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Sydney Morning Herald
Review: Aboriginal artefacts make a surprising return to Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
Australian Aborigines were seen as a "doomed" race, even by those who approached them with a keen sympathy. For many settlers they were simply a pest that had to be moved on or eliminated. Although one shouldn't confuse the barbarities of frontier ...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students tackle constitutional reformABC Local
Australia Indigenous Policy Report Shows Poor Progress in Improving Aboriginal SituationLawyer Herald
CEO of Reconciliation Australia to Lead New Direction of Indigenous CricketWisden India
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Courier Mail
Moves afoot for Aussie indigenous war dance
Courier Mail
Kangaroos captain Cameron Smith met with the NRL indigenous leader and welfare manager Dean Widders last month about bringing the tribal dance to the Australian team. However, The Courier-Mail understands the idea would need to be formally ...

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CEO of Reconciliation Australia to Lead New Direction of Indigenous Cricket
Wisden India
CEO of Reconciliation Australia Justin Mohamed heads an impressive list of four new appointments to Cricket Australia's National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cricket Advisory Committee (NATSICAC). Mr Mohamed has been appointed Co-Chair of ...

Herald Sun
Australia has racism problem: Rudd
Herald Sun
They include an elderly Aboriginal couple not being served in a regional cafe or a black, but not indigenous, Australian who left a job recently because he was sick of being called a “monkey”. He told the breakfast gathering of indigenous, political ...
Kevin Rudd's brutal slapdown of Australians who don't think we have a racism problemSydney Morning Herald
Kevin Rudd: Goodes booing proves racism is at work in AustraliaThe Australian (subscription)
Australia has a racism problem: Rudd9news.com.au
Mashable
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Hollows' indigenous eye program remembered
NEWS.com.au
Forty years after the ground-breaking program set out to eliminate trachoma and treat other eye conditions in rural and remote communities across Australia, the work of Fred Hollows and his team is still making an impact. More than 100,000 people from ...

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The Guardian
Stolen generations hail 'collective healing' for Indigenous Australians – video
The Guardian
To mark eight years since the then prime minister, Kevin Rudd, apologised to the stolen generations, Lorraine Peeters and Michael Welsh, both members of the Healing Foundation, speak about the power of collective healing. Peeters says of the Indigenous ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Australia has a racism problem: Rudd
9news.com.au
Mr Rudd cited several other examples of what his indigenous friend recently called the "low, steady hum of racism" in the country. They include an elderly Aboriginal couple not being served in a regional cafe or a black, but not indigenous, Australian ...
Celebrities, athletes, political figures take a stand against racism and unite in support for Adam Goodes ...Sydney Morning Herald
Kevin Rudd: Goodes booing proves racism is at work in AustraliaThe Australian (subscription)
Kevin Rudd Calls Bullshit On Racist Adam Goodes BooingHuffington Post Australia

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The Guardian
How can Indigenous Australia put its stamp on buildings in modern cities?
The Guardian
Namely, how can Australia's first nations people put their stamp on to buildings in a modern, bustling city? And how, exactly, do we define Indigenous architecture? As Jefa Greenaway, 45, founder of the not-for-profit Indigenous Architecture Victoria ...
Funding gaps could lead to trachoma resurgence – Indigenous health expertsThe Guardian

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Australia needs a nutrition policy for indigenous people to help reduce deaths from preventable diseases, says ...
ABC Local
Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal the alarming prevalence of food insecurity among Australia's Indigenous people. Nicky Turner is a researcher based at the University of Newcastle. She's spent many years working in the area ...

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Huffington Post Australia
Closing The Gap Was Groundhog Day For Indigenous Australia
Huffington Post Australia
It's time that Indigenous Australia once again had a truly representative voice at State and National level. A body elected by Indigenous people, for Indigenous people from across the country. One that cannot be dismantled, as was ATSIC by the Howard ...

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Kevin Rudd's brutal slapdown of Australians who don't think we have a racism problem
Sydney Morning Herald
But at a breakfast gathering of indigenous and political leaders at the NSW Parliament on Friday, Mr Rudd cited examples of what an Indigenous friend had recently described as the "low, steady hum of racism" in Australia. This included a black, but not ...

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Yahoo7 News
Australia making mixed progress in improving indigenous lives
Yahoo7 News
A government report released Wednesday found mixed results in erasing disadvantages for indigenous Australians, with life expectancy still 10 years lower than for others. Targets to reduce unemployment and boost school attendance weren't on track, ...

Australia Network News
Perth International Arts Festival to Showcase Indigenous Art
Australia Network News
“Home is about Indigenous culture, 40,000 years of Indigenous culture. It's about Western Australia since white settlement and importantly, it's about the shared vision for the future,” Martin said. 'Home' will be a free event with more than 500 ...

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There has never been any recognition for the role that Aboriginal women played during war times. Many First Nations women joined the army, but those women who were left behind, had to take on traditionally male work. Gunggari woman, Dr Ruth Hegarty, Aboriginal author, is a recipient of the Queensland Great award for her contribution to building Queensland, grew up in the dormitory in Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement, also known as Barambah. Aunty Ruth is 86 years old, and she remembers the role women from Cherbourg played during the second World War, and the role her mother, Ruby Duncan took on during war. Aunty Ruth talks with her granddaughter, Living Black producer, Minelle Creed about those times during war, and roles women played, and how the returned men were treated when the war ended.

ABC Online
Recognise backs Labor's push for 2017 Indigenous referendum
ABC Online
The movement to recognise Indigenous Australians in the nation's constitution says it is firmly committed to a referendum being held "no later" than May 2017. Recognise, the government-funded organisation charged with raising awareness for a referendum ...

NEWS.com.au
Australian kids unlikely to ever grow old
NEWS.com.au
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Wednesday that Australia was failing to close an “unacceptably wide” gap in life expectancy between Aboriginal and non-indigenous people. He said the “target ... was not on track”. Aboriginal Australians make up ...
Turnbull urges stronger partnership between government and Indigenous Australia to close the gapThe Conversation AU
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing-the-Gap oratorySydney Morning Herald
Our priority must be to bridge the gapThe Age
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ABC Local
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students tackle constitutional reform
ABC Local
Students discussed the inclusion of Indigenous Australians in the constitution and staged a mock election. The university's Wayne Costelloe said students' critical thinking around the issues surrounding the recognition of Australia's first peoples was ...

ABC Local
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students tackle constitutional reform
ABC Local
Students discussed the inclusion of Indigenous Australians in the constitution and staged a mock election. The university's Wayne Costelloe said students' critical thinking around the issues surrounding the recognition of Australia's first peoples was ...

ABC Online
Monaro dieback brings science and Aboriginal knowledge together
ABC Online
The project will involve seed collection and planting trials in a search for resilient species as well as traditional Aboriginal burning trials on Travelling Stock Reserves to evaluate the outcomes upon remnant species. Greening Australia project co ...

The Guardian
Indigenous painting found at charity shop sells for $1800
The Guardian
An ochre and charcoal artwork by an internationally exhibited Aboriginal artist from far north Western Australia has been sold for $1,800 – from a charity shop. The artwork, titled Spearhead Dreaming, turned up in a pile of donations to St Vincent de ...