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Octopus attacks and Indigenous harvests: the delicious history of oysters in Australia
SBS
These days it's delicious fare often washed down with a glass of bubbly, but Australian history of oysters stretches back much further than you may realise. Sydney rock oysters (Saccostrea glomerata) are native to the eastern coast of our continent ...

SBS
Octopus attacks and Indigenous harvests: the delicious history of oysters in Australia
SBS
Arrive at a fancy function in Sydney, and a tray of freshly shucked, plump oysters will travel past your nose in no time. These days it's delicious fare often washed down with a glass of bubbly, but Australian history of oysters stretches back much ...

Insidethegames.biz (blog)
Australian Aboriginal skater on brink of making Winter Olympic history
Insidethegames.biz (blog)
"Harley is the first and only Aboriginal person that's ever been to ice skating," his mother said. "[He's] brought home a medal for Australia and it took an Aboriginal person. When he goes to the Olympics he'll be the first ever Aboriginal person to ...

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SBS - The World Game
Socceroos icon Cahill shows indigenous footballers the way
SBS - The World Game
The partnership of JMF, Football Federation Australia, Professional Footballers Australia, SBS and Fox Sports, will use this year's Indigenous Football Week to highlight the achievements of indigenous players, both past and present, as well as the next ...

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Football Australia (press release)
Tim Cahill shows NT Indigenous footballers the way | Football ...
Football Australia (press release)
Tim Cahill met five courageous 12-15 year old Indigenous players who have moved 3000 kilometers from their homes in remote areas of the Northern Territory.
Socceroos icon Cahill shows indigenous footballers the way | : The ...SBS - The World Game

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ABC Online
It's a black and white thing
ABC Online
Tracey Moffatt is the first Aboriginal artist to solely represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. But 20 years ago, three Aboriginal women - Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Yvonne Koolmatrie and Judy Watson - led the way in a group exhibition curated by Hetti ...

ABC Online
Closing the Gap: PM overturns Government's opposition to target Indigenous imprisonment
ABC Online
Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The Greens, Labor, the Australian Medical Association, lawyers and other groups have long urged the ...

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ABC Online
Closing the Gap: PM overturns Government's opposition to target Indigenous imprisonment
ABC Online
Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The Greens, Labor, the Australian Medical Association, lawyers and other groups have long urged the ...

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ABC Online
Closing the Gap: PM overturns Government's opposition to target Indigenous imprisonment
ABC Online
Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The Greens, Labor, the Australian Medical Association, lawyers and other groups have long urged the ...

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ABC Online
Closing the Gap: PM overturns Government's opposition to target Indigenous imprisonment
ABC Online
Despite making up just 3 per cent of the general population, about a quarter of Australia's prison population is Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The Greens, Labor, the Australian Medical Association, lawyers and other groups have long urged the ...

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The Guardian
18C changes: Aboriginal Legal Service was not allowed to offer views
The Guardian
The Aboriginal Legal Service (Australian Capital Territory/New South Wales) was not allowed to speak to a Senate committee examining the Turnbull government's bill designed to improve free speech by watering down race hate laws. The managing lawyer ...

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The Canberra Times
David Marr on Pauline Hanson's political dalliance with John Howard
The Canberra Times
I was just armed with the knowledge from talking to countless other Australians over the years, people who were also fed up with the whole Aboriginal issue and the waste of taxpayers' dollars." Her ignorance had this advantage: she came to politics ...

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ABC Online
Undertaker buries his son as Aboriginal suicides continue in remote WA town
ABC Online
The West Australian mining town of Leonora is a community in a constant state of mourning. In the past 18 months alone, six young Aboriginal people have committed suicide. Matt Taylor is the town's undertaker, and three weeks ago he buried his own son.

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The Australian
Shortfall on indigenous health targets prompts new reform drive
The Australian
Now the Department of Health has moved to evaluate the effectiveness of primary health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including the $3.4 billion Indigenous Australians' Health Program, established in 2014 as a key component of a ...

The Australian
Shortfall on indigenous health targets prompts new reform drive
The Australian
Now the Department of Health has moved to evaluate the effectiveness of primary health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including the $3.4 billion Indigenous Australians' Health Program, established in 2014 as a key component of a ...

SBS
Remains coming home to the Clarence Valley
SBS
This will be the 51st repatriation from Germany since the Government's Indigenous Repatriation Programme's inception at the start of the 1990's, with over 1400 ancestral remains being repatriated to Indigenous Communities in Australia from the rest of ...

SBS
Remains coming home to the Clarence Valley
SBS
This will be the 51st repatriation from Germany since the Government's Indigenous Repatriation Programme's inception at the start of the 1990's, with over 1400 ancestral remains being repatriated to Indigenous Communities in Australia from the rest of ...

The Guardian
Walk for the dole? Indigenous man says payment hinges on 35km daily trek
The Guardian
... buses that took participants to and from worksites every day. The CDP is a work-for-the-dole program largely targeted at Indigenous Australians living in remote communities or outstations, and has provided 12,400 job placements since it began in ...

ABC Online
Indigenous soldiers' stories of pride, pain after world wars told in Facing Two Fronts exhibition
ABC Online
A tale of two worlds, one of inequality and racism, the other of mateship and patriotism, is being traced in a new National Archives of Australia digital exhibition. Facing Two Fronts recounts the battles Indigenous service-people fought after they ...

The Guardian
'Poster child': why your Aboriginal colleague isn't there to explain Indigenous culture
The Guardian
It is not being served, or being served rudely, not being able to hail cabs,” says Young, a former chief executive of Diversity Council Australia. And it seems everyone has a view about what Aboriginal people should do: “They say what they think ...

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