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Smithsonian
A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous Australians
Smithsonian
The latest genetic analyses back up skeletal studies suggesting that some groups in the Amazon share a common ancestor with indigenous Australians and New Guineans. The find hints at the possibility that not one but two groups migrated across these ...

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Brazil's Surui people, like the man pictured above, share ancestry with indigenous Australians, new evidence suggests. (PAULO ...

Smithsonian
A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous Australians
Smithsonian
The latest genetic analyses back up skeletal studies suggesting that some groups in the Amazon share a common ancestor with indigenous Australians and New Guineans. The find hints at the possibility that not one but two groups migrated across these ...

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Business Insider Australia
Indigenous Australians have been found to be closely related to some tribes in ...
Business Insider Australia
Some native populations from the Amazon are more closely related to indigenous Australians and New Guineans than to Eurasians, researchers have found. An analysis of genetic data, published in the journal Nature, indicates the Americas may have been ...
A DNA Search for the First Americans Links Amazon Groups to Indigenous AustraliansSmithsonian

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The Canberra Times
New Indigenous businesses open in Canberra, hope to win public service contracts
The Canberra Times
Ms Lear, the managing director of creative design company Gilimbaa​, which employs Indigenous Australians, said the federal public service's ability to be "elastic" – making contracts flexible to allow more small businesses to win work – would be the ...

EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: Of any single region in Australia, western Sydney has the highest concentration of Aboriginal people. According to ...

Alice Springs is an isolated town, in the heart of the desert, with a 20% Aboriginal population. It has high levels of unemployment and a lack of funding ...

The Aborigines were the first Australian cricketers to visit the UK, but the games they played were not considered to be proper internationals.

The Australian (blog)
Rare items of Aboriginal cricketing history discovered
Australian Times
The discovery of the artifacts was made by Dr Gaye Sculthorpe, curator and section head of Oceania at the British Museum and curator of the BP exhibition Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation at the British Museum showing until 2 August. While on ...
Australia's first XI left its spears and clubs behind in EnglandThe Australian (blog)
Aboriginal cricket team first Australian cricketers to travel overseas ...Western Daily Press
The visiting Aborigine cricket team who amazed Victorian crowds with bat, ball ...Daily Mail

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Historic Aboriginal artifacts relating to the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England have been uncovered at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art ...

Language revival could have mental health benefits for Aboriginal ... that he planned to use the revival of a South Australian Aboriginal dialect as the ...

Researchers are calling for the dog fence to be moved as an experiment that looks at ways to protect threatened native species and increase biodiversity. - The aim is to let dingoes breed up in Sturt National Park, near Cameron Corner, in far north-west New South Wales, so researchers can study the role the canines play in arid lands. - University of Sydney researcher Dr Thomas Newsome said the apex predator could play an important part in managing feral pests who prey on wildlife. - "There's been ongoing interest in exploring the ecological role of the dingo," he said.

Shields Gazette
Aboriginal art display sparks tales of Australia
Shields Gazette
The exhibition, about the Aboriginal concept of 'Country', opened last month at Bede's World, Jarrow, as part of the Treasures of South Tyneside 2015 programme. Prints, on loan from the British Museum, created by four Australian artists, are shown ...

The exhibition, about the Aboriginal concept of 'Country', opened last ... outside of Derby, in the Kimberly region of Western Australia and was given ...

When Callum Clayton-Dixon returned to Australia from overseas recently he used a homemade passport. The Aboriginal man says he was warned on ...

The 46-year-old Aboriginal woman, Kwementyaye Brown, died in October at the Central Australian Aboriginal alcohol programmes unit (CAAAPU).

Western Sydney has the highest concentration of Aboriginal people in Australia and the Aboriginal Medical Service at Mt Druitt is right at the centre of ...

For many of the patients who stay in this room, the vivid scenes of red dirt, hills and Spinifex grass take their mind back to the parts of South Australia ...

The differences between the two major Indigenous art prizes in Australia – the NATSIAAs in Darwin and the WA Indigenous Art Awards in Perth – may ...

SBS
Aboriginal activist enters Australia without passport
SBS
In a statement to SBS, immigration said the Australian Government does not recognise the Aboriginal passport as a valid travel document. “In certain circumstances where a traveller presents at the border and is seeking to enter Australia without a bona ...

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