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ABC Online
Missed the eclipse? Here's when you can catch one
ABC Online
Indigenous Australians have been watching solar eclipses for millennia. Historians report: “The Warlpiri people explain a solar eclipse as being the Sun-woman being hidden by the Moon-man as he makes love to her.” Some people say you're not really a ...

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NEWS.com.au
RUSH HOUR: End of the Australian Sex Party
NEWS.com.au
Darebin council voted last night to replace the cermony with a “culturally appropriate event” respectful to indigenous Australians. Mayor Kim Le Cerf said if Australians were better educated they would “feel ashamed to be celebrating on January 26 ...

Herald Sun
Darebin Council to vote on dumping Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...

Herald Sun
Darebin Council to vote on dumping Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...

The Guardian
Pat Dodson says cashless welfare card a 'public whip' to control Indigenous people
The Guardian
“I haven't heard him say much on anything since I came to the parliament on anything to do with improving the lives of Aboriginal people in remote communities,” he told Guardian Australia. Dodson said he had heard “mixed messages” about the card, which ...

BBC News
How a school play about Aboriginal history set off a row
BBC News
It's one of the most sensitive topics of modern Australia: the country's past treatment of its indigenous peoples. And its capacity to divide non-indigenous Australians has again been thrust into the spotlight, this time because of a primary school ...

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BBC News
How a school play about Aboriginal history set off a row
BBC News
It's one of the most sensitive topics of modern Australia: the country's past treatment of its indigenous peoples. And its capacity to divide non-indigenous Australians has again been thrust into the spotlight, this time because of a primary school ...

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Call to combat fetal alcohol syndrome
SBS
The findings, reported in the Journal of Development and Behavioural Pediatrics, were based on surveys of parents and teachers of primary school Aboriginal Australian children living in remote communities in Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia. Within ...

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Call to combat fetal alcohol syndrome
SBS
Several Australian studies were included, among them a 2015 examination of an Indigenous Australian population which found 12 of every hundred children had the disorder. One of every 13 women who consumed alcohol while pregnant was estimated to ...

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The Australian
Call to end the 'great silence' on our indigenous history
The Australian
Hyde Park, the oldest public park in Australia, is operated by the Sydney City Council. A spokesman for the Lord Mayor said: “Any proposal would be referred to the City's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory panel for their consideration and ...

The Australian
Call to end the 'great silence' on our indigenous history
The Australian
If Malcolm Turnbull were serious that Australia Day was a day to honour indigenous Australians, “what could be more apt than to correct a monument that tells us, still, that in 1770 we did not exist?” he wrote. But Keith Windschuttle, historian and ...

Don't abandon abused children
The Australian
The crisis confronting Aborigines and authorities in Western Australia, where the Coroner is investigating the suicides of 13 Aboriginal children and young people in the Kimberley, is no less severe. The problems are clear, the solutions far less so ...

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Australian Jewish News
Recognising Indigenous role
Australian Jewish News
TEARS were shed at a moving ceremony in Sydney last Sunday, when Jewish federal MP Julian Leeser presented certificates to 12 descendants of Indigenous men who served in Australian Light Horse brigades during the WWI Sinai-Palestine campaign.

As Charlottesville shows, if we celebrate multiculturalism, we must play down commemoration
The Sydney Morning Herald
Melbourne's Yarra City Council voted two days after the Charlottesville tragedy no longer to celebrate Australia Day with a citizenship ceremony, but to hold a low-key smoking ceremony instead in solidarity with Indigenous Australians who regard ...

Daily Review
NGV's Brave New World reveals an Australia charged with idealism – and anxiety
Daily Review
This was a period in which art found new forms in Expressionism, Social Realism and Surrealism as artists reacted to the ideas of Communism, the urbanisation of Australia, a new interest in Indigenous Australia and the growing threat of Fascism in Europe.

Daily Review
NGV's Brave New World reveals an Australia charged with idealism – and anxiety
Daily Review
This was a period in which art found new forms in Expressionism, Social Realism and Surrealism as artists reacted to the ideas of Communism, the urbanisation of Australia, a new interest in Indigenous Australia and the growing threat of Fascism in Europe.

NEWS.com.au
Australia won't see a total solar eclipse until 2028
NEWS.com.au
Before science, ravenous monsters were blamed for the disappearance of the sun and the ancient Chinese banged pots to frighten away sun-gobbling dragons and Aboriginal Australians got a medicine man to throw sacred stones and boomerangs at the evil ...

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Herald Sun
Darebin council votes to dump Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...
This is how councils can lose their citizenship powersThe Border Mail
Second Melbourne council votes to cancel Australia Day ceremony and celebrationsThe Guardian

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Herald Sun
Darebin council votes to dump Australia Day
Herald Sun
Councillors tonight voted to replace the ceremony with a “culturally appropriate event” that would be respectful to indigenous Australians. The council will drop all references to Australia Day, including renaming its Australia Day Awards the “Darebin ...
Melbourne's City of Darebin council decides to dump Australia Day ceremoniesABC Online
This is how councils can lose their citizenship powersThe Border Mail
Second Melbourne council votes to cancel Australia Day ceremony and celebrationsThe Guardian

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Pro Bono Australia
NFPs Set to Benefit From $1M of Free Tech Expertise
Pro Bono Australia
This year's recipients ranged from medical charities to social enterprises as well as four organisations that aim to improve the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians. First Australians Capital CEO Jocelyn King said the support would help their ...