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Green Left Weekly
Gurrumul and Indigenous languages offer windows into Australia's past and present
Green Left Weekly
Understanding the deep meaning and significance of songlines is beyond most non-Indigenous Australians, but in the introductory sequence to the song's film clip, Gawurra explains its universality: “It's the thread of love that connects everything, all ...

ABC News
The Alice Springs teen working to shift the way all Australians connect with our First Peoples
ABC News
Moving from Alice Springs to Melbourne to attend university, Rona Glynn-McDonald, a proud Kaytetye woman, was astounded to find how little people local people knew about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture. "Anytime I met someone new, they ...

ABC News
Kids are keeping Aboriginal languages alive — and learning just how different they are
ABC News
Ms Pope is project officer at First Languages Australia (FLA), which works to ensure the survival of Australia's traditional languages in the future. She's overseeing a national competition that invites schools to work with their local Indigenous ...

ABC News
Kids are keeping Aboriginal languages alive — and learning just how different they are
ABC News
Ms Pope is project officer at First Languages Australia (FLA), which works to ensure the survival of Australia's traditional languages in the future. She's overseeing a national competition that invites schools to work with their local Indigenous ...

The Conversation AU
Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians' epic story was revealed
The Conversation AU
This month marks the golden jubilee of a watershed event in the history of this nation that should cause all Australians to pause and reflect. On July 15, 1968, while searching for clues to past climates and ancient landscapes on land under the joint ...

The Conversation AU
Time to honour a historical legend: 50 years since the discovery of Mungo Lady
The Conversation AU
Aboriginal people were being heard. For me it was the beginning of a journey to explore the geological legacy of climatic change in our ice age landscapes, the ancient dunes, lakes and rivers. I had recently joined the Australian National University ...

The Conversation AU
Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians' epic story was revealed
The Conversation AU
This month marks the golden jubilee of a watershed event in the history of this nation that should cause all Australians to pause and reflect. On July 15, 1968, while searching for clues to past climates and ancient landscapes on land under the joint ...

CGTN (press release)
Stories painted on bark: Aboriginal art from Australia on display in Beijing
CGTN (press release)
Delicate and rare bark paintings from the National Museum of Australia's signature collection are headlining an unprecedented exhibition of Arnhem Land artworks at the National Museum of China. The curator hopes Chinese viewers will be fascinated by ...

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The Guardian
Banking inquiry: insurance company boss says worker acted 'unconscionably'
The Guardian
On offer for the company's top performers were a $300 gift card, a “Pacific Pearl” Sunshine Coast cruise, a $6,000 Vespa scooter and Sunshine Coast cruise. It was about the same time that the number of Aboriginal people signed up to funeral plans leapt ...

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ABC News (blog)
Royal commission hears how it takes four months to open an ANZ bank account
ABC News (blog)
It took two Aboriginal customers from a community 90 minutes' drive from Katherine several visits and four months to open a basic, fee-free ANZ transaction account, the royal commission hears. The commission heard from a social worker with Save the ...

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ABC News (blog)
Royal commission hears how it takes four months to open an ANZ bank account
ABC News (blog)
It took two Aboriginal customers from a community 90 minutes' drive from Katherine several visits and four months to open a basic, fee-free ANZ transaction account, the royal commission hears. The commission heard from a social worker with Save the ...
Banking royal commission day 38: Let's Insure, ANZThe Australian Financial Review

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Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians' epic story was revealed  The Conversation AU

On the golden jubilee of the discovery of Mungo Lady's 40000-year-old remains, we can reflect on Aboriginal Australia's vast history, which predates the arrival ...

Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians' epic story was revealed  The Conversation AU

On the golden jubilee of the discovery of Mungo Lady's 40000-year-old remains, we can reflect on Aboriginal Australia's vast history, which predates the arrival ...

The Australian
ANU indigenous treaty edict casts doubt over 'academic freedom ...
The Australian
The Australian National University is demanding all new staff undertake cultural awareness training that endorses a treaty with indigenous Australians, calling ...

The Australian
ANU indigenous treaty edict casts doubt over 'academic freedom ...
The Australian
The Australian National University is demanding all new staff undertake cultural awareness training that endorses a treaty with indigenous Australians, calling ...

ABC News
Super Netball celebrates Aboriginal culture with inaugural Indigenous round
ABC News
In the past we've seen clubs such as the Adelaide Thunderbirds and West Coast Fever wear Indigenous style dresses — but this is the first time there will be an official round with Australia's first nations designs on the outfits of all teams involved ...

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ABC News
Super Netball celebrates Aboriginal culture with inaugural Indigenous round
ABC News
In the past we've seen clubs such as the Adelaide Thunderbirds and West Coast Fever wear Indigenous style dresses — but this is the first time there will be an official round with Australia's first nations designs on the outfits of all teams involved ...

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ABC Local
Funeral insurance company targeted Indigenous Australians
ABC Local
The banking Royal Commission is in Darwin for the current round of hearings and has heard testimony about the behaviour and policies of funeral insurance companies in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. The exploitative ...

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ABC Local
Funeral insurance company targeted Indigenous Australians
ABC Local
The banking Royal Commission is in Darwin for the current round of hearings and has heard testimony about the behaviour and policies of funeral insurance companies in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. The exploitative ...

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The Guardian
Mick Dodson urges PM to reconsider 'shameful' rejection of voice to parliament
The Guardian
He said in any renewed talks between Indigenous people and the government, the various proposals put forward with the objective of correcting the injustices imposed on Australia's Indigenous people throughout the history of white settlement “ought to ...