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ABC News
APY Lands to star in Switzerland gallery dedicated to Indigenous Australian art
ABC News
The work of Aboriginal artists from South Australia's APY Lands will feature prominently when Europe's first gallery dedicated to Indigenous Australian art opens next year. More than 30 female Aboriginal artists from every community in the APY Lands ...

ABC News
APY Lands to star in Switzerland gallery dedicated to Indigenous Australian art
ABC News
The work of Aboriginal artists from South Australia's APY Lands will feature prominently when Europe's first gallery dedicated to Indigenous Australian art opens next year. More than 30 female Aboriginal artists from every community in the APY Lands ...

Israellycool (blog)
Melbourne's white founder (so called) gets replaced by a black hero
Eternity News
It didn't happen in France or Britain or even America. It happened right here in Australia. And it was Aboriginal Australians who weren't even citizens of their own country. They were led by a 78-year-old man from Bangerang country, named William Cooper.
Melbourne Electorate Renamed after Indigenous Champion of the JewsIsraellycool (blog)

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ABC News
Filtering out heavy metals years away, despite high uranium detected in water
ABC News
The response came as the Australian Medical Association urged the water supplies be fixed, with Aboriginal health organisations describing the situation as "unacceptable". On Tuesday, ABC's 7.30 revealed the central desert communities of Laramba ...

The Age
Indigenous academy backlash
The Age
The AFL has told clubs that Indigenous communities and elders in Western Australia and South Australia have complained that they have been discriminated against, as the league considers major changes to its academy system. And clubs believe that the ...

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The Guardian
Deadly Questions billboards pulled by agency over fears of 'racial vilification'
The Guardian
Billboards from a Victorian government campaign that aims to encourage conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people have been pulled because the Outdoor Media Association said they were potentially in breach of rules against racial ...
Ooh!Media rescues controversial Deadly Questions billboard shunned by APNAdNews
Indigenous Campaign Deemed Too Controversial By APN Media To RunB&T
Aboriginal Victoria's Deadly Questions ads blocked by APN OutdoorMuMbrella

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The Guardian
Deadly Questions billboards pulled by agency over fears of 'racial vilification'
The Guardian
Billboards from a Victorian government campaign that aims to encourage conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people have been pulled because the Outdoor Media Association said they were potentially in breach of rules against racial ...
Ooh!Media rescues controversial Deadly Questions billboard shunned by APNAdNews
Indigenous Campaign Deemed Too Controversial By APN Media To RunB&T
Aboriginal Victoria's Deadly Questions ads blocked by APN OutdoorMuMbrella

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Area News (blog)
Art exhibition commemorates Indigenous service men and women in Australia
Area News (blog)
Military service stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women aren't ones often discussed, yet since the dawning and evolution of social media, Australians are becoming more and more aware of the service and sacrifice of those ...

Area News (blog)
Art exhibition commemorates Indigenous service men and women in Australia
Area News (blog)
Military service stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women aren't ones often discussed, yet since the dawning and evolution of social media, Australians are becoming more and more aware of the service and sacrifice of those ...

NEWS.com.au
Billboards for Victorian Government indigenous awareness campaign scrapped
NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal Victoria launched its Deadly Questions website recently asking simple questions non-indigenous Australians have been too embarrassed to ask indigenous Australians. Questions include “why should I say sorry for something I didn't do?” and ...

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NEWS.com.au
Billboards for Victorian Government indigenous awareness campaign scrapped
NEWS.com.au
Aboriginal Victoria launched its Deadly Questions website recently asking simple questions non-indigenous Australians have been too embarrassed to ask indigenous Australians. Questions include “why should I say sorry for something I didn't do?” and ...

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The Guardian
Melbourne electorate of Batman renamed after Indigenous activist
The Guardian
The former head of the prime minister's Indigenous advisory council Warren Mundine also welcomed the decision. Cooper helped establish the Australian Aborigines League in 1935, serving as its secretary, and petitioned King George V to give Aboriginal ...
AEC to rename Ged Kearney's Melbourne seat from Batman to CooperThe Australian
Australia Is Saying Goodbye To Batman And Is Renaming The Electorate After An Aboriginal ActivistBuzzFeed News
Verdict in on Victorian electorate name changesHerald Sun
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The Guardian
Melbourne electorate of Batman renamed after Indigenous activist
The Guardian
The former head of the prime minister's Indigenous advisory council Warren Mundine also welcomed the decision. Cooper helped establish the Australian Aborigines League in 1935, serving as its secretary, and petitioned King George V to give Aboriginal ...
Australia Is Saying Goodbye To Batman And Is Renaming The Electorate After An Aboriginal ActivistBuzzFeed News
Australia Loses Batman And Won't Get 'Cox'ten daily
AEC to rename Ged Kearney's Melbourne seat from Batman to CooperThe Australian
Herald Sun
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ArtsHub
Government invests $150000 into digital labeling to combat fake Aboriginal art
ArtsHub
Poster from the Fake Art Harms Culture campaign; image Arts Law Centre of Australia. This week, the Australian Government confirmed that it will commit $150,000 to a pilot program to test digital codes to label authentic Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Radio New Zealand
Blackbirding: Vanuatu's Aboriginal Australian descendants
Radio New Zealand
A historian says its plausible that Aboriginal Australian orphans were brought home by blackbirded ni-Vanuatu in the early 20th century. As many as 4000 descendants of Aboriginal Australians could live in Vanuatu, some of whom are trying to trace their ...

ten daily
Australia Loses Batman And Won't Get 'Cox'
ten daily
The division of Batman is no more, after the Australian Electoral Commission decided to shed the superhero-reminiscent name in favour of honouring an indigenous political pioneer. But the AEC has resisted renaming another electorate 'Cox', after some ...
AEC to rename Ged Kearney's Melbourne seat from Batman to CooperThe Australian
Verdict in on Victorian electorate name changesHerald Sun

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Foreground
Dark Emu and the blindness of Australian agriculture
Foreground
The key contention in Pascoe's book is that the whole distinction between the farming colonist and the hunter-gatherer indigene is based on a radical, and frankly self-serving, misunderstanding of the way that the Indigenous peoples of Australia lived ...

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ABC News
New digital book delivers Tasmania's history to classrooms across Australia
ABC News
Mr Broun expected the Aboriginal history unit would be widely accessed by teachers. "Australians know very, very little about Tasmania's first people and, even worse, there's not enough known right here," he said. "The first resource attempts to ...

ABC News
Warakurna welcomes first all-Indigenous police station, aiming to repair a community's mistrust
ABC News
The first entirely Indigenous-run police station in Australia is using cultural ties to gain the trust of a remote Aboriginal community. Not far from the Northern Territory border, Warakurna in Western Australia is policed by two Aboriginal officers ...

ABC News
Warakurna welcomes first all-Indigenous police station, aiming to repair a community's mistrust
ABC News
The first entirely Indigenous-run police station in Australia is using cultural ties to gain the trust of a remote Aboriginal community. Not far from the Northern Territory border, Warakurna in Western Australia is policed by two Aboriginal officers ...