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Indigenous Australian Sci-Fi 'Cleverman' Is Getting International Coverage
Pedestrian TV
The Indigenous Australian-led sci-fi series, which is set in a dystopian Australia in which the government relentlessly pursues and oppresses an ancient race of beings called 'Hairymen', is bringing Aussie genre TV back into the spotlight, and the ...
Cleverman review (ABC TV): Australia's most politically-charged dramaDaily Review
Cleverman recap, season one episode one: supernatural and politicalThe Guardian
Aboriginal Australian folklore gets familiar sci-fi take in SundanceTV's 'Cleverman'Tampabay.com (blog)
The New Daily -A.V. Club -The Australian
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ABC Message Stick
Forgotten chapter of Aboriginal art unveiled in Childers, Queensland
ABC Message Stick
Barambah Pottery operated in the community of Cherbourg in the 1970s and 1980s and was one of the earliest commercial Indigenous art ventures undertaken in Australia. Co-curator of the exhibition Mathew Wengert said the production of stoneware pottery ...

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Indigenous Leaders Call For Post Election Summit
Pro Bono Australia
Indigenous leaders from across the country gathered in Canberra on Tuesday to discuss some of the key issues of concern that are impacting on their people in this current climate. The gathering delivered a united call for government to put reducing ...

Music Feeds
Anohni has announced that she will walk 180 kilometres across Western Austria this week to support an indigenous ...
Music Feeds
Alongside the Martu people of Parnngurr, a community whose land may be under threat from the mine, Anohni is preparing to spend eight days walking across WA to attempt to prevent the construction of a joint Mitsubishi and Cameco mine on the Martu ...
Anohni Plans 8-Day, 110-Mile Desert Walk To Protest Australian Uranium MineArtistdirect.com
ANOHNI walking 110 miles across Australian desert to protest uranium mineBrooklyn Vegan (blog)

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The Independent
Aboriginal teen Maminydjama Maymuru makes history for reaching Miss World Australia Finals
The Independent
Aboriginal people might be indigenous to Australia but they are vastly underrepresented in all areas of Australian society. Maminydjama Maymuru, however, is changing this. The Aboriginal teenager is from a remote outback township and has become the ...
Aboriginal Teenager Reaches Miss World Australia Final And Breaks RecordsRefinery29
Can Aboriginal beauty break through the colour bar?The Conversation AU

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Hawkesbury Gazette
Poet saw Aboriginal people as the invaders
Hawkesbury Gazette
... 60 years, casting an Aboriginal person, “Little George”, as an invader: “And Freebody, who shot a black invader, That menac'd Windsor town”. Reeve would have known through the Historical Records of New South Wales and Historical Records of ...

Junkee
Why Every Aussie Should Learn To Speak An Indigenous Australian Language
Junkee
It does seem ridiculous that in Australia very few people speak an Australian language. Who of you reading this piece speaks or knows anything about one or more of the at least 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages? This is because ...
Legal services hit by cuts in Federal BudgetThe Guardian (Australia)
Extract from Andrew Pridham's Indigenous Round AddressSydney Swans
Greens commit to Aboriginal rehabilitation servicesCollie Mail
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
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Junkee
Why Every Aussie Should Learn To Speak An Indigenous Australian Language
Junkee
It does seem ridiculous that in Australia very few people speak an Australian language. Who of you reading this piece speaks or knows anything about one or more of the at least 250 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages? This is because ...
Extract from Andrew Pridham's Indigenous Round AddressSydney Swans
Legal services hit by cuts in Federal BudgetThe Guardian (Australia)
Indigenous jobs in resources on the riseMy Sunshine Coast (press release)
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ABC Online
WA Premier orders Carnarvon shire to fly Aboriginal flag
ABC Online
"They will receive a direction from the Premier of Western Australia to fly the flag," he said. "Carnarvon council needs to do the right thing and fly the flag out of respect for Aboriginal people." The shire has shrugged off the condemnation of its ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Aboriginal teen model makes history after reaching Miss World Australia finals
Telegraph.co.uk
An Aboriginal teenager from a tiny outback township will be the first indigenous model to represent the Northern Territory in the Miss World Australia after she was spotted by a scout while withdrawing money from an ATM. Maminydjama Maymuru, 19, whose ...
Miss World Australia gets a make overThe Sydney Morning Herald
Can Aboriginal beauty break through the colour bar?The Conversation AU
Miss World Australia beauty firstdailytelegraph.com.au

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Telegraph.co.uk
Aboriginal teen model makes history after reaching Miss World Australia finals
Telegraph.co.uk
An Aboriginal teenager from a tiny outback township will be the first indigenous model to represent the Northern Territory in the Miss World Australia after she was spotted by a scout while withdrawing money from an ATM. Maminydjama Maymuru, 19, whose ...
Miss World Australia gets a make overThe Sydney Morning Herald
Miss World Australia beauty firstdailytelegraph.com.au

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Daily Review
Cleverman review (ABC TV): Australia's most politically-charged drama
Daily Review
There tends to be stronger relationships between the Hairypeople and Aboriginal people, given that Hairypeople and Aboriginals existed alongside each other at some point during ancient times (the history is a little unclear). And it's no surprise that ...
Aboriginal Australian folklore gets familiar sci-fi take in SundanceTV's 'Cleverman'Tampabay.com (blog)
Photo: Waruu (Rob Collins) / SundanceTV Photo: Waruu (Rob Collins) / SundanceTVA.V. Club
Review: 'Cleverman' Builds a Somewhat Muddled Mystery From Aboriginal CultureNew York Times
InDaily -The Guardian -Comicbook.com
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Impact Investment Finances Indigenous Community Solar Project
Pro Bono Australia
In what is believed to be an Australian first, an impact investment loan via two philanthropic foundations has seen a 139-panel solar power system installed at an Indigenous community in Western Australia. The 36-kilowatt system at the Kurrawang ...

Australia's first Indigenous-inspired ibis hotel
Travel Weekly
During National Reconciliation Week 2016, AccorHotels will unveil its very first Indigenous-inspired ibis hotel in Australia at Sydney Olympic Park on Thursday 2 June. Celebrating the hotel's local links with Indigenous community, culture, and art, the ...
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Woolworths hires extra indigenous workers
Yahoo7 News
Indigenous affairs minister Nigel Scullion said these jobs were part of Woolworths' commitment to employ an additional 1600 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country by 2019 through the government's Employment Parity Initiative.

SBS
Australian Rugby Union's bid to attract more Indigenous talent
SBS
The Australian Rugby Union's Reconciliation Action Plan aims to harness indigenous talent to the sport and stop the AFL and NRL from taking the best talent. But success won't just be measured in player numbers. The ARU says respect and understanding of ...
Australian Rugby Union launches second Reconciliation Action Plan in RedfernHerald Sun
Australian Rugby to focus on increasing Indigenous engagementTheSportsCampus.com

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SBS
Australian Rugby Union's bid to attract more Indigenous talent
SBS
The Australian Rugby Union's Reconciliation Action Plan aims to harness indigenous talent to the sport and stop the AFL and NRL from taking the best talent. But success won't just be measured in player numbers. The ARU says respect and understanding of ...
Australian Rugby to focus on increasing Indigenous engagementTheSportsCampus.com
Australian Rugby Union launches second Reconciliation Action Plan in RedfernHerald Sun

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“Indigenous-inspired” ibis hotel to be unveiled in Australia
Travel Daily Media (press release) (registration) (blog)
Launched to coincide with National Reconciliation Week 2016, the hotel will be located at Sydney Olympic Park. It has been designed in partnership with Balarinji, an Indigenous-owned creative agency which has previously designed aircraft liveries for ...

Perth Now
Dodson backs Indigenous Day for WA
Perth Now
One of Australia's most respected indigenous leaders, Mr Dodson, below, said WA Day, which marks the arrival of Captain James Stirling's Parmelia at the Swan River Colony on June 1, 1829, did not have to be “wiped off” the calendar. But he said ...

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ABC Local
Mildura's young citizen recipient encourages Indigenous youth to embrace culture
ABC Local
Mr Clarke said Sorry Day was a special day for Indigenous people and evoked pride in him. "You look at the history and it's not the greatest history. Australia does have a dark history. Some of the stuff that was done to my people and some of the stuff ...

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