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Daily Telegraph
Two Sydney schoolkids with their eyes on Hollywood
Daily Telegraph
Miah has appeared in two Australian films: The Sapphires in 2012, playing Jessica Mauboy's character Julie as a child, and now in the newly-released Australia Day, playing runaway Aboriginal teenager April Tucker. Miah also has a string of television ...

NEWS.com.au
Proposed royalties hike could kill Telfer gold mine
NEWS.com.au
The mine employs more than 75 indigenous Australians, most of them Martu, in full-time roles, with scores more working casual or part-time. Martu elder Kevin Fred has a long association with Telfer, employed decades ago as a heritage surveyor, but now ...

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Bellingen Courier Sun
Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Bellingen Courier Sun
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

Bellingen Courier Sun
Dementia risk higher for abused Indigenous Australians
Bellingen Courier Sun
Dementia expert Kylie Radford, who led the research published in the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, says she hopes the study could go some way to explaining why the rate of dementia in Australia's Indigenous population is three to four ...

State funeral for indigenous leader Scott
The Australian
The life-long campaigner for Aboriginal rights, who was involved in the referendum to recognise indigenous Australians in 1967, died late last month. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Dr Scott's family had been offered a state funeral, ...

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The Australian
Another door opens for student Enoch Mailangi
The Australian
An initiative of youth arts advocate Artology, with collaboration from ABC Indigenous and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, RAW received written entries from budding screenwriters, poets and visual artists. Artology is planning to run ...

The Australian
Another door opens for student Enoch Mailangi
The Australian
An initiative of youth arts advocate Artology, with collaboration from ABC Indigenous and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, RAW received written entries from budding screenwriters, poets and visual artists. Artology is planning to run ...

The Australian
Australian skating pair qualify for the Winter Olympics
The Australian
Windsor will become Australia's first indigenous Winter Olympian if his partner is granted citizenship under the “distinguished talent'' provision. Individual skater Kailani Craine completed an excellent weekend for the Australian team by winning the ...

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The Australian
State funeral for indigenous rights pioneer Evelyn Scott
The Australian
“Thanks to Dr Scott, more Australians have dared to dream,” the Premier said last night. “Dr Scott was prominent in the successful campaign for the 1967 referendum to give the Australian parliament the power to legislate for Aboriginal peoples. “She ...

The Australian
Local indigenous leaders back cashless welfare card trial
The Australian
Ian Trust has no regrets about backing to the hilt the introduction of the federal government's controversial cashless welfare card in his hometown of Kununurra, Western Australia. The head of the Wunan Aboriginal development organisation simply says ...

The Australian
Local indigenous leaders back cashless welfare card trial
The Australian
Ian Trust has no regrets about backing to the hilt the introduction of the federal government's controversial cashless welfare card in his hometown of Kununurra, Western Australia. The head of the Wunan Aboriginal development organisation simply says ...

The Australian
State funeral for indigenous rights pioneer Evelyn Scott
The Australian
“Thanks to Dr Scott, more Australians have dared to dream,” the Premier said last night. “Dr Scott was prominent in the successful campaign for the 1967 referendum to give the Australian parliament the power to legislate for Aboriginal peoples. “She ...

ABC Online
Stolen Generations member tired of Aboriginal people being told to 'get over it'
ABC Online
"Do you ask yourself, white Australia, to get over Anzac?' So please don't ask us to get over our history and what we are still going through." The 66-year-old was taken from her Indigenous family at the age of three and forced to live at the Churches ...

ABC Online
Stolen Generations member tired of Aboriginal people being told to 'get over it'
ABC Online
"Do you ask yourself, white Australia, to get over Anzac?' So please don't ask us to get over our history and what we are still going through." The 66-year-old was taken from her Indigenous family at the age of three and forced to live at the Churches ...

ABC Online
Aboriginal massacre sites uncovered in first forensic science study
ABC Online
Cutting edge forensic science techniques have been used in a fresh examination of reported Aboriginal massacre sites in WA's north, in an effort to prove alleged atrocities from 100 years ago. A team of archaeologists and forensic scientists travelled ...

The Canberra Times
ACT police apprehending many more Aborigines than four years ago
The Canberra Times
Aboriginal Legal Services ACT practice manager Leo Nickels said police were in denial about racial profiling, which was straining the legal system. "The racism in Canberra, and in Australia in general, hasn't gotten any better," Mr Nickels said. He ...

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Port Macquarie News
Come along to free community events to learn about atomic bomb testing in Australia in the 1950's
Port Macquarie News
The exhibition, entitled Black Mist Burnt Country: Testing the Bomb is a national touring exhibition of artworks by over 30 indigenous and non- indigenous artists commemorating the British atomic tests in Australia in the 1950's, and exhibition curator ...

MONEY KEEPS THE 'STOLEN GENERATIONS' MACHINE ROLLING
Herald Sun (blog)
Gray noted, for instance, that in 1923, as South Australia passed a law to help neglected Aboriginal children, the then treasurer assured Parliament: "The dictates of humanity forbid the state to deprive mothers of their infant children in cases where ...

AACHWA CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (RE-ADVERTISED)
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Aboriginal Art Centre Hub WA (AACHWA) is the peak body for Aboriginal art centres in Western Australia. AACHWA promotes the value of Aboriginal art centres to a broad range of stakeholders and advances the skills of organisations and individuals ...

Warship builder BAE Systems floats indigenous companies plan
The Australian
The commitment from BAE is to create up to 20 certified indigenous defence companies. It has also agreed to develop a special apprentice program to grow its indigenous workforce. BAE Systems chief executive Glynn Phillips told The Weekend Australian ...