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Liquor banned at WA Aboriginal community
NEWS.com.au
Liquor banned at WA Aboriginal community. Community leaders at an Aboriginal community in Western Australia's Pilbara asked for an alcohol ban that has now been imposed, the state government says. Australian Associated PressJuly 9, 201811:56am.

The West Australian
Indigenous path paved with gold
The West Australian
Not so long ago it was a rarity to see indigenous people in Australian film and television, and it was even rarer to see them accurately represented. Thanks in part to the establishment 25 years ago of Screen Australia's indigenous department, stories ...

The West Australian
Indigenous path paved with gold
The West Australian
Not so long ago it was a rarity to see indigenous people in Australian film and television, and it was even rarer to see them accurately represented. Thanks in part to the establishment 25 years ago of Screen Australia's indigenous department, stories ...

The Guardian
Naidoc Week 2018 kicks off with Melbourne march – in pictures
The Guardian
Friday's gathering in the Victorian capital heralds the start of Naidoc Week, which runs this year from 8-15 July. Events are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Daily Telegraph
National Indigenous Music Awards: Jessica Mauboy, Baker Boy, Gurrumul, Dan Sultan nominated
Daily Telegraph
Now he is one of the leading nominees for the 2018 NIMAs, alongside the late great Gurrumul with his historic No.1 final studio record Djarimirri. Baker Boy has captured Australia's heart with his single Marryuna, performed in his native language ...
The performers and finalists for the National Indigenous Music Awards have been announcedThe Industry Observer

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Pro Bono Australia
'How could you have blonde hair, fair skin, and a connection to country?' Meet the woman connecting Indigenous and ...
Women's Agenda
Naidoc Week 2018: Because of Her, We Can. Australia is fortunate to have the oldest continuing cultures on earth. For Rona Glynn-McDonald, a Kaytetye woman raised in Alice Springs, this knowledge is a source of great strength and pride. It also served ...
Rising Indigenous Voice Ready to Lead if ChosenPro Bono Australia
Google marks NAIDOC Week with indigenous voices on Assistant, doodleCIO Australia
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous peopleThe Guardian
myPolice (press release) (blog) -Grafton Daily Examiner -The Canberra Times
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Women's Agenda
Blonde, fair-skinned and Aboriginal? One woman's mission to strengthen understanding between Indigenous and non ...
Women's Agenda
Naidoc Week 2018: Because of Her, We Can. Australia is fortunate to have the oldest continuing cultures on earth. For Rona Glynn-McDonald, a Kaytetye woman raised in Alice Springs, this knowledge is a source of great strength and pride. It also served ...
'We're leading the way': Access to justice for Aboriginal womenThe Canberra Times
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous peopleThe Guardian
NAIDOC Week puts Tasmanian women in the spotlightTasmania Examiner
News Mail -Katherine Times -Insights News
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Women's Agenda
Blonde, fair-skinned and Aboriginal? One woman's mission to strengthen understanding between Indigenous and non ...
Women's Agenda
Naidoc Week 2018: Because of Her, We Can. Australia is fortunate to have the oldest continuing cultures on earth. For Rona Glynn-McDonald, a Kaytetye woman raised in Alice Springs, this knowledge is a source of great strength and pride. It also served ...
Fear of loss and false promises: dodgy insurance tactics used on Indigenous peopleThe Guardian
'We're leading the way': Access to justice for Aboriginal womenThe Canberra Times
NAIDOC Week puts Tasmanian women in the spotlightTasmania Examiner
Katherine Times
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The Cairns Post
'Gammon' has plenty of uses in Australia but it's come back into vogue in the UK
The Cairns Post
The word's origins are a bit opaque, but it seems to have been Victorian English slang meaning “pretend” that died a quick death in Britain but survived among Aboriginal Australians. It is also the name for a beloved cut of preserved pork in the UK ...

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THE RISE OF SENTIMENTALITY, DEATH OF REASON
Herald Sun (blog)
Last Thursday this newspaper revealed the latest aberration at ANU, where all new staff are being required to take a cultural awareness course that specifically endorses a treaty with Aboriginal Australians. Many lawyers and conservatives will have ...

ArtsHub
The Spectacle of Aboriginal Frontier War Memorial Research
ArtsHub
Djon Mundine, the conceptual creator behind The Aboriginal Memorial (1987) also spoke from the audience. This Aboriginal Memorial comprises of 200 hollow log coffins located at the entry to the National Gallery of Australia and is on permanent ...

The Conversation AU
The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Although the 2018 Closing the Gap report on Indigenous disadvantage highlighted the importance of literacy for Indigenous Australians, progress remains slow. But, while reading is widely considered an unmitigated good and a marker of prestige, it is ...

The Conversation AU
The Murri Book Club and the politics of reading for Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Although the 2018 Closing the Gap report on Indigenous disadvantage highlighted the importance of literacy for Indigenous Australians, progress remains slow. But, while reading is widely considered an unmitigated good and a marker of prestige, it is ...

The Women's Game
Faith Thomas: First Indigenous Australian to play test cricket
The Women's Game
Faith grew up in Colebrook mission in Quorn in South Australia's Flinders Ranges. "Had I not been in Colebrook, I would never have got the opportunities I did have so I consider myself not stolen but chosen," she said. Growing up, Faith would play ...

The Women's Game
Faith Thomas: First Indigenous Australian to play test cricket
The Women's Game
Faith grew up in Colebrook mission in Quorn in South Australia's Flinders Ranges. "Had I not been in Colebrook, I would never have got the opportunities I did have so I consider myself not stolen but chosen," she said. Growing up, Faith would play ...

NEWS.com.au
Indigenous historian Bruce Pascoe says we've got our story all wrong
NEWS.com.au
Mr Pascoe says the settlers' journals show Australia was a far more fertile land when they first landed than it is today and the vast area of the country we now consider an inhospitable desert was, in fact, meticulously and successfully managed by ...

NEWS.com.au
Indigenous historian Bruce Pascoe says we've got our story all wrong
NEWS.com.au
We are taught Australia's first people were simplistic hunter-gatherers who foraged for plants and randomly hunted kangaroos. We are taught when Europeans landed, the indigenous people who first roamed the land were a disparate group of nomadic tribes, ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Warriors emerge from Patty Mills' Shadows
The Sydney Morning Herald
Club president and ACT Australian of the year Dion Devow is aiming to bring indigenous and non-indigenous communities together and he sees basketball as the perfect avenue to do so, with age groups from under 10s to under 19s in action. The Warriors ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Warriors emerge from Patty Mills' Shadows
The Sydney Morning Herald
Club president and ACT Australian of the year Dion Devow is aiming to bring indigenous and non-indigenous communities together and he sees basketball as the perfect avenue to do so, with age groups from under 10s to under 19s in action. The Warriors ...

The RiotACT
Indigenous Canberran Jarrod Hampton proud to be in his own skin
The RiotACT
Since then, Hampton has risen through the ranks of Basketball ACT's junior and senior leagues, representing ACT at Nationals and even playing for Australia in the Australian Indigenous All-Stars team in 2015 and 2017. “Playing for the Australian ...