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Taika Waititi peppered 'Thor: Ragnarok' with Indigenous Australian and New Zealand references
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"That spaceship, that's painted with the Aboriginal flag colours. No one else knows that but us." Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok was filmed in Australia's Gold Coast, and stars locals Chris Hemsworth and Cate Blanchett, but that's not what makes it a ...
'Thor: Ragnarok' Director Taika Waititi Says He Filled The Film With Cool Aussie Easter EggsJunkee
The amusing origin story behind the spaceship names in Thor: RagnarokSYFY WIRE (blog)

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Taika Waititi peppered 'Thor: Ragnarok' with Indigenous Australian and New Zealand references
Mashable
"That spaceship, that's painted with the Aboriginal flag colours. No one else knows that but us." Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok was filmed in Australia's Gold Coast, and stars locals Chris Hemsworth and Cate Blanchett, but that's not what makes it a ...
Only Aussies And Kiwis Will Get "Thor: Ragnarok" Easter Eggs, Says DirectorBuzzFeed News

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Indigenous smoking rates cut down
Katherine Times
The number of smoking-related deaths among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians is predicted to continue to increase, and to peak over the next decade, resulting in thousands of premature deaths that are largely preventable. New research ...

Katherine Times
Indigenous smoking rates cut down
Katherine Times
The number of smoking-related deaths among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians is predicted to continue to increase, and to peak over the next decade, resulting in thousands of premature deaths that are largely preventable. New research ...

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Lynton Tapp's recipe for Rosella Prosecco Jelly
3AW
The plant has also long been a part of the indigenous Australians way of life and in 1886 it was documented that Aborigines harvested the young plant and ate the roots, young shoots and leaves as a part of their diet. The Aboriginals would also use the ...

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Daily Liberal
Aboriginal Languages Bill the first of it kind in Australia
Daily Liberal
NSW has become the first state in Australia to pass legislation through parliament acknowledging the value and importance of language to “our country's First Peoples” and to the cultural heritage of NSW. Gunnedah-based Minister for Aboriginal Affairs ...

ABC Online
Gord Downie from The Tragically Hip dies, prompting tears from Justin Trudeau
ABC Online
A few months after that concert, Downie released a solo album with an accompanying graphic novel and animated film inspired by the tragedy of state-funded church schools that Canadian Aboriginal children were forced to attend from the 19th century ...
Gord Downie, Tragically Hip frontman, dies of cancer aged 53The Guardian

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SBS
'Unacceptable to routinely reject committee's views': Australia grilled on human rights record by UN
SBS
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop nominated the empowerment of women globally, indigenous rights, abolition of the death penalty and crises in North Korea and Syria as the issues Australia would pursue during its tenure. It will also push for reforms to ...
Australia grilled on human rights by UNNEWS.com.au

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Aboriginal teen Sarafina Elliott flies flag on Mount Everest
NEWS.com.au
The 16-year-old Yawuru/Ngarluma girl planted the Aboriginal flag on the world's tallest mountain to honour her culture. “I thought everyone knows Australians go there and I don't think the Aboriginal flag has been up there,” she told NITV News.

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Aboriginal teen Sarafina Elliott flies flag on Mount Everest
NEWS.com.au
The 16-year-old Yawuru/Ngarluma girl planted the Aboriginal flag on the world's tallest mountain to honour her culture. “I thought everyone knows Australians go there and I don't think the Aboriginal flag has been up there,” she told NITV News.

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The Australian
The story of Australia's first indigenous representative
The Australian
At long last, the first indigenous person ever to represent Australia in any sport will be recognised. Depicted on the jersey, forming a ring around a stylised wallaby, are 14 waterholes, each of them representing the 14 Aborigines who have played Test ...

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The Australian
The story of Australia's first indigenous representative
The Australian
At long last, the first indigenous person ever to represent Australia in any sport will be recognised. Depicted on the jersey, forming a ring around a stylised wallaby, are 14 waterholes, each of them representing the 14 Aborigines who have played Test ...
'I'm not just confident, I'm more than confident'RTE.ie

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Courier Mail
Labor, Greens will unite to not hold citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day
Courier Mail
LABOR will support a Greens plan that gives politically-correct councils the right to stop holding citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day because “it cannot ignore” indigenous people feel the day “represents a history of dispossession and suffering”.

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NSW passes Aboriginal languages bill
Yahoo7 News
NSW has become the first state in Australia to pass legislation to protect Aboriginal languages, the government says. Legislation passed parliament on Wednesday, making the state the first to protect the endangered languages and establish an Aboriginal ...

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ABC Online
Wallabies trailblazer Lloyd McDermott on his Indigenous pride and rugby league's poaching
ABC Online
Ten years later he was admitted to the Bar in New South Wales and eventually became Australia's first Indigenous lawyer. He says he has three loves in his life — his family and fellow Indigenous people, the law and rugby union. On Saturday, the ...
Kurley Beale unveils Wallabies indigenous jumper for All Blacks clashNEWS.com.au

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ABC Online
Wallabies trailblazer Lloyd McDermott on his Indigenous pride and rugby league's poaching
ABC Online
Ten years later he was admitted to the Bar in New South Wales and eventually became Australia's first Indigenous lawyer. He says he has three loves in his life — his family and fellow Indigenous people, the law and rugby union. On Saturday, the ...
Indigenous jersey just the beginning for BealeRugby.com.au
Kurley Beale unveils Wallabies indigenous jumper for All Blacks clashNEWS.com.au

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National Indigenous Times
Kimberley women set to put talk into action
National Indigenous Times
The regional event, delivered jointly by Kimberley Aboriginal membership organisation Aarnja and Oxfam Australia, involved about 40 women from areas including Broome, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek, Kununurra, Derby, Wyndham, Dampier Peninsula and ...

SBS - The World Game
Taika Waititi turned a spaceship in Thor: Ragnarok into the Aboriginal flag
SBS - The World Game
The director further explained to Screen Australia that he purposely wanted to fill the giant Marvel film with in-jokes specifically for New Zealand and Australian audiences. As well as the Commodore showing the colours of the Aboriginal flag, another ...

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ABC Online
New stamps highlight work of Indigenous artists Bede Tungutalum and Banduk Marika
ABC Online
A Northern Territory artist whose work will be celebrated on a new stamp says he hopes it will inspire other Australians to learn about his culture. The works of two NT artists — Bede Tungutalum and Banduk Marika — have been chosen to appear on new ...

James wants people to come to his party
National Indigenous Times
Mr Gibbs said he was fed up that the opinions of Aboriginal Australia were being ignored. He said his party would push for programs in communities to combat high incarceration rates, promote reconciliation and engage with those people who were in prison.