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Bundaberg News Mail
Bundaberg link to David Bowie remembered
Bundaberg News Mail
The video featured Roberts and Joelene King as an Aboriginal couple attempting to assimilate into western society, only to discard it. . Its powerful imagery, filled with rich metaphors and the starkness of rural Australia made it one of Bowie's most ...
David Bowie and the Return of the Music VideoThe New Yorker
6 Political Statements You Had No Idea David Bowie MadeElite Daily (blog)
How David Bowie fled cops, dodged snakes and almost sparked a riot on wild Let ...The Sun

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Telegraph.co.uk
David Bowie praised for 'gutsy' support of Aboriginal rights
Telegraph.co.uk
The singer had a lifelong fascination with Australia and owned an inner-city apartment in Sydney Bowie confronted this racism in the Let's Dance clip, which starred two young Aboriginal performers, Terry Roberts and Jolene King, who are seen dancing ...
How David Bowie's Let's Dance shone a light on Australia's Indigenous struggleThe Guardian
The album cover that launched David Bowie's Australia obsessionSydney Morning Herald
'Let's Dance' Pub, The Carinda Hotel, Pays Tribute to David BowieHuffington Post Australia

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Voters face another dual election
Gympie Times
On the videos, former Townsville City Council and Burdekin Shire Council mayors Les Tyrell and Lyn McLaughlin and sitting Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council mayor Alf Lacey talk of their experiences running for office, campaigning and working with ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Why do we keep going back to the bush?
ArtsHub (subscription)
'Jada and Guy were brilliant in going, “But in WA in 1965, in country Western Australia, what kind of things were the Aboriginal people allowed to do, what weren't they allowed to do?” I mean, they were treated as flora, for example; they weren't ...

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Why these 4 shares are sinking on the ASX today
Motley Fool Australia
Beach Energy, an Australian oil and gas producer with key interests in the Cooper Basin, is already 18% lower for 2016 thanks to ongoing falls in oil prices. Nonetheless, in a statement to the ASX this morning, Beach announced the appointment of ...

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ABC Local
Possum skin cloaks and bush medicine explained in Aboriginal seasonal calendar app
ABC Local
In recent years, that knowledge has started to receive a lot more recognition, particularly with a project by the Bureau of Meteorology to build a series of Aboriginal seasonal calendars, mainly in northern Australia. So far, there has not been ...

ABC Local
Possum skin cloaks and bush medicine explained in Aboriginal seasonal calendar app
ABC Local
For tens of thousands of years, Australia's Indigenous people have lived by the seasons: hunting, gathering, healing and surviving the elements based on their knowledge of the land and water, climate and weather. In recent years, that knowledge has ...

ABC Online
Energy Resources of Australia reviewing its Ranger uranium mine in the ...
ABC Online
"ERA has initiated a strategic review of its business following advice from the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation that the Mirarr Traditional Owners do not support an extension to the Ranger Authority," its statement to the ASX said. "ERA expects to ...
Australia's oldest uranium mine may close as traditional owners opt to take ...Business Insider Australia

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The Guardian
How David Bowie's Let's Dance shone a light on Australia's Indigenous struggle
The Guardian
Bowie plucked two Aboriginal performers from obscurity – Terry Roberts and Jolene King – to feature them in his clip. As King told Fairfax in 2013, “[The clip] showed the rest of the world that there are Indigenous people here in Australia, and that we ...
'Let's Dance' Pub, The Carinda Hotel, Pays Tribute to David BowieHuffington Post Australia
David Bowie was absolutely entranced by Australia, but not its racist pastMashable
How David Bowie fled cops, dodged snakes and almost sparked a riot on wild Let ...The Sun

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The Guardian
How David Bowie's Let's Dance shone a light on Australia's Indigenous struggle
The Guardian
As King told Fairfax in 2013, “[The clip] showed the rest of the world that there are Indigenous people here in Australia, and that we're not this textbook carbon copy of someone standing there with a spear; that there are modern Aboriginals, and this ...

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Business Insider Australia
Australia's oldest uranium mine may close as traditional owners opt to take ...
Business Insider Australia
The review of the mine was started after the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, representing the Mirarr traditional owners, said it didn't want an extension to the Ranger Authority. The current permits expire in 2021. The traditional owners, who are ...

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The Conversation AU
A fine balance: saving Australia's unique wildlife in a contested land
The Conversation AU
Rocio Ponce-Reyes receives funding from the Gas Industry Social and Environmental Research Alliance (GISERA), which is a collaborative vehicle co-funded by CSIRO, Australia Pacific LNG Pty Ltd and QGC to undertake research that addresses the social ...

An excerpt from Marjorie Thorpe's speech at an Invasion Day Rally Marjorie Thorpe is a descendant of the Gunnai and Maar people of Victoria Thanks to 3CR's 'Earth Matters' program for the audio

Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Still plenty of activities to keep the kids entertained
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
On Tuesday, January 19, from 10am to 1pm, the Aboriginal-inspired "Bark Painting" workshop will use a variety of materials including paints, pastels and charcoal to create large "bark" painting on cardboard. This class is suitable for those aged seven ...

Sydney Morning Herald
The album cover that launched David Bowie's Australia obsession
Sydney Morning Herald
Inside a dusty pub, the peroxide-blonde pop star strums and struts in front of a small crowd, and projects outback Australia to the world. Three years before Crocodile Dundee, David Bowie's famous 1983 film clip to Let's Dance, which swung a spotlight ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
The album cover that launched David Bowie's Australia obsession
Sydney Morning Herald
Three years before Crocodile Dundee, David Bowie's famous 1983 film clip to Let's Dance, which swung a spotlight on indigenous struggles, was shot on location in Carinda, rural NSW. Then the music video for China Girl was filmed in Sydney the same year.
Singer gone ... David Bowie at The Rocks, Sydney in 2004. Picture: Alan PrykeNEWS.com.au

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NEWS.com.au
David Bowie's love for and fascination with Australia revealed
NEWS.com.au
The video of the title track was filmed around Sydney and the far north NSW town of Carinda with a strong focus on indigenous themes and the clash of urban and rural lifestyles. He felt strongly about the disenfranchisement of indigenous Australians ...

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Huffington Post Australia
'Let's Dance' Pub, The Carinda Hotel, Pays Tribute to David Bowie
Huffington Post Australia
Although he was never forgotten. “We just had one of the locals here at our Christmas party dressed up as Santa Claus playing the bass while a guy with bleached hair and all performed that [Let's Dance] scene on the wall,” George told The Huffington ...

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Lifehacker Australia
Briefly: Tesla Competitors, Awesome Games Done Quick, Faking A Murderer
Lifehacker Australia
An Indigenous Australian company called AllGrid Energy is bringing out a $11,999 competitor to Tesla's Powerwall, citing a core mission inspired by the Aboriginal idea of custodianship of the land. Gizmodo Australia has all the details. Jenna Dewan ...

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Briefly: Tesla Competitors, Awesome Games Done Quick, Faking A Murderer
Lifehacker Australia
Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: An Indigenous Australian company is looking to compete with Tesla's Powerwall, this year's Awesome Games Done Quick earns over a million and Netflix's Making A Murderer might not have included ...

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