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Smithsonian
A Guided Tour of Australia's Blue Mountains Follows Ancient Aboriginal Songlines
Smithsonian
It's ancient, estimated to be at least 7,000 years old, and represents the baby Rainbow Serpent—a creator god, one of the key figures in Aboriginal Australian beliefs. Each Aboriginal clan envisions these gods in a different form, and the wallaby is ...

NEWS.com.au
5000 Queensland babies on waiting list for tuberculosis vaccine
NEWS.com.au
A chronic global shortage of the Bacille Calmette Guerin vaccine meant it was unavailable in Australia for all of 2016 and health authorities are struggling to clear the backlog, leaving thousands of children without defence to the wasting disease once ...

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The Mercury
Child justice system 'racist'
The Mercury
THERE would be a national taskforce to fix the crisis in child protection and youth justice if it involved white rather than Aboriginal children, Australia's only indigenous children's commissioner says. Victorian Commissioner for Aboriginal Children ...

The Australian
Cocos Islanders take first tentative steps in quest for a future, mainland identity
The Australian
Now Cocos Malays — the first known inhabitants of the islands and numbering about 500 — want to be acknowledged as indigenous Australians. It is a request likely to stoke debate as the Cocos council seeks federal funds that have been set aside to ...

The Australian
Indigenous art gets largest display at National Gallery of Australia
The Australian
Several of Nona's works — large-scale lithographs of astonishing beauty and intricacy — feature in the National Gallery of Australia's groundbreaking Defying Empire exhibition, the largest survey of contemporary indigenous art yet mounted at the ...

The Australian
Indigenous art gets largest display at National Gallery of Australia
The Australian
Several of Nona's works — large-scale lithographs of astonishing beauty and intricacy — feature in the National Gallery of Australia's groundbreaking Defying Empire exhibition, the largest survey of contemporary indigenous art yet mounted at the ...

SBS
Indigenous superhero empowering the next generation of 'smoke-free ambassadors'
SBS
While the smoking rate is declining among the Indigenous community, it's still high, at 39 per cent. That's compared to 12.2 per cent, for the overall Australian community. The ultimate aim of the 'Deadly Dan' book is to ensure the smoke-free message ...

ABC Online
Police stay silent in trial over eight-year-old Aboriginal boy locked in ...
ABC Online
Two NSW Police officers declined to testify in court on Friday over accusations of leaving an eight-year-old in the back of a wagon.

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Mandurah Mail
'I'm a survivor': Aunty Judith and the fight for culture
Mandurah Mail
“I'm a survivor”, my good friend and Aboriginal activist Aunty Judith said to me two years ago, shortly after I moved to Australia from my homeland Spain. At the time, I didn't know half as much about Aboriginal culture, native title and Canberra's ...

Mandurah Mail
'I'm a survivor': Aunty Judith and the fight for culture
Mandurah Mail
“I'm a survivor”, my good friend and Aboriginal activist Aunty Judith said to me two years ago, shortly after I moved to Australia from my homeland Spain. At the time, I didn't know half as much about Aboriginal culture, native title and Canberra's ...

Cessnock Advertiser
Australian councils split on push to change Australia Day
Cessnock Advertiser
Huge protests by indigenous Australians and their supporters were held on Australia Day this year amid growing calls to change the date. The City of Fremantle in Perth also moved some of its Australia Day events to January 28, citing cultural ...

NEWS.com.au
Arnhem Land: Australia's 'last frontier' welcomes new Intrepid Travel tours
NEWS.com.au
Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory, is bordered by Kakadu National Park, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria. IS THIS AUSTRALIAN PARADISE EVEN REAL? WHAT IT'S LIKE TO VISIT ARNHEM LAND · TOP 5 REASONS TO VISIT THE TOP END.

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ABC Message Stick
Through American Eyes
ABC Message Stick
Race is John Eligon's beat. He roams America reporting for The New York Times on the tensions, eruptions and occasional triumphs in race relations. What might he make of relations here between Indigenous Australians and the rest of the country? Foreign ...

Australian Olympic Committee
Australian Indigenous Olympians recognised for Olympic Day
Australian Olympic Committee
AOC: The spirit of the Olympic movement was alive and well today, as the Australian Olympic Committee hosted a 'Reception for Indigenous Olympic Athlete Recognition' at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence. A perfect tie in to International ...

Australian Olympic Committee
Australian Indigenous Olympians recognised for Olympic Day
Australian Olympic Committee
AOC: The spirit of the Olympic movement was alive and well today, as the Australian Olympic Committee hosted a 'Reception for Indigenous Olympic Athlete Recognition' at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence. A perfect tie in to International ...

ABC Local
When mum goes to prison
ABC Local
While Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women only make up 2 per cent of Australia's population, they constitute around 34 per cent per cent of its prisoners. "Studies suggest that around 80 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women ...

The Guardian
Indigenous MP rebukes developer for 'appalling' portrayal of stolen generations site
The Guardian
It “rewrites history about a site that is academically documented and officially recognised by the Brisbane City council, as one with a horrid and dark chapter on the 'Stolen Generation' of Indigenous Australians”, Gordon wrote. “The careless ...

the AU review (blog)
POPSART: La Boite's HWY – Deconstructing 'Australian-ness' through theatre
the AU review (blog)
Beetson said about the process of making the work “The kids had just seen in the media Don Dale, things that were happening in Kalgoorlie and they were questioning what Australians thought of them as young Australian Aboriginal people. ” The story is ...

Scottsdale Independent
Aboriginal Australian female art work to be shown in Scottsdale
Scottsdale Independent
A new exhibition featuring paintings and sculptures of nine contemporary women artists from the remote Aboriginal areas of Australia will open in September at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition, “Marking the Infinite ...

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ABC Online
Constitutional recognition: Australia's founding document should not embody 'racist past', Pat Dodson says
ABC Online
"It seems to assume that an Indigenous voice in the Constitution could be strong enough to challenge the entrenched structural racism which shapes the policies and laws that affect the lives of Aboriginal people without removing the racist elements of ...