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Sky News Australia
Dementia advocate is SA Aust of the Year
Sky News Australia
Aboriginal education leader Patricia Buckskin was named SA Senior Australian of the year at the awards ceremony at Adelaide Oval on Tuesday night. Ms Buckskin, 67, drove the development of the first culturally-based education award in Australia and was ...

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The Advertiser
Jet-setters donate $100k to SA Museum
The Advertiser
AN art-loving jetset couple is so puzzled by contemporary Aboriginal art they are pouring $100,000 into research at the South Australian Museum. Ever since Cillin Perera and Giuliana Picco fell in love with Aboriginal art they have devoured every bit ...

Daily Mail
Pauline Hanson wants plebiscites on gay marriage, euthanasia and Indigenous Australians
Daily Mail
Controversial senators Pauline Hanson and Jacqui Lambie hatched plans over dinner for plebiscites on gay marriage, euthanasia and constitutional recognition of indigenous. They met on the same night the Senate voted 33 to 29 to kill off Prime Minister ...
Lambie pushing for wide referendum next electionNEWS.com.au

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The Stringer
Who'd believe Australian towns and communities at 600 times the national suicide rate?
The Stringer
The Inuit peoples of Greenland, the Guarani peoples of South America and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples of the Australian continent endure the world's highest suicide rates. However, when we disaggregate to regions, towns and ...

Mashable
Indigenous Australians are calling for new, more inclusive tech hub
Mashable
Two Indigenous Australians are hoping to change that. Leigh Harris and Julie-Ann Lambourne want to create technology hubs, led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, to help share digital skills with communities in the northern city of ...

Mashable
Indigenous-led technology hub to open in regional Australia
Mashable
Because the majority of Australia's population clings to its coastal cities, people in regional areas are often left out when it comes to the so-called "digital economy." Two Indigenous Australians are hoping to change that. Leigh Harris and Julie-Ann ...

The Advertiser
SA Australian of the Year finalists
The Advertiser
A proud Narrunga Kaurna woman, Patricia Buckskin's lifelong passion for Aboriginal education was sparked in 1972, when she was appointed to Mansfield Park Primary School as its first Aboriginal teacher aide. In 1987 she was appointed the first ...

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The Advertiser
SA Australian of the Year finalists
The Advertiser
With a particular interest in improving the educational outcomes for indigenous Australians, Caz was instrumental in establishing Parents Australia, that deploys indigenous trainers to promote the importance of literacy and numeracy by involving ...

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SBS
Cultural healing: Indigenous art as therapy
SBS
From sound healing with didgeridoo to art therapy for disabled people, Aboriginal art is proving a powerful tool for helping Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians heal from disease and trauma. Here are four incredible ways Aboriginal art is being ...

SBS
Cultural healing: Indigenous art as therapy
SBS
From sound healing with didgeridoo to art therapy for disabled people, Aboriginal art is proving a powerful tool for helping Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians heal from disease and trauma. Here are four incredible ways Aboriginal art is being ...

Google News

After Australia cut drug copays for indigenous people, hospital use ...
Medical Xpress
A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive to lower drug copayments, hospitalizations to treat ...

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MINA
49000-year-old Aboriginal settlement discovered in Southern Australia
MINA
Archaeologists working with traditional Aboriginal owners in the northern Flinders Ranges have discovered astounding evidence of the earliest human habitation of inland, arid Australia. The find has pushed back the date of such occupation by 10,000 ...
Man looking for a place to pee stumbles upon one of Australia's oldest prehistoric sitesWashington Post
Toilet break leads to discovery of 49000-year-old Aboriginal siteEagle Radio

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Pro Bono Australia
In Conversation With the Experts – Genevieve Timmons
Pro Bono Australia
Cultural respect for Aboriginal Australia, engagement of women and gender issues, more efficient and effective processes based on trust and mutual commitment are all needed if we are to optimise the value of every philanthropic dollar and reduce the ...

Pro Bono Australia
Senate Calls for Funding for Indigenous Peak Body
Pro Bono Australia
The Senate has passed a motion by the Australian Greens calling on the federal government to fund Indigenous peak body, the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples for the next three years for $15 million, with a sinking fund of a further $100 ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Unlike most Australians, I'm finding it hard to care about the US election
The Sydney Morning Herald
Yet similar battles have been raging in Australia on Aboriginal lands for a long time now and it barely generates a whisper. How many people, for example, are aware of the protests against fracking proposals in Aboriginal communities all across the NT?

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Unlike most Australians, I'm finding it hard to care about the US election
The Sydney Morning Herald
Yet similar battles have been raging in Australia on Aboriginal lands for a long time now and it barely generates a whisper. How many people, for example, are aware of the protests against fracking proposals in Aboriginal communities all across the NT?

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After Australia cut drug copays for indigenous people, hospital use declined
EurekAlert (press release)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- A new study finds that in regions where indigenous Australians most readily accepted a government incentive to lower drug copayments, hospitalizations to treat the population's chronic conditions declined by 40 ...

Finding the best creative partnerships
ArtsHub (subscription)
Private support for the arts has almost doubled in the past decade, increasing 98% to $221m in Australia. This support accounts for approximately 10% of all arts funding in Australia. The Creative Partnerships Awards are a key way to celebrate what is ...

The Australian
Fitzroy Crossing: real human crisis forgotten in debate over rights
The Australian
When two staff members from Western Australia's Aboriginal Legal Service arrived in Fitzroy Crossing last month to gather complaints about Bill Leak's cartoon for the Australian Human Rights Commission, they had to drive past what many consider the ...

The Australian
Fitzroy Crossing: real human crisis forgotten in debate over rights
The Australian
When two staff members from Western Australia's Aboriginal Legal Service arrived in Fitzroy Crossing last month to gather complaints about Bill Leak's cartoon for the Australian Human Rights Commission, they had to drive past what many consider the ...