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Indigenous literary festival takes flight
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'The First Nations Australia Writers Network, the national peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, celebrates Victorian Koori writing and its writers who continue the tradition of writing words to raise awareness and to show ...

ABC Online
Call for royal commission into Indigenous corporations after Mabunji financial ...
ABC Online
"I really believe that there's enough evidence around the Territory and Western Australia to suggest there should be a royal commission into the Aboriginal industry," he said. Indigenous residents worried about Mr Gravener's allegations attended ...

Sydney Morning Herald
School transforms a generation by embedding Indigenous culture into its curriculum
Sydney Morning Herald
Many programs offered to schools could be tokenistic and he and the Beaconhills community wanted to be certain the program contributed deeper and more normalised understanding of Indigenous Australia. "This is good for us all as Australians," he said.

SBS
Legendary Latin musician collaborates with Indigenous artists in new project
SBS
The charango maestro has performed with Mr Barton in Sydney, and will next collaborate with others Indigenous Australian musicians, including Archie Roach. Mr Roach, himself a celebrated traditional artist, will also take Mr Torres to the mission in ...

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Honi Soit
Home / News / Indigenous Groups Boycott People's Climate March
Honi Soit
And will continue to do so” and that they “unequivocally oppose nuclear power as a 'solution' to climate change, and acknowledge that nuclear power in Australia is dependent on the dispossession of Aboriginal people from their land.” Nonetheless, in ...

The Australian
Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
The Australian
As so often in the deep Australian past, landscape and man combine with unexpected consequences. Aboriginal Australians were almost certainly the first people in world history to discover the charms of nicotine, the only plant-based narcotic or ...

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The Australian
Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
The Australian
A plant of daydreams, if not of dreams, of relaxation, of reflection and inwardness, a gift of the desert's hills and sand dunes — a plant that grows far from the settled haunts of man yet helped shape Australia's first human landscape. Half-forgotten ...

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The Australian
Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
The Australian
As so often in the deep Australian past, landscape and man combine with unexpected consequences. Aboriginal Australians were almost certainly the first people in world history to discover the charms of nicotine, the only plant-based narcotic or ...

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Bush tobacco culture revealed by Western Desert Aborigines
The Australian
As so often in the deep Australian past, landscape and man combine with unexpected consequences. Aboriginal Australians were almost certainly the first people in world history to discover the charms of nicotine, the only plant-based narcotic or ...

ABC Online
'Powerful' Noongar letters offer glimpse into Aboriginal history
ABC Online
Curtin University researchers are set to collate letters from state archives and correspondence held by families across Western Australia, dating from the 1860s to the 1960s. Working alongside Noongar advisers, they plan to present the letters together ...

Independent Australia
Racism targets Indigenous people more than any other group
Independent Australia
A report released on last month by the UNSW paints a bleak picture of justice for Indigenous Australians, particularly those with mental health disabilities. The administration of "justice" has failed my people says Natalie Cromb, IA's Indigenous ...

ABC Online
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...
ABC Online
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia will display 151 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts, most of which have not returned to Australia since they were taken by the British in early interactions. The centrepiece of the ...

ABC Online
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...
ABC Online
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia will display 151 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artefacts, most of which have not returned to Australia since they were taken by the British in early interactions. The centrepiece of the ...

SBS
Aboriginal artefacts taken by Captain Cook to feature at national museum
SBS
Dozens of rare Aboriginal artefacts from the first British expedition to Australia will go on display at the National Museum of Australia from Friday. Among them, a shield and two fishing spears, collected on Captain James Cook's 1770 expedition to ...
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...ABC Online
Captured by Cook: artefacts travel from Botany to UK and backThe Australian
National Museum of Australia in Canberra launches Encounters exhibitionThe Canberra Times

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The Guardian
War Memorial ceremony recognises Indigenous soldiers who died in first world war
The Guardian
The army has recognised Indigenous soldiers who died during World War I in a ceremony at the Australian War Memorial. But because their ethnicity wasn't listed in recruitment records, it is not known who they were or how many. “Today we pay our ...

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Indigenous Australians at higher risk of death from diabetes, heart and kidney ...
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Aboriginal elder Major Sumner performs a ritual dance outside Liverpool's World Museum following the return of an Australian indigenous human skull in Liverpool, northern England, May 13, 2009. The remains which were taken from Australia between 1902 ...

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Perth Now
More Aboriginal police could cut crime
Perth Now
JobTrainWA chief executive Selina Maguire said having more Aboriginal officers in the state's police force would result in fewer indigenous people ending up in the prison system. Ms Maguire said more needed to be done within the Aboriginal community to ...
Push for more indigenous WA policeSBS

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SBS
Aboriginal artefacts taken by Captain Cook to feature at national gallery
SBS
Dozens of rare Aboriginal artefacts from the first British expedition to Australia will go on display at the National Museum of Australia from Friday. Among them, a shield and two fishing spears, collected on Captain James Cook's 1770 expedition to ...
Encounters: Indigenous artefacts returned to Australia from UK in new ...ABC Online
Captured by Cook: artefacts travel from Botany to UK and backThe Australian
National Museum of Australia in Canberra launches Encounters exhibitionThe Canberra Times

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Indigenous Australians more likely to suffer from diseases
International Business Times AU
Aboriginal elder Major Sumner performs a ritual dance outside Liverpool's World Museum following the return of an Australian indigenous human skull in Liverpool, northern England, May 13, 2009. The remains which were taken from Australia between 1902 ...

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Perth Now
Lawyers, advocates push for government plan to address soaring Indigenous ...
ABC Online
Lawyers, judges and Indigenous leaders are in Sydney today talking about Aboriginal Australians behind bars. The Law Council of Australia said Aboriginal families and communities are being torn apart because so many Indigenous mothers are incarcerated ...
Dhu inquest: No racism at WA hospital:Perth Now
No racism at WA hospital, inquest told9news.com.au
When unpaid fines mean paying with your life, the system is brokenNEWS.com.au
Junkee -Daily Life -WA today
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