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Australian Indigenous collection among the most visited exhibitions at the Vatican
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Father Mapelli is the director at the Vatican Ethnological Museum and is in Australia this week to launch a book about the Vatican's Indigenous Australian collection. In an effort to learn about the origins of the artefacts, Father Mapelli travelled to ...

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Australian Indigenous collection among the most visited exhibitions at the Vatican
ABC Online
Father Mapelli is the director at the Vatican Ethnological Museum and is in Australia this week to launch a book about the Vatican's Indigenous Australian collection. In an effort to learn about the origins of the artefacts, Father Mapelli travelled to ...

The Conversation AU
Barbara and the Camp Dogs turns pub theatre into an impassioned call to listen to Indigenous Australians
The Conversation AU
Barbara and the Camp Dogs begins the way most pub gigs do — with a sound check. The audio engineer skips onto the raised stage, tests a microphone, and then hurries back to his desk. The three members of the band stand around, casually surveying the ...

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The Vatican seeks help from AIATSIS to discover more about its extensive Indigenous Australian artefacts
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The Vatican in Italy holds an extensive collection of Indigenous art and historical items from Australia. Vatican representatives have been talking to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) about what the ...

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Albert Namatjira painting gifted to Alice Springs Aboriginal dialysis centre to raise funds for nurses' wages
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A rare Albert Namatjira painting has been donated to an Alice Springs Aboriginal renal dialysis centre, which hopes to use funds from its sale to ensure more patients can be treated closer to home. The donation was made by the Ngurratjuta Aboriginal ...

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NAISDA: The birthplace of contemporary Indigenous dance
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NAISDA receives funding through the Department of Communications and the Arts, and Prime Minister and Cabinet federally, as well as support through the NSW Government. While funding has been consistent over the years, NAISDA is in need of increased ...

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Indigenous and rural school attendance getting worse despite investment, new report shows
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"I remember having to attend funerals quite often. There are a lot of events that go on in a young Indigenous person's life where they need to prioritise or they need to balance." The education data, which is based on school reports from the first ...

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Australian NFL star Adam Gotsis wears indigenous boots for Denver Broncos
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“The reason why I chose to represent Around the Campfire is because the indigenous communities throughout Australia are still facing adversities and hardships. “I feel that I can use my platform and voice in the community to help raise awareness for ...

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Serving Country: A look at the faces of Australia's Indigenous service women and men
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Although Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are believed to have served in Australia's Defence Force since the Boer War, they are often left out of the memory of our service men and women. Well Serving Country strives to change that, and ...

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Love and Education: Connecting keys to Indigenous culture
SBS
It is known that from the early 19th century Greek migrants had a special relationship with Indigenous Australians. Many great human stories have erupted in the media through the years. How difficult is to connect the Greek and Indigenous culture? 'The ...

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Literary great Peter Carey tackles questions about what it means to be a white Australian
Herald Sun
When Bachhuber discovers his heritage is not what he had been led to believe, it opens the way for Carey to bring up his examination of what it means to be white in Australia then and to take that into the context, now. Stan Grant was asked to read the ...

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The Australian
Australian fiction: Aborigines' treatment a moral bind for white Australians
The Australian
In his famous Redfern speech, Paul Keating talked about the necessity of imagination and empathy to help heal some of the wounds inflicted on Aboriginal Australia. Yet our avoidance is utilitarian and our empathy too frequently abstracted into totemic ...

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ABC Online
Who identifies as a person of colour in Australia?
ABC Online
As an Aboriginal person who has been actively involved in issues of language and terminology, much of the conversation seemed oddly familiar. Aboriginal, Aborigines, Indigenous, First Nations, First Peoples, First Nations Peoples, First Australians ...

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Aboriginal justice activist, sportsman Sol Bellear dies
The Australian
He was deeply involved in the land rights marches and Tent Embassy movement of the 1970s, and was awarded an Order of Australia in 1999 for services to the Aboriginal community. Bellear was also passionate about rugby league, playing grade football for ...
Sol Bellear, 'relentless fighter' for Aboriginal rights, dies in SydneyABC Local

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The Adelaide Review
Transforming the South Australian Museum
The Adelaide Review
A proposed new site to store, promote and share the South Australian Museum's Aboriginal collections would help define Adelaide as a year-round destination for national and international visitors interested in Aboriginal art and culture. Museums are ...

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Indigenous children in care could 'triple in 20 years' if nothing done, advocacy group warns
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"We're talking about massive numbers of Aboriginal children who are growing up disconnected from their families, from their communities and culture and the systems that they're growing up in aren't producing better outcomes." It has been 20 years since ...

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Why Aboriginal Australians are still having their wages 'stolen' 50 years after the Wave Hill Walk-off
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It's 2017 and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are again fighting against the systemic denial of fair pay for work. When people talk about stolen wages — the slavery-like system that saw Aboriginal people denied any or equal pay for hard ...
Indigenous children removal rate on the upSBS
Number of Indigenous children in care to triple unless spending changes – reportThe Guardian

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Why Aboriginal Australians are still having their wages 'stolen' 50 years after the Wave Hill Walk-off
ABC Online
It's 2017 and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are again fighting against the systemic denial of fair pay for work. When people talk about stolen wages — the slavery-like system that saw Aboriginal people denied any or equal pay for hard ...

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The Conversation AU
In Bangarra's Ones Country, new voices show the many faces of Indigenous Australia
The Conversation AU
Bangarra, Australia's preeminent Indigenous dance theatre, has to be one of the country's hardest working companies. In 2017, its dancers prepared and performed six different works, giving 88 public performances around Australia and overseas (excluding ...

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Noel Pearson says Turnbull has 'burned bridge of bipartisanship', looks to future Labor government
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Mr Pearson said he regrets urging Indigenous Australians to put their trust in conservative politicians and the right side of politics because they have been betrayed in the end. "What I would say to them is that I have no right, I have no right to ...

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