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Chooky Dancers are in da House
Perth Now
“It's a great entry point for people who don't necessarily know how or haven't previously engaged with indigenous Australia and its stories and culture.” The indigenous performance troupe Djuki Mala, The Chooky Dancers. Picture: Sean Young. In June ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Aborigines seek compensation from Australian police for racism in landmark £23 million case
Telegraph.co.uk
Several hundred Aborigines on a remote island in Australia are seeking compensation for the racist actions of the police in a landmark £23 million class action that has been likened to Germany's reparations to Holocaust victims. In an unusual move, ...

ABC Local
Wife fears husband will become Australia's next Indigenous death in custody
ABC Local
However, Indigenous imprisonment rates have continued to rise every year and now make up 27 per cent of the prisoner population, despite being only 2 per cent of Australia's population. From 1991 to 2016 there were 343 Australian Indigenous deaths in ...

ABC Local
Wife fears husband will become Australia's next Indigenous death in custody
ABC Local
However, Indigenous imprisonment rates have continued to rise every year and now make up 27 per cent of the prisoner population, despite being only 2 per cent of Australia's population. From 1991 to 2016 there were 343 Australian Indigenous deaths in ...

University of Virginia
Bringing Aboriginal Art to America
University of Virginia
One artist-in-residence at the University of Virginia's Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection speculated that even Australian students do not often have as much access to Australian Aboriginal art and artists as UVA students do. “Hearing that from an ...

University of Virginia
Bringing Aboriginal Art to America
University of Virginia
One artist-in-residence at the University of Virginia's Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection speculated that even Australian students do not often have as much access to Australian Aboriginal art and artists as UVA students do. “Hearing that from an ...

Frist Center Presents "Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection"
Markets Insider
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 2, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents Ancestral Modern: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection, an exhibition that explores the flourishing of indigenous Australian ...

The Australian
Aboriginal disadvantage turned on its head in Nakkiah Lui's new play
The Australian
Her stage work includes Blaque Showgirls, which premiered at Melbourne's Malthouse last year — an Aboriginal reimagining of the 1995 so-bad-it's-just-bad sexploitation film Showgirls; and the autobiographical Kill the Messenger (Sydney's Belvoir 2015 ...

The Australian
'Shared' history of Aborigines, Endeavour crew to be marked at Cook landing anniversary
The Australian
“We recognise that Cook's landing led to European settlement and enormous change to the lives of indigenous Australians,” Mr Pesce said. “At our event each year on 29 April, we acknowledge, accept and respect each other and our shared history.

TechRadar
Australia's first Indigenous-led startup incubator opens today
TechRadar
If the project proves successful, co-founders Leigh Harris and Julie-Ann Lambourne hope to lobby for similar hubs to be built around around remote Australia, ideally also led by Indigenous Australians. Harris expressed hope that the project “will get ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Anger over indigenous plan
dailytelegraph.com.au
The claims come after the Association of Heads of independent Schools of Australia called for more government funding for private schools to establish satellite programs for indigenous students across the state – similar to the campus developed by ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Anger over indigenous plan
dailytelegraph.com.au
The claims come after the Association of Heads of independent Schools of Australia called for more government funding for private schools to establish satellite programs for indigenous students across the state – similar to the campus developed by ...

The Australian
First indigenous-led start-up hub launched today
The Australian
Australia's first indigenous-led digital innovation and start-up incubator has launched in far north Queensland today. According to co-founder Leigh Harris the DHIVE (digital hive) innovation and start-up hub, based in Cairns, aims to educate the ...
Australia's first innovation hub for minorities DHIVE opens in CairnsSmartCompany.com.au

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The Australian
First indigenous-led start-up hub launched today
The Australian
Australia's first indigenous-led digital innovation and start-up incubator has launched in far north Queensland today. According to co-founder Leigh Harris the DHIVE (digital hive) innovation and start-up hub, based in Cairns, aims to educate the ...

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National Indigenous Times
New WA govt winds up Aboriginal Affairs dept
National Indigenous Times
The Western Australian government has scrapped its Aboriginal Affairs Department in a move cautiously welcomed by some sectors of the state's Aboriginal community. The axing of the department came as part of a public sector shake-up announced by new ...

National Indigenous Times
New WA govt winds up Aboriginal Affairs dept
National Indigenous Times
The Western Australian government has scrapped its Aboriginal Affairs Department in a move cautiously welcomed by some sectors of the state's Aboriginal community. The axing of the department came as part of a public sector shake-up announced by new ...

Aboriginal Parents Engagement in Children's Education a 'Two Way Street'
Pro Bono Australia
The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) report commissioned by Commonwealth Department of Education and Training Government is one in a four part series looking at parental engagement across four target groups: Aboriginal ...

National Indigenous Times
New WA govt winds up Aboriginal Affairs dept
National Indigenous Times
The Western Australian government has scrapped its Aboriginal Affairs Department in a move cautiously welcomed by some sectors of the state's Aboriginal community. The axing of the department came as part of a public sector shake-up announced by new ...

National Indigenous Times
New WA govt winds up Aboriginal Affairs dept
National Indigenous Times
The Western Australian government has scrapped its Aboriginal Affairs Department in a move cautiously welcomed by some sectors of the state's Aboriginal community. The axing of the department came as part of a public sector shake-up announced by new ...

National Indigenous Times
Bunna Lawrie to bring 'Black Boy' beats back to Barunga
National Indigenous Times
Coloured Stone was an Australian Indigenous band whose members had cut its teeth the hard way, knocking on doors and travelling the back roads of Australia selling recycled drink bottles. Then came 'Black Boy', arguably the band's most defining song.