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Aboriginal Australians Observed Red Giant Stars' Variability  Sky & Telescope

Oral accounts by Aboriginal Australians show that they included references to the variability of red giants Antares, Betelgeuse, and Aldebaran.

Broadsheet
The Voice of Indigenous Fashion Design Gets Louder
Broadsheet
Earlier this year, Chanel made headlines for its $2000 boomerang. The fashion label was criticised for disrespecting Indigenous Australians and for partaking in cultural appropriation. Nathan Sentence, an Indigenous project officer at the Australian ...

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Broadsheet
The Voice of Indigenous Fashion Design Gets Louder - Broadsheet
Broadsheet
Earlier this year, Chanel made headlines for its $2000 boomerang. The fashion label was criticised for disrespecting Indigenous Australians and for partaking in ...

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Indigenous people challenge the 'lost knowledge' of Australian bureaucracy
Crikey
Try this: “I don't care if you're racist,” declared one Indigenous professor invited by the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) to an event jointly hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Yes, I heard the sudden ...

Indigenous people challenge the 'lost knowledge' of Australian bureaucracy
Crikey
Try this: “I don't care if you're racist,” declared one Indigenous professor invited by the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) to an event jointly hosted by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Yes, I heard the sudden ...

InDaily
Aboriginal art fair links artists with buyers
InDaily
Tarnanthi has grown to be Australia's largest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture festival, featuring more than 1000 artists from across the country. Highlights from this year's festival include a collection of sea creature sculptures ...

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The Guardian
Stan Grant compares Indigenous cultural sites to the Sistine Chapel
The Guardian
The ABC broadcaster made the comments at the opening of the Tarnanthi festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of South Australia on Thursday night. The program was introduced in Pitjantjatjara, Yolngu Marta ...

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InDaily
Podcast: Paralympic great and aspiring politician Matthew Cowdrey
InDaily
Tarnanthi has grown to be Australia's largest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture festival, featuring more than 1000 artists from across the country. Highlights from this year's festival include a collection of sea creature sculptures ...

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ABC Online
Tarnanthi Aboriginal art festival shines light on Maralinga's nuclear legacy
ABC Online
The installation includes 550 timber "kulata" or spears that hang from the ceiling of the South Australian Art Gallery. They were carved in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, where the so-called "black mist" swept over in the 1950s ...
Stan Grant compares Indigenous cultural sites to the Sistine ChapelThe Guardian

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The Conversation AU
Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses
The Conversation AU
In both of those countries, as in Australia, there is a unique history of horse interactions with Indigenous communities. The great Native American horse cultures are well known and extraordinary, as Indians had no introduction to equestrian skills ...

The Conversation AU
Friday essay: the cultural meanings of wild horses
The Conversation AU
In both of those countries, as in Australia, there is a unique history of horse interactions with Indigenous communities. The great Native American horse cultures are well known and extraordinary, as Indians had no introduction to equestrian skills ...

Sky News Australia
Far-right protesters storm Melboure council
Sky News Australia
In September, the Moreland council voted to scrap all references to January 26 as Australia Day out of respect for Aboriginal people, but the protesters say they had 'no right' to do so. 'This is the death of Australia Day and the council have no right ...

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Vogue Australia
Inside the world of South Australia's Indigenous contemporary artists
Vogue Australia
Fielding is one of dozens of artists from the APY Lands who will exhibit at Tarnanthi, the biennial Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, which will showcase more than 1,000 Indigenous artists at the Art Gallery of South ...
Outback cattle station couple rise to the challenge in South Australia's APY landsABC Online

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Vogue Australia
Inside the world of South Australia's Indigenous contemporary artists ...
Vogue Australia
Flying high above the South Australian Outback, the red dirt is broken by lines of eucalyptus trees and bush scrub intersecting the earth like arteries, the lifeblood ...

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The Adelaide Review
Experiencing Ngurra
The Adelaide Review
Curator Glenn Iseger-Pilkington believes the exhibition Ngurra will challenge visitors to think about where the Aboriginal art we see on gallery walls originates and the worlds Indigenous Australians navigate. “It's an invitation from Ngaanyatjarra ...

The Adelaide Review
Experiencing Ngurra
The Adelaide Review
Curator Glenn Iseger-Pilkington believes the exhibition Ngurra will challenge visitors to think about where the Aboriginal art we see on gallery walls originates and the worlds Indigenous Australians navigate. “It's an invitation from Ngaanyatjarra ...

Huffington Post Australia
The Federal Government Is Urging The States To Take On A 'Life Saving' Custodial Notification Service
Huffington Post Australia
The Federal Government is urging Australia's States and Territories to fully adopt a Custodial Notification Service (CNS) to help stop indigenous deaths in custody, amid fears the potentially life-saving proposal is being ignored a year after it was ...

Huffington Post Australia
The Federal Government Is Urging The States To Take On A 'Life Saving' Custodial Notification Service
Huffington Post Australia
The Federal Government is urging Australia's States and Territories to fully adopt a Custodial Notification Service (CNS) to help stop indigenous deaths in custody, amid fears the potentially life-saving proposal is being ignored a year after it was ...

The Australian
PM urged to revive indigenous constitutional recognition agenda
The Australian
Mr Mansell said it would be critical to convince Australians the proposed treaty body was not seeking to impose an “Aboriginal tax”, but it would nonetheless need to further formalise compensation paid for historical dispossessions. This would include ...

The Australian
PM urged to revive indigenous constitutional recognition agenda
The Australian
Mr Mansell said it would be critical to convince Australians the proposed treaty body was not seeking to impose an “Aboriginal tax”, but it would nonetheless need to further formalise compensation paid for historical dispossessions. This would include ...