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He was an Aboriginal stockman, turned world war two guerrilla fighter. It’s a story that reads like the plot of an action film, but it’s actually the remarkably true tale of a local from the WA Goldfields. James Brennan was an Aboriginal stockman from Laverton whose life was shaped by battles at home and abroad. He was born into battle between settlers and Aboriginal people in the northern Goldfields, and when world war two erupted, he enlisted to fight, where once again, it was a battle that defined the next chapter of his life. ABC - Full Report http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-17/james-brennan-in-uniform/7935070

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Significant Indigenous artworks to be auctioned off in Melbourne - SBS
SBS
A comprehensive international collection of Indigenous Australian artworks has come home. Owned by US tech magnate, Stephen Luczo, and his wife Agatha, ...

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Deanna Schreiber nominated for NSW Senior Australian of the Year award
St George and Sutherland Shire Leader
She is a finalist the NSW Senior Australian of the Year category. Mrs Schreiber was praised by the National Australia Day Council work her work with the with the Sutherland Shire Aboriginal community over the past four decades in the areas of health, ...

UQ News
Urgency demanded for Indigenous maternity services
UQ News
“We need a new maternity services plan, incorporating high level monitoring, otherwise Australia will not tackle emerging priorities and complete unfinished business from the last plan, particularly for Indigenous women in rural and remote communities.”.

UQ News
Urgency demanded for Indigenous maternity services
UQ News
“We need a new maternity services plan, incorporating high level monitoring, otherwise Australia will not tackle emerging priorities and complete unfinished business from the last plan, particularly for Indigenous women in rural and remote communities.”.

NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy
The Australian
Almost 300 Northern Territory children have rallied outside Parliament House demanding the government save Australia's largest Aboriginal boarding school. Darwin's Kormilda School, which has severe financial woes, is at risk of closing and wants ...

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NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy
NEWS.com.au
Almost 300 Northern Territory children have rallied outside Parliament House demanding the government save Australia's largest Aboriginal boarding school. Darwin's Kormilda School, which has severe financial woes, is at risk of closing and wants ...

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NT Aboriginal boarding school in jeopardy
SBS
Almost 300 Northern Territory children have rallied outside Parliament House demanding the government save Australia's largest Aboriginal boarding school. Darwin's Kormilda School, which has severe financial woes, is at risk of closing and wants ...
Long asks PM to scrap Royal CommissionSky News Australia
AFL great Michael Long addresses a Kormilda College rally on the steps of NT Parliament House. PICTURE: Michael ...NEWS.com.au

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Whitewashed 'Priscilla' Comes Under Fire For Dropping Sole Aboriginal Character
theMusic
The Australian theatre scene has often been criticised for under-representing Indigenous performers, but the decision by producers of the hit show Priscilla Queen of the Desert: the Musical to remove the sole Aboriginal character from the production's ...

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Commonwealth Bank Announces $15 Million Investment In Women's Cricket Australia
B&T
Cricket Australia and the Commonwealth Bank have committed to the single largest investment in women's sport and diversity programs in Australia Women's cricket, Australia's Indigenous players and players with a disability are the big winners after ...
CA, CommBank make landmark investmentcricket.com.au
Cricket Australia's $15 million injection for women and diversity programsFox Sports
CommBank pumps $15m into women's cricketAdNews
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he Royal Commission into the protection and detention of children in the Northern Territory is heading out bush for a series of meetings in remote Indigenous communities. Today the commissioners are flying north from Darwin to the Tiwi Islands where Tiwi youth workers are already working on solutions for diverting young people away from the criminal justice system. But as Sara Everingham reports from the Wurrumiyanga community on Bathurst Island, there is concern that the commission has not done enough to let people know the meeting is on.

New York Times
Kaakutja, Perhaps the First Known Boomerang Victim
New York Times
No one had ever seen trauma such as this in Australia's archaeological history, they said. They started reading into the ethnohistory of the Aboriginals and looking at cave paintings for clues. The literature directed them to two wooden weapons, the ...

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The 'Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert' Musical Has Cut Its Only ...
Junkee
At a time when the dominant depiction of Australians in film was Mick Dundee, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert famously offered a different ...
Garry McQuinn reveals he excluded Jimmy from Priscilla Queen of ...Daily Mail

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ABC Online
Casey Conway: Gay former NRL player and Indigenous model, becomes face of NT sexual health campaign
ABC Online
Casey Conway represents a triple-threat for organisers of the Northern Territory's latest sexual health campaign as a former national rugby league (NRL) player who is Aboriginal and gay. The Queenslander agreed to lend his face, and body, to a series ...

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Casey Conway: Gay former NRL player and Indigenous model, becomes face of NT sexual health campaign
ABC Online
Casey Conway represents a triple-threat for organisers of the Northern Territory's latest sexual health campaign as a former national rugby league (NRL) player who is Aboriginal and gay. The Queenslander agreed to lend his face, and body, to a series ...

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Daily Review
Priscilla musical slammed for cutting only Aboriginal character
Daily Review
The producers of Australian hit Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the Musical have come under fire for cutting the character of Jimmy from the New Zealand production of the show, which opened last week. Jimmy is the only Aboriginal character in the ...
The 'Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert' Musical Has Cut Its Only Indigenous Australian CharacterJunkee

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ABC Online
Douglas Adams' Babel fish translator concept close to reality as language applications get smarter
ABC Online
"More and more people will understand that they do not just need to desert or discard their heritage language, such as Italians or Greeks in Australia, or Aboriginals in Australia," Professor Zuckermann said. "It means there will be more opportunities ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The plebiscite has damaged the chances of the Indigenous recognition referendum
The Sydney Morning Herald
It has also crowded out talk of another national vote scheduled for 2017, namely the referendum to recognise Aboriginal peoples in the constitution. The bitterness and division provoked by the plebiscite debate stands in the way of Australia achieving ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The plebiscite has damaged the chances of the Indigenous recognition referendum
The Sydney Morning Herald
It has also crowded out talk of another national vote scheduled for 2017, namely the referendum to recognise Aboriginal peoples in the constitution. The bitterness and division provoked by the plebiscite debate stands in the way of Australia achieving ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Magnolia Maymuru hopes to inspire other Indigenous women
The Sydney Morning Herald
​Magnolia Maymuru made headlines as the first Indigenous woman to represent the Northern Territory in the Miss World Australia pageant in July. Though she didn't take out the title – she made it to the final 10 – there has been a buzz about Magnolia ...

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