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The Roar
How Johnathan Thurston shamed Australia over Adam Goodes
The Roar
Thurston is a proud Indigenous man. He wears his culture on his sleeve and in his mouth (mouth guard) for all to see. It is when champion Indigenous athletes like Thurston stand up and do their amazing feats, and Australia applauds, that a horrible ...
Why Australian indigenous representation matters to kidsBBC News
Johnathan Thurston: How rugby star daughter's doll captivated AustraliaBBC News
How rugby star daughter's doll captivated AustraliaKathmandu Post
Mindanao Examiner -Reveille
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Why Australian indigenous representation matters to kids
BBC News
Images of Indigenous Australian rugby star Johnathan Thurston hugging his daughter as she clutches a dark-skinned doll have become a talking point, with many praising it as a positive portrayal of indigenous people. Melanie Prewett, the Aboriginal ...
How rugby star daughter's doll captivated AustraliaBBC News

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BBC News
Why Australian indigenous representation matters to kids
BBC News
Images of Indigenous Australian rugby star Johnathan Thurston hugging his daughter as she clutches a dark-skinned doll have become a talking point, with many praising it as a positive portrayal of indigenous people. Melanie Prewett, the Aboriginal ...
How rugby star daughter's doll captivated AustraliaBBC News
Doll captivates Australian rugby fansFTC Publications

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BBC News
How rugby star daughter's doll captivated Australia
BBC News
The Australian athletics star became the second Indigenous Australian woman to win an Olympic gold, during the Sydney games in 2000. "It is a very significant moment in the sport of rugby league, but in particular the story of Aboriginal participation ...
Thurston's daughter's doll gets the country talkingSydney Morning Herald
Johnathan Thurston wins the NRL Grand Final, and Australia's heartNEWS.com.au
2015 NRL Grand Final montage: North Queensland Cowboys talisman Johnathan ThurstonBrisbane Times
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin -Daily Mail -FTC Publications
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Indigenous Business Australia to hold information session
Bundaberg News Mail
INDIGENOUS Business Australia (IBA) will hold free information sessions in Bundaberg to let the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members know how IBA might be able to assist them to buy their own home. For a limited time, IBA has ...

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Indigenous Business Australia to hold information session
Bundaberg News Mail
INDIGENOUS Business Australia (IBA) will hold free information sessions in Bundaberg to let the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members know how IBA might be able to assist them to buy their own home. For a limited time, IBA has ...

The Guardian
Ready for this? Australia's next great teen drama has a largely Indigenous cast
The Guardian
All but one of the teenagers are Indigenous Australian and the show deftly knits together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture with the trademarks of every great teen drama: grand coming-of-age adventures, friendship, rebellion and an endless ...
Indigenous actor Madeleine Madden stars new drama Ready for This, and wants to ...NEWS.com.au

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The Guardian
Ready for this? Australia's next great teen drama has a largely Indigenous cast
The Guardian
All but one of the teenagers are Indigenous Australian and the show deftly knits together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture with the trademarks of every great teen drama: grand coming-of-age adventures, friendship, rebellion and an endless ...
Indigenous actor Madeleine Madden stars new drama Ready for This, and wants to ...NEWS.com.au

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Ancient rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula are among more than 1,000 sites the WA government removed or blocked from its Aboriginal heritage register in the last two-and-a-half years. In 2012 the government created a narrower definition of sacred sites. The Supreme Court has thrown out those changes, but the government now wants a single public servant to determine sacred sites. Sarah Dingle investigates for ABC RN's Radio National - Read More http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/whats-sacred-now/6549614

ABC Online
Authorities deport Fijian national who claimed to be Indigenous Australian
ABC Online
An immigration detainee who has claimed he is an Indigenous Australian, not someone from Fiji who has overstayed his visa, has been deported. The man, calling himself Eddie David, 39, had been held in the Yongah Hill Detention Centre, 100 kilometres ...

NEWS.com.au
What happened to the Marree Man? Mysterious South Australia geoglyph wiped off map
NEWS.com.au
The region's native title owners, the Arabana people, took ownership of the man with the Arabana Aboriginal Corporation trademarking the term “Marree Man” for use on souvenirs, though the trademark was given up earlier this year the Advertiser reports.

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ABC Local
Managed investment scheme targets only Indigenous businesses
ABC Local
The creators of a managed investment scheme that will only invest in Indigenous businesses are labelling it an Australian first. The Aboriginal Business Advancement Fund was launched this week by Perth-based company Primary Securities and advisory ...

ABC Local
Managed investment scheme targets only Indigenous businesses
ABC Local
The creators of a managed investment scheme that will only invest in Indigenous businesses are labelling it an Australian first. The Aboriginal Business Advancement Fund was launched this week by Perth-based company Primary Securities and advisory ...

Indigenous mental health
ABC Online
Indigenous health expert Aunty Kerrie Doyle says that suicides among Aboriginal people will continue at 'heart-breaking' levels unless Australia addresses racism. Indigenous Australians have a suicide rate nearly three times the national average, and a ...

ABC Local
New discoveries reveal great length of Esperance's Indigenous history
ABC Local
Applied Archaeology Australia, an organisation that works with a range of universities and the National Trust, has been busy digging east of Esperance for the past few months, and has unearthed stone artefacts. "They actually came across evidence of ...

ABC Local
New discoveries reveal great length of Esperance's Indigenous history
ABC Local
Applied Archaeology Australia, an organisation that works with a range of universities and the National Trust, has been busy digging east of Esperance for the past few months, and has unearthed stone artefacts. "They actually came across evidence of ...

Sydney Morning Herald
British Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry questions Australian ...
Sydney Morning Herald
British Turner Prize-winning artist and cultural critic Grayson Perry has questioned whether Australian Aboriginal painting should be classified – or exhibited – as "contemporary art". Perry, a ceramicist and textile artist known also for his ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
British Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry questions Australian ...
Sydney Morning Herald
British Turner Prize-winning artist and cultural critic Grayson Perry has questioned whether Australian Aboriginal painting should be classified – or exhibited – as "contemporary art". Perry, a ceramicist and textile artist known also for his ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Tarnanthi Festival: Indigenous art reimagined in South Australia's APY Lands
Sydney Morning Herald
There is a distinctive rhythm to the stories told in the Musgrave Ranges in the north-western corner of South Australia that echoes through generations. In country strewn with boulders, etched with dry creek beds and dotted with ghost gums, groups of ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Tarnanthi Festival: Indigenous art reimagined in South Australia's APY Lands
Sydney Morning Herald
There is a distinctive rhythm to the stories told in the Musgrave Ranges in the north-western corner of South Australia that echoes through generations. In country strewn with boulders, etched with dry creek beds and dotted with ghost gums, groups of ...