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Indigenous Artists Are Not Happy That Australia Is Selling Fake Aboriginal Souvenirs
TravelersToday
An astonishingly 80 percent of marketers in Australia was found out to be selling fake items. Sullivan and her team discovered thousands of arts and crafts that has the Aboriginal signature style to it but learned that it was created from different ...
Bob Katter declares war on “fake” indigenous artworkThe Cairns Post
Katter plans legislation to stop sale of fake Indigenous artABC Online

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ABC Online
Katter plans legislation to stop sale of fake Indigenous art
ABC Online
Organisations, including the Indigenous Art Code and Arts Law Centre, want a licensing scheme in place before the Commonwealth Games next year bring an anticipated flood of knock-off work. Mr Katter said he would introduce a private member's bill when ...

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ABC Online
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape: Ancient Aboriginal site a step closer to UNESCO World Heritage status
ABC Online
If the nomination is successful, Budj Bim would be the Australia's 20th World Heritage site and the only place listed solely for its Indigenous cultural value. It marks a significant turning point for the Gunditjmara traditional owners who have worked ...

ABC Online
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape: Ancient Aboriginal site a step closer to UNESCO World Heritage status
ABC Online
The Federal Government has submitted a nomination for the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape at Lake Condah to be included on Australia's World Heritage Tentative List. If the nomination is successful, Budj Bim would be the Australia's 20th World Heritage ...

ABC Online
Australia Day and the Enduring Power of White Supremacy
ABC Online
Thus the new Parliament of Australia dedicated its earliest energies to enacting white supremacy in law: excluding Aboriginal people from voting in the new nation, restricting immigration and forcibly expelling thousands of Pacific Islander labourers ...

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Vale to artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
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The article reported a court hearing in Oodnadatta over a station manager who had chained his Aboriginal workers to a tree. Aborigines was Bergner's last painting in Australia of the subject, and the echoes of Nazi concentration camps in his portrayal ...

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Vale to artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
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The article reported a court hearing in Oodnadatta over a station manager who had chained his Aboriginal workers to a tree. Aborigines was Bergner's last painting in Australia of the subject, and the echoes of Nazi concentration camps in his portrayal ...

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ABC Online
Mutilated goannas spark animal cruelty fears, message to Indigenous hunters
ABC Online
A picture posted on social media showing a pile of decapitated goannas has prompted claims of cruelty and calls for Indigenous hunters to respect native animals. An Aboriginal culture centre in remote Western Australia has condemned the image of the ...

Junkee
Why Are We Fighting Islamophobia At The Expense Of Indigenous Australians?
Junkee
Earlier this week an Australia Day billboard sponsored by the Victorian government featuring an image of two young, Muslim girls was taken down after an Islamophobic backlash on social media. The sad but predictable reaction to the billboard, and the ...

Courier Mail
Stop PC bleating about January 26
Courier Mail
The move was made following discussions with some members of the Aboriginal community who saw Australia Day as celebrating the invasion of their lands. The “whatever you do, don't mention Australia Day” virus has now spread to the east coast and ...

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ABC Online
Beyond the fact of our heritage and identity should being Indigenous really matter?
ABC Online
Mr Wyatt comes from an Indigenous community in a particular part of Western Australia — what does he know about Indigenous people in outer Melbourne or southern Queensland? What is this assumption that Indigenous people somehow share the same ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Anthony Mundine slams Australia Day lamb advert
The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous boxer Anthony Mundine has slammed the controversial Australia Day lamb campaign as "racist, bro", while his former teammate Wendell Sailor, who features in the advert, has defended it. Earlier this week, I sat down with Mundine for an ...

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The Guardian
Hijab billboard campaign success sees signs booked across Victoria
SBS
Many Indigenous Australians identify Australia Day, held every January 26, as Invasion Day, or the day that the British First Fleet arrived and took over the land Indigenous people had occupied for more than 40,000 years. The page added that the ...
Australia Day billboards with girls in hijabs to appear nationwide after campaign raises $130000The Guardian
More than $100000 raised to reinstate Australia Day billboard with Muslim girls, but not all are happyThe Sydney Morning Herald

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New Matilda
The National Hoax: How Did Queensland Ever Fall For Australia Day?
New Matilda
There is something absurd about celebrating Australia Day on January 26th. It's even crazier in this important year when there is intense national debate about Treaties, Sovereignty and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people want to be ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
More than $100000 raised to reinstate Australia Day billboard with Muslim girls, but not all are happy
The Sydney Morning Herald
... to ignore or 'whitewash Australia's dark past' and the injustices committed against the first Australians," and added that the two girls whose image attracted an Islamophobic backlash were also not seeking to be disrespectful to the Indigenous ...
Hijab billboard campaign success sees signs booked across VictoriaSBS
Australia Day billboards with girls in hijabs to appear nationwide after campaign raises $130000The Guardian

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The Sydney Morning Herald
More than $100000 raised to reinstate Australia Day billboard with Muslim girls, but not all are happy
The Sydney Morning Herald
It took just a matter of hours for a crowdfunding project launched on Wednesday to reach $100,000, surpassing its original goal of $50,000 to fund a campaign for racial and religious tolerance. The campaign was started after a billboard advertising an ...

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Vale Yosl Bergner- artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with ...
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Yosl Bergner spent only 11 years of a long life in Australia but his understanding of the Indigenous tragedy made him an important Australian painter.

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Vale Yosl Bergner- artist who saw Aboriginal Australia with Holocaust eyes
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The article reported a court hearing in Oodnadatta over a station manager who had chained his Aboriginal workers to a tree. Aborigines was Bergner's last painting in Australia of the subject, and the echoes of Nazi concentration camps in his portrayal ...

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Marrugeku is an un-paralleled presence in Australia today, dedicated to Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians working together to develop new dance theatre languages.Marrugeku builds bridges and breaks down walls between urban and remote ...

The Guardian
Key Wyatt: new minister to tackle how Indigenous health funding used
The Guardian
Improving social determinants of health would help extend lifespan and achieve parity with all Australians. On Wednesday night Wyatt told ABC's 7.30 he still believed Australia was on track to achieve recognition of Indigenous Australians in the ...