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Family and community attend special ceremony of remembrance for Aboriginal ...
Salisbury Journal
THE family of an Aboriginal Australian who was stationed at Codford at the time of his death during the First World War, have visited his grave for the first time for a special ceremony of remembrance. Steve Howarth, from New South Wales, brought soil ...

ABC Online
Remote school makes progress with Indigenous literacy and numeracy
ABC Online
The principal of one of Western Australia's remotest schools says making the basics of education relevant to local Aboriginal students is allowing them to make significant progress. Servicing some of the most isolated communities in the state ...

The Conversation AU
Whether you're listening or not, Australia is a nation of white privilege
The Conversation AU
My wife and children are very Aboriginal in their appearance. The welcoming faces they receive from other Australians when overseas quickly turn to shock, and replaced by a look we Aboriginal people see all our lives. People look down as we pass them, ...

The Conversation AU
Whether you're listening or not, Australia is a nation of white privilege
The Conversation AU
But if Australia's Indigenous population were to be ranked separately, it would come 100th out of nearly 200 nations. In other words, Australia is one of the richest Western countries in the world built on an industry of mining from the lands of ...

dailytelegraph.com.au
Sacrifice the theme of 2015 FFA Hall of Fame inductions as women's and ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Two of the most ignored bases of Australian football were recognised by Football Federation of Australia after indigenous footballer John Moriarty and former Matildas star Lisa Casagrande were inducted into the Australian football hall of fame, along ...
Two more enter football Hall of Famedailytelegraph.com.au

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Regional business success celebrated at 2015 SA Tourism Awards
ABC Local
Meanwhile, an Aboriginal tourism venture which covers the state's mid north and Yorke Peninsula has been inducted into the SA Tourism Awards Hall of Fame. Aboriginal Cultural Tours - South Australia has now won best Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

ABC Online
First Indigenous Kakadu plum plantation ready for commercial harvest as ...
ABC Online
One of Australia's first commercial crops of plantation-grown Kakadu plums is about to be harvested by an Indigenous community south of Broome in Western Australia. The ABC understands there has been just one other commercial Kakadu plum harvest ...

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ABC Online
First Indigenous Kakadu plum plantation ready for commercial harvest
ABC Online
One of Australia's first commercial crops of plantation-grown Kakadu plums is about to be harvested by an Indigenous community south of Broome in Western Australia. The ABC understands there has been just one other commercial Kakadu plum harvest ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Funding for indigenous ranger programs must be doubled, report says
Sydney Morning Herald
Funding for Indigenous ranger programs and protected areas must double over the next five years if they are to continue providing social and economic benefits through land and sea management, a report by an Australian non-profit says. At a time when ...

The Guardian (blog)
The little-known story about the Indigenous man at the heart of the Menzies ...
The Guardian (blog)
The story of Stafford's life, little known to those outside his proud family, has come to light through a collection of documents, photographs and ephemera that his granddaughter, Michelle Flynn, last year donated to the Australian Institute of ...

Solomon Star
PM meets top Australian indigenous leader
Solomon Star
PRIME Minister Manasseh Sogavare and Australian indigenous leader and prominent businessman Warren Mundine met yesterday to discuss opportunities for economic growth in Solomon Islands. Mr Mundine, who is currently Chair of the Australian ...

ABC Online
Rosalie Lalara may change guilty plea on Aboriginal trust fund theft
ABC Online
Justice Hiley acknowledged Ms Lalara had presented a document to the court on her last appearance that "purports to challenge the jurisdiction of the NT court and Australian courts to hear the case and the validity of laws made by Parliament, including ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Ben Elton urges Australia to dump the monarchy and appoint an Aboriginal head ...
Telegraph.co.uk
“In one brilliant constitutional coup we would exchange a distant, somewhat divisive figurehead for a vibrant, living embodiment of the beating heart of the Australian journey”. Mr Elton said the head of state should be an Aboriginal elder or leader ...

Business News
Aboriginal artists' incomes drop amid market oversupply
Business News
Curtin University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Economies project research leader, Tim Acker, told Business News the oversupply had increased competition between Australia's 87 remote Aboriginal art centres, where artists overwhelmingly ...

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ABC Local
We should work with Indigenous businesses, not against them
ABC Local
Nationally, there has been a threefold increase in the number of Indigenous businesses in Australia in the last 20 years - from 4,600 in 1991 to 12,500 in 2011. This is a promising sign and something you would imagine governments would be keen to ...

Armenia Media, Inc. Wins at Australian Multicultural and Indigenous Media Awards
Asbarez Armenian News
SYDNEY (Public Radio of Armenia)—Armenia Media, Inc., the parent company of Public Radio of Armenia, won the award for “Best Online News Coverage 2015″ at the New South Wales Multicultural and Indigenous Media Awards (MIMA), held at the New ...

Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Australians Still Dying Earlier Than Non-Indigenous People
Huffington Post Australia
Indigenous Australians are living longer than ever, but still die 25 years earlier than the non-indigenous population. The Australian Bureau of Statistics released its Deaths report for the 2014 year on Wednesday, revealing life expectancies at birth ...

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Adani coalmine's indigenous opponents drop racism claim
The Australian
And last night Adani moved to play down reports about the involvement of its Australian chief executive, Jeyakumar Janakaraj, in an African coppermine accused of polluting a major river in Zambia. Mr Janakaraj was chief executive of Konkola Copper ...

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Answer to republic is clear: head of state must be Aboriginal
The Australian
Perhaps the answer to the whole puzzle is that the Australian head of state should be Aboriginal. We all know that by far the most painful and divisive element of Australia's long colonial and post-colonial success story is the historical and current ...

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The Australian
Answer to republic is clear: head of state must be Aboriginal
The Australian
We all know that by far the most painful and divisive element of Australia's long colonial and post-colonial success story is the historical and current price paid by our indigenous citizens. Those wrongs can never be righted and there is no easy fix ...

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