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The Guardian
Motorkite Dreaming: ultralight aircraft adventure leads to profound truths about Indigenous culture
The Guardian
“The English had one thing in mind: to get rid of all the evidence [of Indigenous cultures].” Hill-Smith says the film is not didactic or forceful in its approach, but is designed for middle Australia, for audience members who haven't had much contact ...

The Guardian (blog)
Cause to celebrate: Australia's Indigenous population is on the rise
The Guardian (blog)
'Long regarded as Australia's Indigenous capital, Sydney has been surpassed by Brisbane as host to the greatest number of Indigenous Australians.' The Redfern Aboriginal tent embassy is seen below the city skyline in Sydney, 2015. Photograph: Paul ...

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Daily Mail
Ella Havelka the first Aboriginal ballerina in Australian Ballet Company
Daily Mail
She's the inspiring ballet dancer who broke boundaries, not just for herself, but her indigenous culture by becoming the first Aboriginal woman in the Australian Ballet Company. And now a documentary film is about Ella Havelka's inspiring journey will ...

ABC Online
Elder invites all Australians to embrace tradition of deep listening
ABC Online
The tradition of Dadirri—deep listening to the land—is central to the spirituality of Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann and her people. As Rachael Kohn discovers, its teachings are also being adopted by non-Indigenous Australian Christians, who see the ...

Mashable
5 issues that Indigenous students face globally — and how you can help
Mashable
Professor Chris Sarra, chairperson of the Stronger Smarter Institute in Australia, says Indigenous people know how to resolve the issues they face in education. But they need support. "The formula for successful outcomes is very, very simple, but the ...
UN Calls for Improved Access to Education for Indigenous PeopleVoice of America
UN Calls For 'Culturally And Linguistically Appropriate' Education for Indigenous PeopleThinkProgress
Canada's Acceptance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Implications for the InuitThe Arctic Institute
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Hyperallergic
Digital Colonialism and the Marginalization of Australia's Indigenous Peoples
Hyperallergic
This choreographed bloodletting seems to be a dramatization of the colonialist period and the irreparable violence inflicted on the indigenous peoples of Australia. Networking the Unseen — an exhibition of works by indigenous and non-indigenous ...

What a wicked game we play with indigenous social engineering
The Australian
The authors of the National Strategy for Food Security report found that eating food was important for the health of indigenous Australians, a conclusion with which it is hard to disagree. In the Northern Territory, however — unlike, say, Tasmania ...

The Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles has defended his Governments efforts to reduce the rate of Aboriginal incarceration which last year stood at 86% of those in Territory prison and 96% of those in juvenile detention . Speaking on CAAMA Radio Mr Giles rejected criticism from the left and says his Governments ongoing efforts to reduce rates of recidivism are being applauded across the country.

BBC News
Indigenous dads respond to 'racist' cartoon in Australia
BBC News
Australian Aboriginal fathers have responded to a controversial cartoon by sharing family photos on social media. A caricature published by The Australian last week depicted an alcohol-swilling indigenous father who cannot remember his son's name.
Bill Leak cartoon in The Australian an attack on Aboriginal people, Indigenous leader saysABC Online
'Racist' cartoon stokes debate over treatment of Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion condemns 'racist' Bill Leak cartoonThe Sydney Morning Herald
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ArtsHub (subscription)
War declared on fake Indigenous art
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Fake Art Harms Culture Campaign calls on Government to tackle the problem of fake 'Indigenous' arts and craft being sold in Australia, and harming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and incomes. CEO of Arts Law Centre of Australia ...
Families invited to join in at open dayWestern Advocate
Hands up for indigenous communitiesTenterfield Star

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ArtsHub (subscription)
War declared on fake Indigenous art
ArtsHub (subscription)
The Fake Art Harms Culture Campaign calls on Government to tackle the problem of fake 'Indigenous' arts and craft being sold in Australia, and harming Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and incomes. CEO of Arts Law Centre of Australia ...

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BBC News
Australia's youth justice scandal stirs race controversy
BBC News
But this is only one scene in a terrible catalogue of videos shown on Australian television's Four Corners programme, providing a shocking insight into the treatment of children, many of them Aboriginal, behind bars in one of the wealthiest countries ...

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BBC News
Australia's youth justice scandal stirs race controversy
BBC News
But this is only one scene in a terrible catalogue of videos shown on Australian television's Four Corners programme, providing a shocking insight into the treatment of children, many of them Aboriginal, behind bars in one of the wealthiest countries ...
No responsible adult relative for bail purposes 'is not uncommon'The Australian
Closing the Census Gap - why every white Territorian should register as "Indigenous"Crikey (registration) (blog)
APSC launches Indigenous employment serviceThe Mandarin (registration)

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The Guardian
Gurrumul Yunupingu named artist of the year at National Indigenous Music awards
The Guardian
It's been 25 years since Yothu Yindi's Treaty – which Gurrumul co-wrote and performed – broke ground as the first song by a predominantly Indigenous band to chart in Australia. The artist was in the news most recently when his doctor and manager ...
Gawurra feels the love with four wins at National Indigenous Music Awards 2016The Sydney Morning Herald

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The Guardian
I'm an Aboriginal father. I don't want my kids to see racist garbage in the media
The Guardian
He believes that he is trying to help Australia have a “difficult conversation”. Judging from the cartoon and from his lame defence of it, I guess that difficult conversation is about how Aboriginal fathers are all drunks and the myriad reasons why ...

Green Left Weekly
Water in northern Australia: a history of Aboriginal exclusion
Green Left Weekly
Unfortunately, however, these reforms largely failed to make substantive change in Aboriginal water rights or to engage Aboriginal people effectively. Today Aboriginal Australians have land rights and/or native title rights over 30% of the Australian ...
Australia paper criticised for 'racist' Aboriginal cartoonTelegraph.co.uk
'Racist' cartoon stokes debate over treatment of Indigenous AustraliansThe Guardian
Bill Leak cartoon: divided reaction to Aboriginal depictionThe Australian
Newsweek -ABC Online -The Sydney Morning Herald
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SBS
Nine Indigenous athletes to watch in Rio
SBS
The second Indigenous player to sign with the American NBA, he was part of the Championship winning San Antonio Spurs team in 2013-14. Patty has also played in both the Chinese and Australian competitions. With the squad sporting more NBA players ...

The Guardian
The truth hurts – Harold Thomas wins award with Aboriginal art that ...
The Guardian
New work from the artist behind the Aboriginal flag takes out the 33rd Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in Darwin.
Darwin artist Harold Thomas wins National Aboriginal and Torres ...ABC Online
Flag designer triumphs at Telstra awards - The West Australian - NewsThe West Australian
Harold Thomas wins $50,000 Indigenous art award with stolen ...The Sydney Morning Herald
Aboriginal Art Directory News
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The Guardian
The truth hurts – Harold Thomas wins award with Aboriginal art that is raw and real
The Guardian
A Darwin local, and a descendant of the Luritja and Wambai people of central Australia, he was just 24 and fresh out of art school when he put together the three blocks of colour – red, yellow and black – that would become the Australian Aboriginal flag.
Harold Thomas wins $50000 Indigenous art award with stolen generations paintingThe Sydney Morning Herald
Darwin artist Harold Thomas wins National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art AwardABC Online
Activist roots inform Telstra winThe West Australian

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Rio 2016: Four things you should know about Australia's female and Indigenous Olympians
ABC Online
Australia's Indigenous cohort, at 10 athletes, is the equal second-largest Australia has fielded, after Sydney in 2000 (12 athletes) and equal to Beijing in 2008. Here are four things you need to know about the history of female and Indigenous ...

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