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Will the proposed s116A prohibit or entrench racial discrimination in the ...
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Stan Grant, for example, recently noted that the Australian Law Reform Commission records 67 different definitions of Australian Indigenous people. But he didn't take it a step further: a definition of Aboriginal or Indigenous arises because we make ...

The Age
We should shout about the historic achievement of adding Indigenous languages ...
The Age
Studies consistently point to the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who learn their own languages are more engaged with their school life and education overall. Research from Australia and Canada is also beginning to show that ...
More focus on Indigenous talentcricket.com.au
Bush tucker trend: Indigenous custodians call for protections on native foodsSydney Morning Herald

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Sydney Morning Herald
We should shout about the historic achievement of adding Indigenous languages ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Studies consistently point to the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students who learn their own languages are more engaged with their school life and education overall. Research from Australia and Canada is also beginning to show that ...
More focus on Indigenous talentcricket.com.au

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ABC Online
Martu elders fight against removal of Aboriginal children
ABC Online
More than a decade after it featured in the Stolen Generations movie Rabbit-Proof Fence, a remote West Australian community has raised concerns about the number of Aboriginal children currently in care. Martu elders from Jigalong, 1,300 kilometres ...

Port Stephens Examiner
Kelvin Kong to speak on Australia Day
Newcastle Herald
The Australia Day Council of NSW has released a list of 140 prominent sports people, cultural leaders and medical pioneers who will speak to various communities on January 26. Dr Kong spoke to Fairfax in May when he said his childhood was somewhat ...
Kelvin Kong an Australia Day ambassadorPort Stephens Examiner

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cricket.com.au
More focus on Indigenous talent
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Cricket has enjoyed a formal, popular presence on the Australian sporting landscape for far longer than Aussie rules, rugby union, rugby league and soccer yet the football codes have long been the pursuit of choice for budding Aboriginal and Torres ...
Bush tucker trend: Indigenous custodians call for protections on native foodsSydney Morning Herald

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cricket.com.au
More focus on Indigenous talent
cricket.com.au
And while there is mutual agreement that Cricket Australia has much ground to make up on the AFL, NRL and other sporting codes, at least one enduring myth as to the reason why Indigenous Australian cricketers are seemingly more scarce than a double ...
Bush tucker trend: Indigenous custodians call for protections on native foodsSydney Morning Herald

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ABC Online
Learning about Indigenous culture from 'Arandic professor of science'
ABC Online
When she was old enough she moved to Alice Springs and worked as a cleaner at the local post office, courthouse and the Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD). A chance encounter at her workplace led to the start of her career. "I was a cleaner at ...

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ABC Online
Traditional bush medicine finds new life as Gulbarn tea
ABC Online
It does not contain caffeine, but with the same kinds of properties and flavonoids as green tea, it is now taking on new life as a drink for any time of day, and is attracting interest from buyers across Australia, China and Taiwan. ... "I think ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Bush tucker trend: Indigenous custodians call for protections on native foods
Sydney Morning Herald
Ben Neil oversees Charcoal Lane, a social enterprise venture run by Mission Australia. The Gertrude Street restaurant serves bush foods in the heart of trendy Fitzroy, while also training Indigenous students in hospitality. The menu includes char ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Bush tucker trend: Indigenous custodians call for protections on native foods
Sydney Morning Herald
She cited macadamia nuts and oil, which had been developed "without any regard to the interests of Aboriginal people … as if it's a common good, a free for all." Ben Neil oversees Charcoal Lane, a social enterprise venture run by Mission Australia.

Sydney Morning Herald
Anger over 'Australian Aboriginal Lucky Dolls' on sale at Brisbane Airport
Sydney Morning Herald
The sale of "Australian Aboriginal Lucky Doll" souvenirs at Brisbane International Airport has sparked outrage on social media. The little wooden dolls, which come complete in "traditional" Aboriginal dress, are being marketed as "lucky" to tourists ...

Australian Aboriginals descendants of first migrants out of Africa
Genetic Literacy Project
Detailed in a new paper in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Dr. Robert Mitchell, student Nano Nagle, and their team of researchers worked with 657 Aboriginal Australian men mapping and dating the genetic diversity of the Australian Y ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Meet Marise Payne, Australia's first female Defence Minister
Sydney Morning Herald
Payne targeted One Nation and its "hate-based race politics" and called on Australia to rise to the challenge of reconciliation. "As I was growing up in my safe and stable family, children my age in Aboriginal Australia were still being taken from ...

The Canberra Times
Adoption of indigenous children in the ACT 'difficult but not unheard of''
The Canberra Times
"Over recent years and recent decades, particularly as a consequence of the Stolen Generation and other such inquiries, the Australian community and the Aboriginal community have been very strong around the fact there has been a systematic disruption ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
'We speak English in this country': woman films racial tirade on Sydney train
Sydney Morning Herald
"Unless you're Aboriginal, you have come from another country to live here. We're all from different cultures," the young woman responds. "Yes, just look at the carriage," Ms Soto replies, referring to her fellow passengers. "We speak English in this ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Bush tucker trend: Indigenous custodians call for protections on native foods
Sydney Morning Herald
Rayleen Brown was perturbed that Aboriginal women who scour the desert for days in search of bush tomatoes were paid a pittance for their gruelling work. The desert fruit has nourished Indigenous people for millennia – raw, dried or rolled into tangy ...

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ABC Online
Rosalie Lalara drops argument Australian law does not apply to her
ABC Online
A woman who pleaded guilty to stealing almost $500,000 from an Aboriginal trust has dropped a legal argument that the NT Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction over her and the laws of the Parliament did not apply because she was a sovereign ...

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CRN Australia
Polycom partners join forces to help indigenous communities
CRN Australia
Polycom has partnered with unified communication resellers Nallawilli Technology and CommuniCloud to provide a range of video, web and audio conferencing to indigenous and socially disadvantaged communities across Australia. Nallawilli Technology ...

Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Talking on Darumbal country
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
SHARING CULTURES: Darumbal elder Nhaya Nicky Hatfield has been sharing her culture with Rockhampton students and is pleased that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages will now be taught in schools across Australia. Allan Reinikka ...