock Aboriginal portraits return to Tasmania after 180 years in storage
ABC News
A collection of 19th century portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people is on show in Australia for the first time after being in storage in England for 180 years. Convict artist Thomas Bock was sentenced to transportation to Australia in 1823 and ...

The Age
Anning reflects concerns about cultural tensions
The Sydney Morning Herald
Catherine McGregor's impassioned piece (''Turnbull must pursue treaty with Aboriginal Australians'' canberratimes.com.au, August 9) typifies the sentimental wrongheadedness surrounding the Uluru Statement of the Heart. Apparently, if you're opposed to ...
Nazi-inspired senator needs a history lessonCrikey
Anning and racism: This is not my Australia. What are we becoming?The Age

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Boing Boing
Activists teaching Australian Aboriginals to protect themselves by recording their interactions with law enforcement
Boing Boing
According to The New York Times, in Australia, a country that's been marred by institutional racism since its inception, “...aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are incarcerated at 13 times the rate of non-Indigenous Australians. They make up ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Castle backs greater use of indigenous jersey ahead of first Bledisloe
The Sydney Morning Herald
Raelene Castle will have to make hundreds of difficult calls as Rugby Australia boss but facing the haka as a Wallabies fan for the first time will not be one of them. RA's New Zealand-raised chief executive revealed she was looking forward to belting ...
Let us wear indigenous Wallabies jersey every Test: GeniaRugby.com.au
'I'd love to wear it all the time': Will Genia calls for permanent Wallabies indigenous jerseyNEWS.com.au
Genia calls for permanent Wallabies indigenous jerseyGladstone Observer

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Rugby.com.au
Castle backs greater use of indigenous jersey ahead of first Bledisloe
The Sydney Morning Herald
Raelene Castle will have to make hundreds of difficult calls as Rugby Australia boss but facing the haka as a Wallabies fan for the first time will not be one of them. RA's New Zealand-raised chief executive revealed she was looking forward to belting ...
Let us wear indigenous Wallabies jersey every Test: GeniaRugby.com.au
'I'd love to wear it all the time': Will Genia calls for permanent Wallabies indigenous jerseyNEWS.com.au
Genia calls for permanent Wallabies indigenous jerseyGladstone Observer

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ABC News
South Australian Aboriginal group wins injunction to halt nuclear ballot
ABC News
A community vote on the proposed nuclear waste dump on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula has been delayed after an Aboriginal group won a court injunction. The Barngarla people, the traditional owners of much of the Eyre Peninsula, applied for an ...

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Golf Australia
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander titles
Golf Australia
Entries are now open for the 2018 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Golf Championships. To be held from 5-9 November at Dunheved Golf Course in western Sydney, the tournament will feature a 72-holes stroke play championship, but also have ...
Aboriginal traditions describe the complex motions of planets, the 'wandering stars' of the skyThe Conversation AU
EOI - Community Education Counsellor (Identified) - Mabel Park State SchoolEducationHQ Australia
The power of footballWhyalla News
The North West Star -9news.com.au
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ABC News
Seville Grove police shooting sees man rushed to hospital
ABC News
Mr Eades said the wider Aboriginal community would be impacted by the incident. "As a wider community we're disgusted that a young man has been shot while being arrested," he said. "It's going to impact on the wider community, you know, especially our ...

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SBS
Stolen Generations sicker, poorer than other Indigenous Australians
SBS
Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are living with poorer health and social outcomes than other Indigenous Australians, according to figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The new report on Australia's ...

SBS
Stolen Generations sicker, poorer than other Indigenous Australians
SBS
Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are living with poorer health and social outcomes than other Indigenous Australians, according to figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The new report on Australia's ...

MercatorNet
An Aboriginal viewpoint on euthanasia in Australia
MercatorNet
Labor Senator Pat Dodson, a Yawuru man from Broome, Western Australia, gave an extraordinarily eloquent speech from an indigenous perspective. * * * * * * * * ... First Nations people do not enjoy the same quality of life in this country at every stage ...

Golf Australia
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Championships
Golf Australia
Entries are now open for the 2018 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Golf Championships. To be held from 5-9 November at Dunheved Golf Course in western Sydney, the tournament will feature a 72-holes stroke play championship, but also have ...

PM hedges his bets on flying indigenous flags
The New Daily
Yesterday this House was united to condemn racism,” she said. “In the continuation of that spirit and spirit of reconciliation, and recognition of the history and culture of Australia's First Peoples will the government support flying the Aboriginal ...
Turnbull hedges on flying indigenous flagsSBS

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ABC News
Perth police shoot driver of stolen vehicle
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A man has been shot by police at a home across the road from a Perth school, in front of two of his teenage children after allegedly ramming a police patrol car. Another man was also arrested during the altercation with officers. The incident unfolded ...
Seville Grove police shooting sees man rushed to hospitalABC News

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