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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal settlement in Australia was planned migration: study
The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne: 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 ...

Aboriginal settlement in Oz '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 ...

The New Daily
Ultramarathon is no sweat for Zibeon Fielding
The New Daily
In 2016, he and 11 other Indigenous Australians ran the New York Marathon after six months of training. World champion marathon runner Rob De Castella developed the initiative and was on hand for the entire ultramarathon, encouraging Fielding along the ...

ABC Online
Ultramarathon is no sweat for Zibeon Fielding in quest to raise funds for remote dialysis treatment
ABC Online
Mr Fielding was running to raise money for The Purple House, an organisation that provides dialysis to some of Australia's most remote communities. Aside from the more than $40,000 raised so far, he wants to promote a healthy lifestyle to other ...

ABC Online
Ultramarathon is no sweat for Zibeon Fielding in quest to raise funds for remote dialysis treatment
ABC Online
Mr Fielding was running to raise money for The Purple House, an organisation that provides dialysis to some of Australia's most remote communities. Aside from the more than $40,000 raised so far, he wants to promote a healthy lifestyle to other ...

The North West Star
Life different for Indigenous diggers coming home
The North West Star
For Peter Craigie's descendants, daughter Olive Bohning, nephews Joe Rogers, Terry Craigie and Alfie Nathan and their families, he is remembered as a proud Aboriginal man who worked in opening up the cattle drive routes throughout Northern Australia, ...

The North West Star
Life different for Indigenous diggers coming home
The North West Star
For Peter Craigie's descendants, daughter Olive Bohning, nephews Joe Rogers, Terry Craigie and Alfie Nathan and their families, he is remembered as a proud Aboriginal man who worked in opening up the cattle drive routes throughout Northern Australia, ...

ABC Online
Bid for proposed Indigenous art gallery to be moved to Katherine met with division
ABC Online
Katherine leaders are edging in on a proposed national Indigenous art gallery and museum, should conflict over the project see it collapse in Central Australia. The $150 million centre was a key election promise made by the Labor Party, but differences ...

9news.com.au
'We're the indigenous people here – not them': The Aussie buying and selling Arab-owned properties to Jews
9news.com.au
The city has played host to an unending struggle between Jews and Muslims for centuries and, as reporter Tom Steinfort reveals tonight on 60 Minutes, it's a dispute that has consumed the lives of two Australians. “Holy Real Estate” airs tonight on 60 ...

ABC Online
Christian Thompson's Ritual Intimacy exhibition charts the Australian artist's ongoing wanderlust
ABC Online
In his best-known photographic series, artist and Bidjara man Christian Thompson appears in a variety of spangled costumes with his head crowned, or face concealed, by arrangements of Australian native flora. The series, Australian Graffiti (2007), has ...

Vivid festival to pay tribute to native wildlife
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney's Vivid Festival has famously transformed the Opera House into a canvas for Australian wildlife and Indigenous artworks, and this year is no exception. An artist's impression of Metamathemagical by Jonathan Zawada for this year's Vivid festival.

The Mercury
Dark Mofo forum to dicuss seal hunts as a revival of Tasmanian Aboriginal tradition
The Mercury
Indigenous populations around the world are allowed some rights to hunt traditional foods, Dr Lee said. They include Aboriginal people in Northern Australia, who hunt turtles, and whale hunters in northern Europe. Seal hunting in Aboriginal territories ...

Courier Mail
Dark saga of Aboriginal bushranger Johnny Campbell recalls rough justice of times past
Courier Mail
Queensland also had its own ugly saga involving an Aboriginal bushranger, who met his demise at the end of a rope and then a dissecting table in Germany. I recently read His Own Country – an excellent biography of the wild life and violent death of ...

Daily Telegraph
How comedian Wayne Brady deals with racism
Daily Telegraph
And I'm aware that Australia has a problem, too. I've been coming back and forth to Australia and talking to various people for many years now. I've watched movies like Romper Stomper. I know Indigenous Australians have their issues and that they are ...

Gold Coast Bulletin
TasWeekend: Your guide to the week's best events
Gold Coast Bulletin
This one-man whirlwind is coming to Jokers to share tales of growing up, marriage and the challenges of life as an Aboriginal Australian family man. Since winning the national Deadly Funny title in 2008, Kropinyeri has spent the past decade touring ...

ABC Online
The Field Revisited: National Gallery of Victoria's groundbreaking 1968 exhibition of abstract art is re-staged
ABC Online
This paralleled broader changes in Australia, which a year earlier had passed the referendum on Aboriginal voting rights, and four years later would elect Gough Whitlam as prime minister. "Australia becomes an Aboriginal place, a multicultural place ...

The Cairns Post
Indigenous homelessness is not a 'cultural choice'
The Cairns Post
All this gasbagging is pointless without considerable and prudent spending on indigenous housing. The damning results of a study into Australian homelessness released this week highlight the immense amount of work needed in regional areas like Cairns, ...

Daily Telegraph
Indigenous homelessness is not a 'cultural choice'
Daily Telegraph
The Australian Homeless Monitor 2018 report singled out the aforementioned centres for their particularly high rate of “rough sleeping or public place dwelling”, largely attributable to deplorable conditions in severely crowded remote indigenous ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous voice heightens tale of tyranny in MTC's House of Bernarda Alba
The Sydney Morning Herald
Holland says: "I'm Indigenous, my Dad's Aboriginal and I think it means a lot to everyone in the room that we're creating a work that reflects the truth. Patricia isn't didactic but it's threaded through." Caceres says that despite the Australian ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
What's on in Sydney: May 20 to 26
The Sydney Morning Herald
ART Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy (until July 14) is the first major survey exhibition of the Aboriginal Australian contemporary artist spanning his work over the last 15 years across photography, video,sculpture, performance and sound. 10am-5pm ...