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How our arts critics saw 2017 - The Conversation AU


The Conversation AU

How our arts critics saw 2017
The Conversation AU
There was no shortage of brilliant new Australian theatre. Muriel's Wedding: the Musical was a roaring tribute to Australia's most-loved dag. As Caroline Wake wrote, Barbara and the Camp Dogs was a pub-rock gig that became a comment on an exhausting ...

2018 health trends: Best places to go in Toowoomba - Toowoomba Chronicle


Toowoomba Chronicle

2018 health trends: Best places to go in Toowoomba
Toowoomba Chronicle
LOOK forward to a year of native Australian superfoods, high-fat diets, and new yoga trends. These new food and fitness trends are on the rise in 2018 according to dietitian and founder of The Australian Superfood Co Hayley Blieden. "Over the last ...

Does the route to equality include Indigenous peoples? - OUPblog (blog)


OUPblog (blog)

Does the route to equality include Indigenous peoples?
OUPblog (blog)
How then does that affect, if at all, Indigenous peoples in Australia? Shireen Morris of the Cape York Institute argues that the same as the matter of recognition is important to the same-sex couples (who otherwise can legally co-habit in Australia ...

Cyclone Hilda hits WA mainland, Broome lashed with 100kmph winds - ABC Local


ABC Local

Cyclone Hilda hits WA mainland, Broome lashed with 100kmph winds
ABC Local
A tropical low has developed into Cyclone Hilda off the northern Western Australian coast, bringing down trees and lashing the tourist town of Broome with 100 kilometre-per-hour winds as it tracks along the Kimberley coast. The Bureau of Meteorology ...

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Sydney Festival's Bayala: How we all speak some Darug - Brisbane Times


Brisbane Times

Sydney Festival's Bayala: How we all speak some Darug
Brisbane Times
Mahboob and Professor Jakelin Troy, Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research at the University of Sydney, are planning ambitious research with indigenous communities from Asia, Europe, South America and Australia to explore the ...

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Sydney Festival's Bayala: How we all speak some Darug - Brisbane Times


Brisbane Times

Sydney Festival's Bayala: How we all speak some Darug
Brisbane Times
Mahboob and Professor Jakelin Troy, Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research at the University of Sydney, are planning ambitious research with indigenous communities from Asia, Europe, South America and Australia to explore the ...

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Triple M stars distance themselves from Ozzest 100 - 9news.com.au


Triple M stars distance themselves from Ozzest 100
9news.com.au
Triple M radio stars Mick Molloy and Jane Kennedy have distanced themselves from their employers after it took a jab at Triple J for changing the date of its Hottest 100 countdown. Molloy and Kennedy, who joined forces in October for Triple M's ...

How 12000 Aussie children now have shoes on their feet - The Sunshine Coast Daily


The Sunshine Coast Daily

How 12000 Aussie children now have shoes on their feet
The Sunshine Coast Daily
The foundation runs Shoes and Socks 4 Kids and Uniforms 4 Kids programs which help address the reality of an Australian economy in which half of all indigenous and one-in-seven non-indigenous children live in poverty, according the Australian Research ...

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Federal government accused of 'retribution' against Aboriginal Tent Embassy - The Canberra Times


The Canberra Times

Federal government accused of 'retribution' against Aboriginal Tent Embassy
The Canberra Times
On Tuesday the place of protest, which officially began on Australia Day 1972, was unusually quiet. Two portable toilets remained beside a small pile of garbage. In the coming weeks, the tent embassy hopes to raise money for portable showers. While the ...

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Name cleared in Commonwealth Games mascot koala blue - The Australian


The Australian

Name cleared in Commonwealth Games mascot koala blue
The Australian
Wesley Aird, a member of the local Yugambeh clan — and a former indigenous adviser to John Howard — launched legal action over the use and trademark of the mascot for the Games in April. Despite months of consultation with Yugambeh representatives ...

Name cleared in Commonwealth Games mascot koala blue - The Australian


The Australian

Name cleared in Commonwealth Games mascot koala blue
The Australian
Wesley Aird, a member of the local Yugambeh clan — and a former indigenous adviser to John Howard — launched legal action over the use and trademark of the mascot for the Games in April. Despite months of consultation with Yugambeh representatives ...

Banks extend remote area fee-free ATMs for another five years - The Australian


The Australian

Banks extend remote area fee-free ATMs for another five years
The Australian
Remote indigenous communities around Australia will have access to fee-free ATMs for another five years under an agreement between the federal government and banking industry. After a difficult year for the banks, in which increased political pressure ...

Nyunggai Warren Mundine: Indigenous business is key to better life - Herald Sun


Herald Sun

Nyunggai Warren Mundine: Indigenous business is key to better life
Herald Sun
Business isn't something Australians associate with indigenous people. It's usually disadvantage, welfare, remote communities with “no jobs” and disparity. The disparity is real and exists for one reason: too many indigenous people don't participate in ...

Nyunggai Warren Mundine: Indigenous business is key to better life - Herald Sun


Herald Sun

Nyunggai Warren Mundine: Indigenous business is key to better life
Herald Sun
Business isn't something Australians associate with indigenous people. It's usually disadvantage, welfare, remote communities with “no jobs” and disparity. The disparity is real and exists for one reason: too many indigenous people don't participate in ...

Two More Prominent Triple M Hosts Have Spoken Out Against The 'Ozzest 100' - Pedestrian TV


Pedestrian TV

Two More Prominent Triple M Hosts Have Spoken Out Against The 'Ozzest 100'
Pedestrian TV
A pair of high profile Triple M hosts have spoken out on-air against the network's decision to run their Ozzest 1o0 countdown on January 26th; a countdown being run seemingly as a pisstaking effort against Triple J's highly commended decision to move ...
Two more Triple M presenters distance themselves from 'Ozzest 100' countdownThe Sydney Morning Herald

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#10 TOP IA STORY OF 2017: Drowning in White privilege - Independent Australia


Independent Australia

#10 TOP IA STORY OF 2017: Drowning in White privilege
Independent Australia
I worry that, as bad as this is, it can get worse and probably will because of the level of apathy in the non-Indigenous community. This devastates me beyond the capacity to speak most days. When the rest of my family is asleep, I sit up by myself and ...

Why all art lovers should come to Canberra in summer 2017 - The Canberra Times


The Canberra Times

Why all art lovers should come to Canberra in summer 2017
The Canberra Times
4) Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, National Museum of Australia (closes February 25, 2018) is an exceptional exhibition that brings to life one of the grand ancestral tales of Aboriginal Australia. Through a combination of high-tech wizardry and ...

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Why all art lovers should come to Canberra in summer 2017 - The Canberra Times


The Canberra Times

Why all art lovers should come to Canberra in summer 2017
The Canberra Times
4) Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, National Museum of Australia (closes February 25, 2018) is an exceptional exhibition that brings to life one of the grand ancestral tales of Aboriginal Australia. Through a combination of high-tech wizardry and ...

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The hidden secrets of Rottnest Island revealed - The West Australian


The West Australian

The hidden secrets of Rottnest Island revealed
The West Australian
But it has been only in the past decade or so that the heritage value of these underground tunnels, buildings and wells — most of them unseen by typical island holidaymakers — has been realised and appreciated. And thoughts are now turning to how ...

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ABC's Nightlife quiz a guilty pleasure - The Australian


The Australian

ABC's Nightlife quiz a guilty pleasure
The Australian
And I'd love to say thank you to Heather from Western Australia. I went to the post office, and there's a lovely card and a beautiful letter from Heather wishing me all the best, and she says, 'I do love listening to you, Emily'.” We know what Heather ...

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