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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Canberra woman Mikaela Jade wins national award for rock art app
The Sydney Morning Herald
("Veuve" is French for widow.) Mikaela, who has been working on Indigital Storytelling for six years, mostly recently collaborating with Microsoft to use the content on its mixed reality device, HoloLens, felt the award was further validation of her ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous Canberra woman Mikaela Jade wins national award for rock art app
The Sydney Morning Herald
("Veuve" is French for widow.) Mikaela, who has been working on Indigital Storytelling for six years, mostly recently collaborating with Microsoft to use the content on its mixed reality device, HoloLens, felt the award was further validation of her ...

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The Canberra Times
Indigenous Canberra woman Mikaela Jade wins national award for rock art app
The Canberra Times
It was like a double-edged sword, because I could see it so clearly," she said. "I think just chipping away at it and doing it in a remote community was probably the best thing I ever did because we could just get on with it. There wasn't a whole ...

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UNSW Newsroom
UNSW student wins prestigious Indigenous law scholarship
UNSW Newsroom
On Tuesday, the UNSW Sydney student was awarded the Law Council of Australia's 2018 John Koowarta Reconciliation Law Scholarship. The prestigious award is the only national scholarship dedicated to helping Indigenous law students achieve their ambition ...

UNSW Newsroom
UNSW student wins prestigious Indigenous law scholarship
UNSW Newsroom
On Tuesday, the UNSW Sydney student was awarded the Law Council of Australia's 2018 John Koowarta Reconciliation Law Scholarship. The prestigious award is the only national scholarship dedicated to helping Indigenous law students achieve their ambition ...

9news.com.au
Redress exclusion idea racist inquiry told
9news.com.au
But Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency representative Megan Van Den Berg told a Senate committee sitting in Melbourne that meant survivors who made applications for redress would be judged on whether they were deserving or undeserving. "These ...
Redress exclusion is racist: inquirySBS

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The North West Star
Kalkadoon woman to speak at business conference
The North West Star
A Cloncurry businesswoman is one of the keynote speakers at the first national Indigenous Women in Business conference this May. The Strong Women, Strong Business conference will draw together more than 120 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

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The North West Star
Kalkadoon woman to speak at business conference
The North West Star
A Cloncurry businesswoman is one of the keynote speakers at the first national Indigenous Women in Business conference this May. The Strong Women, Strong Business conference will draw together more than 120 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

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The Australian
The truth and children just swept under the carpet
The Australian
I have heard the ongoing complaints made (mostly by privileged urban Aboriginal Australians) about the 2007 intervention. Those who complained loudest were far removed from the actual circumstances, which were laid bare in the Little Children are ...

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The Advocate
Aussie tennis legend Evonne Goolagong visits Burnie.
The Advocate
Evonne Goolagong Cawley had three dreams, to win Wimbledon, start a grassroots foundation and to see Indigenous Australian recognised in the constitution. The former world number one and seven-time singles grand slam winner has achieved the first two ...

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The Advocate
Aussie tennis legend Evonne Goolagong visits Burnie.
The Advocate
Evonne Goolagong Cawley had three dreams, to win Wimbledon, start a grassroots foundation and to see Indigenous Australian recognised in the constitution. The former world number one and seven-time singles grand slam winner has achieved the first two ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
Competing National Aboriginal Art Galleries
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Opposition Leader Steven Marshall said the gallery would be of international significance and would attract visitors to Adelaide. The proposed gallery would build on assets already established in Adelaide, including Tandanya National Aboriginal ...

The Australian
Aboriginal children's sexual health a national tragedy
The Australian
... born to mothers with syphilis are dying. Labor senator Patrick Dodson has been quoted as saying the national response was inadequate. “Something's not working here,” Senator Dodson said. “If this was happening in Victoria …” But of course, it's ...

The Australian
Aboriginal children's sexual health a national tragedy
The Australian
Oh, you hadn't heard? Yes, there's an epidemic in Queensland, and in some cases, infants born to mothers with syphilis are dying. Labor senator Patrick Dodson has been quoted as saying the national response was inadequate. “Something's not working here ...

MuMbrella
Philanthropy supports journalism initiative with Indigenous affairs at its heart
The Guardian
“I'm delighted and honoured to join the team at the Guardian, who are making this significant public commitment to the coverage of Indigenous affairs, with the support of The Balnaves Foundation. Our stories matter. Now more than ever there's a need to ...
Guardian Australia and the University of Melbourne launch journalism trustMuMbrella

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Red Flag
Australian apartheid, even in death
Red Flag
At Fitzroy Crossing in northern Western Australia, for example, the persistence of Australian racism even in death meant that until the 1990s there were in effect two cemeteries: the Fitzroy Crossing Pioneer (i.e. white) Cemetery, and largely unmarked ...

The Guardian
Queensland police say they used 'minimum force' to restrain Indigenous man who died
The Guardian
Queensland police have defended their use of force prior to the death of Shaun Coolwell in custody. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP. Queensland police used the “minimum force necessary” when they restrained an Indigenous man during a violent, drug-induced ...

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ABC Online
Melbourne Dreaming app makes understanding city's rich Aboriginal history easier
ABC Online
Mr Ritchie said Aboriginal stories could often be overlooked as something that happened in the past or in faraway parts of Australia. "When most people think about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia, they think of it either as something ...

ABC Online
Melbourne Dreaming app makes understanding city's rich Aboriginal history easier
ABC Online
Mr Ritchie said Aboriginal stories could often be overlooked as something that happened in the past or in faraway parts of Australia. "When most people think about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia, they think of it either as something ...

Newcastle Herald
A meteor flashes across the sky of Newcastle
Newcastle Herald
Aboriginal people saw an emu shape in the stars. Image: Curnow/Glasper. Who were the first astronomers? “As Australia has the oldest continuous culture on Earth, the first Australians were very likely to have also been the first astronomers ...

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