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The Guardian
Yami Lester: tributes follow death of Aboriginal elder and Maralinga activist
The Guardian
He joined the Aboriginal Advancement League in Adelaide, fighting to gain recognition for the British atomic tests in South Australia, and an acknowledgement for the 1,800 Aboriginal people affected. His work lead to the McClelland royal commission in ...
Yankunytjatjara elder Yami Lester dies age 75 after life spent shining light on repercussions of British nuclear ...NT News

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ABC Online
Dialysis in remote Indigenous communities one step closer after sell-out Purple House exhibition
ABC Online
The paintings are of iconic places in the Central Australian landscape, like Docker River and Mount Gillen. "They all start completely red, and then I work up from that, I don't draw meticulously, I just get stuck in," she said. "I've been having some ...

The Guardian
'The idea is coming of age': Indigenous Australians take carbon farming to Canada
The Guardian
One of the most successful types of Indigenous carbon farming in Australia has been savannah burning, in which regular small fires are lit, replicating ancient Aboriginal practices and helping to prevent larger fires that release more carbon dioxide ...

The Guardian
'The idea is coming of age': Indigenous Australians take carbon farming to Canada
The Guardian
One of the most successful types of Indigenous carbon farming in Australia has been savannah burning, in which regular small fires are lit, replicating ancient Aboriginal practices and helping to prevent larger fires that release more carbon dioxide ...

The Roar
Why Queensland's Origin domination is important to Indigenous Australians
The Roar
Others can analyse the Blues' decade-long problems in trying to find a sustainable winning team, but as we saw (yet again) in Origin 3, the Maroons' supremacy has been built on an intangible and impossible to buy or manufacture spirit and belief ...

The Roar
Why Queensland's Origin domination is important to Indigenous Australians
The Roar
Others can analyse the Blues' decade-long problems in trying to find a sustainable winning team, but as we saw (yet again) in Origin 3, the Maroons' supremacy has been built on an intangible and impossible to buy or manufacture spirit and belief ...

Perth Now
Remote WA Aboriginal communities opt for booze ban
Perth Now
Speaking from Fitzroy Crossing, Mr Papalia said requests to outlaw booze had been made by local Aboriginal leaders. Mr Papalia also did not rule out tough new alcohol restrictions in the Pilbara towns of Port and South Hedland after a request from WA ...

The Australian
Aboriginal leader Yami Lester dies
The Australian
He joined the Aboriginal Advancement League in Adelaide, fighting to gain recognition for the British atomic tests in South Australia, and an acknowledgment for the estimated 1800 Aboriginal people affected. His work lead to the McClelland Royal ...
Aboriginal leader Yami Lester dies at 75 - The Sydney Morning HeraldThe Sydney Morning Herald
Yami Lester: Aboriginal activist, elder and nuclear campaigner dies ...ABC Online
Yankunytjatjara elder and Maralinga nuclear test survivor Yami Lester OAM passes away, aged 75The Advertiser

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You Are Here: Indigenous television that tells it like it is
The New Daily
She uses her film to call for a full version of Australian history to be taught in all schools – reflecting the fact that 36,000 years ago, indigenous people were making bread, building houses and dams. “I'm not an expert in Australian history but this ...

You Are Here: Indigenous television that tells it like it is
The New Daily
She uses her film to call for a full version of Australian history to be taught in all schools – reflecting the fact that 36,000 years ago, indigenous people were making bread, building houses and dams. “I'm not an expert in Australian history but this ...

The Advertiser
Liberal leader Steven Marshall reveals his plans to help Aboriginal communities in the APY Lands
The Advertiser
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Kyam Maher last year announced the State Government would begin treaty discussions with Aboriginal South Australians as the next step towards reconciliation. But Mr Marshall, who has vowed to become the first SA Premier to ...

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9news.com.au
Harold Holt's friend sheds light on mystery disappearance 50 years ago
9news.com.au
It was a summer's day in 1967, when a Prime Minister went for a swim, and vanished. Harold Holt, a keen swimmer, and spear fisherman ventured into the waters off Victoria's Cheviot Beach, at the back of Portsea on the Mornington Peninsula. Today, those ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal leader Yami Lester dies at 75 - The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
Yami Lester, who was left blind by the Maralinga atomic tests and went on to become a tireless campaigner for Aboriginal rights, has died aged 75.

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ABC Online
SA Aboriginal leader Yami Lester dies
NEWS.com.au
He joined the Aboriginal Advancement League in Adelaide, fighting to gain recognition for the British atomic tests in South Australia, and an acknowledgement for the 1800 Aboriginal people affected. His work lead to the McClelland Royal Commission in ...
Yami Lester: Aboriginal activist, elder and nuclear campaigner dies aged 75ABC Online
Yankunytjatjara elder and Maralinga nuclear test survivor Yami Lester OAM passes away, aged 75The Advertiser

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UN 'deeply disturbed' by Indigenous detention
Daily Advertiser
The vast majority of Aboriginal people had jobs, attended school and were not involved in the criminal justice system, Mr Scullion said. He acknowledged some Indigenous Australians "need additional support" and said the Coalition was committed to ...

ABC Online
Yami Lester: Aboriginal activist, elder and nuclear campaigner dies aged 75
ABC Online
Mr Lester suffered vision impairment after being blinded by a nuclear test bomb that blew though his homelands in the far north of South Australia during the 1950s. He spent his early years working on pastoral properties across South Australia, until ...

NT News
Kakadu artefacts discovery rewriting the history books
NT News
Professor Jacobs said the discovery set a new minimum age for evidence of human habitation of Australia, although debate would probably still continue. “It's not over, there will be a new debate,” she said. While Aboriginal habitation had now been ...

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'Aboriginal Australia' at JCOGS on Sunday
Stowe Today
“Aboriginal Australia,” an interactive slide show and natural history display, will be presented Sunday, July 30, at 4 p.m. at the Jewish Community of Greater Stowe. Denise Ashman Krause will introduce guests to images and insights she gleaned from ...

The Roar
Why the Wallabies' Indigenous jersey should be permanent
The Roar
Beale's reaction demonstrates the huge symbolic meaning of the jersey, not only to our Indigenous people, but to all patriotic Australians who recognise the crimes committed against Australia's Indigenous population since European colonisation. Anyone ...

The Roar
Why the Wallabies' Indigenous jersey should be permanent
The Roar
Beale's reaction demonstrates the huge symbolic meaning of the jersey, not only to our Indigenous people, but to all patriotic Australians who recognise the crimes committed against Australia's Indigenous population since European colonisation. Anyone ...