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Wallis will leave the Australia Council-backed event at the Sydney Opera House with $20,000 in hand as the recipient of the Dreaming Award, which ...

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Celebrating exceptional Indigenous artists
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This year the Red Ochre, Australia's most esteemed peer-assessed award for an Indigenous artist, will be presented to prominent artist, activist, intellectual and educator Dr Gary Foley. Awarded since 1993, the $50,000 prize acknowledges an artists' ...

Australia Council Chair Rupert Myer AM said it was a pleasure to once ... the first land grant by colonial authorities to an Aboriginal person in Australia.

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Celebrating exceptional Indigenous artists
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This week, Australia Council celebrates the work and contributions of four exceptional Indigenous artists in its eighth National Indigenous Arts Awards. Presented at a ceremony at the Sydney Opera House on Wednesday night, the prestigious national ...
Bungaree wins top museums and galleries awardAboriginal Art Directory News

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On May 27, 1967, the constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to ...

The Official Opening of the Kukenarup memorial on the site of WA SE Report and image by Tara De Landgrafft - ABC Rural Kokenarup massacre: In 1880, a family group of approximately 30 First Nations people were massacred about 15 kilometres from the Ravensthorpe in Western Australia's south west region. One account states that John Dunn, a farm worker, attacked and raped a young Nyoongar girl and in accordance with the Nyoongar lore of that region he was subsequently killed by Yandawulla Dibbs and a group of local Nyoongar men. Dunn's overseer sent out word of the killing, and returned with a large group of armed settlers who rounded up and slaughtered 30 Nyoongar men, women and children.

A Hunter Aboriginal community group says an ice epidemic that has hit the region is destroying families at an alarming rate. The rise in prevalence of ...

An archaeologist researching how Aboriginal culture altered the landscape in the Mid West almost 10,000 years ago says her work will help identify ...

The Official Opening of the Kukenarup memorial on the site of WA SE Image: Noongar elders and sisters Carol Petterson and Roni Grey Forrest at the Kukenarup memorial Kokenarup massacre: In 1880, a family group of approximately 30 First Nations people were massacred about 15 kilometres from the Ravensthorpe in Western Australia's south west region. One account states that John Dunn, a farm worker, attacked and raped a young Nyoongar girl and in accordance with the Nyoongar lore of that region he was subsequently killed by Yandawulla Dibbs and a group of local Nyoongar men. Dunn's overseer sent out word of the killing, and returned with a large group of armed settlers who rounded up and slaughtered 30 Nyoongar men, women and children. Report and image by Tara De Landgrafft - ABC Rural

A Queensland Indigenous group has escalated its battle to halt Australia's largest mine by launching a federal court case, while members of the group ...

Last night the Australia Council recognised Foley with the Red Ochre Award, which acknowledges lifetime achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Among others, it is said that it gave “equal rights” to Aboriginal Australians. It did not. ... Specifically, it did not give Aboriginal people the right to vote.

University of Sydney's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander director Jakelin Troy said 13 of Australia's 250 indigenous languages were spoken across ...

... of the European occupation of Australia' by governments and missionaries. Mr Wilson revealed the day could be very difficult for some Aborigines, ...

Courier Mail
Indigenous soldiers who fought for Australia while having few rights deserve ...
Courier Mail
Cooper's son Daniel had died in the Great War, and Cooper argued that indigenous Australians should not fight for White Australia because the sacrifices they had made had not improved their lives one jot. They still had no vote, had little chance for ...
Australia developing first ever school curriculum for Indigenous languagesThe Guardian
Why Aboriginal people need autonomy over their food supplyThe Conversation AU
BHP: Yes to first peoples voteThe Australian
Radio Australia -Daily Life -The Guardian
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Courier Mail
Indigenous soldiers who fought for Australia while having few rights deserve ...
Courier Mail
Len Waters, history's only Aboriginal fighter pilot, returned from 95 sorties against the Japanese over New Guinea in World War II to discover there were no flying jobs for a black man in Australia. If he could stomach it there was a place for him on ...
Australia developing first ever school curriculum for Indigenous languagesThe Guardian
Why Aboriginal people need autonomy over their food supplyThe Conversation AU
BHP: Yes to first peoples voteThe Australian
The Guardian -Daily Life -Radio New Zealand
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Because for decades, he says, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders fought and often died for their country even before Australia classified them as ...

Picture: Aaron Francis Source: News Corp Australia ... support for recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Constitution. “We are ...

The Australian
Recognise joint campaign director Tanya Hosch with BHP Billiton chief ...
The Australian
Mr Abbott said he and the Opposition Leader maintained a bipartisan commitment to recognising indigenous Australians, which would “complete our constitution, rather than simply change it … This should be a unifying moment for our nation and this ...

Last financial year BHP Billiton's Australian businesses employed more than 900 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and spent in excess of ...