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The Stella Prize: Alexis Wright wins for her collective memoir Tracker
Radio Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains images of people who have died. "How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?" This is the opening line of ...

Radio Australia
The Stella Prize: Alexis Wright wins for her collective memoir Tracker
Radio Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains images of people who have died. "How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?" This is the opening line of ...

ABC Online
The Stella Prize: Alexis Wright wins for her collective memoir Tracker
ABC Online
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains images of people who have died. "How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?" This is the opening line of ...
Alexis Wright wins Stella prize for 'majestic' biography of Tracker TilmouthThe Guardian
Alexis Wright wins 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker, an epic feat of Aboriginal storytellingThe Conversation AU

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ABC Online
The Stella Prize: Alexis Wright wins for her collective memoir Tracker
ABC Online
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following article contains images of people who have died. "How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?" This is the opening line of ...
Alexis Wright wins 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker, an epic feat of Aboriginal storytellingThe Conversation AU
Alexis Wright's unconventional biography wins the Stella PrizeThe Sydney Morning Herald
Wright wins 2018 Stella Prize for 'Tracker'Books+Publishing
The Guardian
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The Conversation AU
Alexis Wright wins 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker, an epic feat of Aboriginal storytelling
The Conversation AU
(Another memorable thumbnail character sketch, this one related by Tracker himself, is of current senator Pat Dodson as a “mobile wailing wall”: a place where white people go to confess and forgo their sins.) It also tells you a lot about Wright's epic ...
Alexis Wright's unconventional biography wins the Stella PrizeThe Sydney Morning Herald
Alexis Wright wins Stella prize for 'majestic' biography of Tracker TilmouthThe Guardian
Wright wins 2018 Stella Prize for 'Tracker'Books+Publishing
NEWS.com.au
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The West Australian
Cashless card 'a big punt'
The West Australian
The trial gained Federal Parliament approval in February but Mr Shorten and his Labor Party opposed the extension of the trial from its original sites of Ceduna, South Australia and the East Kimberley. Mr Shorten on Tuesday explained his objections to ...

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In both schooling and sport, Australia has slowly come to recognise its Aboriginal talent pool  The Conversation AU

Where else but on the sports field can an under-educated and even a troubled Aboriginal youth achieve celebrity status and social mobility?

The Sydney Morning Herald
Gurrumul's final gift: Australia's most original recording?
The Sydney Morning Herald
"We don't think that we have musical riffs that come from Australia … Aboriginal people from the Northern Territory create amazing musical patterns that go with these songs. Some are in 4/4, others are in 12/8. "Once we got the pattern, and once we ...

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Brisbane Times
First Queensland Indigenous judge 'breaks the glass ceiling'
Brisbane Times
"Indeed, I'm very grateful for the friends I've made over the years in the legal profession." Judge Jarro said the number of Indigenous law students and lawyers was growing every year. Bar Association of Queensland president Sandy Thompson said the ...

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Brisbane Times
First Queensland Indigenous judge 'breaks the glass ceiling'
Brisbane Times
"Indeed, I'm very grateful for the friends I've made over the years in the legal profession." Judge Jarro said the number of Indigenous law students and lawyers was growing every year. Bar Association of Queensland president Sandy Thompson said the ...

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Community Newspaper Group
'A 27-year-old white male who lives in Bondi': The face of Australian media
SBS
Would a media industry with more people who grew up outside of Australia's wealthiest, whitest enclaves constantly treat Sydney's west like a rolling re-enactment of Underbelly? Would we get as many headlines fretting that “Sydney is now more Asian ...
State of Homelessness in Australia's Cities report finds 'high numbers' of veterans sleeping roughCommunity Newspaper Group
'Dismal' lack of cultural diversity in key leadership positionsHuman Capital
Multiculturalism: Australia is 'dismal' on diversity - reportDeutsche Welle
ABC Online -Little India -Xinhua
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CNN
The community art centers helping Australia's Indigenous artists flourish
CNN
Marlene Rubjunta's love affair with soft sculpture -- the art of shaping soft materials like cloth and rubber -- was slow to ignite. When the Australian Indigenous artist first walked into a community arts center in her Northern Territory hometown ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Gillespie: 'I don't expect people to agree with me'
The Sydney Morning Herald
Gillespie - twice a County Championship winner with Yorkshire; a Big Bash League winner with the Adelaide Strikers; and now Sussex's head coach - is among the most highly regarded coaches in the world game. But his unstinting focus upon winning is ...

Katherine Times
Prince commends Army surveillance group
Katherine Times
“It was an honour to showcase the unique capabilities of the Regional Force Surveillance Group to The Prince,” Colonel Papalitsas said. “I'm pleased that The Prince was able to see first-hand the valuable contribution made by our people in some of the ...

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ABC Online
Brewarrina Mission open day connects past and present to Indigenous culture and heritage
ABC Online
The organisers of an inaugural open day at one of Australia's largest former Aboriginal missions hope the event will become a national movement towards Indigenous reconciliation. Australian National University researcher, Bhiamie Williamson helped to ...

ABC Online
Brewarrina Mission open day connects past and present to Indigenous culture and heritage
ABC Online
The organisers of an inaugural open day at one of Australia's largest former Aboriginal missions hope the event will become a national movement towards Indigenous reconciliation. Australian National University researcher, Bhiamie Williamson helped to ...

ABC Online
Why does Indigenous success make some white Australians uncomfortable?
ABC Online
I hoped Hyde's ignorant assumptions — made on a 2016 Collective Potential podcast about inequality in Australia — delivered future comic material, as she wrestled with his misconceptions. While his statement hung uneasily, it was a reminder of the ...
Stolenwealth Games indigenous protest creates traffic chaos in SouthportGold Coast Bulletin
Emma Manix-Geeves picked in Australian indigenous squad which will tour the UK for first timeThe Mercury
Tenterfield Tours expands its indigenous heritage experienceTenterfield Star
The Australian
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ABC Online
Why does Indigenous success make some white Australians uncomfortable?
ABC Online
I hoped Hyde's ignorant assumptions — made on a 2016 Collective Potential podcast about inequality in Australia — delivered future comic material, as she wrestled with his misconceptions. While his statement hung uneasily, it was a reminder of the ...
Stolenwealth Games indigenous protest creates traffic chaos in SouthportGold Coast Bulletin
Emma Manix-Geeves picked in Australian indigenous squad which will tour the UK for first timeThe Mercury
Tenterfield Tours expands its indigenous heritage experienceTenterfield Star
Hit 107 -The Australian
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Community Newspaper Group
State of Homelessness in Australia's Cities report finds 'high numbers' of veterans sleeping rough
Community Newspaper Group
... cent of respondents identifying as veterans reported they had suffered a serious brain injury or head trauma, a figure “considerably higher” than those who were not veterans. Only 51.3 per cent of veteran respondents reported they had enough income ...
In a Proudly Diverse Australia, White People Still Run Almost EverythingNew York Times

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Family the best form of welfare
The Australian
Indigenous families share the same rights and responsibilities as all Australians, which is why government policies should encourage them to get on with helping themselves wherever possible. The success of Fitzroy Crossing women, including Aboriginal ...

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