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Pursuit
Life on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert
Pursuit
Mulan is one of the smallest and most remote Aboriginal communities in Australia. About 100 to 150 Walmajarri people live here, close to the expansive, salty Lake Paruku (Lake Gregory on many maps) and many hours of driving on treacherous dirt roads to ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Clay Stories brings Indigenous arts communities vividly to life
The Sydney Morning Herald
Clay Stories: Contemporary Indigenous Ceramics from Remote Australia. Various artists. Strathnairn Arts. Until July 1. We are indeed privileged in Canberra at the present time to be able to enjoy two exhibitions by Indigenous artists. At Craft ACT ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Clay Stories brings Indigenous arts communities vividly to life
The Sydney Morning Herald
Clay Stories: Contemporary Indigenous Ceramics from Remote Australia. Various artists. Strathnairn Arts. Until July 1. We are indeed privileged in Canberra at the present time to be able to enjoy two exhibitions by Indigenous artists. At Craft ACT ...

Gippsland Times
Chris Sarra, Andrea Mason spearhead Malcolm Turnbull's bid to reboot Indigenous policy
Gippsland Times
The Turnbull Government has moved to transform its relationship with Indigenous Australia by announcing a new advisory group that includes Aboriginal educator Chris Sarra. In a bid to rebuild trust, the Prime Minister has opted for a two-stage process ...

Gippsland Times
Chris Sarra, Andrea Mason spearhead Malcolm Turnbull's bid to reboot Indigenous policy
Gippsland Times
The Turnbull Government has moved to transform its relationship with Indigenous Australia by announcing a new advisory group that includes Aboriginal educator Chris Sarra. In a bid to rebuild trust, the Prime Minister has opted for a two-stage process ...

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The Guardian
Aboriginal astronomy can teach us about the link between sky and land
The Guardian
If you've had any form of state education in Australia, I'm sure you must have heard an Indigenous dreamtime story at least once in your life. Maybe it was Tiddalick the Frog, or maybe even the Rainbow Serpent. These stories you may have heard as a ...
Crime rates drop but Indigenous people being jailed more than everRed Flag

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The Guardian
Aboriginal astronomy can teach us about the link between sky and land
The Guardian
If you've had any form of state education in Australia, I'm sure you must have heard an Indigenous dreamtime story at least once in your life. Maybe it was Tiddalick the Frog, or maybe even the Rainbow Serpent. These stories you may have heard as a ...
Crime rates drop but Indigenous people being jailed more than everRed Flag

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Red Flag
Crime rates drop but Indigenous people being jailed more than ever
Red Flag
Throughout Australia, crime rates have decreased, but the incarceration rate –particularly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders – has increased dramatically. Despite making up only 3 percent of the population, Indigenous people are 28 percent of ...
Uprooted: how an Aboriginal woman stopped being MāoriStuff.co.nz

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Red Flag
Another life lost in WA's criminal injustice system
Red Flag
A single Facebook post on 7 May, among a sea of local news articles, was the only acknowledgement of a young Indigenous man's sudden death days earlier in the West Kimberley Regional Prison, near Derby in north-west Western Australia.

Red Flag
Crime rates drop but Indigenous people being jailed more than ever
Red Flag
Throughout Australia, crime rates have decreased, but the incarceration rate –particularly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders – has increased dramatically. Despite making up only 3 percent of the population, Indigenous people are 28 percent of ...
Uprooted: how an Aboriginal woman stopped being MāoriStuff.co.nz

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Red Flag
Another life lost in WA's criminal injustice system
Red Flag
A single Facebook post on 7 May, among a sea of local news articles, was the only acknowledgement of a young Indigenous man's sudden death days earlier in the West Kimberley Regional Prison, near Derby in north-west Western Australia.

Herald Sun
The tragic life and death of Aussie rules founder Tom Wills
Herald Sun
HE was the father of Australian Rules Football, a fluent speaker of an aboriginal dialect, a cricketing great and a one-time resident of Kew Lunatic Asylum. The varied and colourful life of Tom Wills was shortened by tragedy and survived by the game he ...
Picture the past: Pioneering figure of our gamesGeelong Advertiser

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Herald Sun
The tragic life and death of Aussie rules founder Tom Wills
Herald Sun
... 23 in Melbourne began dreaming up an alternative. It is believed his exposure to the indigenous game marngrook, which involved the kicking of marsupial skins over large areas by up to 50 people, may have inspired Wills' development of Australian rules.

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The Sydney Morning Herald
The 'aitch' or 'haitch' debate has a dark side
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous children in colonial nations like Australia and Canada have suffered everything from shame to corporal punishment for speaking their native language in schools, boarding houses, and public places. Suppression of minority languages is driven ...

The Guardian
Labor uses female MPs in question time to make gender point – as it happened
The Guardian
Today, I pay my respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging, as well as to those of all Indigenous Australians in this room, and beyond it.

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The New Daily
Aboriginal settlement in Australia 'no accident': study
The New Daily
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows. Experts have made the finding using wind and ocean current modelling, similar to that deployed in the search for ...
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was 'no accident'SBS
How to get to Australia … more than 50000 years agoThe Conversation AU

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SBS
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was 'no accident'
SBS
"There's always been a lot of speculation about how Aboriginal people made it to Australia and a lot of people have argued that people might have made it here by accident," study co-author and James Cook University archaeology Professor Sean Ulm told ...
How to get to Australia … more than 50000 years agoThe Conversation AU

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The Conversation AU
How to get to Australia … more than 50000 years ago
The Conversation AU
Over just the past few years, new archaeological findings have revealed the lives of early Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory's Kakadu potentially as early as 65,000 years ago, from the Kimberley and Pilbara regions of Western Australia ...
MH370-style computer modelling reveals skilled sailors led 'large-scale' migration to Australia 50000 years ago9news.com.au

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The Conversation AU
How Indigenous and disabled women lost out in the 2018 budget
The Conversation AU
Despite the government spruiking its tax relief for Australians in this year's budget, many women will not benefit from the tax plan. There is also a lack of support for the most vulnerable in our society, including Indigenous women, women with a ...

9news.com.au
MH370-style computer modelling reveals skilled sailors led 'large-scale' migration to Australia 50000 years ago
9news.com.au
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was no accident but the result of large-scale migration by skilled maritime explorers, research shows. Experts have made the finding using wind and ocean current modelling, similar to that deployed in the search for ...

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