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Aboriginal voices resist closures
Green Left Weekly
Resistance, particularly Aboriginal resistance, to the planned community closures is indicative of more than just a community responding to a policy that violates basic human rights. It also brings to the surface a resistance that has existed in ...
Aboriginal elders voice concern over plans to close remote communitiesABC Message Stick
WA Indigenous groups frustrated at lack of detail in remote communities planThe Guardian
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
Radio Australia
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Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett government is slowly backing away from his controversial announcement that up to 150 remote Aboriginal ...

See Guardian Australia's report on initial reactions, where Aboriginal leaders welcomed the announced review of the services to communities but said ...

KIM LANDERS: A group of Aboriginal elders is concerned that moves to shut some remote communities in Western Australia will set a precedent for ...

... Canberra to protest the planned closures of remote Aboriginal communities, ... closure of remote area Aboriginal communities in Western Australia.

Multi award-winning Aboriginal designer Alison Page says culturally meaningful Australian design is now more important than ever. "Australia has the ...

Perhaps the biggest show of such support was the more than 90.77% of Australians who voted yes to amend the constitution to include Aboriginal and ...

SBS
Comment: Let's see all the faces of Team Australia on our TV screens
SBS
Australia has moved a long way from the 70s series Boney, for which New Zealand-born actor James Laurenson was hired to play a half-Aboriginal detective – but we're still a very long way from achieving colour-blind casting across the board in our ...

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He is known for playing the didgeridoo, a traditional instrument of Australia's aboriginal people which, as Rudd proudly notes, originated over 60,000 ...

He had a private screening and he came in with his arms open and said “I love this movie” and he wanted to understand Aboriginal Australia. He got it ...

ABC Online
Indigenous expert joins Australian Heritage Council
The Age
Lyndon Ormond-Parker, who was born in Darwin, is of Alyawarr descent from the Barkley Tablelands in the Northern Territory. An Indigenous cultural expert of over 15 years' standing, Mr Ormond-Parker is an Australian Research Council Fellow in the ...
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...ABC Online

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ABC Online
Indigenous expert joins Australian Heritage Council
The Age
Lyndon Ormond-Parker, who was born in Darwin, is of Alyawarr descent from the Barkley Tablelands in the Northern Territory. An Indigenous cultural expert of over 15 years' standing, Mr Ormond-Parker is an Australian Research Council Fellow in the ...
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...ABC Online
Australia returns land to indigenous ownersRadio New Zealand
Infrastructure on NT budget wishlistYahoo7 News

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Awareness about Australian Indigenous languages is very low. Most Australians still believe that there is an Aboriginal language and have no idea ...

Gurrumul, who is blind, is an aboriginal singer/songwriter from Australia. He is playing Sweetwater in Mill Valley on May 9. (Glenn Campbell photo).

ABC Online
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...
ABC Online
The head of one of Australia's most powerful Indigenous bodies has accused Adam Giles's Country Liberal Party (CLP) Government of "sweeping aside" Indigenous people to develop the Northern Territory. The Northern Land Council's (NLC) chief Joe ...
Australia returns land to indigenous ownersRadio New Zealand
Infrastructure on NT budget wishlistCourier Mail

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ABC Online
Northern Land Council chief Joe Morrison calls for Indigenous involvement in ...
ABC Online
The head of one of Australia's most powerful Indigenous bodies has accused Adam Giles's Country Liberal Party (CLP) Government of "sweeping aside" Indigenous people to develop the Northern Territory. The Northern Land Council's (NLC) chief Joe ...

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The head of one of Australia's most powerful Indigenous bodies has ... "It just seems that Aboriginal Territorians should be swept aside and the big ...

The Guardian
WA Indigenous groups frustrated at lack of detail in remote communities plan
The Guardian
Its chairman, Anthony Watson, told Guardian Australia the announcement was “very disappointing.” “We were expecting that they would put out a report, not a five-page PR exercise,” he said. “There is no comfort. We don't know the details … they have ...
Aboriginal people to be consulted on remote community closures: WA GovernmentABC Online
WA Govt 'braves' remote indigenous planPerth Now
WA remote indigenous communities closure plan 'stab in the dark': Premier ...NEWS.com.au

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The Conversation AU
Let's see all the faces of Team Australia on our TV screens
The Conversation AU
Australia has moved a long way from the 70s series Boney, for which New Zealand-born actor James Laurenson was hired to play a half-Aboriginal detective – but we're still a very long way from achieving colour-blind casting across the board in our ...

The Conversation AU
Some Australian Indigenous languages you should know
The Conversation AU
As an ice-breaker, I often ask my linguistics students to name an Australian Indigenous language. Some are able to name Warlpiri, Yolngu Matha or Arrente, but most cannot manage the name of a single language. That is astonishing given there are 250 to ...
Exhibition: Indigenous Australia – enduring civilisationGeographical

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