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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: the 'great Australian silence' 50 years on
The Conversation AU
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 Conversation AU
Friday essay: the 'great Australian silence' 50 years on
The Conversation AU
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 Local
Indigenous group takes anti-Adani fight to the United Nations claiming human rights violation
ABC Local
Traditional owners fighting Adani's proposed Carmichael mine in Queensland have urged the United Nations to urgently intervene by formally censuring Australia at a meeting in Geneva this month. United States-based lawyers acting for the Wangan and ...

ABC Local
Indigenous group takes anti-Adani fight to the United Nations claiming human rights violation
ABC Local
United States-based lawyers acting for the Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) Family Council have called on a UN Committee to publicly condemn Australian authorities for "violating" an international pact against racial discrimination by wiping out their ...

ABC News
Indigenous Land Corp's massive 'fire-sale' de-stocking of Cape York cattle stations called to account
ABC News
The Federal Government has been issued a 'please explain' about the sale of thousands of prime cattle from northern Australia. The ABC understands the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC), a Federal Government-funded body, is trucking thousands of prime ...

Planeta.com
Australia Aboriginal Links
Planeta.com
The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) began operations in 1980 and was the first Aboriginal group to be allocated a broadcasting license. The Aboriginal people of Central Australia own CAAMA through an association regulated ...

Planeta.com
Australia Aboriginal Links
Planeta.com
The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA) began operations in 1980 and was the first Aboriginal group to be allocated a broadcasting license. The Aboriginal people of Central Australia own CAAMA through an association regulated ...

Herald Sun
In pictures: Policing in the '60s
Herald Sun
IT was the decade of the Beaumont children mystery, the Wanda Beach murders, 'The Mutilator' and the disappearance of Harold Holt — plus perhaps the strangest siege in Australian history, when a police commissioner organised a wedding and acted as ...

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Wide World of Sports
AFL legend Adam Goodes calls for Indigenous war cry for national sport teams
Wide World of Sports
Goodes has been a champion Reconciliation. Photo: AAP. Goodes was, and still is, outspoken against racism and an advocate for Reconciliation and multiculturalism in modern Australia. His community work and activism earned him the Australian of the Year ...
AFL legend Adam Goodes calls for Australian teams to adopt Aboriginal war cry to build national pride - similar to ...Daily Mail
Goodes' heartbreaking confession to Anh DoQueensland Times

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Inside Film
Screen Australia's Indigenous department invests $1.5 million
Inside Film
Hunter Page-Lochard (left) and Leah Purcell (right) are among the funding recipients. As Screen Australia's Indigenous department celebrates its 25th anniversary, it has announced $1.5 million in special funding across short films, web series and ...

Inside Film
Screen Australia's Indigenous department invests $1.5 million
Inside Film
Hunter Page-Lochard (left) and Leah Purcell (right) are among the funding recipients. As Screen Australia's Indigenous department celebrates its 25th anniversary, it has announced $1.5 million in special funding across short films, web series and ...

Art Guide Australia
Looking beyond the Myall Creek Massacre
Art Guide Australia
This exhibition is comprised of mainly new commissions by Indigenous artists from across Australia. “I looked for Indigenous artists who are really creating a dialogue around massacres and histories in both historical and in contemporary contexts who ...

ABC News
Aboriginal map of Lake Eyre Basin, an area twice the size of France, released after 12 years in the making
ABC News
An Aboriginal map detailing significant cultural information has been released for the Lake Eyre Basin, which spans 1.2 million square kilometres across inland Australia — almost one-sixth of the country. The map, which took 12 years to make, features ...

ABC News
Jigija Indigenous fire training attracts remote firefighters from thousands of kilometres away
ABC News
Firefighters are travelling thousands of kilometres to one of Australia's most remote roadhouses to hone their fire-management skills. Indigenous rangers in Queensland's gulf country have been combining traditional burning methods with modern science ...

Daily Telegraph
How Pat Corrigan gives away one of Australia's great art collections
Daily Telegraph
Corrigan, who made his fortune in freight after starting Corrigans Express in 1965, has long held a special position in Australia's art community as an avid collector, generous philanthropist and tireless promoter of Australian indigenous and ...

The Australian
'Unsatisfied anger' could become armed struggle, says Mick Dodson
The Australian
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 ...

The Australian
'Unsatisfied anger' could become armed struggle, says Mick Dodson
The Australian
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 ...

Courier Mail
UQ to take native food to the world with $3.5m grant for centre
Courier Mail
The University of Queensland will today receive a $3.5 million federal grant to create a training centre to teach local agribusiness and food producers how to take indigenous and uniquely Australian food from the bush to dinner plates around the world.

The Advertiser
Aboriginal elders want inquiry after man's life support turned off at RAH before father could arrive from APY Lands
The Advertiser
ABORIGINAL elders from South Australia's Far North are demanding an investigation into the “unauthorised” removal of life support from one of their community at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. APY Council of Elders spokesman George Kenmore says ...

The Age
Tracking down and recording Australia's first languages a life's work
The Age
In the stores of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Canberra sit precious recordings of Victorian Aboriginal songs and language. They were taped on the machines of the 1960s by linguist-ethnographer Luise Hercus.