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Herald Sun
Decision made on whether Dusty Martin's deported dad can return to Australia
Herald Sun
THE deported bikie dad of AFL star Dustin Martin, who wanted to return to Australia because he believed he was of Aboriginal descent, has had his claim rejected. In March, Shane Martin, 49, was one of 81 bikie gang members or associates to have their ...

Basic Income News
“Can Less Work be More Fair?” – Report from Australia's Green Institute
Basic Income News
“Basic income makes basic sense for remote Indigenous Australia” by Jon Altman, research professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Melbourne and emeritus professor of the Australian National ...

The Advocate
Concern for citizenship test changes
The Advocate
Practice questions for the current test include what are the colours of the Australian Aboriginal flag, what is the name of the legal document that sets out the rules for the government of Australia, and which arm of government has the power to ...

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Shepparton News
Australians ready to decide
Shepparton News
And despite what your views on the change-the-date movement, it is clear that many Australians feel left in the cold, or even saddened that the day for our national celebrations is January 26. For years many indigenous Australians have used Australia ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Fancy a cockroach canape? Australian Museum tempts visitors with unusual menu
The Sydney Morning Herald
Between 400-500 people are expected to attend the Culture Up Late evenings, sampling a range of insects including the native Australian giant burrowing cockroach, otherwise known as the Macropanesthia Rhinoceros. The museum's cultural programmer ...

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The Australian Financial Review
National Australia Bank CFO Gary Lennon helping make every customer count
The Australian Financial Review
It was also through NAB that Lennon joined the board of the Stronger Smarter Institute, which is chaired by Chris Sarra and aims to work with school principals and teachers to help improve outcomes for Indigenous children across Australia. Both of ...

Shepparton News
Briggs eyes top 20
Shepparton News
It takes aim at the date of Australia Day, which he believes is culturally insensitive to indigenous Australians. With lyrics like ''You can come and wave your flag, but it don't mean a thing to me'', the track has been a big part of the growing social ...

Big Island Now
Black Arm Band recreates Indigenous Australian magic in 'Dirtsong'
BeatRoute Magazine
VANCOUVER — Black Arm Band has been telling Indigenous Australian and Torres Strait Islander stories for over a decade now. Their motto is to celebrate the past while revolutionising the future, through music and art. The band's guest artistic ...
Australia's Black Arm Band at Kahilu TheatreBig Island Now

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The Australian
Wesley Enoch won't censor Sydney Festival's Australia Day activities
The Australian
Enoch's festival includes a range of indigenous artists and performances. Among the highlights is a concert at the Opera House, Music in the Key of Yes, to celebrate the 1967 referendum. A program of talks and classes called Bayala will teach people ...

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The New Daily
The year Australia's newspapers broke me
The New Daily
On April 8, 2013, Paddy Manning, a journalist employed by business and finance newspaper, The Australian Financial Review, pressed 'send' on an article he had penned for online publication, Crikey, and blew his AFR career sky high. Manning's article ...

The Advertiser
Wanganeen to leave new mark on AFL
The Advertiser
Wanganeen has been exploring his indigenous heritage through painting. The former Bomber also designed Essendon's indigenous guernsey for their Dreamtime at the 'G match last year. Wanganeen was a premiership player for Essendon in 1993, the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Festival: Artist Vernon Ah Kee says he had 'no status' when he was born
The Sydney Morning Herald
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum in Australia, which recognised Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as people and included them in the census. Ah Kee turns 50 this month. When he was born in January 1967 in Innisfail, ...

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Australia Day 2017
On Line opinion
It is especially sad when compared to the gracious invitations Australians now receive to play cricket and football on Aborigines' tribal lands such as the MCG and SCG. But why do some call for a "Day of Mourning" or a "Survival Day", when the ...

Australia Day 2017
On Line opinion
For example UNSW states it is wrong to say that Aboriginal settlement of Australia began “40,000 years ago” because that “puts a limit on the occupation of Australia and tends to lend support to migration theories and anthropological assumptions”. We ...

Echonetdaily
DNA study confirms Aboriginal history
Echonetdaily
The largest study on the DNA of indigenous Australians confirms Aboriginal people were here tens of thousands of years before European colonisation. The study by La Trobe University analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 594 indigenous people from across ...

Echonetdaily
DNA study confirms Aboriginal history
Echonetdaily
The largest study on the DNA of indigenous Australians confirms Aboriginal people were here tens of thousands of years before European colonisation. The study by La Trobe University analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 594 indigenous people from across ...

Brisbane Times
In Family Rules, an Indigenous mother rules the roost of nine unruly daughters
Brisbane Times
So Family Rules does something important from the get-go simply by showcasing an ordinary suburban family who happen to be First Australians. Filmed in the classic ob-doc style, Family Rules follows the Rule family as they go about their daily business.

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In Family Rules, an Indigenous mother rules the roost of nine unruly daughters
The Age
So Family Rules does something important from the get-go simply by showcasing an ordinary suburban family who happen to be First Australians. Filmed in the classic ob-doc style, Family Rules follows the Rule family as they go about their daily business.

The Stringer
Racial divides are engineered – White privilege birthed White anger
The Stringer
Why is it that every time a charter of rights to advance Australia to a polycultural nation is met with derision from influential sections from the White end of town? It took effectively till 1962 to conceptually include Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

DNA study confirms Aboriginal history
Yahoo7 News
The largest study on the DNA of indigenous Australians confirms Aboriginal people were here tens of thousands of years before European colonisation. The study by La Trobe University analysed the mitochondrial DNA of 594 indigenous people from across ...

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