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The Age
Aboriginal elders say government is talking treaty with wrong people
The Age
New South Australian Liberal Premier Steven Marshall put that state's treaty talks on hold late last month. The gathering of elders was organised by Victorian Greens MP Lidia Thorpe, State Parliament's only Aboriginal MP, who is seeking to amend the ...

the AU review (blog)
Sydney Film Festival showcases Indigenous films from around the world with First Nations: A Celebration program
the AU review (blog)
Sydney Film Festival in conjunction with Screen Australia will be marking Screen Australia's Indigenous Department's 25th anniversary with a very special program titled First Nations: A Celebration. This will also be featured alongside a program ...

ABC Online
Morris Stuart, the charismatic choir director bringing Central Australia's sacred sounds to the world
ABC Online
For more than four decades, Barbara Stuart followed her husband Morris around the world, working beside him and raising their four children. With a flair for painting, she had visited the outback before to paint the stunning landscapes, but she craved ...

ABC Online
Morris Stuart, the charismatic choir director bringing Central Australia's sacred sounds to the world
ABC Online
"She had a great aunt who actually said to her that she was committing the greatest crime that a white woman could commit by getting married to one of these black men who was just like 'our Aborigines'." But Morris and Barbara stood fast and, in 1967 ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
How Captain Cook became a contested national symbol
The Sydney Morning Herald
These include the development of digital heritage resources and exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum, National Library, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the National Museum of Australia, as well as ...

Pursuit
The endurance of bush medicine
Pursuit
In the days before western medicine, local Indigenous Australians used the active ingredients in a plant known as old man's weed (Centipeda cunninghamii) to sooth the symptoms of arthritis. They'd boil the leaves and prepare a solution that was applied ...

ABC Online
High-school sports mentoring program kicks goals for Indigenous students
ABC Online
High school students in South Australia's south-east are proving football has a place in the classroom. Teenager Denzel Wilson has always wished he had more opportunities to talk about his culture at school. "We should do it more. There should be more ...

ABC Online
High-school sports mentoring program kicks goals for Indigenous students
ABC Online
High school students in South Australia's south-east are proving football has a place in the classroom. Teenager Denzel Wilson has always wished he had more opportunities to talk about his culture at school. "We should do it more. There should be more ...

SBS
How the world reacted to Australia at Eurovision 2018
SBS
Australia's Jessica Mauboy did Australia proud with an exuberant performance of her pop song We Got Love at Sunday's Eurovision grand final. Darwin-born singer had the crowd singing and dancing in Lisbon, which hosted the 63rd edition of the contest.

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Radio Australia
Indigenous flag designer says idea to police the authenticity of Aboriginal art is 'repugnant'
Radio Australia
The ANKA submission called on Federal Government to change the Australian Consumer Law, to "ban the distribution and sale of unauthentic Aboriginal-style objects in Australia at all levels of the supply chain". It also wanted recognition that ...

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The Roar
Naming my Indigenous all-stars team of the century
The Roar
Indigenous Australian make up only 3.3 per cent of the nation's population but proudly boast over 12 per cent of contracted players in the NRL. In general these players have been a class above in terms of speed, and their toughness has been legendary.

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ABC Online
Indigenous flag designer says idea to police the authenticity of Aboriginal art is 'repugnant'
ABC Online
The ANKA submission called on Federal Government to change the Australian Consumer Law, to "ban the distribution and sale of unauthentic Aboriginal-style objects in Australia at all levels of the supply chain". It also wanted recognition that ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous flag designer says idea to police the authenticity of Aboriginal art is 'repugnant'
ABC Online
The ANKA submission called on Federal Government to change the Australian Consumer Law, to "ban the distribution and sale of unauthentic Aboriginal-style objects in Australia at all levels of the supply chain". It also wanted recognition that ...

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ABC Online
How two unlikely South Americans transformed an indigenous art centre
ABC Online
But as someone "from the wrong side of the tracks", she found it hard to advance in Chile and emigrated to Australia. Cecilia, meanwhile, studied art administration and in 2001 was offered her "dream job" — managing an Aboriginal art centre in the ...

ABC Online
How two unlikely South Americans transformed an indigenous art centre
ABC Online
They moved to Australia in 1971 after receiving threats from the then-new Allende socialist government. Gloria, in contrast, grew up in an Indigenous Mapuche community in Chile. Her people struggled to survive and were sometimes forced to work for ...

ABC Local
Blackfella Beef brand concept has potential to unite Indigenous cattle producers
ABC Local
The idea of Blackfella Beef was developed by the Wangan Jagalingou and Western Kangoulu Indigenous groups and has garnered financial support from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and the University of Southern Queensland. The next step is to ...

ABC Local
Blackfella Beef brand concept has potential to unite Indigenous cattle producers
ABC Local
The idea of Blackfella Beef was developed by the Wangan Jagalingou and Western Kangoulu Indigenous groups and has garnered financial support from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) and the University of Southern Queensland. The next step is to ...

ABC Online
Broome artist exposes Australia's dark chapters of history with photographic series
ABC Online
This dark and hidden story of Aboriginal blackbirding in Broome and Roebourne in Western Australia is one of several little-known stories explored by artist Michael Jalaru Torres in the eight photographs in his exhibition Scar III, showing in Sydney as ...

ABC Online
Broome artist exposes Australia's dark chapters of history with photographic series
ABC Online
This dark and hidden story of Aboriginal blackbirding in Broome and Roebourne in Western Australia is one of several little-known stories explored by artist Michael Jalaru Torres in the eight photographs in his exhibition Scar III, showing in Sydney as ...

Daily Telegraph
Remembering our cricket pioneers, 150 years after our first team of cricketers landed on English soil
Daily Telegraph
And the trivia element, famously, is that the men who comprised that maiden touring team were almost exclusively indigenous. The players – besides captain-coach Charles Lawrence, an Englishman and first-class cricketer who had made Australia his home ...

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