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Australia's top-ranked tennis player Ashleigh Barty announced as Indigenous ambassador
ABC Online
Australia's top-ranked tennis player, Ashleigh Barty, will become Tennis Australia's Indigenous ambassador, as part of a push to promote the sport to Aboriginal children. It coincides with the announcement of a National Indigenous Tennis Carnival ...

ABC Online
Australia's top-ranked tennis player Ashleigh Barty announced as Indigenous ambassador
ABC Online
Australia's top-ranked tennis player, Ashleigh Barty, will become Tennis Australia's Indigenous ambassador, as part of a push to promote the sport to Aboriginal children. It coincides with the announcement of a National Indigenous Tennis Carnival ...

ABC Online
Bush clinic for Indigenous men aims to break down barriers to hospital
ABC Online
The Bush Classrooms project is a collaboration between local support services, including Great Southern Aboriginal Health Services, the Albany Youth Support Association, Wanslea Family Services and Palmerston. For participant Henry Jones, the program ...

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The Guardian
Northern Territory town camps need $77m for urgent repairs
The Guardian
The Northern Territory government will invest $25m to upgrade town camps, starting with urgent repairs to housing and infrastructure, as part of its response to a review into the Indigenous communities. But the report found that $77.7m was needed just ...

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NEWS.com.au
Gurrumul film follows his remarkable life
NEWS.com.au
The film also had access to Gurrumul's home on Elcho Island, recording several poignant moments, including the funerals of both his parents. The result is a film that has a lot to say about the extraordinary musician, and indigenous Australian culture ...

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Western Advocate
Gurrumul film follows his remarkable life
Western Advocate
From the beginning of his working relationship with Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, producer Michael Hohnen knew that he was special. So much so, that the man who helped bring the indigenous Australian musician to the world, had the wherewithal to start ...

The Saturday Paper
Anita Heiss [ed] Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
The Saturday Paper
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia is a mosaic, its more than 50 tiles – short personal essays with unique patterns, shapes, colours and textures – coming together to form a powerful portrait of resilience. Some contributors, such as footballer Adam ...

The Guardian
Prince Charles has visited the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy but will it change anything for ...
NT News
Because we go to Canada, New Zealand, we go to meet lots of indigenous people all over the world,” Mr Rooke says. Just two days before the Prince and his entourage touched down at Gove Airport, they had flown from Australia for a fly-in, fly-out visit ...
Northern Territory town camps need $77m for urgent repairsThe Guardian

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Prince Charles has visited the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy but will it change anything for ...
NT News
Aboriginal Australians were first promised a treaty by Bob Hawke at the Barunga Festival, about 600km from Yirrkala as the crow flies, 30 years ago. After decades of government inaction and last year's failed attempt to see an indigenous voice ...

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Prince Charles has visited the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy but will it change anything for ...
The Advertiser
Because we go to Canada, New Zealand, we go to meet lots of indigenous people all over the world,” Mr Rooke says. Just two days before the Prince and his entourage touched down at Gove Airport, they had flown from Australia for a fly-in, fly-out visit ...

Indigenous should be moved out of town camp ghettos, says report
The Australian
A $2.4 million review of the Northern Territory's 43 Aboriginal town camps has found many are ghettos with poor infrastructure, social problems and few economic opportunities, and their residents should be encouraged to move to urban centres. The ...

The Australian
Life lessons
The Australian
We end our journey the following morning with a healing ceremony on the beach at Nangudga Lake. Bannon-Harrison calls on the wind spirit koorah-karigh and, to my surprise, a breeze I hadn't noticed becomes stronger and my dress flies in the air. Then ...

The Australian
Light from the hill
The Australian
But it is in the pieces dealing with Aboriginal Australia that the author is most in command of his material. Hill spent years travelling through the living heart of the continent, reading the explorers, naturalists, outback crackpots, Lutheran ...

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The Advertiser
Aboriginal elders claim artefacts seized by police with baby remains have not been returned
The Advertiser
Ms McInness said she had spoken with Forensic Science South Australia on April 5, the day of the re-burial, and was advised that everything that was with the remains when delivered for examination had been returned with them. Following that ...

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Pro Bono Australia
Permanent Housing is Number One Priority
Pro Bono Australia
“Unlike in the USA, where the issue of veterans' homelessness receives widespread attention, there has been limited research into the issue in Australia,” he said. “Neither Census nor administrative data sources have included veterans' status. However ...

The Advertiser
Gin at Tasting Australia festival: Awareness of local botanicals and flavours is helping drive South Australia's gin ...
The Advertiser
Then, on Thursday, Tasting Australia hosts the inaugural Spirit Awards, with more than 160 entrants — half of them gins from across Australia. SA's take on the global gin craze has gone to the next level and fits perfectly with our pioneering stance ...

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The Australian
Commonwealth Games 2018 Day 9 live coverage: Guy Sebastian heads closing ceremony line-up
The Australian
As he and Solomon waited for the baton, he gave the Australian a nudge. Solomon stood his ground, took the baton from Ralph, put his foot on the gas and for a moment ran Australia into the 400m relay final. The elation was short-lived. Australian ...

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Wide World of Sports
Police arrest five at indigenous protest during Commonwealth Games
Wide World of Sports
Friday's protest was the latest in a string of actions by a group upset by the impact of the Commonwealth on indigenous populations in Australia including a disruption of the Queen's Baton Relay last week. The group has been camping at a site on the ...
Aboriginal communities shame colonialist Commonwealth GamesGreen Left Weekly
Aboriginal abuse victim throttles himself in Games protestYahoo7 News
'Stolenwealth Games': Aboriginal Activists Continue Anit-Commonwealth Protest in AustraliateleSUR tv HTTPS (press release) (blog)

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Camden Advertiser
OPINION | Equality is fickle topic
Camden Advertiser
But that doesn't mean we can't acknowledge the historic fact that Immigrant Australia was built on the ruins of Aboriginal Australia. In other words, 230 short years of passion, horror and great achievement stands on a base of 40,000 years of ...

The Canberra Times
From remote Indigenous communities to the Australian Running Festival
The Canberra Times
... on the course, and see a live leaderboard showing the top five men and women, split times and expected finish times. "It puts a useful, interactive resource at the fingertips of the thousands of runners and their supporters, andputs a personal ...
Prince Charles has visited the remote Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy but will it change anything for ...NT News

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