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Indigenous artist, 105, honoured in first foreign exhibition
9news.com.au
An Indigenous artist from Western Australia has defied all expectations, going to feature in an exhibition in Washington, DC at the age of 105. Credited as the “oldest-living Nyikina speaker and one of Australia's oldest practising artists ...

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Queensland Country Life
Native title in Canavan's sights
Queensland Country Life
YOUNG Queensland LNP Senator Matthew Canavan says resolving backdated native title claims within a decade is a significant battleground to win for Northern Australia to reach its full economic potential, especially agricultural production. Senator ...

Native title in Canavan's sights
Queensland Country Life
YOUNG Queensland LNP Senator Matthew Canavan says resolving backdated native title claims within a decade is a significant battleground to win for Northern Australia to reach its full economic potential, especially agricultural production. Senator ...

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Native title in Canavan's sights
Queensland Country Life
YOUNG Queensland LNP Senator Matthew Canavan says resolving backdated native title claims within a decade is a significant battleground to win for Northern Australia to reach its full economic potential, especially agricultural production. Senator ...

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Care2.com
The 'Silent' Killer Behind Australia's Health Crisis
Care2.com
It's no secret that aboriginal Australians have survived many hardships. But a new “silent” killer is destroying aboriginal bodies and communities at an unprecedented rate in Australia's latest health crisis: indigenous Australians have kidney disease ...

Care2.com
The 'Silent' Killer Behind Australia's Health Crisis
Care2.com
It's no secret that aboriginal Australians have survived many hardships. But a new “silent” killer is destroying aboriginal bodies and communities at an unprecedented rate in Australia's latest health crisis: indigenous Australians have kidney disease ...

WBUR
New Harvard Art Museums Show Gives Voice To Indigenous Australian Artists
WBUR
Stephen Gilchrist, the Australian studies visiting curator at the Harvard Art Museums, in front of Vernon Ah Kee's text-based vinyl work "many lies" (2004), during preparation for the exhibition "Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from ...

ABC Online
Adam Goodes champions Indigenous businesses
ABC Online
Since quitting after a turbulent final year in top-flight football, AFL star Adam Goodes has kept a low profile. Goodes was the target of booing by opposition fans and became the centre of a national debate about racism and Indigenous Australians. Some ...

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GANS: Fish Down Under dives into Aboriginal Australia
Daily Free Press (subscription)
Newman, now 53, recalled the story Friday at a small cafe in Sydney, just down the street from the Boston University Academic Center where she teaches a course on Aboriginal Australia. Chuckling as she quoted Avalon, Newman said it was the first time ...

The Guardian
NT government declines to attend inquiry into Indigenous funding scheme
The Guardian
The Australian reported in September that 25% of the total pool went to organisations which formed part of the NT government. It also raised accusations that targeted Indigenous federal funds had been siphoned off to other departments. The NT ...

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ABC Online
Country, culture and community: Understanding Indigenous agribusiness in southern Australia
ABC Online
Driven by a desire for self-determination, and often with extensive areas of land under their control, Indigenous people hold a unique place in Australian agriculture. On the surface, Aboriginal farmers grow crops and manage livestock within the same ...

SBS
Population snapshots: Australia at 24 million, 14 million and four million
SBS
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act was enacted in 1976. It was the first attempt by an Australian government to legally recognise the Aboriginal system of land ownership and set up processes for Indigenous Australians to reclaim land.

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SBS
Population snapshots: Australia at 24 million, 14 million and four million
SBS
The Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act was enacted in 1976. It was the first attempt by an Australian government to legally recognise the Aboriginal system of land ownership and set up processes for Indigenous Australians to reclaim land.

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Huffington Post Australia
Could NRL's Indigenous All Stars' Dance Could Be 'Australia's Haka'?
Huffington Post Australia
“It's good fun, and obviously something that means a great deal to this Indigenous team.” So said respected rugby league commentator Peter Sterling after the incredibly stirring pre-game war dance at the weekend's Indigenous All Stars vs World All ...

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SBS
Australia's population snapshots at 24 million, 14 million, four million
SBS
The Aborigines Act of 1905 was enacted at the time to provide for “the better protection and care of the Aboriginal inhabitants of Western Australia” by making a “Chief Protector” legal guardian of every Aboriginal and 'half-caste' child under 16 years ...

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Wall Street Journal
'Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art From Australia' Review
Wall Street Journal
“Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia” at the Harvard Art Museums showcases about 60 works, including 10 by Pintupi painters from the 1970s. The works range from a 1971 pencil sketch by Uta Uta Tjangala (c. 1926-1990), an ...

The Age
Prevent bushfires the Aboriginal way
The Age
Bushfire still burns somewhere in Australia pretty much all year round. Often it is uncontrolled and destructive fire, sometimes deadly. The nature of fire in our landscape has changed, as has the way we think about it and respond to it. The incidence ...

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The Age
Prevent bushfires the Aboriginal way
The Age
Largely missing from the modern landscape is the fire that Captain Cook saw, fire introduced into the landscape by Indigenous Australians. Cook sailed the east coast well after the bushfire season. He was most likely seeing smoke from the smaller, cool ...

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ABC Message Stick
Is the Gap Closing?
ABC Message Stick
The Government has released its latest report on Closing the Gap. That's the name of a plan that aims to help Indigenous Australians to live as long as non-Indigenous Australians. But the report shows that it's not going very well. So what's the issue?
White lies and Black lives: Turnbull just widened the credibility gapRed Flag
Address homelessness to Close the Gap: PHAAAustralian Journal of Pharmacy (registration) (blog)

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Queen Emma's grave oversight
dailytelegraph.com.au
In life she provided a bridge between indigenous and non-indigenous Australia and her standing in the community was such that her death made headlines in the national press, including the Sunday Times that on December 3, 1916 dubbed Queen Emma as ...

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