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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal artefacts in Sotheby's auction prompt questions over provenance
The Sydney Morning Herald
Jones, along with National Museum of Australia senior curator Carol Cooper, is on a mission to find out exactly where shields like this came from, right down to identifying the people who made them. Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones holding one of the ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal artefacts in Sotheby's auction prompt questions over provenance
The Sydney Morning Herald
Jones, along with National Museum of Australia senior curator Carol Cooper, is on a mission to find out exactly where shields like this came from, right down to identifying the people who made them. Indigenous artist Jonathan Jones holding one of the ...

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The Guardian
NT Aboriginal corporation appeals court decision in mining royalty case
The Guardian
A file picture of the Gove bauxite mine in the Northern Territory. The Rirratjingu Aboriginal Corporation has been involved in a court battle with the Northern Land Council about mining royalties. Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images.

ABC Online
Boyer Lectures: Sir Michael Marmot urges Australia to invest in early childhood to close Indigenous health gap
ABC Online
If Australia wants to close the gap between the health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, the traditional approach of treating disease will not do it, epidemiologist Sir Michael Marmot says. Indigenous life expectancy is 10 years lower than ...

ABC Online
Boyer Lectures: Sir Michael Marmot urges Australia to invest in early childhood to close Indigenous health gap
ABC Online
"In my view, the reason why Aboriginal Australians have worse health than the non-Indigenous population is because of inequality," Sir Michael, president of the World Medical Association and director of the Institute of Health Equity, says in his ...

Football Australia (press release)
Fogarty aims to inspire Aboriginal talent
Football Australia (press release)
For followers of the indoor game in Australia the sight of Fogarty proudly waving the Aboriginal flag upon the conclusion of another victory has become ubiquitous, and it's something that the engaging attacker is hoping to repeat at the 2016 edition of ...

Football Australia (press release)
Fogarty aims to inspire Aboriginal talent
Football Australia (press release)
For followers of the indoor game in Australia the sight of Fogarty proudly waving the Aboriginal flag upon the conclusion of another victory has become ubiquitous, and it's something that the engaging attacker is hoping to repeat at the 2016 edition of ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
The women taking on Australia's global suicide capital
The Sydney Morning Herald
A 2016 audit of data from 2005 to 2014 found the Indigenous suicide rate in the Kimberley to be more than seven times Australia's average in 2011, with 74 suicides per 100,000 compared to 9.9 per 100,000 across Australia. Of those, 27 per cent were ...

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The Australian
QUT's Oodgeroo unit for indigenous students not discriminatory
The Australian
At the outset, QUT unapologetically stands by its longstanding and hitherto uncontroversial practice of providing a support unit and services dedicated to encourage and assist indigenous students in their education here. Most Australian universities ...

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Brisbane Times
No spark for Australia Day fireworks in Cockburn - Brisbane Times
Brisbane Times
The Australia Day fireworks in the southern suburbs are officially dead after the City of Cockburn decided it couldn't afford to foot the bill for the event.

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The Conversation AU
Countering the claims about Australia's Aboriginal number systems
The Conversation AU
Australia's Indigenous people had many methods for counting, and they didn't use just numbers.
Treaty holds the key to robust environmental law - Eureka StreetEureka Street (registration)

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The Conversation AU
Countering the claims about Australia's Aboriginal number systems
The Conversation AU
Norris claimed that our paper was about the largest numbers in Australian Aboriginal languages that could extend beyond ten, but still didn't extend past 20. He gave some examples of other Aboriginal counting systems with limits higher than those we ...

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WAtoday
No spark for Australia Day fireworks in Cockburn
WAtoday
Fremantle's Australian Day fireworks event will no longer take place. Photo: Jay Cronan. The cancellation of the fireworks sparked condemnation from many quarters with the Chair of the Prime Minister's Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine ...

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WAtoday
No spark for Australia Day fireworks in Cockburn
WAtoday
Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt said in August that there was a growing movement that January 26 is increasingly becoming a day that is not for all Australians. "For many Aboriginal Australians it is indeed a day of sadness and dispossession," he said.
Australia Day fireworks: Cockburn council opts not to replace Fremantle event over cultural concernsABC Online
City of Armadale to push on with Australia Day fireworksCommunity Newspaper Group

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SBS
Chansey Paech is Australia's first gay, Indigenous parliamentarian
SBS
Chansey Paech spent the last several few weeks driving his silver Nissan four-wheel-drive around central Australia, meeting with small communities and sleeping under the stars. “I'm a pro at changing tyres and tying stuff on the back of the car,” he ...

ABC PM Radio report

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Daily Mail
Indigenous Australians may have been the first bakers making loaves 15000 years before the Egyptians
Daily Mail
Australian author Bruce Pascoe claims Aboriginal people were not only hunter gatherers as commonly portrayed after European colonisation in his book 'Dark Emu, Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?' 'Yes, we were the first to invent bread by 15,000 years.

Celebrating Indigenous achievements in business::
Invest in Australia
... capture and processing is adhered to, for this we are working through the process with the government and Aboriginal groups. I hope we can have in future a very viable native harvest business that provides products all over Australia and around the ...

Independent Australia
Australia's Indigenous children are incarcerated at the world's highest rate
Independent Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are sentenced and incarcerated at three times the rate of non-Aboriginal children arrested. This is another reason why many of us are calling for the national rollout of the Custody Notification Service ...