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The Guardian
Garma festival: Indigenous sovereignty would be a 'gift for all Australians''
The Guardian
The annual Garma festival in northeast Arnhem Land opened for the 20th year on Friday with attendees told that Indigenous sovereignty would be a “gift for all the Australian people”. At a ceremonial welcome at the Gulkula grounds on Gumatj country ...
Garma: Government urged to repair relations with Indigenous communitiesABC News
Garma festival: Australians need to recognise colonisation was wrong, says activistSBS

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The Australian
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship
The Australian
When Charles Bean wrote his 12-volume official history of Australia's involvement in World War I, he made a passing reference to just one Aboriginal Digger, a private who was highly decorated in the epic battle of Mont St Quentin on August 31, 1918 ...

The Australian
Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship
The Australian
When Charles Bean wrote his 12-volume official history of Australia's involvement in World War I, he made a passing reference to just one Aboriginal Digger, a private who was highly decorated in the epic battle of Mont St Quentin on August 31, 1918 ...

The Australian
Art goes on for accused painter Tiger Yaltangki
The Australian
Yaltangki is also being promoted as part of a Victorian government initiative in a Yalingwa series exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art at Melbourne's Southbank, spruiked as “an exploration of everyday life and experiences of ...

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The Australian
At-risk animals on menu for Aboriginal elder
The Australian
Galarrwuy Yunupingu has praised Captain Cook and Arthur Phillip before demanding Aborigines be allowed to eat endangered native species and pledging to ask governments to hand Australia back. The Gumatj leader spoke at the opening of the 20th ...

The Australian
At-risk animals on menu for Aboriginal elder
The Australian
Galarrwuy Yunupingu has praised Captain Cook and Arthur Phillip before demanding Aborigines be allowed to eat endangered native species and pledging to ask governments to hand Australia back. The Gumatj leader spoke at the opening of the 20th ...

The Australian
British Museum to lift profile of world's oldest living culture
The Australian
The British Museum is seeking to address a Mediterranean “bias” in its collections and will devote more space to indigenous Australia, including historic artefacts and objects from the present day that demonstrate the “entire span of human history in ...

Yunupingu calls out government over land
NEWS.com.au
The Dilak Authority representing the Yolngu people had agreed this week to tell the government Australia's colonisation was wrong and it endorsed last year's Uluru statement calling for an Aboriginal voice in parliament through an independent ...

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Yunupingu calls out government over land
NEWS.com.au
The Dilak Authority representing the Yolngu people had agreed this week to tell the government Australia's colonisation was wrong and it endorsed last year's Uluru statement calling for an Aboriginal voice in parliament through an independent ...

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Garma festival: Indigenous sovereignty would be a 'gift for all Australians''  The Guardian

A push towards a treaty between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians is expected to be a focus of the four-day event.

Noel Pearson says Indigenous Australians must not be intimidated by 'ordinary' Malcolm Turnbull  ABC News

Cape York leader Noel Pearson says Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's rejection of the request to create a permanent Indigenous advisory body has destroyed ...

Herald Sun (blog)
DODSON'S RECKLESS WARNING
Herald Sun (blog)
Simmering anger in indigenous Australia over a failure to make good for past wrongs could easily turn into organised armed resistance, Aboriginal academic Mick Dodson has warned. In launching a new thriller by former journalist and political staffer ...

Herald Sun (blog)
DODSON'S RECKLESS WARNING
Herald Sun (blog)
Simmering anger in indigenous Australia over a failure to make good for past wrongs could easily turn into organised armed resistance, Aboriginal academic Mick Dodson has warned. In launching a new thriller by former journalist and political staffer ...

ArtsHub
Review: Which Way Home, Seymour Centre
ArtsHub
Which Way Home opened back in 2016 bang smack in the middle of the debate sparked by a Bill Leak cartoon published in The Australian which depicted Aboriginal fathers as drunk neglectful parents of criminal children. The cartoon caused a furore and ...

The Adelaide Review
The 'great Australian silence' 50 years on
The Adelaide Review
I remember my dad describing how he also “hadn't been told” about Australia's Aboriginal history when Reynolds' book came out. And a colleague and friend recently recounted visiting Myall Creek as part of a Sunday school picnic in the 1980s: no-one ...

The Adelaide Review
The 'great Australian silence' 50 years on
The Adelaide Review
Henry Reynolds famously pondered that shift away from silence as people endeavoured to write in Indigenous perspectives from the 1970s onwards. It's a common refrain. I remember my dad describing how he also “hadn't been told” about Australia's ...

ABC News
Queensland's Indigenous students close gap on completing Year 12
ABC News
Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace said the results were the best across Australia for Year 12 completion by students from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background. "That is closing the gap — it is a fantastic achievement and one ...

ABC News
Queensland's Indigenous students close gap on completing Year 12
ABC News
Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace said the results were the best across Australia for Year 12 completion by students from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background. "That is closing the gap — it is a fantastic achievement and one ...

The Roar
Rugby Australia and Adam Goodes should create a dance to rival the Haka
The Roar
It's not too late. It's not over the top. And it's not just so the Wallabies have a response to the All Blacks' haka. The Wallabies should perform an Aboriginal dance before Test matches because Australia's Indigenous heritage needs to be not just ...

The Roar
Rugby Australia and Adam Goodes should create a dance to rival the Haka
The Roar
It's not too late. It's not over the top. And it's not just so the Wallabies have a response to the All Blacks' haka. The Wallabies should perform an Aboriginal dance before Test matches because Australia's Indigenous heritage needs to be not just ...