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The Age
Let Aboriginal people take control of their destiny
The Age
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will table the 2016 Closing the Gap Report in Parliament on Thursday. Since 2009 these annual statements tracking the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians rarely bring good news. Worse still, the ...
Malcolm Turnbull's Closing-the-Gap oratorySydney Morning Herald
Meet 7 Indigenous legends who are fighting to 'close the gap'ABC Online
Australia failing to close Aboriginal life expectancy gap: PMYahoo7 News
Inquirer.net -Reuters
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The Australian
NRL All Stars: Indigenous stars want Kangaroos to do war dance
The Australian
“It's something I really want to see the Kangaroos do before I retire from playing for Australia,” Indigenous All Stars captain Greg Inglis told The Australian. And watching as Inglis taught the dance to the next generation of players around a fire at ...
'The game owes it to indigenous Australians'Courier Mail

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Sydney Morning Herald
Dr Jackie Huggins Photo: Eva Schroeder
Sydney Morning Herald
Mr Turnbull will deliver his first major speech on Indigenous affairs when the annual Closing the Gap report is tabled in Parliament on Wednesday morning. He is expected to affirm a commitment to improving the future of Indigenous Australia "not by ...
Reconciliation support grows, but racial tensions still a problem in Australia, report findsABC Online
Indigenous reconciliation report finds deep support but 'piecemeal' policiesThe Guardian
Everyone has a role to play in closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, Kia Dowell writesABC Message Stick
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Indigenous literary festival a place to learn, laugh and participate
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Blak & Bright is presented by First Nations Australia Writers' Network, alongside Australian Poetry, the City of Literature Office, the Emerging Writers' Festival, Express Media, the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Small Press Network, the Wheeler ...

ABC Online
Reconciliation support grows, but racial tensions still a problem in Australia, report finds
ABC Online
The State of Reconciliation in Australia has found the vast majority of people believed the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians was important. But it also found a third of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had been ...
Indigenous reconciliation report finds deep support but 'piecemeal' policiesThe Guardian
Warren Mundine blasts indigenous funding wasteThe Australian
NSW Indigenous leader welcomes suicide response trial but says more early intervention neededABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Northern Territory intervention should be disbanded, says Indigenous advocacy group
The Guardian
National Congress co-chair Rod Little said the damage done by the intervention to the self-image and human rights of Indigenous people in the NT, coupled with the lack of progress, meant there was no reason to keep the policy in place. “Let's remove it ...
Greens urge Malcolm Turnbull to consider treaty with Indigenous people alongside constitutional recognition pushABC Online

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Courier Mail
'The game owes it to indigenous Australians'
Courier Mail
The All stars, and Indigenous All stars are announced, All stars coach Wayne Bennett. Pic Jono Searle. “It's not a game about making money or anything other than indigenous Australia and us giving back. “The money part doesn't interest me. If we're ...
All Stars match may be last as uncertainty surrounds its futureThe Australian

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The Guardian
Northern Territory intervention 'fails on human rights' and closing the gap
The Guardian
According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data, Indigenous people made up 3% of the population but 27% of the prison population, and 52% of all young people in detention. In the NT, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples make up 86 ...
Warren Mundine blasts indigenous funding wasteThe Australian

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ABC Online
Indigenous lawyers and law students making a mark on SA courts under scholarship and mentoring programs
ABC Online
Thirty years after South Australia's first Indigenous lawyer started practising, a growing cohort of law students is following in her footsteps. In 1985, Irene Watson made history as the first Aboriginal lawyer in South Australia. This year, the Law ...

The Australian
Noma Australia: Rene Redzepi popup dines out on indigenous ingredients
The Australian
In most chefs' hands, Rene Redzepi's zeal to shine a light on indigenous Australian ingredients used in new ways at his Sydney Noma pop-up would be nothing short of commercial suicide. Certainly for any Australian chef. Just ask Orana's Jock Zonfrillo ...

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In the early 1970s, the Australian Government introduced a bilingual literacy program - known as two-way learning - for schools in the Northern Territory. The program aimed to help Indigenous students learn oral English, while learning the basics of literacy and numeracy through their own languages. The bilingual program continued for several decades, though as national standardised testing was rolled out in the 1990s, less focus and funding fell on the two-way learning approach. As the bilingual programs were phased out, the text-based resources from the initiative were in danger of degradation and loss. Read More: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/the-living-archive-of-aboriginal-languages/7120900

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Beyond Bangarra: the centrality of Indigenous art in Australia
ArtsHub (subscription)
Designers are often misunderstood as mere window dressers instead of meaning-makers intrinsic to creative process. Where does Australia fit in Singapore's regional art hub? Singapore has positioned itself as a regional hub, throwing vast amounts of ...

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Screen Australia opens $400000 worth of funding for Indigenous filmmakers
Inside Film
Screen Australia will provide up to $400,000 funding as part of The Next Step Indigenous Screen Business Fellowship. The funding is a targeted initiative for production companies run by Indigenous screen practitioners who are ready to take the next ...

Eye-opening Australian Aboriginal art at Harvard
The Boston Globe
When any compelling new way of picturing the world shivers into being, it can't help but enthrall us. Think what it is like to see the early Cubist paintings by Braque and Picasso, or the very first sensationally realist, shadow-filled paintings of ...

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NEWS.com.au
QUT embroiled in 'segregation' furore
NEWS.com.au
The issue has been highlighted in a Federal Court case, first reported by The Australian newspaper, in which an employee at a Queensland university's indigenous unit is seeking $250,000 in damages under Australia's racial discrimination laws ...

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Harvard Gazette
Indigenous Australian Art Exhibit Opens in Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Art Museums' special exhibition on Indigenous Art from Australia opens on Friday, with an opening celebration on Thursday night. Entitled “Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia,” the exhibition includes works by ...
Breaking bonds of timeHarvard Gazette

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cricket.com.au
Indigenous players get a chance to step up
cricket.com.au
The inaugural National Indigenous Cricket Championships start in Alice Springs next week, providing Aboriginal and Torres Islander cricketers more opportunities than ever before to reach the top. From Monday, 12 teams of Australia's most talented male ...

ABC Local
Bunbury Australia Day sign vandalised in a indigenous racial protest
ABC Local
Staff arrived at Summit Realty on Victoria Street this morning to find the graffiti and puddles of wet paint on the footpath outside the building. Principal real estate agent Greg Gardiner told the ABC it was "disappointing" to see. The business ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal burning 'had little impact' on erosion rates in Australia's Southern Tablelands
ABC Online
The effect of fire use by Aboriginal Australians on the landscape has been widely debated, said the study's lead author Dr Eric Portenga of the University of Glasgow and Macquarie University. "The discussion had been that humans arrived in Australia 50 ...

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ABC Online
Aboriginal burning 'had little impact' on erosion rates in Australia's Southern Tablelands
ABC Online
The effect of fire use by Aboriginal Australians on the landscape has been widely debated, said the study's lead author Dr Eric Portenga of the University of Glasgow and Macquarie University. "The discussion had been that humans arrived in Australia 50 ...

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