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Perth Now
From cosy cove to super city
Perth Now
She said while Unknown Land specifically referred to the “European eyes” viewing Australia for the first time, the exhibition acknowledged the Aboriginals who owned and lived on the land before settlement. Painted in 1850 by Edmund Henderson, who was ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous designers show their fashions on Adelaide catwalk
ABC Online
Through textiles and design, the ancient culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders has hit the catwalk in Adelaide. Several Indigenous fashion designers have created collections which are part of this year's Adelaide Fashion Festival. Elisa ...

ABC Online
Indigenous designers show their fashions on Adelaide catwalk
ABC Online
"Dilly bags were really important for our people so I've adapted the techniques of dilly bags into clothing," she said. Ms Carmichael, a descendant of the Ngugi people from Quandamooka saltwater country in eastern Australia, previously was a painter ...

Queerty
Australia's First Gay Aboriginal Politician Makes Impassioned Case For Marriage Equality
Queerty
It's insane, but somehow Australia doesn't yet have marriage equality — and they might not for many more years, due to an acute lack of political leadership. Now, the country's first openly gay Aboriginal legislator is expressing his (entirely ...

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The Australian
Noel Pearson: 'radical centre' can solve indigenous issues
The Australian
Paul Keating was the radical centre's greatest exponent in Australia, while John Howard was the “great manager of the centre”. Mr Pearson said the causes of indigenous disadvantage and poverty were a subject of “great convulsion”. “Though historical ...

The Mercury
Council considers Australia Day shift
The Mercury
“We've got to be sensitive to our Aboriginal ancestors, but at the same time Australia was established on January 26. “We need to be inclusive and take into consideration all aspects. “At the end of the day we are one and it's one Australian people ...

Armidale Express
Studies show diversity in Aboriginal peoples
Armidale Express
"The genetic diversity among Aboriginal Australians is amazing,” co-author Dr Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, from the Universities of Copenhagen and Bern said. "Because the continent has been populated for such a long time, we find groups from south-western ...

ABC Online
Boxing Day 1866 Aboriginal team v MCC remembered 150 years on at MCG
ABC Online
They were there as Cricket Australia announced measures to help celebrate the 1866 Boxing Day Test when its 2016 version rolls around this year. On the same ground, but in a very different world, 150 years ago, a team of Aboriginal men took on the ...
Australia's Boxing Day Test to honour 1866 Aboriginal XITheSportsCampus.com
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations | cricket.com.aucricket.com.au
Boxing Day Test honours indigenous playersSBS

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Catholic Leader
Indigenous culture should be in Australian classrooms, graduating Catholic Torres Strait student says
Catholic Leader
INDIGENOUS high school graduate Sahamar Ruben wants Australia's education curriculum to include studies in Indigenous culture for the sake of non-indigenous students. Miss Ruben, a Torres Strait Islander student from St Peter Claver College, Riverview, ...

The Age
Boxing Day Test will honour Indigenous players
The Age
Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland is hoping that a commemorative tour of England will encourage another Indigenous player into the Test ranks. Australia hasn't had an Indigenous player since fast bowler Jason Gillespie, who played his last Test ...
Boxing Day 1866 Aboriginal team v MCC remembered 150 years on at MCGABC Online
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations | cricket.com.aucricket.com.au
Australia's Boxing Day Test to honour 1866 Aboriginal XITheSportsCampus.com

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Boxing Day Test will honour Indigenous players
The Sydney Morning Herald
Cricket Australia boss James Sutherland is hoping that an upcoming commemorative tour of England will encourage another Indigenous player into the Test ...
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations | cricket.com.aucricket.com.au
Commonwealth Bank Boxing Day Test to honour 1866 Aboriginal XIWisden India

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The Roar
Boxing Day Test honours indigenous players
SBS
Australia hasn't had an indigenous player since fast bowler Jason Gillespie, who played his last Test in 2006. This year's Boxing Day Test between Australia and Pakistan will honour the 150th anniversary of a match between an Aboriginal XI and the ...
Artwork to mark Boxing Day anniversarycricket.com.au

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Ask any West Australian whitefella how they feel about Rottnest Island and the responses are reverential. A holiday at Rotto is a West Australian rite of passage. But for Western Australia’s Indigenous people, the memories and the stories are very different. Beneath its glittering surface is a history of horror and suffering.

cricket.com.au
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations
cricket.com.au
Australia's cricketers will sport a piece of artwork on their playing shirts during the Boxing Day Test this year as part of commemorations for the landmark match between an Aboriginal XI and the Melbourne Cricket Club 150 years ago. Cricket Australia ...

cricket.com.au
Artwork to mark Boxing Day celebrations
cricket.com.au
Cricket Australia today launched the first of several activities that will take place in the lead-up to and during the traditional MCG clash, which are aimed at recognising the significance of the Boxing Day clash between a team of Indigenous players ...

The Advocate
Infinite Possibility: Australian Aboriginal women's art reaches across the miles
The Advocate
So what is “Marking the Infinite,” an exhibition of art by contemporary Aboriginal Australian women, doing at the Newcomb Art Museum? "The exhibition underscores the museum's mission of mounting shows that recognize the contributions of women in the ...

The West Australian
Cartoon was not news to indigenous realists
The West Australian
n the days and weeks after The Australian newspaper published a cartoon that is now central to a debate about free speech, social media feeds were flooded with some gorgeous pictures. Using the hashtag #IndigenousDads, Aboriginal fathers and their ...

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The West Australian
Cartoon was not news to indigenous realists
The West Australian
n the days and weeks after The Australian newspaper published a cartoon that is now central to a debate about free speech, social media feeds were flooded with some gorgeous pictures. Using the hashtag #IndigenousDads, Aboriginal fathers and their ...

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National Indigenous Times
[ October 19, 2016 ] Skull home, no thanks to Archbishop; now for the shield . . . CULTURE
National Indigenous Times
The skull was among the remains of 13 Aboriginal ancestors being held by British museums and institutions finally returned to Australia. The National Indigenous Times understands the mystery skull may have been dug up from a Perth deanery in the early ...
Remains returned to Aboriginal elder after 90 years in moving ceremonyThe Argus

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ArtsHub (subscription)
What you can do to improve your Indigenous representation
ArtsHub (subscription)
Warumilang, the ArtsReady Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander program, includes a traineeship that provides sustainable employment pathways for young Indigenous people. On the other side of the equation, ArtsReady offers cultural awareness training ...