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The Advertiser
Kyam Maher rediscovering his roots
The Advertiser
Now Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation Minister among a swag of portfolios, Mr Maher swiftly emphasises that his early life was blessed compared to those of indigenous children throughout Australia. Kyam Maher with his wife Carmel and sons Marley ...

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ABC Online
Perth's Berndt Museum seeks proper home for collection stashed away in cardboard boxes
ABC Online
Tucked away at the back of a car park, underneath a gallery in a Perth university, sits a museum most West Australians would not even know existed. It houses what is believed to be one of the most culturally significant collections of Indigenous ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous netball camp first of its kind
dailytelegraph.com.au
From July 7-9, the athletes will be coached, mentored and supported by some of the best in the game netball, including former Aboriginal Diamonds representatives Marcia Ella-Duncan OAM, Sharon Finnan-White OAM, and Australian Diamonds Coach Lisa ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Indigenous netball camp first of its kind
dailytelegraph.com.au
From July 7-9, the athletes will be coached, mentored and supported by some of the best in the game netball, including former Aboriginal Diamonds representatives Marcia Ella-Duncan OAM, Sharon Finnan-White OAM, and Australian Diamonds Coach Lisa ...

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The Australian
Nakkiah Lui's Black is the New White turns racism on its head
The Australian
The play by Andrew Bovell pushed the boundaries but failed to present the three-dimensional portrait of indigenous Australians that is at the core of Black is the New White. It seemed a step too far to apply the same critical lens to the First Peoples ...

The Australian
Australian music portrait neglects indigenous and modern composers
The Australian
It was appropriate, therefore, that when Roger Covell first published Australia's Music in 1967, he devoted about 14 pages of a chapter (“Jindyworobakism and more”) to indigenous music. So it is regrettable that, almost 50 years later, for this new ...

The Australian
Netball Australia launches camp to encourage indigenous players
The Australian
According to Ella-Duncan, the first Aboriginal woman invited to the AIS and now a board member at Netball Australia, the camp will move beyond skills development and focus on preparing players for the demands of elite sport. “The high-performance camp ...

The Australian
Netball Australia launches camp to encourage indigenous players
The Australian
The indigenous high-performance camp will be one of only seven elite programs Netball Australia will run in 2017, and forms a part of the body's broader reconciliation action plan. According to Ella-Duncan, the first Aboriginal woman invited to the AIS ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Into the Heart of Tasmania review: Gaining a sense of Aboriginal culture
The Sydney Morning Herald
It is a tribute to the value of archives in recording Australia's long and rich Aboriginal culture and heritage and will shape the way future scholars and academics proceed. They can now put to rest the myths of the colonial era perpetrated by those in ...

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ABC Online
Advance Australia Fair is our anthem, right or wrong
ABC Online
Indigenous people comprise fewer than 3 per cent of the Australian population but are more than 10 per cent of the National Rugby League competition. Of the 13 players who ran out for the Australian Kangaroos against New Zealand in the Anzac test, five ...

ABC Online
Advance Australia Fair is our anthem, right or wrong
ABC Online
I could go on and on. Indigenous people comprise fewer than 3 per cent of the Australian population but are more than 10 per cent of the National Rugby League competition. Of the 13 players who ran out for the Australian Kangaroos against New Zealand ...

The Guardian
Indigenous Protected Areas get five-year funding extension in budget
The Guardian
It said the government had extended the National Landcare Programme and the department was working with other agencies to “deliver long-term improvements to Australia's biodiversity and natural resource condition and expand the Indigenous Protected ...

SBS
NRL Indigenous round kicks off amid national anthem controversy
SBS
Despite having kicked off just last night, this year NRL's Indigenous Round has already been shrouded in controversy. At last night's Bulldogs Cowboys game, Advance Australia Fair was sung in both the Dharug language and then in English. A NRL ...
Bulldogs' Elliott happy to be a role modelNRL.COM

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SBS
NRL Indigenous round kicks off amid national anthem controversy
SBS
Despite having kicked off just last night, this year NRL's Indigenous Round has already been shrouded in controversy. At last night's Bulldogs Cowboys game, Advance Australia Fair was sung in both the Dharug language and then in English. A NRL ...
Bulldogs' Elliott happy to be a role modelNRL.COM

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Camden Haven Courier
Push for Prime Minister's public servants to move to Alice Springs
Camden Haven Courier
Mike Reed, Chairman of the NT branch of Regional Development Australia, Northern Territory, says the indigenous programs and services being pursued by the federal government are failing, and that PM&C might have better luck if if put more people closer ...

The Macleay Argus
Proudly representing Indigenous heritage
The Macleay Argus
Kelly-Scholes starred for the New South Wales Echidnas who claimed silver at January's School Sport Australia 19 and Under Championship held in Sydney and she earned a place in the Australian Indigenous Budgies side to compete in Suva.

ABC Online
Indigenous arts festival seeks to break down 'dots and didgeridoos' stereotype
ABC Online
"Yirramboi festival is the opportunity to show not only Melbourne, but Australia and the rest of the world just how brilliant our contemporary artists are." Mr Boehme is aiming to transform Melbourne into a "city-wide treasure hunt" of Indigenous arts ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Chinese schoolkids' applause brings Indigenous author Bronwyn Bancroft to tears
The Sydney Morning Herald
Beijing: When it was suggested to Indigenous Australian children's book author Bronwyn Bancroft that her picture books be translated into Chinese, her first thought was the size of the population. "Being able to take a story, especially the images, to ...

Wide World of Sports
NRL Indigenous round to feature alternative national anthem
Wide World of Sports
"[It] acknowledges our history, the land, the Indigenous culture and also it acknowledges the Australia that we have today, which is very multicultural so I'm a fan of it." "Obviously there are going to be a lot of people who are patriotic about the ...
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Alternative national anthem planned for NRL's Indigenous round ...The Guardian
Commentary Box Sports -My Sunshine Coast (press release) -ABC Local
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NRL.COM
NRL to showcase alternative anthem in Indigenous Round - NRL.com
NRL.COM
An alternative National Anthem will be read out as a poem before all games in the NRL Telstra Premiership's Indigenous Round this week.
NRL adopts 'alternative' national anthem for Indigenous round - ABC ...ABC Online
Alternative national anthem planned for NRL's Indigenous round ...The Guardian
INDIGENOUS RUGBY LEAGUE HISTORY DECommentary Box Sports
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