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The Canberra Times
Neville Bonner's family donate bark painting to Old Parliament House museum
The Canberra Times
From humble beginnings on an island in the Tweed River in northern NSW and time spent living on an Aboriginal reserve on Palm Island, Neville Bonner rose to become Australia's first Indigenous Member of Parliament, despite limited formal education.

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Sydney Morning Herald
Top city universities falling behind on indigenous enrolment
Sydney Morning Herald
"There is an aspirational impediment that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids think they couldn't get into the best universities in Australia, but the reality is they can and they succeed," said Sydney University deputy Vice-Chancellor Shane ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Top city universities falling behind on indigenous enrolment
Sydney Morning Herald
"There is an aspirational impediment that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids think they couldn't get into the best universities in Australia, but the reality is they can and they succeed," said Sydney University deputy Vice-Chancellor Shane ...

The Macleay Argus
Killed stone dead
The Macleay Argus
The clients for the project were Kempsey Shire Council, NSW Department of Family and Community Services, Australian Government Indigenous Coordination Council and the Kempsey Aboriginal Land Council. Mid Coast Communities, a not-for-profit, ...

The Guardian
'Operation Boomerang' lamb ad insults Indigenous people, say critics
The Guardian
The Australia Day-themed lamb commercial starring Lee Lin Chin has come under fire for depicting a military campaign called “Operation Boomerang” on what is considered a day of anger and mourning for many Indigenous people.

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The Guardian
'Operation Boomerang' lamb ad insults Indigenous people, say critics
The Guardian
“The issue with the ad is that it appropriates a specific aspect of a culture that is often derided and mocked in order to promote a supposed shared cultural celebration [Australia Day], which also happens to be one that many Aboriginal people feel ...

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Gizmodo Australia
Indigenous Australian Solar Energy Company Takes On Tesla
Gizmodo Australia
This Queensland company's core mission is based on the fundamental Aboriginal approach of stewardship of the earth and its resources, and this means a move away from a reliance on fossil fuels for energy. Oh, and it offers a 10kWh solar energy storage ...

Gizmodo Australia
Indigenous Australian Solar Energy Company Takes On Tesla
Gizmodo Australia
This Queensland company's core mission is based on the fundamental Aboriginal approach of stewardship of the earth and its resources, and this means a move away from a reliance on fossil fuels for energy. Oh, and it offers a 10kWh solar energy storage ...

ABC Online
Neville Bonner bark painting donated to Museum of Australian Democracy by ...
ABC Online
A bark painting depicting the life story of Australia's first Indigenous parliamentarian, Neville Bonner, has been donated to the Museum of Australian Democracy (MOAD) by his son, Alfred Bonner. The painting shows Bonner's birth in 1922 under a tree in ...

Mornington Peninsula News
Plovers' season breeds dismay, hope
Mornington Peninsula News
Dr Grainne Maguire of BirdLife Australia's beach-nesting birds' team said data shows that without preventative action hooded plovers will Red-capped Plover2 be extinct in the region “in the next 25 years”. “There are a suite of threats these birds face ...

The Stringer
Tamiliya Aboriginal community closed down, the demise of other communities ...
The Stringer
Several years ago when I broke the story of a Western Australian government 'list' of threatened Aboriginal communities, the communities surrounding Jigalong scored 'at-risk' mentions. They were classified as unsustainable. Jigalong is a Martu ...

ABC Online
Yarloop fire investigation - 'absolutely': West Australia's Emergency Services ...
ABC Online
Around 500 Indigenous people fought in the First World War, and as many as 5,000 in the second. But many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander diggers who made it home received little or no recognition for their contribution. On Anzac Day, 2007, the ...

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ArtsHub (subscription)
Welcoming a newbie to the office (Premium locked content)
ArtsHub (subscription)
Andrea James will create a play about the life of legendary Aboriginal tennis champion Evonne Goolagong Cawley. ... Kentridge's performance art animations have long been a feature of exhibitions and biennales around the world and Australia. His ...

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ABC Local
Yarloop fire investigation - 'absolutely': West Australia's Emergency Services ...
ABC Local
Around 500 Indigenous people fought in the First World War, and as many as 5,000 in the second. But many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander diggers who made it home received little or no recognition for their contribution. On Anzac Day, 2007, the ...

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Choosing a new Australian flag
Independent Australia
Academic, Russell Kennedy has modified the Southern Cross design to include yellow stars, linking it to the Aboriginal flag. The blue is retained as a link to the current Australian flag and Torres Strait Island flag. Blue and yellow were also the ...

Choosing a new Australian flag
Independent Australia
Chair of the National Wattle Day Association, Terry Fewtrell, supports the Golden Wattle flag, arguing that the wattle links us to the earliest human occupation of this continent. Indigenous Australians have used wattle for thousands of years as a ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
Is There Anything Comparable in Australia???
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Attracting eminent artists and scholars from around the world, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is widely considered the finest collection of indigenous Australian art outside Australia. It possesses more than 1,800 objects, including paintings ...

Aboriginal Art Directory News
Is There Anything Comparable in Australia???
Aboriginal Art Directory News
Attracting eminent artists and scholars from around the world, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is widely considered the finest collection of indigenous Australian art outside Australia. It possesses more than 1,800 objects, including paintings ...

ABC Online
Tennant Creek rising AFL star Liam Holt-Fitz the town's first All-Australian ...
ABC Online
Randall Gould runs Tennant Creek's Clontarf Academy, which uses football as an incentive to get Aboriginal boys to attend school. "He's the all-round package. He's a funny guy, always loves a joke. He's been doing pretty well at school. He's very ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
The best books to read over summer
Sydney Morning Herald
In Australian literary fiction, Stephanie Bishop's The Other Side of the World impresses with its gorgeous language and depiction of the bumpy acclimatisation from freezing England to the swollen heat of Perth and the rival demands between familial ...