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AFL Indigenous Round highlights the best and worst of the social problems facing our native Australians
The Advertiser
SO it is the AFL's indigenous round. It's a celebration of the contribution that indigenous players have made to Australian football. Great names, great memories. The AFL trot them out: Farmer, Cable, Nicholls, Winmar, Rioli, Long, McLeod although they ...
Indigenous pride at Mt Gravatt Vultures AFC ahead of Saturday Aussie rules gameCourier Mail
MATT CUNNINGHAM: Time for the NT to have its own AFL teamNT News

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The Advertiser
AFL Indigenous Round highlights the best and worst of the social problems facing our native Australians
The Advertiser
SO it is the AFL's indigenous round. It's a celebration of the contribution that indigenous players have made to Australian football. Great names, great memories. The AFL trot them out: Farmer, Cable, Nicholls, Winmar, Rioli, Long, McLeod although they ...

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The Advertiser
Australian football's celebration of indigenous culture this weekend is a reminder of how much work remains to be ...
The Advertiser
But — as Goodes has pointed out — any celebration of Aboriginal culture in Australian football must also bring change in Australia. The terraces — a fair sample of Australia today — are far from free of the racism and small-minded tone that ...

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The Advertiser
Australian football's celebration of indigenous culture this weekend is a reminder of how much work remains to be ...
The Advertiser
But — as Goodes has pointed out — any celebration of Aboriginal culture in Australian football must also bring change in Australia. The terraces — a fair sample of Australia today — are far from free of the racism and small-minded tone that ...

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Deadly Questions: ask Aboriginal champions anything about being Indigenous  The Guardian

The Victorian government has launched a new website that will allow non-Indigenous people to ask questions of and about Aboriginal people in an attempt to ...

Architecture AU
Indigenous stories to be told in new 'sound pavilion' at Barangaroo
Architecture AU
Architect Kevin O'Brien, principal at BVN, has designed of a freshly completed pavilion that will be used to present a suite of aural works by Aboriginal artists on the history and future of Sydney's Barangaroo Reserve. The Blak Box, commissioned by ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal poets voice their stories of life, culture and history in music-backed performance
ABC Online
Mr Taylor was sent to New Norcia, in Western Australia's Wheatbelt, in the 1950s when he was five years old. When he finally ran away as a teenager, he did turn to drink. "When I got out of there, all I wanted to do was drink myself to death but that ...

Indigenous cricketers to honour 1868 XI
SBS
The 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England is an incredible story of hardship, race relations and colonial attitudes. Arguably even more remarkable is how few Australians now know the tale of the nation's first sporting team to tour overseas, 150 ...

Indigenous cricketers to honour 1868 XI
SBS
The 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England is an incredible story of hardship, race relations and colonial attitudes. Arguably even more remarkable is how few Australians now know the tale of the nation's first sporting team to tour overseas, 150 ...

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The Cairns Post
AFL Cairns footballers have designs on special Indigenous Round
The Cairns Post
The talented cricketer and footballer has lived in the Northern Territory, represents South Australia in indigenous cricket and now calls the Far North home. McGregor-Cassady's mum is from Broome in Western Australia, his father from Halifax, just ...

The Age
Hunt for AFL Indigenous commissioner continues, but it won't be Goodes
The Age
Based in Adelaide, Hosch came to the AFL from Recognise — an organisation working for the inclusion of Indigenous Australians in the national constitution — and in a sense replaced Mifsud, the author of the advisory council's recommendations to the ...
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The round is named named in honour of Sir Doug Nicholls (1906-1988) who played 54 games for Fitzroy, was the first Aboriginal person to be knighted, was Governor of South Australia, and who devoted much of his life to the wellbeing of Indigenous ...

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ABC Online
Eora Nation 79: Should every place in Australia be given Aboriginal name?
ABC Online
Two mountains in Qld have reverted to traditional names. Hobart has been offered an indigenous name during this National Reconciliation Week. How about us? Why can't we in Sydney/NSW have dual naming everywhere? Luke Pearson the founder of ...

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ABC Online
Eora Nation 79: Should every place in Australia be given Aboriginal name?
ABC Online
Two mountains in Qld have reverted to traditional names. Hobart has been offered an indigenous name during this National Reconciliation Week. How about us? Why can't we in Sydney/NSW have dual naming everywhere? Luke Pearson the founder of ...

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Illawarra Mercury
First of its kind UOW lecture delivered during National Reconciliation Week
Illawarra Mercury
The University of Wollongong Pro-Vice Chancellor (Inclusion and Outreach) thinks it is important all Australians celebrate our rich culture. “Not many countries can say we are 80,000 years-old,” Prof Chandler said. “We now know that Indigenous ...

Illawarra Mercury
First of its kind UOW lecture delivered during National Reconciliation Week
Illawarra Mercury
“We now know that Indigenous Australians are the longest continuing civilisation on earth. We didn't get here by accident. We actually got here by being very clever. “Why wouldn't we all want to celebrate it.” Prof Chandler's comments come smack in the ...

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Australian Academy of Science
Academy launches Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist Travelling Research Award
Australian Academy of Science
The Australian Academy of Science has launched an award to recognise research in the natural sciences by outstanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PhD students and early- and mid-career scientists. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

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ABC Local
Reconciliation Week: The story of Guunyu the black swan, the Sydney Swans' Indigenous Round guernsey
ABC Local
"This work that I did on the football guernsey, all of Australia will see it, so that's really special for me. She will attend tonight's game surrounded by 30 members of her family, including young nieces and nephews. "I keep getting asked 'How will ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sport brings out the best in people - Canberra needs to play the game
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last Friday I stood looking at a wonderful aboriginal painting by Gloria Tamerre Petyarre. She was born at Mosquito Bore in the Northern Territory and now lives in Alice Springs. Her painting is from the Western Australian Le Pley family collection and ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Sport brings out the best in people - Canberra needs to play the game
The Sydney Morning Herald
Last Friday I stood looking at a wonderful aboriginal painting by Gloria Tamerre Petyarre. She was born at Mosquito Bore in the Northern Territory and now lives in Alice Springs. Her painting is from the Western Australian Le Pley family collection and ...