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Paste Magazine
Australian Aboriginal Art Is Having a Radical Moment
Paste Magazine
The Australian Aboriginal art market is reportedly worth almost $200 million. Although the contemporary art movement on the continent is a century old, it wasn't until the late 1980s that Aboriginal women were invited to paint for the Australian art ...
Contemporary Aboriginal Art Exhibit Opens at SAMARivard Report
Of Country and Culture Opens at San Antonio Museum of ArtSan Antonio Magazine

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How a quest for the past found a living present
Pursuit
Like Spencer's 1899 book, The Native Tribes of Central Australia, this work was co-written with Francis James Gillen, the Alice Springs postmaster with whom he had travelled in 1896 and 1901-02 to visit Aboriginal communities. Their work formed a ...

The Australian
Big firms get lion's share of indigenous contracts
The Australian
Big winners under the program include indigenous labour hire giant Intract Australia, which has taken home $21.9m across 21 contracts, and indigenous contractor Kennelly Constructions, netting almost $17m across 13 Defence contracts.

ABC Online
Julalikari corporation under special administration after community criticism
ABC Online
One of Australia's largest Indigenous corporations has been put under special administration after ongoing community concern that it has failed to deliver services in the Northern Territory's Barkly region. The Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation ...

Western Advocate
OPINION: Marie Sullivan talks about the importance of International Women's Day
Western Advocate
It took until 2016 for the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives, when Linda Burney won the federal seat of Barton in the 2016 federal election. She was also the first Aboriginal graduate from the Mitchell ...

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ABC Online
Closing the Gap: Teenager driven to improve educational outcomes of Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
For Aboriginal teenager Tarni Rigney, looking at the education outcomes for Indigenous Australians is distressing. "If you look at the literacy and numeracy rates at the moment for Aboriginal children, it's really shocking," she said. "More money needs ...

ABC Online
Closing the Gap: Teenager driven to improve educational outcomes of Indigenous Australians
ABC Online
For Aboriginal teenager Tarni Rigney, looking at the education outcomes for Indigenous Australians is distressing. "If you look at the literacy and numeracy rates at the moment for Aboriginal children, it's really shocking," she said. "More money needs ...

Armidale Express
NSW Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi will present at NERAM
Armidale Express
“It's about time that somebody recognised the attempted genocide of Aboriginal people in Australia throughout the 19th century because a lot of people aren't aware of the hundred of massacres of Aboriginal people that occurred in this country.” ...

SBS
COMMENT: Aboriginality is more than skin deep
SBS
Being Aboriginal should not be seen as a bad thing, nor should the colour of one's skin be seen as a way to attack. Australia still has a huge road of recognition ahead and there is a heap of healing still to be done. I encourage you to challenge ...

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SBS
COMMENT: Aboriginality is more than skin deep
SBS
Being Aboriginal should not be seen as a bad thing, nor should the colour of one's skin be seen as a way to attack. Australia still has a huge road of recognition ahead and there is a heap of healing still to be done. I encourage you to challenge ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
National Gallery of Australia announces artists for National Indigenous Art Triennial
The Sydney Morning Herald
The National Gallery of Australia has announced the 30 Indigenous artists participating in an exhibition that will mark the ongoing resistance, resilience and defiance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Defying Empire: 3rd National ...
Yes, we jail too many Indigenous Australians – but what happens next is worseThe Guardian
Govt to put $27m into indigenous healthThe West Australian
Australia alots $8 M to expanded Lighthouse Hospital ProjectEnterprise Innovation
The RiotACT -National Indigenous Times -The Stringer
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The Sydney Morning Herald
National Gallery of Australia announces artists for National Indigenous Art Triennial
The Sydney Morning Herald
The National Gallery of Australia has announced the 30 Indigenous artists participating in an exhibition that will mark the ongoing resistance, resilience and defiance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Defying Empire: 3rd National ...
Australia alots $8 M to expanded Lighthouse Hospital ProjectEnterprise Innovation
We must do better to close the gapThe RiotACT
Failed 'closing the gap' the least of worries – hidden are more shocking crisesThe Stringer
National Indigenous Times -The Guardian -The West Australian
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Bendigo Advertiser
Did First Contact producers deliberately cast David Oldfield as the villain?
Bendigo Advertiser
Actor Nicki Wendt and former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris both hail from Perth, and both had similarly negative experiences with Aborigines there, and a desire to get beyond them. "They sit and drink goon in the park, and I've had them come up ...

The Australian
Aboriginal scheme 'benefits select few'
The Australian
Warren Mundine, the former head of the government's Indigenous Advisory Council, told The Australian the management of the scheme should be reconsidered, and should include a strategy “over a period of time so that indigenous people are actually ...

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The Australian
Aboriginal scheme 'benefits select few'
The Australian
Warren Mundine, the former head of the government's Indigenous Advisory Council, told The Australian the management of the scheme should be reconsidered, and should include a strategy “over a period of time so that indigenous people are actually ...

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The Australian Financial Review
Work and income are the only path to Indigenous health
The Australian Financial Review
Last month another milestone was achieved, with Ken Wyatt becoming the first Indigenous Australian to be a Commonwealth minister, as the Minister for Aged Care and Indigenous Health. It's a terrific achievement and well deserved. Indigenous health is ...
Warren Mundine: Earning the way to close the gap for indigenous Australiansdailytelegraph.com.au

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Warren Mundine: Earning the way to close the gap for indigenous Australians
dailytelegraph.com.au
CareerTrackers helps indigenous university students get paid internships with private sector employers during their studies with the aim of them transitioning to fulltime jobs on graduation. The students come from across Australia, studying a range of ...

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Enterprise Innovation
Australia alots $8 M to expanded Lighthouse Hospital Project
Enterprise Innovation
Australia has announced plans to transform hospital care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with Acute Coronary Syndrome. The government has allotted $8 million for the expansion of the Lighthouse Hospital Project, a joint initiative ...
Prison to wellbeing to education and work – transforming livesThe Stringer
Yes, we jail too many Indigenous Australians – but what happens next is worseThe Guardian
Ken Wyatt delivers $27m to Indigenous health servicesNational Indigenous Times
Shepparton News -The West Australian -PRWire (press release)
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Conatus News
Senses of Belonging: How Indigenous Sovereignty Unsettles White Australia
ABC Online
The premise of colonisation that Australia belonged to no one informed the relationship between Indigenous people and the nation state from its very inception and continues to do so. Credit: Ian Waldie / Getty Images ...
Australia Day: Yes, It's Time to Change the Date!Conatus News

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The Guardian
Australia failing on multiple human rights fronts: Amnesty International
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Sydney (AFP) - Aboriginal children are 24 times more likely to be detained than non-indigenous Australian children, Amnesty International said Wednesday in a report accusing Canberra of complacency amid a raft of rights abuses. From indigenous justice ...
Australia's 'inconsistent approach' to human rights could jeopardise UN seat bid, Amnesty warnsThe Guardian

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