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Star Observer
New retreat for trans and gender diverse Aboriginal people
Star Observer
A NATIONAL weekend retreat for trans and gender diverse Aboriginal people will be held for the first time in Victoria later this year. The Victorian Government announced the retreat as a way to mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, ...

Cricket Country
Australia's indigenous women cricketers set for historic tour of India
Cricket Country
Melbourne: Fourteen Indigenous cricketers will this week depart for India for a historic 10-day tour of the subcontinent. According to Cricket Australia website, the squad of 14 will play a series of matches in Delhi and Mumbai against the Yuvraj Singh ...

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News18
Australia Indigenous Women's Team on Historic Tour of India
News18
Melbourne: Fourteen Indigenous cricketers will this week depart for India for a historic 10-day tour of the subcontinent. According to Cricket Australia website, the squad of 14 will play a series of matches in Delhi and Mumbai against the Yuvraj Singh ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
JLL teams up with indigenous business in property services
The Sydney Morning Herald
An Australian Indigenous-owned company has set up a joint property management venture with global commercial property services firm JLL winning a three-year government contract. Pacific Services Group Holdings and JLL jointly set up Evolve FM, the ...

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National Indigenous Times
[ May 17, 2016 ] Pascoe's history a 'vision of an Australia yet to be' BOOKS
National Indigenous Times
Bunurong man, Aboriginal language guru and jack of all trades Bruce Pascoe has taken out one of the country's most prestigious literary awards with his latest work, Dark Emu. The Victorian writer won Book of the Year category and shared the inaugural ...

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National Indigenous Times
[ May 17, 2016 ] Pascoe's history a 'vision of an Australia yet to be' BOOKS
National Indigenous Times
Bunurong man, Aboriginal language guru and jack of all trades Bruce Pascoe has taken out one of the country's most prestigious literary awards with his latest work, Dark Emu. The Victorian writer won Book of the Year category and shared the inaugural ...

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The Conversation AU
Indigenous reconciliation in the US shows how sovereignty and constitutional recognition work together
The Conversation AU
Australia is being held back by its unresolved relationship with its Indigenous population. Drawing on attempts at reconciliation overseas, this series of articles explores different ways of addressing this unfinished business. Today, we turn to the ...

The Conversation AU
Can we be Australian without eating indigenous food?
The Conversation AU
By Australian food we mean the plants, fruits and animals that have grown here and sustained the indigenous people of the land for over 50,000 years. If we eat only the food brought by the first settlers and all those who followed, can we call ...

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The Australian
Driving Change program opens new roads for indigenous drivers
The Australian
But through Driving Change, a program aimed at indigenous Australians being trialled in 12 areas across NSW, including Taree on the state's mid-north coast, she was able for the first time to get a licence and, shortly after, her own car. University of ...

The Sydney Morning Herald
Indigenous writers rise to the top of the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
The Sydney Morning Herald
In their praise of his book, the judges said: "Dark Emu reveals enormous Aboriginal achievement in governance and agriculture, and restores these to their rightful place at the epicentre of Australian history ... a voice at once catalysing and unifying ...
Winners announced at NSW Premier's Literary AwardsArtsHub (subscription)

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ABC Online
Nuclear dump protesters warn of 'cultural genocide' in South Australia
ABC Online
It includes the Australian Nursing Midwifery Federation, Conservation Council, Maritime Union of Australia and the Uniting Church. "This proposal and the proposals of nuclear dumps right around Australia is a threat to Aboriginal culture and society ...
No Dump Alliance for SAThe Advertiser

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The Guardian
Cleverman first look review – wickedly exciting Indigenous superhero story
The Guardian
Early this year one great big why-haven't-we-seen-that-before box was ticked with the arrival of Spear, the world's first Indigenous Australian dance movie. A similarly irresistible milestone lies at the heart of ABC TV's soon-to-air program Cleverman ...

The Guardian
Cleverman first look review – wickedly exciting Indigenous superhero story
The Guardian
Early this year one great big why-haven't-we-seen-that-before box was ticked with the arrival of Spear, the world's first Indigenous Australian dance movie. A similarly irresistible milestone lies at the heart of ABC TV's soon-to-air program Cleverman ...

SBS
'Scrap Australia Day' says Indigenous federal candidate
SBS
A record number of six Indigenous candidates from Western Australia are contesting this year's federal election for the major parties. Among Labor's four candidates is human rights lawyer Tammy Solonec. Ms Solonec said she was not only standing to ...

SBS
'Scrap Australia Day' says Indigenous federal candidate
SBS
A record number of six Indigenous candidates from Western Australia are contesting this year's federal election for the major parties. Among Labor's four candidates is human rights lawyer Tammy Solonec. Ms Solonec said she was not only standing to ...

The Guardian
Election 2016: Turnbull pressed on Fremantle candidate's Indigenous views – politics live
The Guardian
Given the Liberal party's exploding candidate in Fremantle has been something of a feature this Monday, and we've learned via the West Australian that he's a member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of WA – anyone have the skinny on what the Sherlock ...
LiveBlogLast Updated 2.30pm AEDTFederal election 2016: Shorten's auto industry push; Turnbull heads to WAThe Australian
Election 2016 Live: Malcolm Turnbull, Bill Shorten talk jobsThe Australian Financial Review

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The Guardian
Glowing review of Indigenous protected areas leaves sector proud but perplexed
The Guardian
Report says IPAs and ranger programs are 'effectively overcoming barriers to addressing Indigenous disadvantage and engaging Indigenous Australians on country in meaningful employment'. Photograph: Kerry Trapnell/Country Needs People.

Yahoo News
'This Is My Country' – The discrimination against and displacement of aboriginal communities of Western Australia
Yahoo News
Kennedy Hill is an aboriginal community that sits on pristine land overlooking the sea in Broome, a resort town on the north coast of Western Australia. Though aboriginal people have lived in Kennedy Hill for generations, the residents are now ...

Papermag
Magnolia Maymuru
Papermag
A young Yolngu woman hailing from the remote town of Yirrkala, Maymuru's main impetus to enter the pageant was to give visibility to other young indigenous women, and help them see themselves represented in mass media. "I want to do this for all the ...

The Age
Multiculturalism: not an ideal, but a reality
The Age
It's not a comfortable read but it is a major piece of Australian writing. Grant is a somewhat controversial figure in Aboriginal Australia, having thrown his weight behind the campaign to have Indigenous people recognised in the constitution. In the ...
We're not living in a multiracial television utopia yet. Here's what still has to changeThe Guardian

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