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Live Science
Burn, Baby, Burn: Australian Birds Steal Fire to Smoke Out Prey
Live Science
But in Australia, some fire-foraging birds are also fire starters. Three species of raptors — predatory birds with sharp beaks and talons, and keen eyesight — are widely known not only for lurking on the fringes of fires but also for snatching up ...

Live Science
Burn, Baby, Burn: Australian Birds Steal Fire to Smoke Out Prey
Live Science
But in Australia, some fire-foraging birds are also fire starters. Three species of raptors — predatory birds with sharp beaks and talons, and keen eyesight — are widely known not only for lurking on the fringes of fires but also for snatching up ...

The Australian
GST changes to channel more funding to remote communities
The Australian
“The category of indigenous in terms of distributing the money has become meaningless — proportionally, the Aboriginal population is doing well on the east coast, and as a population is doing extremely badly in central Australia.” The Papunya ...

The Australian
GST changes to channel more funding to remote communities
The Australian
“The category of indigenous in terms of distributing the money has become meaningless — proportionally, the Aboriginal population is doing well on the east coast, and as a population is doing extremely badly in central Australia.” The Papunya ...

The Mercury
Steve Mav to run for the new Legislative Council seat of Prosser
The Mercury
The 40-year-old, previously known as Mavrigiannakis, who also stood as a candidate for the seat of Rumney in 2004 has been accused by one of Australia's biggest Aboriginal corporation's of ripping it off to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars ...

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The Australian
Australian of the Year: Dick Smith is till reaching for the sky
The Australian
The Dick Smith legend, seen in Dick Smith Electronics and Australian Geographic, is one of starting with good concepts, working very hard to build them into successful businesses, then selling them off for a lot of money. “You look around the world ...

Australian Indigenous objects become 'cultural ambassadors' in Rome in new book
The Tablet
Australian Indigenous objects that have become "cultural ambassadors" in Rome feature in a new joint publication of Aboriginal Studies Press and the Vatican Museums, launched recently. 'Australia – The Vatican Museums Indigenous Collection' features ...

Australian Indigenous objects become 'cultural ambassadors' in Rome in new book
The Tablet
Australian Indigenous objects that have become "cultural ambassadors" in Rome feature in a new joint publication of Aboriginal Studies Press and the Vatican Museums, launched recently. 'Australia – The Vatican Museums Indigenous Collection' features ...

Irish Times
The magistrate from Tralee who took a stand on Aboriginal genocide
Irish Times
As a reprisal for the alleged spearing of livestock, a party of stockmen shot and killed at least 28 Aboriginal men, women and children who were camped at a Myall Creek station. The stockmen attempted to dispose of the evidence of their crime by ...

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The West Australian
Federal Government to match billion dollar Territory investment in remote housing
NT News
In Gunbalanya, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion announced the Federal Government would kick in $1.1 billion into remote housing in the NT. A separate $776 million commitment by the federal government to the National Partnership Agreement on ...
Ministers in housing fund war of wordsThe West Australian
Canberra to match $1.1b NT housing pledgeYahoo7 News

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Courier Mail
Brisbane Heat's Brendan Doggett hopes his Big Bash form will take him on indigenous UK tour
Courier Mail
Australia is sending an indigenous team to England in July to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the iconic first tour there by an indigenous side and Doggett would love to be a part of it. “That is a massive tour for us — they have spent a long time ...

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NEWS.com.au
Brisbane Heat's Brendan Doggett hopes his Big Bash form will take him on indigenous UK tour
NEWS.com.au
Australia is sending an indigenous team to England in July to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the iconic first tour there by an indigenous side and Doggett would love to be a part of it. “That is a massive tour for us — they have spent a long time ...

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Insights News
Family history and the impact of faith
Insights News
Cedric is my husband and one of the many Indigenous Australians born into what we now call 'The Stolen Generation.' In spite of this, he knew that God's hand was upon him, guiding him through the perilous and troubled times of his life. When we moved ...

Canberra to match $1.1b NT housing pledge
Yahoo7 News
Canberra has declared it will match a 10-year $1.1 billion Northern Territory investment in remote housing but slammed Western Australia for having a "whinge" instead of similarly pledging funds. A separate $776 million commitment by the federal ...

Echonetdaily
Indigenous runners get chance to compete in New York Marathon
Echonetdaily
Unfortunately for a lot of people they never get to really ignite this fire,' Layne Brown, a member of last year's IMP said. 'In New York last November I felt so normal; like I was meant to be here at this very moment in time and that running marathons ...

Echonetdaily
Indigenous runners get chance to compete in New York Marathon
Echonetdaily
Each year a group of 12 Indigenous Australians (six men and six women) are selected to train for the New York City Marathon with just six months of training. Education is a compulsory part of the IMP program and all squad members are required to ...

South Coast Register
Shoalhaven athletes to create history with New Zealand tour
South Coast Register
SEVEN of the Shoalhaven's top athletes have been selected in the two Australian indigenous representative football teams, consisting of 18 men and 18 women players, which will travel to Auckland, New Zealand on a historic tour. Wreck Bay trio Lewis ...

South Coast Register
Shoalhaven athletes to create history with New Zealand tour
South Coast Register
SEVEN of the Shoalhaven's top athletes have been selected in the two Australian indigenous representative football teams, consisting of 18 men and 18 women players, which will travel to Auckland, New Zealand on a historic tour. Wreck Bay trio Lewis ...

Broadsheet
A Voyage Through the Centre of Australia, from a Tree Stump
Broadsheet
Your guides through this eclectic journey are two dancers: Waangenga Blanco of Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia's acclaimed Indigenous performing arts company, and New Yorker Khalif Diouf, who you may know by his rap moniker Le1f, with a score by ...

Broadsheet
A Voyage Through the Centre of Australia, from a Tree Stump
Broadsheet
Your guides through this eclectic journey are two dancers: Waangenga Blanco of Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia's acclaimed Indigenous performing arts company, and New Yorker Khalif Diouf, who you may know by his rap moniker Le1f, with a score by ...