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Crikey (blog)
Djambawa Marawili: On Homelands, Art and Caring for Indigenous Knowledge
Crikey (blog)
I urge the government and wider Australia to respect our Indigenous cultural knowledge base as an asset of inestimable value for Australia and the world; for building strong and healthy livelihoods for my peoples; and fostering effective empowered ...

An Aboriginal teenager swept up in Melbourne's weekend terror raids claims ... The Australian Federal Police searched the family's home for 12 hours.

I urge the government and wider Australia to respect our Indigenous ... is a not for profit peak body for Aboriginal artists and 48 Aboriginal owned ...

The Guardian
Mount Panorama in Bathurst given Indigenous name 'Wahluu'
The Guardian
He said the dual name of Mount Panorama and Wahluu is an important acknowledgement of Aboriginal tradition and history. The geographical names register officially recorded the two names last week in the same way Ayers Rock officially became known as ...

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Australian Associated Press ... the dual name of Mount Panorama and Wahluu is an important acknowledgement of Aboriginal tradition and history.

Yahoo7 News
Player from Australia's oldest surviving Aboriginal football club aims for a ...
Yahoo7 News
Daryl Dudley plays for Koonibba in the Far West Football League (FWFL), the oldest surviving Aboriginal football club in Australia. His ability drew the attention of league officials who put his name forward as part of a scheme called Footy Means ...

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Independent Australia
Noel Pearson's assimilation agenda divides Indigenous movement
Independent Australia
Of course, we received the usual hits from government. The predictable attack on character in order to justify the closure on 150 Indigenous communities in Western Australia (note to Colin Barnett: get some new material; this was done to death and ...

Yahoo7 News
Player from Australia's oldest surviving Aboriginal football club aims his ...
Yahoo7 News
Daryl Dudley plays for Koonibba in the Far West Football League (FWFL), the oldest surviving Aboriginal football club in Australia. His ability drew the attention of league officials who put his name forward as part of a scheme called Footy Means ...

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ABC Online
Player from Australia's oldest surviving Aboriginal football club aims his ...
ABC Online
Daryl Dudley plays for Koonibba in the Far West Football League (FWFL), the oldest surviving Aboriginal football club in Australia. His ability drew the attention of league officials who put his name forward as part of a scheme called Footy Means ...

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A footballer from one of South Australia's most remote leagues could play at the MCG this season thanks to a program aimed at encouraging youth ...

The Australian
A hand-painted figure. Photo: Mike Donaldson Source: Supplied
The Australian
The Dambimangari Corporation, led by her brother-in-law and Aboriginal artist for the 2000 Sydney Olympic ceremony Donny Woolagoodja, is working with archeologists to record and date their community's art. Their efforts are part of extraordinary ...

The Australian
A hand-painted figure. Photo: Mike Donaldson Source: Supplied
The Australian
Their efforts are part of extraordinary momentum gathering around Australia's rock art heritage just as threatening clouds hang over heritage laws that have for decades protected some of the nation's most precious works. “We really want to ... Veth ...

Wiradjuri elder, Dinawan Dyirribang​, also known as Bill Allen, says the decision is “an important acknowledgement of Aboriginal tradition and ...

ABC Online
Musician who penned Vietnam war anthem 'I Was Only 19' pays tribute to ...
ABC Online
A new song to commemorate Australia's Indigenous soldiers has been launched at the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra. The Australian Army commissioned the song by musician John Schumann, who is best known for his Vietnam war anthem, ...
Indigenous soldiers inspire anthemNEWS.com.au
John Schumann pens new track for Anzac centenaryToowoomba Chronicle

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ABC Online
Musician who penned Vietnam war anthem 'I Was Only 19' pays tribute to ...
ABC Online
A new song to commemorate Australia's Indigenous soldiers has been launched at the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra. The Australian Army commissioned the song by musician John Schumann, who is best known for his Vietnam war anthem, ...
Indigenous soldiers inspire anthemNEWS.com.au
John Schumann pens new track for Anzac centenaryToowoomba Chronicle

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"Aboriginal Australians, five generations after the First Fleet, even though they were not allowed to join the Australian Imperial Forces, signed up in ...

Australian entertainer John Schumann performs an emotional rendition of I ... Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social justice commissioner Mick ...

Green Left Weekly
New NT group says fund and support self-determination for Aboriginal ...
Green Left Weekly
Community Solidarity Action was launched in Darwin to respond to funding cuts under the federal government's Indigenous Advancement Strategy and to protest against the closure of communities in Western Australia. The group was launched by community ...

The song not only celebrates the mateship of indigenous and white Australians in the trenches but hits out at the discrimination suffered by Aboriginal ...

“Jurists such as him are probably needed now more than ever in Australia the way this country's going as in its relationship with Aboriginal people.