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Australia's Peter Cosgrove vows to promote religious freedoms, Indigenous rights in new UN human rights position
SBS
Sorry, it appears as though your operating system and/or web browser does not support modern standards. Please consider updating your web browser. It is the first time Australia has been elected a member of the UN Human Rights Council. Updated Updated ...

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InDaily
Marshall's grand old RAH plan running behind interstate rival
InDaily
Marshall's concept also appears likely to delay – or even kill off – hopes for a broader contemporary art gallery for the site, which is currently the subject of an international design competition. He said today the absence of a national indigenous ...
SA Libs want art gallery on hospital siteSBS

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ABC Online
SA election: Liberals propose Aboriginal gallery and hotel development on old RAH site
ABC Online
"South Australia has the most significant collection [of Aboriginal art] in the world — it is now time to showcase this," Mr Marshall said. "A national Aboriginal gallery will build a greater understanding of Aboriginal history and culture in the ...
SA Libs want art gallery on hospital siteSBS

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SBS
This native superfood is 8 times as nutritious as potato and tastes as sweet as coconut
SBS
According to historian, author and agriculturalist, Bruce Pascoe, the murnong was a common food source for Aboriginal people before European settlement, and the Indigenous population had sophisticated ways of farming this nutritious vegetable (with one ...

SBS
This native superfood is 8 times as nutritious as potato and tastes as sweet as coconut
SBS
We all know about the North American yam and its place on the Thanksgiving table (even if candied yams are actually made with sweet potatoes), but did you know that Australia has native varieties of the root vegetable, too? There's a long agricultural ...

Ballarat Courier
SA Libs want art gallery on hospital site
Ballarat Courier
"The National Aboriginal Gallery will be of international significance and attract visitors from across Australia and throughout the world," Mr Marshall said on Tuesday. The new gallery would provide a significant cultural and economic boost to the ...

The Australian
PoliticsNow: live news, analysis from the House of Representatives and Senate
The Australian
“Governments make the mistake of hand selecting people that they will listen to.” Earlier this month, Mr Turnbull said the government would not support the “voice” concept and warned it would become a third chamber of parliament. “If it were to succeed ...
Politics Live: Malcolm Turnbull tries to shake off Barnaby Joyce sagaThe Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
Morning mail: voters not troubled by Joyce affair
The Guardian
Two of Australia's most acclaimed writers, Helen Garner and Kim Scott, took to the stage together at Perth writers' week. Brigid Delaney hears them sharing their thoughts on literature, writing communities, #MeToo and more. “Garner could deliver her ...

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The Guardian (blog)
When Douglas Grant met Henry Lawson: new light on Australia's dark story
The Guardian (blog)
Grant's life was complex, incorporating so many competing narratives of Australian history. There is the frequently overlooked story of modern Australia – that of violent dispossession and all its profound reverberations through intergenerational ...

The Guardian (blog)
When Douglas Grant met Henry Lawson: new light on Australia's dark story
The Guardian (blog)
Grant's life was complex, incorporating so many competing narratives of Australian history. There is the frequently overlooked story of modern Australia – that of violent dispossession and all its profound reverberations through intergenerational ...

Kathimerini
The Greek defending the rights of Aboriginal Australians
Kathimerini
Andrew Jackomos is fighting to improve the living conditions of young members of the Koori tribe, indigenous Australians of New South Wales and Victoria. Still, when the 65-year-old walked around Kastellorizo, the island from which his grandfather ...

The Australian
'Silenced' indigenous abuse victims living in fear
The Australian
Documents obtained by The Australian under Freedom of Information laws show child neglect was the most widespread issue in the communities visited by the former National Indigenous Intelligence Taskforce established by the Australian Criminal ...

The Australian
'Silenced' indigenous abuse victims living in fear
The Australian
Documents obtained by The Australian under Freedom of Information laws show child neglect was the most widespread issue in the communities visited by the former National Indigenous Intelligence Taskforce established by the Australian Criminal ...

Wild Australia Tour: safe encounters with the exotic, the native, the savage, the other
The Australian
We are probably the first international arts exports of this colonised country. From the early 1800s we entertained the elite of Germany, England, North America and most notably in “return seasons” at the Paris world's fair. Our culture, songs and ...

The Advertiser
SA Liberals propose national Aboriginal Art and Culture Gallery, high-end hotel for old RAH site
The Advertiser
However, he said an indigenous gallery would make Adelaide stand out as a must-see and unique destination for visitors who would then tour and spend in SA's regions. “Australia doesn't have a national Aboriginal art and culture centre,” Mr Marshall ...

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The Advertiser
SA Liberals propose national Aboriginal Art and Culture Gallery, high-end hotel for old RAH site
The Advertiser
AUSTRALIA'S leading indigenous art gallery would become the centrepiece of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site, under a bold new Liberal redevelopment plan. With two and a half weeks until the state election, The Advertiser can reveal the Opposition's ...

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Daily Mail
'It's nonsense': I'm A Celebrity's David Oldfield doubles down on his shocking claims that Aboriginal Australians ...
Daily Mail
He's the former One Nation politician who recently claimed that Aboriginal Australians and other native peoples 'didn't invent anything'. And on Monday, David Oldfield doubled down on his shocking remarks after being kicked off I'm A Celebrity... Get ...
I'm A Celebrity Australia star David Oldfield booted off the show after sparking race rowMirror.co.uk

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Indigenous model Charlee Fraser is proud to represent her culture on the fashion world stage
Daily Telegraph
Fraser will appear on the magazine's cover alongside Australian models Fernanda Ly, Akiima and Andreja Pejic as a move to promote diversity in the industry. Vogue Australia editor in chief Edwina McCann said the magazine was proud of the revolutionary ...

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The Australian
Warren Mundine blasts radical Aboriginals over terror talk
The Australian
Wayne Wharton, who is organising a protest camp at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, told The Australian that activists were “not far” from taking up guns due to the Prime Minister's stance on a range of indigenous issues. Mr Mundine, a former head of ...
Turnbull no longer cares about reconciliation with Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Wayne Wharton says young indigenous activists could soon resort to terrorismDaily Mail
Indigenous activists to target Prince Charles with Games protests: ReportStarts at 60

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Museum festival, Weave, tackles myths of Sydney's first people
The Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's Aboriginal people were the first known astronomers, the world's first known bread makers and pioneered ground-edge axe technology – but you wouldn't know it from most historic accounts of early white settlement. The colonial rush to ...

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