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As an added bonus for the artists participating in the festival, Aboriginal Music ... for performances by Indigenous artists in Australia and New Zealand.

... were recognised at Darwin's peak National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards this month, a tiny community in South Australia's remote ...

The Australian
Mimili Maku centre helps indigenous art bloom in the desert
The Australian
When artists Robert Fielding and Betty Kuntiwa Pumani were recognised at Darwin's peak National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards this month, a tiny community in South Australia's remote and often troubled Anangu Pitjantjatjara ...
DARWIN – THE BIGGER PICTUREAboriginal Art Directory News

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The Australian
Mimili Maku centre helps indigenous art bloom in the desert
The Australian
When artists Robert Fielding and Betty Kuntiwa Pumani were recognised at Darwin's peak National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards this month, a tiny community in South Australia's remote and often troubled Anangu Pitjantjatjara ...
DARWIN – THE BIGGER PICTUREAboriginal Art Directory News

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The New Daily
Mentally ill Indigenous Australians betrayed by the system
The New Daily
Early death, widespread disease and dispossession have taken their toll. Still the nation's health workers fail the First Peoples. Indigenous Australians have different health needs, experts say. Photo: Getty. Single Indigenous mother of five Linda ...

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Indigenous Australians have different health needs, experts say. ... “The idea was, in order for this one Aboriginal person who is addicted to grog to get ...

He found that the program also unfairly affected Aboriginal people. ... Brown from the Indigenous community of Papunya in central Australia. She died ...

Sydney Morning Herald
Nigel Scullion's mission to stop festering tension among the Block's ...
Sydney Morning Herald
Federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has flown in to broker a peace deal between Aboriginal rivals fighting for control of the Block, the historic parcel of Redfern that has been besieged for 15 months by protests and sporadic violence ...

That was the legal fiction – exposed in the 1992 Mabo case – that Australia was nobody's land before white settlement. "[Ms Munro] simply asks …

Putuparri's family deliberately make arrangements for him to travel to the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. It's here that the magnificent ...

Subsequently, I toured around the rest of the Aboriginal art industry's “ecosystem, ... must diminish the purity of the unique art product of tribal Australia.

The Guardian
Paperless arrests endanger Indigenous lives, Northern Territory coroner says
The Guardian
About 95% of people being held in NT cells for liquor offences are Aboriginal, and so there is an increased chance of their dying in police custody, the inquest heard. “Unless the paperless arrest laws are struck from the statute books, more and more ...
NT coroner says paperless arrest system 'manifestly unfair' at inquest into ...ABC Online
NT coroner recommends repeal of new police powers after Indigenous death in ...ABC Message Stick

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The Guardian
Paperless arrests endanger Indigenous lives, Northern Territory coroner says
The Guardian
About 95% of people being held in NT cells for liquor offences are Aboriginal, and so there is an increased chance of their dying in police custody, the inquest heard. “Unless the paperless arrest laws are struck from the statute books, more and more ...
NT coroner says paperless arrest system 'manifestly unfair' at inquest into ...ABC Online
NT coroner recommends repeal of new police powers after Indigenous death in ...ABC Message Stick

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Now the coroner said that he looked back at the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody; he said that recommended that detention be a ...

Australian Associated Press ... “Kumanjayi Langdon, a sick middle-aged Aboriginal man, was treated like a criminal and incarcerated like a criminal; ...

... be repealed, as part of his findings into the death in custody of an Aboriginal man. Kumanjayi Langdon, 59, from Yuendumu in Central Australia died ...

Huffington Post
The Firsthand Racism I Experienced in Australia
Huffington Post
Adam Goodes, an indigenous Australian football player, doing an indigenous dance and throwing an imaginary spear (it was actually choreographed as a boomerang) towards the crowd to celebrate a goal during Indigenous Week has opened a can of ...
Why do Australian elites think racism lurks in every suburb?The Australian Financial Review
Australian PM calls for end to Goodes booingBulletin Leader

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A bark petition signed by a delegation of indigenous Australians opposing ... people, but claimed to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia.

The Australian
Mutitjulu unaware of 'Uluru bark petition' on sanctity
The Australian
The so-called Uluru bark petition was signed by about 30 indigenous people, but claimed to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia. “This is a cultural initiative, it is not a Christian initiative,'' Pastor Walker said. “But you can align the two ...

The Australian
Mutitjulu unaware of 'Uluru bark petition' on sanctity
The Australian
The so-called Uluru bark petition was signed by about 30 indigenous people, but claimed to represent the Aboriginal people of Australia. “This is a cultural initiative, it is not a Christian initiative,'' Pastor Walker said. “But you can align the two ...

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