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The Canberra Times
Bon Scott Crescent and Jimmy Little Street, fancy living in a Moncrieff street ...
The Canberra Times
What part does a street name play in your decision to buy a home? On the whole, probably almost none, but perhaps in Moncrieff diehard music fans will hanker for an address that commemorates an idol. Bon Scott Crescent will surely be a target for fans ...
Bon Scott Crescent and Jimmy Little Road, fancy dwelling in a Moncrieff road ...The Times (subscription)

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Geelong Advertiser
Facing another year in the spin cycle
Geelong Advertiser
This column is being written on New Year's Eve and, I suppose, that in itself is cause for both reflection on the past and foresight in relation to the future. While it is relatively easy to look back and pick out highlights for the year — just about ...

The Advertiser
Courageous Year 12s excel despite very tough year
The Advertiser
Dr McGoran said that five years after the South Australian Certificate of Education was revamped it had improved both academic standards and equity for students. “More are achieving Merits, many more are going on to tertiary studies, and ... “Since ...

The Australian
WA writers warn of hard times as inkpot dries up
The Australian
... halved opportunities for authors and publishers to promote their work.” This was followed by the changes to federal arts funding under former arts minister George Brandis, which resulted in only two WA writing sector organisations maintaining their ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Republic will show we are all grown up
Sydney Morning Herald
While I agree wholeheartedly with the Herald's editorial that it's time for Australia to bite the bullet and become a republic, I suspect many older Australians would disagree. The royal family is like a security blanket for many – something to hold on ...

Huffington Post Australia
The Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival Celebrating Indigenous Storytelling
Huffington Post Australia
To celebrate the integral role dance and storytelling plays in the Australian Indigenous culture the Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival is held biannually as a gathering in Cape York of many different tribes. "Through dancing, we're telling our story, all ...

NT News
Filmmakers hail NT as ideal production location
NT News
Six-part ABC TV series 8MMM Aboriginal Radio was another gem in Screen Territory's year. It awarded $60,000 to Australia's first indigenous narrative comedy series, which represented a milestone for NT production. Filmed entirely in the NT and ...

Courier Mail
Whipped up by the Windies
Courier Mail
STAGGERING and stumbling, the West Indies cricket team playing Australia today bears little resemblance to the side's great predecessors. Still, after the most recent Calypso collapse, ... The team set off from Panama in October 1930 for a month-long ...
West Indies cricket cause is hopeless but inspiration could come from pioneersThe Guardian (blog)

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Fox Sports
Ring of truth in black and white
Fox Sports
It had been that way for other indigenous champs — Cherbourg's Jerry Jerome, the first Aboriginal fighter to win an Australian championship in 1912; for the mighty Ipswich puncher Ron Richards of the 1930s; for Cloncurry's Jack Hassen and the Sands ...

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ABC Local
Rural Indigenous artists leading young Sydneysiders in hip hop boot camp
ABC Local
BRENDAN TREMBATH: Hip hop culture has conquered the world, from South Bronx ghettoes, where it was born, to tiny desert communities in Western Australia. Some of Australia's most successful Indigenous hip hop artists are leading a boot camp for 12 to ...

The Border Mail
The men who drilled holes in Turnbull's frontbench
The Border Mail
Briggs, 37 and a married father of three, admitted to behaving "inappropriately" towards a female public servant, a new recruit at Australia's Consulate-General, during a post-work drinking session in Hong Kong's notorious Lan Kwai Fong party district ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
The men who drilled holes in Turnbull's frontbench
Sydney Morning Herald
Briggs, 37 and a married father of three, admitted to behaving "inappropriately" towards a female public servant, a new recruit at Australia's Consulate-General, during a post-work drinking session in Hong Kong's notorious Lan Kwai Fong party district ...

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The Australian
Asia puts locals between a rock and a hard place
The Australian
Northern Land Council chief executive Joe Morrison said two “huge” projects — the prawn farm and the extension of the Ord River irrigation scheme from Western Australia into the Territory — were causing angst among traditional owners because they ...

The Australian
Asia puts locals between a rock and a hard place
The Australian
Seafarms Ltd is in talks with traditional owners for a new indigenous land-use agreement giving access. With projects of this scale comes the prospect of economic opportunity, but also the fear indigenous Australians will miss out on a share of the ...

Sydney Morning Herald
The Eighties review: Frank Bongiorno looks at the decade that changed Australia
Sydney Morning Herald
Despite the hand-back of Uluru and the ban on Coronation Hill uranium mine, he sees Hawke abandoning Aboriginal commitments. These flaws, I agree, are outweighed by Hawke's economic and industrial relations contributions. Bongiorno's big 1983 ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Artist captured the carefree people of Australia's tropical north
Sydney Morning Herald
When famed Australian artist Ray Crooke walked into Eva Breuer's Sydney gallery one day in 2002 she pointed to a $22,000 painting and said how pleased she was to have such an early work of his on show. The Melbourne-born artist inspected the picture of ...

The Courier
Ballarat to spin yarns
The Courier
BALLARAT is about to embark on a new tradition of storytelling, weaving Aboriginal Dreamtime elements with stories from the motherland and of course, the contemporary experiences of the city's residents. That is the opinion of a Welsh storyteller about ...

The Guardian
Indigenous disability: telling stories of strength and dignity
The Guardian
The stories of 30 of them, including Bellotti, have been captured by Australian artist and photographer Belinda Mason, as part of her latest exhibition, Unfinished Business, which will tour Australia from January. All the Indigenous people she ...

Huffington Post Australia
Hawke Government Cabinet Papers Grapple With Same Issues As Modern Australia
Huffington Post Australia
The release of cabinet papers from the 1990-91 Bob Hawke government show that, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Hawke's administration devoted time to addressing asylum seekers, terrorist threats to Australia, aboriginal ...
Hawke grateful for being dumped as PMYahoo7 News
Hawkes says he's grateful to Keating9news.com.au
Cabinet papers: War, a leadership challenge and the 'Granny Killer' collaredSydney Morning Herald
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Australian Schools Add Aboriginal Languages
Language Magazine
New South Wales (NSW) has been a leading force in governmental programs to preserve and promote Australia's Aboriginal languages. Now, more than ten years after the introduction of NSW's first Aboriginal Languages Policy in 2004, Australia is finally ...