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ABC Online
Central Australian Aboriginal Women's Choir
ABC Online
The Central Australian Women's Choir are taking German hymns taught to their ancestors 140 years ago, but to Europe. Source: ABC News | Duration: 1min 56sec. Topics: indigenous-music, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, ...

Junkee
Watch This High School Student Open An NRL Game With A Stunning Indigenous National Anthem
Junkee
The NRL has kicked off this year's Indigenous round with a stunning rendition of Advance Australia Fair sung in an Indigenous language and backed by traditional Indigenous instruments. The anthem was sung by Rebecca Hatch, an Indigenous Australian ...
Year 12 student sings moving Indigenous national anthemYahoo Sports

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Junkee
Watch This High School Student Open An NRL Game With A Stunning Indigenous National Anthem
Junkee
The NRL has kicked off this year's Indigenous round with a stunning rendition of Advance Australia Fair sung in an Indigenous language and backed by traditional Indigenous instruments. The anthem was sung by Rebecca Hatch, an Indigenous Australian ...
Year 12 student sings moving Indigenous national anthemYahoo Sports

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ABC Local
Bunya nuts: The Australian bush food that is growing in popularity
ABC Local
Queensland's bunya nut season has just finished but when the next nut fall occurs in 2021, Queensland artist Leeton Lee hopes more people treat them as a tasty bush food, not annoying garden waste.

The West Australian
West Coast Eagles trio aim to lift cultural appreciation
The West Australian
Lewis Jetta hails from a family that played a key role in an Aboriginal team that made a racism stand in the Wheatbelt town of Pingelly in 1967. Family members from the Pingelly Tigers, like Jetta, still flourish in the AFL. Willie Rioli is part of ...

NRL.COM
Luke thrilled Maori getting first Indigenous Round recognition
NRL.COM
During Saturday's clash between the Warriors and Roosters, the NRL will officially recognise Maori as part of the round, dedicated to Australia's indigenous people. Maori will be on full display through a special jersey depicting New Zealand heritage, ...

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SBS
More to receive Order of Australia honours
SBS
Sir Peter earlier this year called for greater diversity in the Australia Day honours list. Of those being honoured on Australia Day, 67 per cent were men and 33 per cent women. He said he wanted to see more women, migrants, indigenous Australians and ...

The Australian
Charles Dickens's unexpected role in Australian cricket's expansion
The Australian
He saw an advantage in coaching indigenous cricketers and he became the captain-coach of the 1868 Aboriginal Australian Cricket Tour of England. He had long envisioned making big money from the Aboriginals' ability to throw boomerangs and spears ...

The Australian
Meanjin AZ: Fine Fiction, 1980 to Now, short stories that reveal us
The Australian
It isn't only Aboriginal Australia that narrates its ambivalence towards mainstream white culture in this collection. Lily Brett's Malka, from 1989, immerses us in the Jewish enclaves of Melbourne at a moment in which the children of Holocaust ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Dicey Topics: Linda Burney talks about death, politics and religion
The Sydney Morning Herald
The three things that motivated me to stand at the 2003 NSW state election [at which Burney became the first Aboriginal to serve in the NSW Parliament] were the same things that motivate me now: my Aboriginality; the fact I'm a woman; the pursuit of ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Remembering the tragedy of the Black War
The Sydney Morning Herald
Senior Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Australia FranchescaCubillo said the exhibition The national picture: the art of Tasmania's Black War was "very important for us to have". The exhibition, three years in the making, brings ...

Sporting News
NRL 2018: Indigenous team of the competition
Sporting News
He has also featured for NSW, Australia and the Indigenous All-Stars. 3. Will Chambers- After a couple of code switches which saw him move from the Storm to the Queensland Reds and back to Melbourne, Chambers has established himself as one of the ...
Warriors reveal new jersey to celebrate Māori culture for Indigenous RoundStuff.co.nz

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EducationHQ Australia
Aboriginal culture is 'everybody's business' principal says
EducationHQ Australia
“In all of that time, I have known that reconciliation is a critical issue for all Australians, and so I've had it as one of my areas that I wanted to grow in the school,” Hawes explains. “[Students are] in primary school for seven years, and each year ...

PlayersVoice
A GUBI GUBI MAN
PlayersVoice
Her name was Marie Loader and she was a member of the Stolen Generation. They took her from Buderim and moved to her to Cherbourg when she was young. I lived with her for a few years when I was little. I don't remember all her stories, but I know ...

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ABC Online
Captain Cook is a contested national symbol, so why spend more money on him?
ABC Online
These include the development of digital heritage resources and exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum, National Library, AIATSIS and the National Museum of Australia, as well as support for training "Indigenous cultural heritage professionals in ...

ABC Online
Captain Cook is a contested national symbol, so why spend more money on him?
ABC Online
These include the development of digital heritage resources and exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum, National Library, AIATSIS and the National Museum of Australia, as well as support for training "Indigenous cultural heritage professionals in ...

ABC Online
Haka's future at Anzac Day events in doubt after 'insulting' performance
ABC Online
David Tekona performed a solo rendition of the haka at last month's Anzac Day commemorations in Bunbury, but his actions has stirred debate among Australian veterans. Mr Tekona said ... I thought they should be doing something with Indigenous peoples." ...
The haka as an official part of Anzac Day ceremonies – yes or no?Starts at 60

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The Guardian
Tom E Lewis: actor, singer and songwriter dies suddenly
The Guardian
Lewis shot to fame at a young age playing the handsome, compelling lead in Fred Schepisi's 1978 film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and appeared in dozens of Australian films and series over his long career, including the miniseries, A Town Like Alice ...
Indigenous actor Tom E Lewis dies aged 59The Australian

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The Guardian
'Blatantly discriminatory': changes to remote work-for-dole scheme criticised
The Guardian
The scheme covers 75% of Australia's land mass and about 1,000 remote communities. About 83% of its 35,000 participants are Indigenous. Participants earn, on average, about $11 an hour for up to 25 hours of work or work-like activity for 46 weeks a ...

The Guardian
'Blatantly discriminatory': changes to remote work-for-dole scheme criticised
The Guardian
“Equal pay for equal work is a core tenet of Australian society. The federal government must eliminate the blatantly discriminatory requirement, which sees people in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities forced to work more hours for ...