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ABC Online
Albert Namatjira's family keeps copyright issue in spotlight, as Namatjira Project hits big screen
ABC Online
Gloria Pannka is the daughter of one of Namatjira's contemporaries and a follower of the Hermannsburg School. She said she wanted the royalty money returned to central Australia to help encourage younger generations to continue the unique painting style.

Planeta.com
August 6 is Indigenous Literacy Day – Planeta.com
Planeta.com
August 6 is Indigenous Literacy Day in Australia. Planeta.com applauds efforts around the world to raise awareness and attention to Indigenous culture, ...

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The Advertiser
Adelaide Lord Mayor Martin Haese championing efforts to bring unity over Australia Day ceremonies
The Advertiser
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community representative Ivan-Tiwu Copley put forward the motion and called for the council to meet the Australia Day Council of SA to add a protocol to better recognise the history of Aboriginal people before ...

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New York Times
Fitzroy Fights Australia Day and Demands Respect for Indigenous History
New York Times
FITZROY, Australia — Uncle Jack Charles, a well-known Australian Aboriginal actor, was born in 1943 under Australia's assimilation policy, which he said absorbed Aboriginal people into white society by removing children from their families. He grew up ...

New York Times
Why a Melbourne City Council Rejected Australia Day
New York Times
FITZROY, Australia — Uncle Jack Charles, a well-known Australian Aboriginal actor, was born in 1943 under Australia's assimilation policy, which he said absorbed Aboriginal people into white society by removing children from their families. He grew up ...

Courier Mail
Changing date of Australia Day prompts debate
Courier Mail
... the suggestion was “political correctness gone mad”. Rankin federal Labor MP Jim Chalmers (ALP) said he was “not convinced we should change the date but I do recognise that the day can be painful for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians.

Eight-year-old kids hooked on drugs and grog, inquest told
The Australian
An inquest has been told of Aboriginal children as young as eight with cannabis and alcohol problems in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia as a senior bureaucrat revealed the new Labor government is poised to adopt the previous Liberal ...

The Advertiser
Adelaide Lord Mayor Martin Haese championing efforts to bring unity over Australia Day ceremonies in SA
The Advertiser
An Adelaide city council reconciliation committee on Wednesday voted in support of a move it believes will unite Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal South Australians on January 26. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community representative Ivan-Tiwu ...

ABC Online
Indigenous dialysis patients pushing for grassroots community health services
ABC Online
Aboriginal dialysis patients say too many people are dying a lonely death away from their families, because they cannot be treated at home. In remote parts of Australia, patients whose kidneys are failing often have to leave their home communities to ...
Elders, Altman call for apology, end to interventionNational Indigenous Times

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ABC Online
Indigenous dialysis patients pushing for grassroots community health services
ABC Online
Aboriginal dialysis patients say too many people are dying a lonely death away from their families, because they cannot be treated at home. In remote parts of Australia, patients whose kidneys are failing often have to leave their home communities to ...
Elders, Altman call for apology, end to intervention - National ...National Indigenous Times

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Liberal council candidates on the northern beaches vote for Australia Day to stay
dailytelegraph.com.au
The change of dates, most recently voted in by Darebin Council in Victoria has been seen as a move of sensitivity, with the day regarded as one of mourning for indigenous Australians. Some councils have voted to replace celebrations with events to mark ...

ABC Online
Prime Minister meets with Aboriginal man who walked from Perth to Parliament House
ABC Online
The man who walked for a year from Perth stood this morning in the Prime Minister's courtyard in Parliament House. But he walked out frustrated at their brief conversation. Clinton Pryor walked for a year across outback Australia to deliver a message ...
Pollies celebrate Clinton's long journeyNational Indigenous Times
Indigenous Activist Claims Prime Minister 'Disrespectful' During MeetingHuffington Post Australia
Clinton Pryor has tense meeting with PM after walking across AustraliaThe Guardian
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ABC Online
Prime Minister meets with Aboriginal man who walked from Perth to Parliament House
ABC Online
The man who walked for a year from Perth stood this morning in the Prime Minister's courtyard in Parliament House. But he walked out frustrated at their brief conversation. Clinton Pryor walked for a year across outback Australia to deliver a message ...
Pollies celebrate Clinton's long journeyNational Indigenous Times
Indigenous Activist Claims Prime Minister 'Disrespectful' During MeetingHuffington Post Australia
Clinton Pryor has tense meeting with PM after walking across AustraliaThe Guardian
Sky News Australia -Pedestrian TV -BuzzFeed News
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The Guardian
Clinton Pryor has tense meeting with PM after walking across Australia
The Guardian
These included preparing and funding negotiations for a treaty with Indigenous Australia, scrapping cashless debit cards for welfare recipients, disbanding Turnbull's “unrepresentative Aboriginal advisory council”, and shutting out Indigenous policy ...
Prime Minister meets with Aboriginal man who walked from Perth to Parliament HouseABC Online
Indigenous Activist Claims Prime Minister 'Disrespectful' During MeetingHuffington Post Australia
Pollies celebrate Clinton's long journeyNational Indigenous Times
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National Indigenous Times
Elders, Altman call for apology, end to intervention
National Indigenous Times
The decline of remote Aboriginal communities could leave vast tracks of Australia unpopulated and a security threat, one of Australia's leading authorities on remote communities has said. Professor Jon Altman, of Deakin University in Melbourne, said ...

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Shopping centres to promote Indigenous digital art
National Indigenous Times
Sea creatures and coral from the Great Barrier Reef and tropical rainforests captured in the artwork of NAIDOC artist of the year Elverina Johnson will be shared with shoppers across Australia. Ms Johnson's art will be shown on big digital screens at ...

Indigenous Literacy Day kicks off in NSW
NEWS.com.au
Indigenous Literacy Day helps to shine a light on the shocking disparity between indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians' literacy standards. Only 25 per cent of indigenous students in remote Australia meet the minimum standard for reading and ...

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The Guardian
Prime Minister's meeting with Clinton Pryor, who walked to Canberra from Perth, turns to chaos
ABC Online
Mr Pryor left Perth in protest against the forced closure of Aboriginal communities, but as he journeyed through remote towns he collected the stories of Indigenous Australia, and his message became a call for treaty from those communities. Frustrated ...
Indigenous walker accuses PM of disrespect in tense meeting that fell 'on deaf ears'The Guardian
Indigenous Activist Claims Prime Minister 'Disrespectful' During MeetingHuffington Post Australia
Pollies celebrate Clinton's long journeyNational Indigenous Times
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Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Activist Claims Prime Minister 'Disrespectful' During Meeting
Huffington Post Australia
An Indigenous activist who undertook a year-long trek from Western Australia to Canberra has slammed the Prime Minister as "disrespectful" after a meeting on Wednesday. Clinton Pryor's walk -- from WA's Heirisson Island, through the Northern Territory, ...
Clinton Pryor has tense meeting with PM after walking across AustraliaThe Guardian
Prime Minister meets with Aboriginal man who walked from Perth to Parliament HouseABC Online
Australia Aboriginal activist Pryor calls PM disrespectfulBBC News
National Indigenous Times -Sky News Australia -Pedestrian TV
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Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Activist Claims Prime Minister 'Disrespectful' During Meeting
Huffington Post Australia
An Indigenous activist who undertook a year-long trek from Western Australia to Canberra has slammed the Prime Minister as "disrespectful" after a meeting on Wednesday. Clinton Pryor's walk -- from WA's Heirisson Island, through the Northern Territory, ...
Prime Minister meets with Aboriginal man who walked from Perth to ...ABC Online
Pollies celebrate Clinton's long journey - National Indigenous TimesNational Indigenous Times
Clinton Pryor has tense meeting with PM after walking across AustraliaThe Guardian
BBC News -Sky News Australia -Pedestrian TV
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